Folk song a capella
Jul. 25th, 2010 09:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
franceslievensMost of you know that in my spare time I take singing lessons. Staying in Oxford cut last year short and I postponed my exam to September. I've chosen the pieces I'll be singing ("Bester Jüngling" from Der Schauspieldirektor by Mozart and Chanson Provençale by Eva Dell'Acqua), but I still need a folk song* to add to my program. I've been putting the same folk song on my program for the last five years, and am quite bored with it. I want something more adventurous that I can put my teeth in over the Summer. It needs to be easy enough to sing a capella, so the members of the jury can hear if I can keep a tune, but it also has to be fun for me to sing. Any ideas? Or if you happen to be able to point me in the direction of sheet music, I'll be very grateful.
*A folk song must be understood as a song that doesn't have a composer, but is taught by one generation to the next. I do need sheet music to present to the jury, for them to find out if I sing all the notes and am not making it up as I go along. Improvising a Finnish folk song isn't allowed.
*A folk song must be understood as a song that doesn't have a composer, but is taught by one generation to the next. I do need sheet music to present to the jury, for them to find out if I sing all the notes and am not making it up as I go along. Improvising a Finnish folk song isn't allowed.
