{"id":517,"date":"0203-01-31T14:40:34","date_gmt":"0203-01-31T14:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/?p=517"},"modified":"2018-11-26T10:10:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T10:10:56","slug":"warm-up-a-la-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/warm-up-a-la-part\/","title":{"rendered":"Warm-Up a la P\u00e4rt"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"part\"<\/a>Here is another warm-up exercise. The melody somehow reminds me of An den Wassern zu Babel<\/em> by P\u00e4rt. In this exercise singers will learn to distinguish between ascending and descending fourths and fifths.<\/p>\n

To start with, sing the following melody, in which the jumps are getting bigger each time:
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Next sing this mirrored melody:
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Now we will combine the melodies:
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Finally, sing this melody in canon, for example by letting the women start en letting the men enter after two beats. In that case there will be a lot of thirds between the parts:
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The exercise will sound like this:
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