Four of us came out this week and worked on "Moon, Sister Moon", since the moon was full and glorious that night! There's a recording of it on YouTube that has a very different arrangement than the one we use, so we played around with different versions of it. The version we have music for is a slower, more solemn version, while the version on YT is very energetic. I like both versions; I think they make sense for different applications. The slower version feels more reverent, while the energetic version encourages movement, so I could see them both having interesting applications in ritual, depending on the nature of the ritual. It could be interesting to combine them with an ascending tempo as a way to build energy in a drawing down the moon ritual.
If you'd like to review any of our material, the sheet music and recordings are available on our Drive. For the naming conventions of the recordings, see the document in our Drive. You can also listen to the TPC playlist of recordings of some of the pieces by professional artists on Spotify. If you're trying to practice at home and can't quite discern your note, you can use a keyboard app to plunk out whichever ones you're having trouble with. (This is by no means an official endorsement, but the app I use is "Voice Training - Learn to Sing" by the developer Learn to Master. It labels the notes on the keyboard and gives you real-time feedback on what note you're singing.) If you need a tutorial on how to read music, this one seems sufficient for helping you figure out which note you want to find on the keyboard.
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