[Menvi-discuss] question about music for conducting

[Brian Howerton]

Hi Julie,
I serve as worship pastor at a church here in Richmond Virginia, and have to
do this on a weekly basis so hopefully I can shed some light on this for
you.  If you use lime and good feel, you can print off your scores where you
have the music and lyrics or in score format where just the music is
printed.  As long as each part is on its own staff in Lime, Good Feel will
print each part on a separate line for each measure.  So you would have the
soprano part on one line for measure 1, then the alto part, etc.  This helps
me the most because it's like you are ready each part in single-line format.
The only time I have to deal with interval signs really is when there is a
first and second soprano part.  This seems to work the best for me.  The key
though is to make sure each part is on its own staff.  This is what I use to
lead rehearsals each week for our choir and it works great.  I'd be glad to
talk to you off-list if you would like to talk more about this.  Thanks, and
hope this helps.
Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: Menvi-discuss [mailto:menvi-discuss-bounces at menvi.org] On Behalf Of
Julie McGinnity
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2014 12:53 PM
To: This is for discussing music and braille literacy
Subject: [Menvi-discuss] question about music for conducting

Hi friends,

I have been invited to work with my church choir-conducting and leading the
music for a Sunday.  This is very exciting, but I remember when taking
conducting, I had such difficulties working with the different parts.  The
technology was limiting us at the time, so I could only get the parts
separately.  So, when working with the class, I had to flip and search for
each different part's line when I wanted to go over music with multiple
parts.  It was kind of a pain and definitely made me more disorganized.  Is
there a better way to deal with four-part music?  I've seen arrangements
using interval signs, and that would certainly make things more compact.  Is
that what you would recommend.  I work with a transcriber now who will
arrange the music however I ask.

Any other suggestions for music while conducting or leading a rehearsal...
is of course appreciated.  I've never done this for real, and I want to find
out if it's something I can handle and may enjoy.
Thanks.

--
Julie McG
National Association of Guide dog Users board member,  National Federation
of the Blind performing arts division secretary, Missouri Association of
Guide dog Users President, and Guiding Eyes for the Blind graduate 2008 "For
God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who
believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life."
John 3:16

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