Session 4 songs
Hooray for Sibelius demo and screenshots! I shall post what I can of the songs we used during session 4, though this will likely be an 'entry in progress' for a while because the process is unexpectedly slow. I also apologise for any notation errors in melodies or lyrics - please feel free to pull me up on them!
Great Day:
Bass line
The cross noteheads should have 'tsch' underneath them, but due to technological limitations I couldn't.
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
We spent quite a while doing different things with Great Day; after a bit we started clapping along, and then we walked around the room in a line, snaking back and forth. At one point we passing each other by, which meant that we could hear more clearly the harmonies between our part and the others as we passed. It was great fun!
Kumala Vista (probably not the correct title):
This one sparked a discussion about appropriate pitching. Charles taught us it an octave below the above, and all of us sang it at the same pitch. Susan commented that as it was all in chest voice, her voice was hurting, and her point was to make sure we pitch it right for whatever our group is - children or adults. Charles said he finds G-D to be the 'golden fifth', in the middle of the range for everybody - not too high for the men, and he was expecting the ladies to go up the octave (because, I paraphrase, he's 'definitely not a counter-tenor; singing top Ds would be rancid').
We started off with 'Oh diddli-oh doh ... ' as the ostinato, then put everything else on top - effectively each two bars (as written above) constituted one line, and as a round it works when each group comes in after one line.