BRANCHING OUT DAY.

Since our beaters are bouncing nicely on those notes, we had a go today at improvising melodies. Everyone, without exception, rose to the challenge and we got the beginnings of some original music.
It seemed like we even surprised ourselves and there's plenty of promise there for future development.
Just to occupy some of your spare time before Christmas planning takes over, you might enjoy having a go at a musical game. See how many balloons you can get!
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Carol of the Advent

We were seventeen today and, concentrating on our voices, we worked on the three part harmony of SENJUA.

In BOOMFALLERA the beaters are bouncing and we are now singing the 5 sections, feeling the wonderful contrasts in the rondo form.

Finally, on a seasonal note, and taking the opportunity of 'a good sing,' we tackled THE CAROL OF THE ADVENT _ five verses of beautiful text by Eleanor Farjeon to the old French tune Becancon.

Our Singing gets a boost

Today we were joined by Chris Nairn and Jenny Sharp, two students from RSAMD, who will be with us this year as part of their 'Community Music' study.
As they are both singers they will be an invaluable boost for our group and we look forward to some good singing sessions.

Thanks go to Jakob for taking the photographs again today --- Click on them to see an enlargement