28 October, 2012

more modern music

The score is about 300 pages long. I have to sing approximately 127 of those pages.
Currently I can SORT OF sing 40 of them, LOOKING at the music, counting my @ss off, and HOPING that the notes with 2.5 octaves in between them are coming out correctly.


2.5 months left.

O.
M.
G.

The things that are easy...are easy.

What's hard is:
The INSANE counting and meter changes that happen SO much and in no particular pattern and every time one 'beat' or one tripelet 'off' -ie, different than the last time.
The fact that sometimes it's just a high G to low G jump with a C in the middle, but all the OTHER times it's G to Fsharp to C, Gsharp to G to Eflat, and so on and so forth- just that little TINIEST 'note' off again- like the beast.

Could I ever just get a pattern? How bout some ABA old-school music here? Haendel anyone?


Thank the unicorns it's in English at least. No trouble memorizing text or words. Just have to know what note and beat they all come on!



2 comments:

Alexandra said...

I have to know what opera this is!!!!!!!

me said...

Clue- it's NOT the modern opera currently running at the MET.