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Date Song msr Section Note
6-13 Abendfeier in Venedig (Schumann) 3 S    Breath before ms 4
6-13 Abendfeier in Venedig (Schumann) 7 SATB Breath on beat 3
6-13 Abendfeier in Venedig (Schumann) 11 SATB Breath before ms 12
6-13 Abendfeier in Venedig (Schumann) 14 S    Breath before ms 15
6-13 Abendfeier in Venedig (Schumann) 18 SATB Breath on beat 3
6-13 Abendfeier in Venedig (Schumann) 20 SATB Breath before beat 3
6-13 Abendfeier in Venedig (Schumann) 22 SATB Breath before beat 4
6-13 Abendfeier in Venedig (Schumann) 24 SATB Breath before beat 3
6-13 Abendfeier in Venedig (Schumann) 30 S    Breath before beat 4
6-13 Abendfeier in Venedig (Schumann) 34 SATB Breath before beat 4
6-13 Abendfeier in Venedig (Schumann) 38 S    Breath before beat 4
6-13 Abendfeier in Venedig (Schumann) 40 SATB Breath before ms 41
6-13 Abendfeier in Venedig (Schumann) 42 S    Breath before beat 4
6-13 Abendfeier in Venedig (Schumann) 49 SATB Lift (not breath) before beat 3
6-13 Abendfeier in Venedig (Schumann) 51 S    Breath before ms 52
6-13 Abendfeier in Venedig (Schumann) 55 SATB Breath before beat 4
6-13 Abendfeier in Venedig (Schumann) 59 SATB Breath before ms 60
6-13 Abendfeier in Venedig (Schumann) 60 SATB Lift (not breath) before beat 3
6-13 Abendfeier in Venedig (Schumann) 62 S    Breath before ms 63
6-13 Abendfeier in Venedig (Schumann) 70 SATB Breath before beat 4
6-13 Abendfeier in Venedig (Schumann) 78 SATB Breath before beat 4
6-13 Abendfeier in Venedig (Schumann) 84 SATB Breath before ms 85
6-13 Abendfeier in Venedig (Schumann) 86 S    Lift before beat 4
6-13 Abendfeier in Venedig (Schumann) 88 SATB Breath before ms 89
6-13 Abendfeier in Venedig (Schumann) 90 S    Breath before beat 4
6-13 Across the Universe (Podd) SATB Pronunciation of "guru" should be with double "oo" (not schwa or "uh" sound on first syllable)
6-13 Across the Universe (Podd) 5 SATB Close to "m" on second beat for all instances of "Om"
6-13 Bohemian Rhapsody (Brymer) 12 SATB Choir 1: S1/A1/T1/B1 / Choir 2: S2/A2/T2/B2
6-13 Bohemian Rhapsody (Brymer) 39 SATB Vowel in "fandango" should be short a (as in "cat") or somewhere between Latin "ah" and an American "a" (as in "man")
6-13 Bohemian Rhapsody (Brymer) 47   TB Take out the word "and"
6-13 Bohemian Rhapsody (Brymer) 85 SATB Drop off "die" by beat 3
6-13 Bohemian Rhapsody (Brymer) 103 SATB Watch Kevin for tempo
6-13 Everywhere I Go (Jennings/Coker) 9   TB TBB split: all tenors on top note, baritone/bass split lower two notes through ms 44
6-13 Everywhere I Go (Jennings/Coker) 9 SA   M divisi through ms 28
6-13 Everywhere I Go (Jennings/Coker) 29 SA   SAA split: all sopranos on top note, altos split lower two notes
6-13 Everywhere I Go (Jennings/Coker) 41 SA   M divisi through ms 42
6-13 Everywhere I Go (Jennings/Coker) 45 SATB SSA + TTB divisi through ms 46
