Comments on: Arranging for Co-ed Groups 1: Range + Voicings http://www.portamental.com Fluidity of Mind and Music Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:03:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: liz garnett http://www.portamental.com/a-cappella-arranging/advanced-explorations/arranging-for-co-ed-groups-1-range-voicings/comment-page-1/#comment-85 liz garnett Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:12:48 +0000 http://www.smartermusic.us/?page_id=1434#comment-85 Hi Dan, With your point about when to push singers to the more striking-sounding (and therefore less blendy) bits of their ranges and when to keep them in their safety zone is often driven by the nature of the material, and thus whether you want to draw attention to the singers or away from the singers onto the song, IYSWIM. Your butt-clenching moment is going to be all about the voice of the performer, whereas handing it off to the middle of someone else's range lets it recede back into the overall texture. And it's kind of interesting with a lead+band set-up to figure how much you want the ensemble singers to have individual identities within the music, and how much you want them to have an over-arching corporate identity. If you wanted to blog about that one day, I'd be happy to read :-) liz x Hi Dan,
With your point about when to push singers to the more striking-sounding (and therefore less blendy) bits of their ranges and when to keep them in their safety zone is often driven by the nature of the material, and thus whether you want to draw attention to the singers or away from the singers onto the song, IYSWIM. Your butt-clenching moment is going to be all about the voice of the performer, whereas handing it off to the middle of someone else’s range lets it recede back into the overall texture. And it’s kind of interesting with a lead+band set-up to figure how much you want the ensemble singers to have individual identities within the music, and how much you want them to have an over-arching corporate identity. If you wanted to blog about that one day, I’d be happy to read :-)

liz x

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