•Why this piece is worthy of consideration:
- I like that this piece could be either unison or 2-part depending on the choir and what they need. I also like that this is an arrangement of a Baroque piece, so that it is exposing the students to some traditional music. This piece also has shorter phrases with lots of places for the choir to breathe and regroup if anyone gets off.
•The ensemble for which the piece will be appropriate:
- I think this would be great for a beginning middle school choir. This piece could be done in unison for a first semester choir or in two-part for a second semester or second year choir. The parts move in contrary motion, which I like, however, the second part does go pretty low in places so I would either stick with the unison line or re-write the second part so that it is higher.
•Discuss range/tessitura and how the piece works for singers:
- Part 1: low E - Eb, this part allows singers to explore the whole range of their voice, which I like
- Opt. Part 2: low Ab - Bb, this part is very low, but if there are voices that have already changed it may work for them.
•What musical ideas can be taught:
-blend, unifying vowel shape, phrasing, contrast between phrases
•What about the text is worthy of singing:
- The text in this piece is pretty standard. It's not great, but other songs are much worse and don't have the musical value that this song does given the Baroque era compositional value.
•What, if any, material should be adapted/re-written:
- I would probably use this song as a unison piece, but if I ever did want to use the second part, I would most likely need to re-write most of it since it is very low right now.
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