Notes From The Choir Loft

This week's Choir Chronicle is not only a bit late, but also short and sweet. Blame the weather. I hope yal are having a beautiful Saturday! Quote of the week: "We're not quite all getting this, but we have a great attitude!" Runner up: "Is that you growling, Nancy?" Vocab words: Tenuto: "a note or chord held for its full time value or slightly more." Trattenuto: "held back with a sustained quality, similar to ritardando" Compound Melody:  "more than one melody or line by a single voice through skipping back and forth between the notes of the two melodies." Sometimes known as Melodic Fission , which is my new favorite musical term. ....and two others that are unfortunately lost to my incredibly poor handwriting and memory. Procrastination, people! There are consequences! This week we sing M Dodds favorite: Praise, My Soul, The King of Heaven Choir favorite: I Surrender All "Holy Holy Holy...

Hey, yal, and welcome back to your favorite choir rehearsal recap! I decided it was time to nudge the choir stuff into its own cyber-place, apart from the usual posts on Abridged (rants about the medical system, complaining about insurance, etc). This new URL for The Truant Chorister is:  thechoirloft.abridgedtheblog.com Sigh, yes. It is hosted on blogspot not wordpress. I have no defense except that I'm not a millennial and, well, it took literally* 10 seconds to set it up. (*in the truest sense of that word) For the newly initiated, these posts are the sole work of The Truant Chorister herself, so as to maintain plausible deniability for the estimable Dodds and Orgain. Additions, substitutions, and guest posts are welcome! This week: We welcomed even more new faces, Huzzah! Including some section leaders who are already proving their invaluable worth as melodic anchors, giving us much more confidence in the part-singing and note-finding. One of the songs (...