[Menvi-discuss] question about music for conducting

Wed Sep 10 21:20:09 UTC 2014

Hi Julie,

The only problem with short score is that when the parts have different words and come in at different times it is challenging at times to tell what is going on. I am not an experienced conductor by any means. At present I’m on teaching placement and am taking a few choir rehearsals. The best thing I have found to do is work hard myself before rehearsals. Play the parts separately, learn to sing them, then do my best with the (and my head) score in rehearsals. Other blind conductors I have known seemed to be very familiar with the score themselves and use the braille mainly as a reference.

All the best,
Jordie

On 11 Sep 2014, at 6:44 am, Julie McGinnity <kaybaycar at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Thanks for the responses!
> 
> Brian, your idea sounds promising.  I admit that although I took piano
> for years, I am still not as quick with reading interval signs.  Do
> you find it easy to skim the music this way?  Do you still find it
> easy to go over one part if the music is stacked like that?  I imagine
> it would force you to jump a lot.  And did you mean that the lyrics
> would go on top of all the music.  I believe I can picture what you've
> described.
> 
> I didn't know that there was a name for the interval sign score...
> Thanks Sandra!
> 
> I work with Bettie Downing-yes, the one on this list.  And since I
> will be paying for this as it's not for school, I want to make sure I
> ask for something that will work well for me.
> 
> 
> On 9/10/14, Brian Howerton <bshowerton1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
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>> 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."
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> 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
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