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From:  gwyee@r...
gwyee@r...
Date:  Wed May 16, 2001  7:55 pm
Subject:  [vocalist] Transposing, Sight-singing (was "Cole Porter Songs")


At 11:44 AM 5/16/01 -0400, Dean FH Macy generously offered:
>If you cannot find a transposed copy of your music, contact me directly and I
>can probably make copies in whatever key you need, gratis (with a string
>attached).

Dear Dean and Vocalistmates,

Do you know of a computer program which would automatically
transpose music? It would be nice to be able to scan music into the
computer, have it recognized as notes by the software, and then transposed
to a selected key.

A few weeks ago, in my church choir, I learned something about the
way I sight read. We were given a pretty little tune to sing called "Pieta,
the silence and the sorrow" The soloist for this piece wanted to sing it a
full step down, so down went the transpose button on the organ. The tenor
harmony (which is already too low, IMHO) consists mostly of singing "Oh" or
"Ah" in the background. I struggled with this until I finally sat down and
manually transposed my part into my score. I guess I don't sing so much by
interval recognition, but rather "see note-sing note". It's hard for me to
look at an f4 and sing an eb4. In our choir we often have only one or two
read-throughs before were performing the piece in service. Does this ring
any bells for anyone else? How do you deal with it?

GWendel, dT



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11971 Re: Transposing, Sight-singing (was "Cole Porter John Link   Wed  5/16/2001   3 KB
11972 Re: Transposing, Sight-singing (was "Cole Porter sopran@a...   Wed  5/16/2001   2 KB
11973 Re: scanning software(was Transposing, Sight-sing brian   Wed  5/16/2001   2 KB

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