{"id":839,"date":"2018-05-06T17:51:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T17:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/?p=839"},"modified":"2020-04-23T21:38:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T21:38:15","slug":"warming-up-swan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/warming-up-swan\/","title":{"rendered":"Warming-Up &#8216;Swan&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/zwanen-2.jpg\" data-gallery><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3123\" src=\"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/zwanen-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>A long time ago I learned the Dutch canon <em>Als de zwaan zingt<\/em> (&#8220;If the swan is singing&#8221;). This canon is very well suited for warming-up. Inspired by this, I created a warming-up exercise which can be used in several ways. The melody is like this:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Als-de-zwaan-zingt-1.gif\" data-gallery><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3116\" src=\"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Als-de-zwaan-zingt-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nYou might sing these notes in parallel fifths:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Als-de-zwaan-zingt-2.gif\" data-gallery><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3117\" src=\"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Als-de-zwaan-zingt-2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBut you might sing the notes in canon as well:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Als-de-zwaan-zingt-3.gif\" data-gallery><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3118\" src=\"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Als-de-zwaan-zingt-3.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAnother possibily is to sing parallel fifths in canon:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Als-de-zwaan-zingt-4.gif\" data-gallery><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3119\" src=\"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Als-de-zwaan-zingt-4.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nInstead of letting the voice groups enter after a bar, you might let them enter after a half bar:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Als-de-zwaan-zingt-5.gif\" data-gallery><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Als-de-zwaan-zingt-5.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAnd this compacted version may again be sung in parallel fifths:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Als-de-zwaan-zingt-6.gif\" data-gallery><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3121\" src=\"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Als-de-zwaan-zingt-6.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n<script>\nvar zbPregResult = '0';\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/zwanen-2.jpg\" data-gallery><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/zwanen-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3123\" \/><\/a>A long time ago I learned the Dutch canon <em>Als de zwaan zingt<\/em> (&#8220;If the swan is singing&#8221;). This canon is very well suited for warming-up. Inspired by this, I created a warming-up exercise which can be used in several ways. The melody is like this:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Als-de-zwaan-zingt-1.gif\" data-gallery><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Als-de-zwaan-zingt-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3116\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5-choral-sound-and-warm-ups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1332,"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions\/1332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}