My choir is doing this piece....me being a natural contralto instead of a normal alto...this song is....is....my messiah. I got this. MY CHOIR'S GOT THIS. Good luck to all the choirs in Kaintuck!! (This is NOT an easy piece...)
I understand. Kentucky's all-state choir is using this piece for their auditions, and the edition I'm using has that pronunciation I mentioned underneath the notes. It's interesting that there's many different versions of these old songs. Thanks for the reply. And thanks for this video. Also, people saying that you're not a bass or soprano are out their minds. You're amazing.
Is there someway of sending me an audio track/rehearsal track specifically just the tenor or bass part to learn it? Thank you ASAP please!!! God Bless!!!! Leave a comment on here or send me a message on CZcams if you can thanks again!
@ellebi415 Perdonate il mio italiano povero, ma la ringrazio molto! Ho registrato io stesso canto ogni parte per tre volte, e poi li ho messi tutti insieme. Certamente cerco di essere il più precisi possibile, e io veramente apprezzare le sue gentili parole.
John - thanks for this video. I'm a choral director in Kentucky, where we're all apparently using your video to prepare for all-state auditions :) I wonder about the alto part at the text "in aeternum". In your version the alto line is G - F - A - G - G; however, our score shows F - E - A - G - G (first two notes different). I worry that your version breaks a lot of "rules" of 16th C counterpoint. Mistake, or is yours a different version?
It's actually not a mistake. It's a late Renaissance piece, meaning text underlay depends on the manuscript you're using. Text underlay on these largely depends on the edition you're using. You're obviously using a different edition. ;-)
I'm in varsity choir and we have to sing this for all-state and I don't know if I can do it I'm a soprano and we have to sing this in the Greek words..... Honestly might just not do it
The song is amazing but I feel as though, in this performance, the bass is strongly overpowered; I realize this is more-or-less how it's suppose to be; but, for people learning their part, it makes it harder. I'm a tenor, and I find it hard to find my ins and outs because of it's more background than front. Could you make videos going over each part, specifically?
This is beautiful. But why all the requests for seperate parts to learn from? Surely having the music in front of you and either a piano or listening to this with the notes is enough? If reading is an issue, the best way to improve it is to practice. Find random pieces on websites like CPDL, and sing along to a recording. That way there is then no need to be reliant on a part specific recording :)
You guys shouldn't give up on auditioning for all-state just because it's in a different language. Even when you make all-state, most of the pieces they perform are in different languages. In plus, Latin is (in my opinion) one of the easiest languages to sing in.
almost everyone here is watching this for all-state, I suppose. Good singing, but you messed up on the bass part: the first use of the word "gratia" in the bassline is not gra-a-ti-a, it's gra-ti-a-a.
he is right that is why I'm watching this
My choir is doing this piece....me being a natural contralto instead of a normal alto...this song is....is....my messiah. I got this. MY CHOIR'S GOT THIS.
Good luck to all the choirs in Kaintuck!! (This is NOT an easy piece...)
God this is gonna sound great at all state I can't wait
E' verissimo, sei molto bravo! L'arrengiamento della Coventry Carol è da brividi!
Se davvero hai fatto tutto da solo sei bravissimo!
Esecuzione precisa e molto piacevole.
La migliore che ho trovato su Y.T.
I understand. Kentucky's all-state choir is using this piece for their auditions, and the edition I'm using has that pronunciation I mentioned underneath the notes. It's interesting that there's many different versions of these old songs. Thanks for the reply. And thanks for this video. Also, people saying that you're not a bass or soprano are out their minds. You're amazing.
I FOUND IT! Finally I can figure out how my part (Alto pride!!!) Fits in with the others!
All-state here I come!
Dude, I completely agree. Alma Redemptoris for Comstock? It was a breeze learning the words!
Che dire: bravissimo. Bravissimo.
Me either!!
Yeah I'm trying to learn this song for all state and its my first year this is ome crazy first week stuff :3
Is there someway of sending me an audio track/rehearsal track specifically just the tenor or bass part to learn it? Thank you ASAP please!!! God Bless!!!! Leave a comment on here or send me a message on CZcams if you can thanks again!
Go BASS!!!!!!!
same here
@ellebi415 Perdonate il mio italiano povero, ma la ringrazio molto! Ho registrato io stesso canto ogni parte per tre volte, e poi li ho messi tutti insieme. Certamente cerco di essere il più precisi possibile, e io veramente apprezzare le sue gentili parole.
This song is so beautiful. But, I'm way nervous for all state auditions..
trust me you can do it its easy and a beautiful song! :)
John - thanks for this video. I'm a choral director in Kentucky, where we're all apparently using your video to prepare for all-state auditions :) I wonder about the alto part at the text "in aeternum". In your version the alto line is G - F - A - G - G; however, our score shows F - E - A - G - G (first two notes different). I worry that your version breaks a lot of "rules" of 16th C counterpoint. Mistake, or is yours a different version?
It's actually not a mistake. It's a late Renaissance piece, meaning text underlay depends on the manuscript you're using. Text underlay on these largely depends on the edition you're using. You're obviously using a different edition. ;-)
hello there is there any way I could get ahold of the 4 voice parts individually?
I'm in varsity choir and we have to sing this for all-state and I don't know if I can do it I'm a soprano and we have to sing this in the Greek words..... Honestly might just not do it
The song is amazing but I feel as though, in this performance, the bass is strongly overpowered; I realize this is more-or-less how it's suppose to be; but, for people learning their part, it makes it harder. I'm a tenor, and I find it hard to find my ins and outs because of it's more background than front. Could you make videos going over each part, specifically?
This is beautiful. But why all the requests for seperate parts to learn from? Surely having the music in front of you and either a piano or listening to this with the notes is enough? If reading is an issue, the best way to improve it is to practice. Find random pieces on websites like CPDL, and sing along to a recording. That way there is then no need to be reliant on a part specific recording :)
You guys shouldn't give up on auditioning for all-state just because it's in a different language. Even when you make all-state, most of the pieces they perform are in different languages. In plus, Latin is (in my opinion) one of the easiest languages to sing in.
Greek? Do you mean Latin, or has someone found a translation that's been lost to musicology? :-)
Omg Rebecca I have to do the smae thing
almost everyone here is watching this for all-state, I suppose. Good singing, but you messed up on the bass part: the first use of the word "gratia" in the bassline is not gra-a-ti-a, it's gra-ti-a-a.
Madi mattigly no you wont. (Btw its nick hey)
Its also the easiest language to learn :).
well screw it, im not gonna make all-state ;^;