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First rehearsal last week. We managed the first ten bars. And half of us had performed the piece before.
But you have to abstract from that. Really it's a Gregorian monody is what it is. No bars at all. Just a single line of music that goes wherever it is that it goes at its own leisure.
That's how you have to think of it. Then it's suddenly very easy. But it's very hard to get yourself to think of it that way.
The line has no metrum at all really. It's an entity. A single thing. Duruflé tries to break it up and shoehorn it into metrums a word at a time. Really he's trying to help. But it can easily achieve the exact opposite if you're not prepared. You're not used to thinking of it that way.
So what I'm doing right now, what I've been doing for the past two weeks, is just listen to it non-stop on my earplugs. So I can just internalize it as a single whole. As a song that I just sing along because I know it by heart.
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@Cerberus Do verbs like renovate and rejuvenate have obvious Latinate antonyms I'm oblivious to? I've considered antiquate, obsolesce, obsolete but don't much care for them for whatever reason, and I don't think inveterate, resenesce will reverberate with the masses.
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