A nice series of posts about how to accompany for choir –
And a sampling from the articles:
5. Learn to play all of the voice parts together. Pay special attention to key changes, meter changes, accidentals, and any places where dissonance results between two or more voices. (Open score will seldom occur in music for the TVCC, so I’m saving instruction for that ’til later. This post is for beginners playing choral parts written SATB on two staves.)6. At the rehearsal, the conductor may ask for any combination of parts, so be prepared to play them in any combination, for instance, soprano + tenor, bass + alto, soprano + alto + tenor, etc. Look for voice pairing – places where the composer has created duets or trios against the other voices. You can be sure that you’ll be asked to play those together.
philip copeland says
John Howell says