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Living in the Body converted for mezzo-soprano

  • song 3, “Not for Burning”
    • m. 22 instead of high B flat, sing a D flat a 6th down
    • m. 23, first note - instead of a G flat, sing a B flat a 3rd down
    • m. 30 and 31, option sing down a octave
    • m. 32 sing a D instead of a G, leave the E in m. 33
    • m. 40 instead of G flat, sing a B flat
    • m. 59 instead of F sharp D B, sing D B B
    • end of m. 66 last note - instead of G flat, sing the same A flat pitch
    • m. 68, last note, sing a B flat instead of the G flat
    • m. 69 instead of a half note F, sing two quarter melisma, C going down to an F
    • m. 70 last note, stay on the A flat instead of singing an F
    • m. 72 get rid of the high B. Instead, on beat 2, sing an E going up to an F sharp in eighths and then stay on the F sharp until the G sharp as written at the end of the measure.
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Last modified 2004-12-31 01:56 PM

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