Madrigal : Il est bel et bon
Bonjour!
Ci-joint le résultat de ma première partition saisie avec le logiciel, un madrigal à 4 voix.
Musescore est l'outil idéal pour l'entrainement d'une chorale car chaque pupitre peut jouer sa voix .
A bientôt
amcl
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Comments
(Sorry for answering you in English: my written French is not worth reading...)
Nice work indeed! If this is your first attempt at using MuseScore, it is a good advertisement for its easy of use.
Indeed, I regularly use MuseScore for preparing separate part recordings for a small choir of amateurs (most of them do not read a single note of music): I record an .MP3 of each part (and of the full score), so that everybody can download it and practice with it, to join the next rehearsal with a bit of 'solid ground under their feet'.
Coming to your madrigal, I noticed that parts are 'mixed' to unexpected (at least by me...) instruments: violin tremolo for the cantus, contrabass for the tenor and for the bassus: is this a specific choice of yours or just a test?
At measure 25, third and fourth crochet, the Fa - La -Sol chord sounds strange: tenor and bass lines have to follow the imitation, but I wonder if the altus' Sol on "bat aus-" are right.
Lastly (just out of my curiosity), an F# key signature in a XVI century piece look unusual: did you transpose it or is it original?
Congratulations and welcome to the MuseScore community!
M.
In reply to Nice work! by Miwarre
Hello,
You're right , it should be better to have all voices instead of a mix of strange instruments ...
I made some tests in order to find an appropriate sound but i could'nt find really one nice...
But you can change it as you like... :)
I transpose this to musescore from the free partition we use in our choir. I confirm the the measure 25 is like this.
This madrigal is quite short , but hard to sing ... :) :)
Cheers
In reply to Hello, You're right , it by amcl
About sounds:
You are right that founding a good sound equivalent for a choir is not easy. It also greatly depends on the sound-font used; I routinely use the FluidR3_GM sound font (large but decent in most of the 'important' instruments). With it, acceptable solutions I found are:
* strings (assigning violin, viola and cello to each part according to its range),
* brasses (trumpet and trombone, same reasoning)
* organ
All of them result in sounds which are clear enough to make easi(-er) for the students to pick up the notes and reproduce them. Brasses are usually the clearest, but they are also the most strongly connotated and might be 'out of mood' for some pieces (brasses also have the advantage to come out decently even from a simple rendition of a MIDI file, with the obvious advantage of much smaller file size).
According to my experience, the "Aah choir" and "Ooh choir" 'instruments' are to be avoided at all cost as, for untrained ears, they make repeated notes of the same pitch quite difficult to separate from each other.
Perhaps, you may find these previous attempts of some usefulness.
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About the musical contents. A short look at the 9 editions of "Il est bel et bon" available at ChoralWiki, showed that versions 1 tone lower also exist, which get rid of this unusual F# key signature and 'look' more authentic (without an original source at hand, I cannot say this is THE original text, only that it LOOKS like one).
Chauchat's edition (available here ; they tend to be rather reliable) also gets rid of that (in)famous Fa La Sol chord in measure 25 as, in it, the whole phrase of the second voice "Il ne me courousse, ne me bat aussi" occurs one measure before than in the version you followed (i.e. it starts right after the first voice words "Il ne"). Again, I cannot say which is THE correct version, but this definitely looks like one.
Hoping to see other early music scores pouring from your keyboard, thanks for your work!
M.