Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind...
Photo (c) Harry Campbell
Well... we'll admit... it's been a long wait! But hopefully worth it! A year in the making we present our round for June! And not one round, but two. As is often the case with Madrigirls' music, these rounds were born of necessity! We were delighted at the end of May 2018 to sing at a joint birthday part in one of the beautiful private gardens that are dotted throughout Glasgow. The hosts were fond of Shakespeare and asked if we could include some settings in our programme... "No problem" we said... "We have loads of Shakespeare settings"... Turns out we didn't.
The first round 'Love looks not with the eyes' was written in approximately 15mins before a Madrigirls rehearsal in March. The second took slightly longer, but we're really pleased with the end result! Picture to the right was taken just before we sang these rounds at St Conan's Church, Loch Awe, June 2018.
The first round 'Love looks not with the eyes' was written in approximately 15mins before a Madrigirls rehearsal in March. The second took slightly longer, but we're really pleased with the end result! Picture to the right was taken just before we sang these rounds at St Conan's Church, Loch Awe, June 2018.
Using the round
- The first round works better by itself than the second, but both work. At Madrigirls we learnt round one one week, and then round two in a different week and then put them together, which could be used to link warmups and build confidence in learning and retaining music by ear.
- The key is not at all fixed! We tend to perform this in a higher key. Lower voices can sing round 2 only (and vice versa!)
- The first round is in 4 parts, the second in 8, so potentially you could have your choir singing in 12 parts. There is definitely scope for a third round in this set! Feel free to add to it!
- The key is not at all fixed! We tend to perform this in a higher key. Lower voices can sing round 2 only (and vice versa!)
- The first round is in 4 parts, the second in 8, so potentially you could have your choir singing in 12 parts. There is definitely scope for a third round in this set! Feel free to add to it!