6-13 Everywhere I Go (Jennings/Coker) 49   TB TTB divisi
6-13 Everywhere I Go (Jennings/Coker) 54 SA   SSA divisi
6-13 Everywhere I Go (Jennings/Coker) 55   TB TBB divisi
6-13 Everywhere I Go (Jennings/Coker) 57   TB TBB divisi
6-13 Everywhere I Go (Jennings/Coker) 62 SA   SSA divisi through ms 64
6-13 Everywhere I Go (Jennings/Coker) 65 SATB M divisi through ms 71
6-13 Everywhere I Go (Jennings/Coker) 72   TB Beat 3: TTB divisi
6-13 Everywhere I Go (Jennings/Coker) 73 SATB M divisi through ms 77
6-13 Everywhere I Go (Jennings/Coker) 77   TB After beat 3: TTB divisi
6-13 Everywhere I Go (Jennings/Coker) 82 SATB SSA + TTB divisi
6-13 Everywhere I Go (Jennings/Coker) 83 SATB Beat 3: upper c (all sopranos + A1; all tenors + B1)
6-13 Gabriel's Oboe (Morricone/Johnson) 15 SATB Where it says "opening to 'ooh,'" open at your own time, but be on "ooh" by the second measure of the phrase
6-13 Gabriel's Oboe (Morricone/Johnson) 36 SATB Breath before ms 37
6-13 Gabriel's Oboe (Morricone/Johnson) 37 S    Rearticulate "ooh" on each new section of the melody (39, 41, 43, 45, 47)
6-13 Gloria (Haydn) SATB We are only performing 1. Gloria in Excelsis (ends ms 152)
6-13 Gloria (Haydn) 41 SATB Breath before ms 42
6-13 Gloria (Haydn) 42 SATB Lift before ms 43
6-13 Gloria (Haydn) 43 SATB No breath before ms 44
6-13 Gloria (Haydn) 45 SATB Lift before ms 46
6-13 Gloria (Haydn) 71 SATB Crescendo through quarter notes "glo-ri-fi"
6-13 Gloria (Haydn) 76 S    Lift after beat 1 (shorten beat 1 slightly)
6-13 Gloria (Haydn) 129 SATB Lift before ms 130
6-13 Gloria (Haydn) 136 SATB Breath before ms 137
6-13 Goodnight Moon (Whitacre) 21 SATB Quarter-note triplet pattern comes sooner than you think. Rest portion of triplet occurs on the third beat.
6-13 Goodnight Moon (Whitacre) 59 SA   "T" of "goodnight" should be on the and of beat 3 (i.e., place the "T" on the rest)
6-13 Goodnight Moon (Whitacre) 61 SA   "T" of "goodnight" should be on the and of beat 3 (i.e., place the "T" on the rest)
6-13 Goodnight Moon (Whitacre) 63 SAT  No breath before ms 64
6-13 Hosanna (p 5-7) (Quintana) 2 SATB Breath before ms 3
6-13 Hosanna (p 5-7) (Quintana) 9  A   Breath before ms 10
6-13 Hosanna (p 5-7) (Quintana) 11 S    Breath before beat 3
6-13 Hosanna (p 5-7) (Quintana) 11  ATB Breath before ms 12
6-13 Hosanna (p 5-7) (Quintana) 13  ATB Breath before ms 14
6-13 Hosanna (p 5-7) (Quintana) 14   TB Breath before ms 15
6-13 Hosanna (p 5-7) (Quintana) 15  A   Breath before ms 16
6-13 Hosanna (p 5-7) (Quintana) 16 S    Breath on beat 3
6-13 Hosanna (p 5-7) (Quintana) 17 S    S2: sing sop staff for beats 1 + 2, then down to alto staff on beat 3, through ms 18, then return to sop staff
6-13 Hosanna (p 5-7) (Quintana) 17  A   A1: sing notes as written
A2: sing T1 notes and words, ms 17 and 18
6-13 Hosanna (p 5-7) (Quintana) 17   T  All tenors sing T2, take a breath in ms 18 on 3
6-13 Hosanna (p 5-7) (Quintana) 18    B Breath on beat 3
