Altered Version 2: Details
Problem: the pitch is dropping at the repeating note A (mi) and the descending motif in bars 3-4.
Possible solutions:
- When teaching the piece, the conductor emphasises the need for care in singing repeated notes so that good tuning is maintained. The conductor demonstrates this by singing with momentum and accuracy.
- The conductor uses fluent, supportive gestures in conducting, to encourage energy and momentum through the phrase.
- Attention may be drawn to the need to lift certain notes, for example the ‘re’ and the low ‘soh’, and the conductor can use gestures to encourage this.
- As part of the teaching process, the conductor sings, or plays on an instrument, a sustained key note (D) while the singers listen closely, matching their melody carefully to the sustained sound and tuning their intervals beautifully to it.