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choir and soloists
Topic Started: Jul 4 2015, 07:26 AM (147 Views)
EinikeL
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Hello!

In the frame of the competition I'm writing for the choir and therefore I would like to ask about some little details. Is it ok to use soloists in some sections? I understood that the conventional notation is required, but as a part of the concept, is it allowed to present handwritten score instead of digitally engraved (if it will be easily readable and)?


Thank you!
Einike
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Emma Hornby
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Handwritten score is fine as long as it is totally legible.

You can of course use soloists from within the choir. The men are professional singers; about half of them usually are quite young (18-25 years old - "choral scholars") and the others are often older ("lay clerks"). That is the altos (men not women!) tenors and basses. The top line is sung by trebles. At Christ Church, Oxford, it is all boy trebles - so boys up to about the age of 13 (until their voices break). The Bristol Cathedral choir has two "teams" - there is a boys team, with boys up to 13 or so, and a girls team. They usually sing separately (but with the same altos tenors and basses in each choir), but sometimes they join forces, and we hope that will happen for the composition workshop.

For solos, then, you are pretty safe to give a solo to alto, tenor or bass. For a treble, you need to bear in mind that it is being sung by a child, and that the choirmaster will need to find time to teach it to them separately from normal rehearsals. Don't make it impossibly hard!

Keep asking questions if you have more.
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