Wandering from pitch
Abstract
- Abstract
- Several writers have expressed their views in this Journal about a natural phenomenon: the wandering from pitch of their singers. I have also before me a leading Church Music Magazine in which a writer is at pains to give devices to overcome this difficulty especially with child choirs. From a long experience with choral groups in several countries, my own views are at variance with almost every writer on the subject. It may even come as a surprise if I say that African singers, even children or a whole congregation, can keep pitch when they are accompanied (by the harmonium, for instance, provided they can hear it enough); and that any musician who can transpose, or has a transpositor keyboard, could obviate the tendency in his singers. I do not find it a problem. But a few simple ‘rules’ should be observed.
Description
- Description
- pages: 54-55
Subjects
People & roles
- Author
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Brother Basil
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- Is Part Of
- St. Theresa Seminary, Roma, Basutoland
Origins & context
- Title
- Wandering from pitch
- Type
- Text
- Language
- English
- Parent project
- International Library of African Music
- is funded by
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Rhodes University
- Place of Origin
- South Africa
- Created Date
- November 30, 1958
Rights & access
- License
- CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
- Access Rights
- Public
Identifiers & sources
- DRE ID
- eaa-99-007d
- Identifier
-
530
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- Type
- Publisher, distributor, or vendor stock number
Further details
- WissKI URL
- 75440