6-13 Hosanna (p 5-7) (Quintana) 18 S    Breath before ms 19
6-13 Hosanna (p 5-7) (Quintana) 20 SATB Breath before beat 3
6-13 Hosanna (p 5-7) (Quintana) 23  A   A1: sing A
A2: sing F
Melissa, Lucinda, Ruthann: sing G
6-13 Hosanna (p 5-7) (Quintana) 23   TB T1: sing C
T2: sing A in bass staff
Bass 1 + 2: sing lower two notes in bass staff
6-13 If the River Leaves (Esmail) SATB Pronunciation throughout the piece:
"And" of "and the river" should be sung as "eh"
"th" in "without" please use voiced fricative (as in the word "that," IPA symbol ð)
"out" in "without" should be sung with an "ah" vowel sound
elide "t" of "without" and "m" of "me"
6-13 If the River Leaves (Esmail) 53 SATB Pronunciation of "on" should be somewhere between an "ah" and an "oh" (as in the word "own")
6-13 Kyrie (p 1-4) (Quintana) 5 SATB Breath before ms 6
6-13 Kyrie (p 1-4) (Quintana) 7 S  B Breath before beat 4
6-13 Kyrie (p 1-4) (Quintana) 13 SATB Breath before ms 14
6-13 Kyrie (p 1-4) (Quintana) 17 SATB Breath before ms 18
6-13 Kyrie (p 1-4) (Quintana) 21  A   Breath before "Kyrie"
6-13 Kyrie (p 1-4) (Quintana) 21 S TB Breath before ms 22
6-13 Kyrie (p 1-4) (Quintana) 24 SATB Breath before ms 25
6-13 Kyrie (p 1-4) (Quintana) 28 SATB Breath before ms 29
6-13 Kyrie (p 1-4) (Quintana) 30    B Breath after beat 2
6-13 Kyrie (p 1-4) (Quintana) 31    B Breath before ms 32
6-13 Kyrie (p 1-4) (Quintana) 32   T  Breath after beat 2
6-13 Kyrie (p 1-4) (Quintana) 34 S    Breath after beat 3
6-13 Kyrie (p 1-4) (Quintana) 36 SATB Breath before ms 37
6-13 Kyrie (p 1-4) (Quintana) 39   T  Breath after beat 1
6-13 Lo dello (Cook) SA   See "mordent" symbol on third "dello" in ms 2 for example—this indicates an ornament similar to a trill. Sing the indicated note first, then rapidly up to the next note and back down before continuing the line. This ornament repeats throughout the piece.
6-13 Lo dello (Cook) 2 SA   Lift before ms 3
6-13 Lo dello (Cook) 4 SA   Breath on beat 1
6-13 Lo dello (Cook) 5 SA   Breath on beat 1
6-13 Lo dello (Cook) 6 SAT  Breath on beat 1
6-13 Lo dello (Cook) 6 SAT  Lift before ms 7
6-13 Lo dello (Cook) 10 SAT  Breath on beat 1
6-13 Lo dello (Cook) 10 SAT  Lift before ms 12
6-13 Lo dello (Cook) 12 SAT  Breath on beat 1
6-13 Lo dello (Cook) 13 SAT  Lift before beat 4
6-13 Lo dello (Cook) 18 SATB Breath on beat 1
6-13 Lo dello (Cook) 18 SATB Lift before ms 19
6-13 Lo dello (Cook) 20 SATB Breath on beat 1
6-13 Lo dello (Cook) 22 SATB Breath on beat 1
6-13 Lo dello (Cook) 23  A   Lift before beat 1
6-13 Lo dello (Cook) 24  A   Lift before beat 1
6-13 Lo dello (Cook) 26 SATB Breath on beat 1
6-13 Lo dello (Cook) 27 S    Lift before beat 1
6-13 Lo dello (Cook) 28 S    Lift before beat 1
6-13 Lo dello (Cook) 30 S    Breath on beat 1
6-13 Lo dello (Cook) 35 S    Breath on beat 1
6-13 Lo dello (Cook) 36 S    Breath on beat 1
6-13 Lo dello (Cook) 37 S    Breath on beat 1
