Rehearsal Markings for Winter 2025
Use this German Latin diction guide for the Beethoven.
Markings from Feb 24-Mar 3 rehearsals
Brahms
Brahms
- m 41: the molto p is “special effects”
- m 123, 125: “-den” and “-len” are unaccented syllables, so don’t pound them. This happens again in 285, 287.
- m 178, 179: unaccent “-des”
- m 172: “special effects” p, somewhat “spooky”
- m 257: don’t cresc very much, if at all; save the f for 269
- m 5: “special effects” p
- m 42: “shimmer”
- m 114: dim
Markings from Feb 17 rehearsal
Dole
Dole
- m 106: lift at the comma
- m 107-108: no breath
- m 120: lift at the comma
- m 123-124, SAB: no breath
- m 127: lift at the comma
- m 129-130: no breath
Markings from Feb 10 rehearsal
Sanctus
Sanctus
- m 7: cresc
- messa di voce on most any long note
- m 48: dim
- m 24: mp
- m 15: the dim goes down to mp
- m 91-98: no breath between “work” and “building”
- m 301: though marked mf, this section is contemplative
- m 323: schwa on “-ther”, dropping the “r” altogether
- m 325: the dim goes down to mp at m 327
- m 327: move the mf to m 328, and cresc thru “the”
- m 393: take 8th rest out
- m 416, 419: vowel sound on “God” is [ɔ] like “fog” or “dog”
Markings from Feb 8 workshop
Kyrie
Kyrie
- m 26, S: move the f marking to m 25
- m 54-55: slight messa di voce
- m 79: cresc
- m 199-200: dim. m 199 comes down to mf, 200 down to mp
- m 65: f
- m 6, T: no breath
- m 125, 127, 149, 151: take quarter rest out of “-cem”
- m 139: vowel sound on “an-” is a schwa
Markings from Feb 3 rehearsal
Brahms
Brahms
- m 31, A: messa di voce on the long note
- m 295, 297: the staccato on “-lings” is 8th note, 8th rest
Markings from Jan 27 rehearsal
Credo
Credo
- m 46: messa di voce
- m 124: this p is subito
- m 216: take 8th out of “-os”
- m 301-302, S: messa di voce on the dotted halves
- m 337: this is still ff
Markings from Jan 13 rehearsal
Credo
Credo
- m 8: cresc
- m 49: less loud
- m 57: mf; accent on every downbeat thru m 64
- m 72: mp; cresc thru m 86: mf at m 77, f at m 81, ff at m 86
- m 89: cresc
- m 91: decresc
- m 131-182: Sanford beats 8th notes
- m 183: Sanford beats half notes
- m 130: begin less than f and immediately cresc thru the 2 quarter notes
- m 306: syllabicate as “wa-sser”
- m 54, TB: Sanford swapped parts. If you’re using a tablet, you can fetch a fresh copy of the score from the scores folder. For everyone else, Sanford printed some copies of the page to change.
- m 61: the (zzz) goes on beat 4, more or less
- m 142: the thing that looks sorta like an accent is a short decresc squeezed into a narrow measure.
Markings from Jan 6 rehearsal
Dole
Dole
- m 327: This measure should have a 6/4 time signature
- m 31, A: no breath
- m 36, ATB: no breath
- Never breathe between Kyrie and eleison, but do start eleison with a glottal
- m 5: take 8th rest out of the dotted quarter
- m 7, SAB: take 8th rest out of the dotted quarter
- m 9: take 8th rest out of the dotted quarter
- m 29, SB: take 8th rest out
- m 49: lift at the comma
- m 81-82, the end of the dim is mp at the downbeat of m 82; continue to dim “-son”
- m 87: take 8th rest out of the dotted quarter
- m 89, SB: take 8th rest out of the dotted quarter
- m 91, SB: take 8th rest out of the dotted quarter
- m 106: mf
- m 124-126: slight swell leading to “-lei-”, then dim back to p
- m 126: take 8th rest out of the dotted quarter
- m 180: take 8th rest out of “-tris”
- m 188: take 8th rest out of “-bis”
- m 351: take quarter rest out
- m 367: take quarter rest out
