#Choral Music

[young-royals-confessions]

Confessing this anonymously for understandable reasons. First time I watched YR, I couldn’t understand how Simon was credible as the star of the school choir. Omar Rudberg has a good voice, but it’s very obviously a “pop music” voice. Choral music, at least at a high level, is a totally different type of vocal training.

It’s something I can hand wave away, upon rewatching. Because Simon is supposed to be a diamond in the rough who had no formal vocal training prior to starting at Hillerska a little over a month previously. So he would have the raw talent, but not the trained “choral/classical” sound.

But the first time watching the show, every solo of Simon’s made me think “This guy isn’t credible.” I just never admitted it because i know a lot of my fellow fans adore Omar’s music and his voice.

#simon eriksson #omar rudberg #choral music #young royals #hillerska choir

[plutooonium]

never get me talking about latin pronunciations i *will* start rambling about the differences between ecclesiastical and classical latin because i’m pretty knowledgeable on the subject just by way of having both taken latin and having sung multiple pieces in latin

#latin language #linguistics #ecclesiastical latin #classical latin #choral music #repost because i forgot tags

[spacelazarwolf]

i will never forgive the choral world for getting its hands on “i believe in the sun”, a poem scratched on the wall in a concentration camp by a jewish prisoner during the holocaust, and turning it into a feel-good “credo” (yes, one composer literally called it a fucking CREDO, which is a CHRISTIAN prayer/declaration of faith). i’m singing it with a choir i’m in and this is the first time i have ever sung it on a concert that also programmed a jewish composer. this is in fact the second concert ever in my entire academic and professional career where i’ve sung jewish music by a jewish composer, but you bet your ass i’ve sung and heard “even when he is silent” dozens of times in multiple settings and never once do they mention that it was a jew who wrote this poem or what the words truly mean. never once do people discuss the context of this poem and the horrors the author endured.

the line that sticks out to me is “i believe in love, even when i feel it not” because so many people claim to relate to that line or want to believe that it’s about the treatment the people who were tortured and murdered in the holocaust endured, but something i would like to very aggressively and unkindly remind y’all is that the rest of the world knew what was happening and was complicit or actively helped the nazis. that line “even when i feel it not” to me isn’t just about the nazis. it’s about the people who turned their backs on their jewish friends and neighbors when the time came to take a stand. it’s about the millions of people who watched while millions of jews, romani, queer, and disabled people were systematically murdered and did absolutely nothing. that line isn’t fucking about when you’re feeling kinda lonely.

anyway i am so so so SO fucking tired of non jews programming this fucking piece. please, if you are a director or choir teacher of any kind, please stop programming this piece. or if you absolutely must, you should also be programming pieces by jewish composers as well, and you should be talking extensively with your choir and the audience about the context of this piece. stop only consuming art by and about dead jews and start appreciating and respecting us while we’re alive.

#jewish #jumblr #choir #choral music

[transboysoprano]

In other news, I sang tenor for the first time last night. I talked to my choir director about it, and she agreed to let me try it out for our next concert. There are two choirs I'm in, the treble and mixed choirs, so I still get to get my fill of singing soprano in the treble while stretching my low range in the mixed.

I immediately fell in love. I bottom out around F3 right now (pre-T, still), but the pieces we're doing almost never go lower than that. I thought I wouldn't be able to sight-read as easily or it wouldn't be as satisfying as singing soprano but I am SO happy to be wrong. I LOVED singing in the middle of chords and feeling my voice rumbling in my chest. It's exciting and novel and it made me feel like I was falling in love with choral singing all over again.

My best trans girl friend also sings tenor in that choir, and my fiancé sings baritone, so I was grateful to get to sit between them. I'm usually pretty quiet and serious in choral rehearsals but we had so much fun sitting together. Even just being on the other side of the room for once felt like my whole world was different.

It's silly sometimes how big the small things are and how small the big things are. I thought I could only ever be a soprano. That was my lot. I was good at it and I'd never done anything else so I could never be anything else. Then one day I try something new and I realize it's not that different. I still know how to read music, I still know how to sing, it still feels good. Even better in some ways. But what felt momentously different was how much I felt like I belonged there. My voice didn't stick out nearly as much as I thought it would. I still know how to blend to the voices around me. Even just responding to "tenors" or "tenors and basses" rather than to "sopranos" or "sopranos and altos" felt like I finally was where I always wanted to be. Being surrounded by my loved ones helped of course, but I just felt... welcome there.

I am filled with hope today. I really think I can do this. I think I'm ready for whatever happens come May. Testosterone, please let me be a tenor. I found where I want to be.

#trans #transgender #ftm #trans man #ftm trans #lgbt #choir #choral music #choir music #choirs #singing #trans singers #transgender singers #queer #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queer pride #trans pride

[anonymousdandelion]

Just a few reasons why we need more truly secular school/community/professional choirs to, like, exist:

More welcoming for singers and audience members who are non-religious

More welcoming for singers and audience members of minority religions

More welcoming for singers and audience members who are uncomfortable having their sacred music taken out of context

Church choirs already exist, and there are a million other ensembles singing Gloria and Requiem and Ave Maria and Hallelujah Chorus; I promise the folks who like singing and listening to the religious classics have no shortage of options available to them

There is so much amazing secular repertoire out there that gets passed over time and time again in favor of the same old church pieces. Expand! Explore!! Seize this musical opportunity!!!

