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Rachmaninoff Notes for Tenors

Saturday, October 1st, 2011

From Tenor Section Leader Larry:
I have looked (and listened) at the places where the tenor line breaks into 3 parts. Here is what I found in comparing the printed music to the rehearsal tracks:

No. 2 page 8, bottom system, continuing into the next page: Tenor 2 sings the bottom notes.

No. 4 page 20, bottom system: Tenor 2 sings the middle notes.

No. 6 page 36, bottom system, continuing into the next page: As best I can tell, the Tenor 2 rehearsal track sounds both the middle and lower notes. Is there a preference?

No. 8 page 45, bottom system, 2nd and 3rd measures: Tenor 2 sings e-f-g-d.

No. 11 page 71, top system, and page 73, top and bottom systems: As best I can tell, the Tenor 2 rehearsal track sounds both the middle and lower notes. Is there a preference?

No. 20 page 130, bottom system 1st measure: Tenor 2 sings the top notes (same as Tenor 1) for the word nogaya (triplet).

No. 20 page 130, bottom system 2nd and 3rd measures: Tenor 2 sings the middle notes.

No. 14, Choir I : The Tenor rehearsal track sounds all notes. I assume you will give some direction when you assign singers to Choir I.

Please let me know if you have any corrections or clarifications to what I have listed above.

From Dr. Whitmire: Hi Larry- This is why you are the tenor section leader. Great work! To simplify, whenever the tenor breaks into 3 parts, I’d like 2nd tenors to sing the middle part. Thanks-DrW


Tenor Notes

Monday, September 26th, 2011

From Section Leader Larry: Rachmaninoff #18: The 2nd tenor CD rehearsal track for #18 contains no audible 2nd tenor notes beginning with the first measure of page 118 until the second measure of page 120 (although we hear the quieter notes of all the other parts). I’m guessing that this omission may have been a “production error” and that the 2nd tenor voices should continue to sing in unison with the first tenors. If so, no big problem, because we can listen to the first tenor track to hear the missing notes.

Rachmaninoff #20: On page 130, bottom staff, the 2nd tenor CD rehearsal track sounds the following pitches for the 2nd tenors, starting with the triplet: c, d, e, c, b, b. That would have us sing the same triplet pitches as the first tenors and not sing f in the final two measures. Could you verify if this is what you intended?

From Dr. Whitmire: Sorry about that Larry. Since there is no divisi in those measures, maybe
you can learn your notes from the Tenor 1 track.


Tenor Rehearsal Notes

Friday, January 21st, 2011

From Section Leader Larry:
Here is a list of the TENOR CD practice tracks and the starting page number for each track:
1    page 2
2    page 19
3    page 30 (bottom)
4    page 43
5    page 51 (bottom)
6    page 80
7    page 85
8-9 page 124 (we are all singing Chorus 2/track 9)
10  page 149
11  page 167
12  page 172
13  page 182
14  page 186
15  page 205