6-13 Lo dello (Cook) 45 SATB Breath on beat 1
6-13 Lo dello (Cook) 45 SATB Lift before ms 46
6-13 Lo dello (Cook) 48 SATB Breath on beat 1
6-13 Lo dello (Cook) 49 SATB Breath on beat 1
6-13 Lo dello (Cook) 49   T  Lift before ms 50
6-13 Lo dello (Cook) 50   T  Lift before ms 51
6-13 Lo dello (Cook) 54   T  Lift before ms 55
6-13 Lo dello (Cook) 55   T  Lift before ms 56
6-13 Lo dello (Cook) 57   T  Breath on beat 1
6-13 Lo dello (Cook) 58   T  Breath on beat 1
6-13 Lo dello (Cook) 67 S    Lift before beat 3
6-13 Lo dello (Cook) 69 S    Lift before beat 3
6-13 Lo dello (Cook) 71 S    Lift before beat 3
6-13 Moonlight and Rain (Memley) 33 SA   M divisi
6-13 Moonlight and Rain (Memley) 40 SA   M divisi through ms 41
6-13 Moonlight and Rain (Memley) 49 SA   M divisi
6-13 Moonlight and Rain (Memley) 49   TB M divisi through ms 50
6-13 Moonlight and Rain (Memley) 52 SA   M divisi
6-13 Moonlight and Rain (Memley) 63 SA   M divisi after beat 3, through ms 68
6-13 Moonlight and Rain (Memley) 76   TB No "t" on "light"
6-13 Moonlight and Rain (Memley) 80   TB No "t" on "light"
6-13 Moonlight and Rain (Memley) 85 SATB M divisi through ms 86
6-13 O Magnum (Memley) 34   T  Beat 3: top note (Sanford/Jon C); middle note (Bruce/John C); bottom note (David H/David R)
6-13 O Magnum (Memley) 39    B Top note (David I/Ralph), middle note (Charlie/David M), bass 3 take bottom note
6-13 Parting Glass (Snyder) 48 SATB Watch Kevin for rit
6-13 Resounding Praise (Petker) 262   T  Remove G (altos have this note)
6-13 Va pensiero (Verdi) SATB Italian pronunciation: the note hold is on the second vowel (example, in "pa-tria" hold on the "a" vowel, not the "i"
6-13 Va pensiero (Verdi) SATB Italian pronunciation: "ch" is "k" as in "perche" // "ci" is "chi"
6-13 Va pensiero (Verdi) 24 SATB Breath after beat 3
6-13 Va pensiero (Verdi) 36 SATB Pickup to ms 37 dynamic mp
6-13 Va pensiero (Verdi) 38 SATB Italian pronunciation: "gi" is a soft "g" as in "Trag-gi" (like English "tragedy")
6-13 Va pensiero (Verdi) 39 SATB Slide up to beat 4, dynamic f
6-13 Va pensiero (Verdi) 49 SATB Gentle shaping on long note (cresc + descresc)
6-13 Zadok the Priest (Handel) 69 SATB Breath before beat 4
6-13 Zadok the Priest (Handel) 82 SATB Breath before beat 4
6-13 Zadok the Priest (Handel) 84 SA   Pay attention to slurs for phrasing, esp as it changes in ms 86
6-13 Zadok the Priest (Handel) 84 SATB Breath before beat 4
6-13 Zadok the Priest (Handel) 92  AT  Pay attention to slurs for phrasing
6-13 Zadok the Priest (Handel) 92 SATB Breath before beat 2
6-13 Zadok the Priest (Handel) 97 SATB Breath before beat 2
6-13 Zadok the Priest (Handel) 111 SATB Breath before beat 4
6-13 Zadok the Priest (Handel) 113    B Pay attention to slurs for phrasing, esp as it changes in ms 115
6-13 Zadok the Priest (Handel) 113 SATB Breath before beat 4
6-13 Zadok the Priest (Handel) 118 SATB Breath before beat 4