Choir Regionals!

This weekend I went to my choir regionals… I had sooooo much fun! We practiced all day and then in the evening we all had a concert. We had four different songs. Kyrie, A Red Red Rose, The Maidens Farewell, and Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.

Kyrie was a very slow graceful song. It was greek and there were only 3 words: Kyrie, eleison, and Christe. The pronunciation of Kyrie is Keehrieh. This means God. There are many different translations but this is the most common. Eleison is very soft and picky and is sung as eehlehyisōōn, the meanig is mercy. The final word is Christe. The pronunciation is very harsh with the C, Chreesteh, the meaning is Christ. This song you fill all of the R’s. All together the song is saying: God, God mercy. Christ, Christ mercy. But when sung in greek it is gorgeous.

A Red, Red Rose is a very beautiful slow song that requires a lot of strength. The harmonies are very difficult. There are 3 voice parts. Soprano 1, Soprano 2(thats what I am), and Alto. The melody belongs to the Soprano 1s, and the Altos and the Soprano 2s are the harmony. All together they have a beautiful song.

The Maidens Farewell is our A cappella piece. This tempo is very quick so we don’t get much of a break in between phrases to take a breath. This piece is an older lyric song and it requires you to open you mouth very tall like you are biting an apple. I love The Maiden Farewell because it has a very challenging way of singing it. The time signature is in 6/8 which all of the other pieces are in 4/4 or 3/4.

The final piece is Ain’t No Mountain High Enough. This is most likely a piece that you have heard but this was called our “fun piece”. The words on this was challenging to grasp especially when to come into sing. But this piece was up beat and fun. It was the last piece that we did and it is one of those songs that gets stuck in your head after you sing it.

I loved regionals and all the thugs that we sang but some of the songs were a little lengthy. I had a ton of fun but the best thing was performing.

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