Ensemble size: Approximately 20 members
Division of parts : The music structure sounded like it was in four or five parts. There were 7 sopranos, 6 altos, 1 tenor and 4 basses singing on this occasion.
Layout : To the left of the conductor were the sopranos, infront of the conductor was the tenor and behind the tenor were the basses, that just leaves the altos who were to the right. (see fig 1)
Sopranos(7), Tenor(1) Altos(6)
Repertoire : All Creatures Now J. Bennet,
Of All The Birds That I Do Know J. Bartlet,
A Pretty Duck There Was J. Bartlet
Sweet Honey-Sucking Bees J. Wilbye
3 Australian Bush Songs I. Grandage
Rehersal Plan : Firstly Peter instructed the choir to do some stretches to get their whole body warmed up. The next step was warming up the diaphragm with the choir doing a percussive style hiss. To prepare the choir for intonation the choir was asked to hum the 'na' consonant on a given pitch and to change the pitch firstly with ascending by a semi-tone and returning to the starting pitch. This exercise was continued in the same manner with other vowel sounds like 'oo' and 'ee' and also by descending and returning to the original pitch. Finally a simple melody was sung where the choir sung a 5th, 8ve and 9th above or below the melody using the words Anna Maria. The melody was repeated with the tonic ascending stepwise. To encourage the choir to sing the right pitch Peter would raise his arms.
Now that the choir was warmed up Peter started them though the repertoire. All Creatures Now to reflect the light character of this madrigal, Peters used small, bouncing gestures. To keep the choir running through th
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