Altered Version 1: Details

Problem: The pitch drops as the melody descends in the second half of bar 3.

Possible solutions:
- Here we should keep in mind that ‘descending melodies, especially in the minor mode, require special attention in regard to intonation.’ (Per-Gunnar Alldahl, Choral Intonation, p. 39), and work against the tendency for this descent to sink too far, through awareness, energy, tonal feeling, and energy.
- Remembering Alldahl’s point that ‘if sung too passively a repeated tone has a tendency to be lower’ (Choral Intonation, p. 9), the conductor encourages care and momentum at the repeating G (mi) through high-quality demonstration, explanation, and supportive conducting gestures, as well as through teaching well the relationship between the key note (la), the fifth (mi) and the higher octave (la) as pillar notes of the tonality.
- The conductor guides the singers in placing the E flat (do) at the start of bar 4 very carefully, so that it relates securely to the triad of chord I, C minor (l - d - m) and doesn’t ‘sit down’.