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alimor582
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8/9/2006 | posted: 8/9/2006 at 5:20:05 PM ET
I need help reading music. On the second part of the piece I'm learning (it's vocal), there are these smaller notes right next to the larger notes. Do I ignore the smaller ones or sing them also, like in a slurrish fashion? Thanks.
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 imnidiot
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3/28/2005 | posted: 8/9/2006 at 8:33:11 PM ET
The smaller notes are for another voice part
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 maintube
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5/26/2004 | posted: 8/9/2006 at 11:45:41 PM ET
The smaller notes RIGHT NEXT to a regular sized note are grace notes. On a wind instrument they are usually slurred. Same would apply to voice I would think. They are not another voice line.
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imnidiot
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3/28/2005 | posted: 9/25/2006 at 10:22:22 PM ET
The smaller notes are also harmony notes for voice
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maintube
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5/26/2004 | posted: 9/25/2006 at 10:57:55 PM ET
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The smaller notes RIGHT NEXT to a regular sized note are grace notes. On a wind instrument they are usually slurred. Same would apply to voice I would think. They are not another voice line.
Web sites to look at. http://www.nici.kun.nl/mmm/projects/domain7.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_note
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/grace+note
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imnidiot
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3/28/2005 | posted: 9/27/2006 at 9:11:13 PM ET
When we have those notes in a peice we are singing, we sing them as harmony notes, and they are not always right next to a note. Some stand alone. I asked this question of our music director, and he said as far as voice, they are harmony notes, at least in the music we sing.
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maintube
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5/26/2004 | posted: 9/29/2006 at 12:30:55 AM ET
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I need help reading music. On the second part of the piece I'm learning (it's vocal), there are these smaller notes right next to the larger notes. Do I ignore the smaller ones or sing them also, like in a slurrish fashion? Thanks.
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I am going by the original question. What they describe are grace notes or ornamentation, not harmony notes. Harmony notes would continue above or below the regular melodic line for a cetain number of measures.
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