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> Help With Intervals, Starting with a minor 6th
stetenorve
post Mar 26 2009, 11:40 AM
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Grateful for a little help, please. I am working my way through the RSCM material (in addition to ABRSM) and I need to find a (hopefully well-known) tune which starts with a minor 6th interval. I have plumped for the R Willis version of "It came upn the midnight clear" for a major 6th interval, but cannot identify anything which is minor. A Christmas related tune would be ideal, as I have used carols for other intervals, such as 3rds, 4ths and 5ths. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)
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post Mar 26 2009, 12:08 PM
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The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde starts with a minor 6th (A to F) ... but I'm not sure if that's the sort of catchy tune you were after. I'll have to think a bit more about this ...
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post Mar 26 2009, 12:18 PM
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QUOTE(briantrumpet @ Mar 26 2009, 12:08 PM) *

The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde starts with a minor 6th (A to F)

Oi, that's MY point of reference for a minor sixth (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

Others include the Overture to La Forza del Destino (not as obscure as it immediately sounds - it was used in the film Jean de Florette and in a Stella Artois commercial), and the theme to Love Story is a falling minor sixth followed by a rising minor sixth.
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post Mar 26 2009, 12:20 PM
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QUOTE(Deborah @ Mar 26 2009, 12:18 PM) *

QUOTE(briantrumpet @ Mar 26 2009, 12:08 PM) *

The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde starts with a minor 6th (A to F)

Oi, that's MY point of reference for a minor sixth (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

Others include the Overture to La Forza del Destino (not as obscure as it immediately sounds - it was used in the film Jean de Florette and in a Stella Artois commercial), and the theme to Love Story is a falling minor sixth followed by a rising minor sixth.

You live on a different plane to us mere mortals though Deborah (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)
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post Mar 26 2009, 12:22 PM
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Love Story! "How can I begin...to tell the story..." etc etc

Naff, but effective!
Just noticed I've been pipped to the post!
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post Mar 26 2009, 12:33 PM
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QUOTE(stetenorve @ Mar 26 2009, 11:40 AM) *

Grateful for a little help, please. I am working my way through the RSCM material (in addition to ABRSM) and I need to find a (hopefully well-known) tune which starts with a minor 6th interval. I have plumped for the R Willis version of "It came upn the midnight clear" for a major 6th interval, but cannot identify anything which is minor. A Christmas related tune would be ideal, as I have used carols for other intervals, such as 3rds, 4ths and 5ths. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)

I've just flicked through CC1, and didn't spot anything which opened with a minor sixth. There were a few major sixths, notably The Holly and the Ivy.


QUOTE(maledictis @ Mar 26 2009, 12:20 PM) *

QUOTE(Deborah @ Mar 26 2009, 12:18 PM) *

QUOTE(briantrumpet @ Mar 26 2009, 12:08 PM) *

The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde starts with a minor 6th (A to F)

Oi, that's MY point of reference for a minor sixth (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)


You live on a different plane to us mere mortals though Deborah (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

But it's such fun on Planet Deborah. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

QUOTE(pianodub @ Mar 26 2009, 12:22 PM) *

Love Story! "How can I begin...to tell the story..." etc etc

Naff, but effective!
Just noticed I've been pipped to the post!

Great minds think alike, pianodub (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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post Mar 26 2009, 12:44 PM
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This forum really lives up to its reputation! Super suggestions - as I'm a romantic tenor, I'll go with the Love Story theme.

May I now push my luck and ask for suggestions for a tune starting with a minor 7th?
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post Mar 26 2009, 12:48 PM
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QUOTE(stetenorve @ Mar 26 2009, 12:44 PM) *

This forum really lives up to its reputation! Super suggestions - as I'm a romantic tenor, I'll go with the Love Story theme.

May I now push my luck and ask for suggestions for a tune starting with a minor 7th?

"Somewhere" from West Side Story

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post Mar 26 2009, 12:51 PM
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Thanks for that Chris.
I actually need to sing that interval at the end of the "Libera Me" in Faure's Requiem, where the first tenors leap from D to C. Might be strange to mix Faure with West Side Story! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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post Mar 26 2009, 12:56 PM
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QUOTE(stetenorve @ Mar 26 2009, 12:51 PM) *

Might be strange to mix Faure with West Side Story! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Oh, I don't know - Andrew Lloyd Webber's been doing it for years (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)
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post Mar 26 2009, 01:25 PM
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This might be a bit of a long shot - but once my school choir had tackled 'In Freezing Winter Night' from Britten's 'Ceremony of Carols' we had no more problems with min 6ths. Not sure whether it'd be worth teaching the carol for that specific purpose, though.
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post Mar 26 2009, 03:33 PM
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Oh, and if you want a falling minor 6th, the obvious one is the Eb to G at the start of the Gigue from Shoenberg's Suite Op. 29. Very catchy.
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post Mar 26 2009, 03:46 PM
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Close Every Door from Joseph and the Amazing...

is a minor 6th if you want one that the Young People might know
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post Mar 26 2009, 06:12 PM
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My suggestion for a major sixth is "My Bonnie lies over the ocean", and for a minor sixth (downward) "All things bright and beautiful". For other intervals click here.
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post Mar 27 2009, 09:35 AM
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Thanks again to the responders who kindly answered my questions. The link that kenm provided is especially useful, and one I will use for our church choir! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/chorale.gif)
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