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Author: Jonathan (Aus)
Date: 2001-07-14 03:06
Gday,
I was wondering if anyone has either played or is familiar with any arias/opera excerpts for Soprano Voice, Clarinet and Piano. The singer that's in my trio is apparently somewhat in between a soprano and mezzo-soprano and can sing all the high notes fine but the tessitura can't be up there all the time.
We've done a few pieces so far such as Das Muhlrad by Kreutzer, The Orange Tree by Margaret Sutherland, Sechs Deutche Lieder by Spohr, Parto Parto by Mozart but she is unable to sing things such as the Schubert shepherd on the rock, Lachners 2 songs, the Hovhaness etc. due to their high tessitura.
The course that my singer is doing is such that she is only allowed to sing arias and excerpts from operas for her exams so for the last half of this year we just want to focus on pieces like this writted for sop, clar, and piano.
So... I was wondering if anyone is familiar with the following pieces
(1. what they are like(ie. which would be better to do for an audience (and more interesting for clarinet:-)) and 2. if the tessitura would be suitable for my singer):
Giovanni B. Bononcini - 3 Viennese Arias
Pierre Gaveaux - Aria (from le trompeur trompe)
Giuseppe Sarti - Aria in Bb
Mozart - non piu di fiori
and does anyone know of any other arias for clar, sop, and piano. (we're also doing spohr - ich bin allein from his faust and maybe Una voce al cor mi parla by Paer).
Thank you,
Jonathan Farquhar (from Aus)
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Author: nonvoiceperson
Date: 2001-07-14 03:10
Sorry Jonathan, I can't answer your question but I was wondering what tessitura is-as you can see I am not a voice person! Thanks
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Author: Jonathan (Aus)
Date: 2001-07-14 03:55
What i meant by tessitura is where the range of the majority of notes sit for the singer ie. in shepherd on the rock by schubert many of the notes are above high e - if mem is correct there are quite a few wide leaps to high f and g and it generally sits above b and for my singer whose specialty is lower tessituras when there are too many high notes it can strain her voice. In shepherd on the rock you could say the tessitura is generally from G (second line) to high G (above the 5th line) although it goes down to low Bb (just below middle C) and up to high Bb Hope this makes sense.
Thanks Mark I'll check it out right away.
Jonathan Farquhar
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Author: Tim2
Date: 2001-07-14 22:46
Actually, Schubert's "Shepherd On The Rock" goes to a high B natural for the soprano. And as you may well know, it leaps to that B natural. A beautiful peak to the middle section of this piece. I played this with a classmate of mine for a senior recital when I graduated from college. My soprano really did a "swell" job. (Pun intended) It was so much fun playing those lyrics against her. And just as much fun echoing back those scale lines in the finale. With the pianist, we were a great team.
Hope you do or did like Mark says. The whole setup of the composition database is great at finding things. Of course, if you are not familiar with the music, you may have to go by who the composer is or find out more about the composer or the piece, even check it out at a library to see if the music is something you and your partners would like to play.
Good luck to you.
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