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Helping You Harmonise
http://www.helpingyouharmonise.com
Helping You Harmonise offers ideas to help choral directors and singers in vocal ensembles to rehearse and perform more effectively. Written by choral clinician and close-harmony arranger, Liz Garnett, it aims to help everyone involved in ensemble singing perform with more confidence, skill and joy.
- Added on: Jan 6th, 2009
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: Liz Garnett
- Listed in: Music Education
- Tags: Coaching singing arrangements a cappella choral conducting close harmony
Recent Posts
Contemplation on the Coventry Carol
Tintoretto's depiction of the Slaughter of the InnocentsI’ve been thinking just recently about the story of the slaughter of the innocents, as I’ve been working on a new arrangement of the Coventry Carol for Magenta. I find it the most unbearably...
Exams, Arrangements & Radio 1
NoteoriousMy undergraduate degree was one of those old-fashioned ones that culminated in 8 hours of written exams over two days. I recall thinking at the time, ‘Well, I think I’ve got quite good at sitting exams by now – shame really that this ...
Birthday Post!
Helping You Harmonise is 1 year old today! On 26 November 2008 I made my inaugural blog entry, having spent the previous couple of weeks busy uploading my arrangements catalogue before the site went live. Since then, I have posted 88,300 words of blo...
Musical Sense and Poetic Sense
A criticism levelled at amateur singers* is that their ideas of how to interpret songs are led almost entirely by the lyric with little concept of how to handle musical elements. Indeed, I have myself critiqued approaches to interpretation that are s...
Preliminary Quartet Thoughts
3/4 of Monkey Magic with a bag of trophiesLast Sunday saw a marathon BABS quartet prelims come to my erstwhile place of work, with 43 quartets competing in the national, senior and youth quartet contests. The biggest outcome of the day (though not th...
Are you talented?
The jury is out as to whether talent is in-born or whether it can be acquired. We do know, however, that it only shows up in people who have spent thousands of hours honing their craft. This obsessive, focused work often accounts for the teenage year...
