Song 8: - Cross the wide Missouri
Shenandoah / The Water is Wide (Traditional)
Arr. by Nancy Price & Don Besig
Introduction:
This will be new to most of the choir although most of you may have heard the melodies before. This music is very smooth. The very small notes in the music are played by the flute.Pages 2 & 3
It begins with a piano and flute introduction. The sops then sing the melody from bar 8 - 14 the music then gets slightly quicker with the men singing the melody for the Water is Wide.
B:
Pages 4 & 5
The men continue singing the melody of the Water is Wide until bar 2 on page 5. The ladies 'Ah' a counter melody very quietly. On page 5 lines 2 + 3 Sops sing melody with altos singing harmony.The piano plays an arpeggio style to the bottom of page 6.
Pages 6 & 7
The sops continue singing the melody on page 6 with the other parts singing harmonies. There is a variety of dynamics on this page so care is needed.The piano mainly plays the arpeggio style white the Flute plays a descant. In the last bar page 6 we slow down to a key change. Page 7 is slower and Shenandoah is in a new key - the piano accompanument is mainly chords with arpeggio sections between. The voices are in harmony.
B:
Pages 8, 9 & 10
Sops sing melody as on page 2 with the other parts singing the harmony. At the end of 2nd line the key changes and the Water is Wide is sung in unison until bar 79 where it is sung in harmony - similar to pages 2 & 3. We end on page 10 singing the end of Shenandoah. The final section is fairly quiet and slows down.
B:
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