Adventures in Sightsinging
Thursday, July 15 at 7PM
Thursday, July 15 at 7PM
Bob Worth, Sonoma Bach's music director, and Shawna Hervé, a music teacher and alto with two of our groups, co-teach a lively class intended to help singers develop fluent music reading. We'll focus on pitch and rhythm skills, and also on strategies for comprehending larger patterns--where the music is headed. Intended for beginning to intermediate sightsingers. Join us for this fun and informative class!
As per our session on Thursday, March 18, the PDF score packet of Scheidt Görlitzer Chorales is available here.
In addition, zip files of the chorales are available in the following four formats:
Scheidt Görlitzer Audio Files: These are simply recordings of the scores, at a moderate tempo, in a guitar sound.
For use with the PDF packet, either on your screen or printed out.
Scheidt Görlitzer MuseScore Files: These are for use with the free MuseScore notation program discussed in our session. You can obtain the software here. Once you do, try opening a file from the 'MuseScore Files' folder. Click the File menu, select 'Open', navigate to the location in which you saved the files, and double-click the file you want to try.
Once the file opens, I suggest selecting 'Continuous View' (as opposed to 'Page View') in the top bar--it may already be selected--and under the 'View' menu, make sure that 'Mixer' is selected. The simple play controls are in the top bar: Right-pointing triangle for Start or Stop, Rewind to return to the beginning.
In the mixer (on the right), you can change volume for each track with the sliders. The green 'S' button allows you to pay only that track; the red 'M' button silences that track; the little 'knob' controls the pan--click in the knob and drag up to pan that track to the left in the stereo mix; drag down to pan to the right.
Finally, you can change the tempo by double-clicking the metronome marking at the beginning of the score (if you can't see it, just hit the rewind button in the top bar)--a little grey box will appear around it; then double-click the number; then type in a higher or lower number.
Because MuseScore clearly displays the score, and (in 'Continuous View') scrolls as it plays, you will be able to read the music directly from your device. You may however wish to have a printout of the PDF packet available
for consultation or score marking.
Scheidt Görlitzer MusicXML Files: These are for use in a notation program other than MuseScore. If you have a notation program that you like and are adept at using, simply open these files from within that program.
Scheidt Görlitzer Midi Files: These files are for use with a MIDI program, if you have one
In addition, zip files of the chorales are available in the following four formats:
Scheidt Görlitzer Audio Files: These are simply recordings of the scores, at a moderate tempo, in a guitar sound.
For use with the PDF packet, either on your screen or printed out.
Scheidt Görlitzer MuseScore Files: These are for use with the free MuseScore notation program discussed in our session. You can obtain the software here. Once you do, try opening a file from the 'MuseScore Files' folder. Click the File menu, select 'Open', navigate to the location in which you saved the files, and double-click the file you want to try.
Once the file opens, I suggest selecting 'Continuous View' (as opposed to 'Page View') in the top bar--it may already be selected--and under the 'View' menu, make sure that 'Mixer' is selected. The simple play controls are in the top bar: Right-pointing triangle for Start or Stop, Rewind to return to the beginning.
In the mixer (on the right), you can change volume for each track with the sliders. The green 'S' button allows you to pay only that track; the red 'M' button silences that track; the little 'knob' controls the pan--click in the knob and drag up to pan that track to the left in the stereo mix; drag down to pan to the right.
Finally, you can change the tempo by double-clicking the metronome marking at the beginning of the score (if you can't see it, just hit the rewind button in the top bar)--a little grey box will appear around it; then double-click the number; then type in a higher or lower number.
Because MuseScore clearly displays the score, and (in 'Continuous View') scrolls as it plays, you will be able to read the music directly from your device. You may however wish to have a printout of the PDF packet available
for consultation or score marking.
Scheidt Görlitzer MusicXML Files: These are for use in a notation program other than MuseScore. If you have a notation program that you like and are adept at using, simply open these files from within that program.
Scheidt Görlitzer Midi Files: These files are for use with a MIDI program, if you have one
Need help? dianna@sonomabach.org
Robert Worth is the founding music director of Sonoma Bach. In 2010, he retired as Professor of Music at Sonoma State University, where he taught choral music and many other subjects for 27 years. He is the founding Music Director of Sonoma Bach. In addition to his work in the fields of choral and early music, Bob has a specialty in musicianship training, and for ten years ran the ear training program at SSU. He is a composer and arranger of both choral music and jazz, and his vocal jazz arrangements have been performed by many groups throughout California and beyond. He was deeply involved in the Green Music Center project in its early years, serving as consultant to the architects on such issues as acoustics, choral performance facilities and the Cassin pipe organ. Bob received his BA in music at SSU in 1980, and his MA in musicology at UC Berkeley in 1982.
Shawna is a native of Sonoma County and an alumni of the Sonoma State University music department. She has been singing in bands since the age of fifteen exploring folk, rock, funk, blues, jazz, R&B, reggae and country. Her first album of original music, "Material Ghost", was released in 2008 and her EP, "See Yourself", was released in 2011. Early music became a part of her life during her college years at Sonoma State when Robert Worth was her ear training teacher and choir conductor. After ten years of not singing early music she joined Circa 1600 and Green Mountain Consort and has been loving it ever since. She started her business as a private singing teacher in 2004 at Stanroy Music Center and now sustains a work load of approximately 40 students with a wait list of singers eager to study with her. She and her husband, Cory Hervé, have a duo called Twin Soles that performs a few times a month at some of their favorite venues in the North Bay. Twin Soles released an EP in 2015 and a full length album entitled “Mamalanna” in 2018. Shawna has recorded on many local artists' albums singing backup and lead on their original music. When she's not working she's spending time with her son, Indigo, her husband, Cory, their two cockatiels, Pippin and Cali and their house rabbit, Seamus. For more information on Shawna you can visit https://www.reverbnation.com/shawnamama707