...I want to sing in a choir xD 😭

#christian hegemony #jumblr #choir #choirs #choral music #musicians #singers #singing #music #dandelion says #jewish dandelion #if I happen to have any choral directors who follow me #please take note lol

[the-tired-tenor]

Songs That Have Permanently Altered My Brain Chemistry as a Choral Musician

Please Stay by Jake Runestad. Incredibly powerful piece of music, as someone who has lost people to suicide and struggled with mental health crises myself I cry every time I listen to it. Everything this man writes is excellent, but this is my favorite of his.

Song of Miriam by Elaine Hagenberg. Some of the most beautiful melodic writing I've ever had the pleasure of teaching or hearing, and there's so much range in every aspect that it always feels shorter than it actually is. 10/10, strong contender for my favorite piece of repertoire I've ever taught.

Untraveled Worlds by Paul Halley. I sang this with my All State choir in high school and it has lived rent-free in my head ever since. Something about it just really resonated and I'll catch myself singing it in the shower even now, over a decade later.

Horizons by Peter Luis van Dijk. The single most underrated song on this list, and another song I performed with my high school All State choir. Horizons is not only musically impactful thanks to high dynamic contrast and unconventional vocal percussion but emotionally evocative as well, describing how the indigenous San people of South Africa first encountered and were subsequently kidnapped and enslaved en masse by white explorers. I cannot recommend this song strongly enough if your choir can handle the difficulty level.

#choral music #tw: suicide #Horizons #Untravelled Worlds #Please Stay #Song of Miriam

[nikiko-venu]

Idk if I shared this with tumblr but I am sharing this:

So you know how hell is Christmas hell? I think heavens choice of music and style is just a bunch of explicit choral music and choral fits.

Like imagine you enter heaven and are greeted with a choral arrangement of WAP

#dndads #dungeons and daddies #choral music #choir #this is not what you are looking for choir kids #unless you like d&dads

[delyth88]

Here's an absolutely gorgeous piece of early renaissance choral music a friend played for me last night. Enjoy!

#the new consort #renaissance #early music #choral music #choir #part singing #one voice per part #pierre moulu #fiere attropos #not fandom #Youtube #music #song #singing

[cupophrogs]

I GOT TO DO THE BELT NOTE CHORUS TODAY

#YIPPEE #OH MY LOWD IT FELT SO GOOOD #and it’s in Latin too #O DOMINEEEEEEEEEE #AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA #(but make it harmonic) #it’s #oh my god it’s so much fun to jsut #let that shit rip like a b #ayblade #phrog croaks #choral music #belting note

[lesser-known-composers]

Peter Cornelius (1824-1874) - Liebe, Op. 18 - II. Ich will dich lieben, meine Krone ·

KammerChor Saarbrücken · Georg Grün

#Peter Cornelius #choral music #classical music #romantic composer #Youtube

[emi-g]

🎼 Welcome to The Family Madrigal...the madrigal! 🎵

#encanto #encanto music #the family madrigal #madrigals #renaissance music #choral music #jimlapbap

[transboysoprano]

I told my church choir director about my plan to transition last night. We were both several drinks deep at the bar and having a heart-to-heart. He was supportive and said he is ultimately very excited to see me becoming myself, but admitted he feels not having me as a soprano in his choir would be a huge loss. Naturally, I’m pretty conflicted about that. I really hate to inconvenience people, and I’m terrified of people pitying me when my voice isn’t what they remembered, especially when it’s inevitably going to be in that crackly unstable place for a while.

On a lighter note, when he saw me, he said he thought I had already started transitioning. I’ve lost a little weight this summer and got a good haircut so my face is a little less round than usual right now. Plus I have like, dark peach fuzz on my face naturally even without HRT, which he touched like “what is this?” I said, “It’s my mustache, any questions?” It was a weird interaction but we had a good laugh about it. I feel a real kinship with him. He’s an older gay man and really makes an effort to understand me. I think of him like a queer role model, and I think he thinks of me like a young queer to take under his wing. I’m glad we have a good rapport, and I sincerely hope I can keep singing for him while my voice changes.

#trans #transgender #choir #choral music #ftm #trans man #choir music #choirs #ftm trans #church choir #choir director #choral singer #lay clerk #episcopal #episcopalians

[siena-sevenwits]

If you're looking for choral Advent music to listen to over the next month, I found this splendid one. It's enormous and should do you for a while. I'm just setting it on shuffle and, every one that's come up has been a winner.

#advent #advent music #advent hymns #choral music #hymns #Spotify

[holy-sciences]

Therapist: "The rest in the middle of the slur isn't real, it can't hurt you."

My sheet music:

#choir #choral music #do you want a glottal stop? this is how you get a glottal stop!

[charaznablunt]

Tickets are live now for my choir's winter concert! TRANScend is an all-trans/gnc choir and we will be performing Saturday, December 16, at 7:30 EST, at St. John's in the Village in NYC. Not a New Yorker? No problem - streaming tickets are available at the link. I hope you'll join us in celebrating the winter season!

#trans music #trans artist #trans art #trans musician #new york #nyc #new york city #choral #choral music

[severalpossiblemusiks]

Enjoy a weird little piece of music about the moon.

#it’s called Epitaph For Moonlight #by R. Murray Schafer #and in the piece he is effectively mourning the loss of mystery of the moon #cause the moon landings for him basically broke the mythical and fantasy quality the moon always had in human history #music #youtube #classical music #choral music