St. Stephen's Orchestra

and Sometimes Choir

As promised, I'm posting the files for Simple Gifts. Please note that it is a fugue. It would really help if you all know what a fugue is. Wikipedia defines it as such:

In music, a fugue is a type of contrapuntal composition or technique of composition for a fixed number of parts, normally referred to as "voices". A fugue opens with one main theme, the subject, which then sounds successively in each voice in imitation; when each voice has entered, the exposition is complete; this is occasionally followed by a connecting passage, or episode, developed from previously heard material; further "entries" of the subject then are heard in related keys. Episodes (if applicable) and entries are usually alternated until the "final entry" of the subject, by which point the music has returned to the opening key, or tonic, which is often followed by closing material, the coda. In this sense, a fugue is a style of composition, rather than fixed structure. Though there are certain established practices, in writing the exposition for example, composers approach the style with varying degrees of freedom and individuality. If you would like to know more about fugues, Wikipedia is a good place to start.

Below I've listed your parts and you can print them yourselves for practice at home. You might also want to look at the score to see how your part fits in with other instrments. I've also included the mp3 file - just remember that it sounds like a very bad midi. Hopefully it will sound better on your own computers, but it probably won't. Flutes and violins are particularly difficult to hear. Click on your part and it will open as a pdf. Adobe Acrobat Reader is needed to view the files.

For Christmas 2008: Vivaldi Gloria and Mannheim S. version of Veni, Veni

Easter 2009 - Hallelujah Chorus

Beauty - recording

Let me know if you have any problems.

My email - Marcie