I love performing this so much, the last time we performed this the soprano surprised us all and went from the top B to finish on a top D and it sounded outstanding
Vaughan Williams writes with such a distinctive "voice": very hard to mistake his work for anyone else's. There are also some very definite similarities between this work and Dona Nobis Pacem.
Tonic solfa, an alternative notation method some people have used instead of the usual staff notation. The letters stand for doh, ray, me, fah, soh, lah, te, doh in the current key. In a minor key the notes go from lah to lah. This system helps singers learn their own parts without having to have them played over and over. It's also functioned as an alternative way of notating music using a typewriter when music-engraving facilities have not been available. There are whole psalm books with tonic solfa notation. It's given here for singers who are more familiar with it than with reading staff notation.
Another wonderful example of, I believe, the greatest British composer.
I love performing this so much, the last time we performed this the soprano surprised us all and went from the top B to finish on a top D and it sounded outstanding
that sounds amazingggggg
How beautiful and exciting!
RVW's writing for solo soprano is exquisite; the vocal equivalent of his writing for violin in The Lark Ascending.
Well said.
Ralph Vaughan Williams: The world's most religious agnostic
Nicely - he certainly conveys a sense of mysticism and spirituality to a devout atheist such as myself.
Many Thanks!!
+이옥희 :)
Vaughan Williams writes with such a distinctive "voice": very hard to mistake his work for anyone else's. There are also some very definite similarities between this work and Dona Nobis Pacem.
The way the soloist emerges from a big climactic full-choir moment.
Greatest triangle part ever :-)
Ethereal!
Adverts in the middle?!?!?!?
What are those letters above the choir parts? The "d': l: s: d': etc." stuff?
Tonic solfa, an alternative notation method some people have used instead of the usual staff notation. The letters stand for doh, ray, me, fah, soh, lah, te, doh in the current key. In a minor key the notes go from lah to lah. This system helps singers learn their own parts without having to have them played over and over. It's also functioned as an alternative way of notating music using a typewriter when music-engraving facilities have not been available. There are whole psalm books with tonic solfa notation. It's given here for singers who are more familiar with it than with reading staff notation.
What are the letters on the score? I’ve sung a lot of choral music but don’t recall seeing that before...
Sol-fa
Thanks. I’ve never really understood sol-fa...
@@jbaldwin1970 Just think Julie Andrews in the Sound of Music: Doh a deer and so on
Alright, but why are they one step higher than the score?
Maddalena are they? It’s in D so doh = D? I may be missing something... as I say I’ve never used that system