Choir Practice

Choir Practice is a set of eight short exercises for S.A.T.B. choirs, which would be useful in targeting specific weaknesses in technique as well as being enjoyable, if rather challenging to sing.

1. Ah Peggy Oh

Up and down arpeggios in various major keys.

2. Togetherness

A quick piece where each part goes its own way, coming together at the end.

3. Planet

A mixture of triplet quavers and duplet crotchets. Combinations of three against two and four against three with a familiar rhythm in 5/4 time.

4. Plain Singing

The art of chanting. Fairly easy harmonies but made more difficult by the distance, on the page, between the words and the music.

5. The Whole Tone

The two whole-tone scales side by side resulting in many dissonant harmonies.

6. Semi-Tones

Chromatic passages, with leaps. The word accents do not help the irregular rhythm of the phrases.

7. Just Sing It

Solid harmonies with phrases of alternating pitch. Fine tuning and just intonation.

8. The Devil You Know

A liberal sprinkling of augmented 4ths.