Rehearsal Markings for Winter 2022
Here's the Musica Russica transliteration guide for use with Chesnokov.
Notes from Mar 1 rehearsal
Dunphy
Dunphy
- m 27: no breath
Notes from Feb 28 rehearsal
No new markings
No new markings
Notes from Feb 21 rehearsal
Runestad
Runestad
- Memorize page 1 (it's only 3 notes!) so we can avoid a noisy page turn
- m 10, 26: "rooftops" first vowel is like "shoot" not "foot"
Notes from Feb 14 rehearsal
Daley
Daley
- m 12-13: no breath
- m 20-21: no breath
- m 25-28: shape this as 2 bars of cresc, 2 bars decresc
- m 82: take 8th rest out of first note for breath
- m 88: take 8th rest out of first note for breath
- m 97, SA: a little extra stress on "they"
- m 99, SA: cresc
- m 100, SA: a little extra stress on "them", and then decresc
- m 132, B1: join the tenor line thru downbeat of 140
- m 330-331, TB: no breath
- m 334: extend the cresc thru the end of the measure
Notes from Feb 7 rehearsal
Daley
Daley
- m 56: take 8th rest out of "miss"
- m 58: take 8th rest out of "it"
- m 74, A2: the D's should be E's (cf. piano reduction)
- m 82, B1: the first beat should have a quarter-note F tied from the previous measure
- m 58-59, S: no breath
- m 91: ignore the staccato mark, so that the note is held for one full beat.
Notes from Jan 31 rehearsal
Daley
Daley
- m 213, A: beat 4 should be B flat, not A flat (cf. piano reduction)
- m 216: put the "st" of "rest" on beat 2½ (i.e., as if there were an 8th rest, but this isn't a breath)
- m 217: make the first syllable of "la-bours" a pure vowel (like German closed e), not diphthong.
- m 257: sing the triphthong "our" (IPA: auə) as if the quarter note were written as two 8ths, with "a" on the first and "uə" on the second. (This advice probably applies to other occurrences of "our" on a quarter note.)
- m 258: spread the triphthong of "hour" (homophone of "our") uniformly over the 3 beats.
Notes from Jan 29 workshop
Faure
Faure
- m 61, B: breathe after "et" (everyone else full duration)
- m 63-64: no breath; breathe after second "Kyrie"
- m 70: watch Sanford for breath at end of measure, will take extra time.
- m 65: fermata on "us", full break before the solo line enters
Notes from Jan 24 rehearsal
Daley
Daley
- In movements 1 and 7, the chorus parts are in 2-measure phrases (with a slight rise and fall), irrespective of any punctuation in the text (e.g., lift between m 12 & 13, but not between 13 & 14).
- m 30: Sanford will take extra time for the collective breath, so watch!
- m 41, AB: dim
- m 70: no breath
- m 112, 114: nei-ther is pronounced "ni-thuh" (IPA: naɪðə)
- m 143: the peak of the cresc is around mf
- m 145, ST: no breath
- m 146, ST: breathe at the comma
- m 241: separate "us" and "Lord"
- m 295-299: A2 sing the "2 or 3 Alto voices" part
Notes from Jan 17 rehearsal
Daley
Daley
- m 90-104, SA: The initial phrase "I heard a voice out of heaven" is a solo, but after that all women sing the "solo" parts.
- m 124: breathe at the comma
- m 129-130: no breath
- m 209, A: a little nudge on the F so we can tell the note changed
- m 212, 214: take 8th rest out of "rest" (Sanford will conduct it, and might stretch a little)
- m 217: the "our" of "labours" is a schwa sound (IPA: leɪbəz)
- m 219, 223: "saith" is pronounced as "Seth" (IPA: sɛθ), "of" as "awv" (ɔv)
- m 243, SA: take quarter rest out of "-ly"
- m 256: breathe at end of measure (Sanford will conduct it)
- m 263: no breath
- m 278: the dim is to p by the end of the measure
Notes from Jan 10 rehearsal
Dunphy
Dunphy
- m 7, 10, 39, 42: First syllable of "re-turns" and "de-layed" uses the "ih" vowel rather than "ee" (IPA: ɪ, not i), per Sanford's usual rule.
- m 1, 10, 11, 33, 42, 43: Be sure to enunciate well the final "d" of "sacred", "delayed", "frayed".
- m 5, 37: Nice schwa release on "wan" ("nuh", exactly on the rest).
- m 66-67: SA divide on the A line during the 2-measure solo. S return to home line at m 68.
- m 67: no breath
- m 17: Take 8th rest out of "hand"
- m 48: Last beat is subito p, "special effects".
- m 58: Breathe on beat 3 (thus deleting the tied 8th).
- m 59: Take 8th rest out
- The staccato notes are in general approximately half their printed value.
- Flip the "r" of "paradisum".
Notes from Jan 3 rehearsal
Faure
Faure
- m 11, B: f on beat 4, big cresc
- m 13: this pp is "special effects"
- m 14: hold "-is" for full duration. This implies no breath for B.
- m 27: take 8th rest out of last beat
- m 42: this section is more legato
- m 3, TB: take 8th rest out for the breath
- m 30, A2: first syllable is "pal-"
- m 228, SA: full duration (as written)
- m 230, TB: no breath
- m 232, TB: take quarter rest out
- m 236: take quarter rest out
- m 240: take quarter rest out of "prayer"
- m 243, SA: breathe at period
- m 266: breathe after "Thee" (probably a quarter)
- m 268, SAB: take quarter rest out
- m 270: take quarter rest out
- m 277, A2: third quarter should be E-flat (cf. piano reduction)
- m 36-38: no breath after "stillness" (wherever you have it)
- m 56: close immediately to "m" on "dream"
Notes from December 13 rehearsal
Runestad
Runestad
- Over-enunciate the "v" of "love" every time.
- m 35, SA: This is a very slow cresc. Milestones: p at m 37, mf at m 41, f at m 43.
- m 67, B2: the # should be at the beginning of the measure (i.e., both F's are #)
- First syllable of "remember" is "rih" (IPA: ɹɪ), per Sanford's usual rule.
- m 17: The breath is for everyone, perhaps an 8th out or maybe extra time.
- m 30: Take 8th rest out for the breath (where it's marked in your part).
- m 60-61: It's a fast cresc. Milestones: mp at beat 4 of 60, mf at beat 2 of 61.
- m 28-35 & 40-43: T2 sing the top bass note; B12 take the lower two.
Notes from December 6 rehearsal
Faure
Faure
- m 57: take 8th rest out of "-et"
- m 273-4: take quarter rest out of "Lord" and "us"
