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Anne Cadart, Choir Conductor (France) - "My main interest in Pizzicato is to write polyphonic music, so as to increase our repertoire. Now that I can use this software, it is wonderful!"
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Pizzicato for the choir

If you are a membre of a choir, Pizzicato Beginner gives you several tools to help you in your activities. If you are a choir conductor, you may transcribe your scores clearly ant neatly for the members.

Writing the music

All the tools described in the section on score writing are applicable for the choir. For more details about how to introduce notes in the score, click here.

You may create a page setup in the most common forms encountered for choirs, for instance:

or:

Pizzicato manages rhythmic voices so that you can easily introduce several voices in the same staff, like for instance:

The lyrics

Once the notes are written, you may add the lyrics associated to each note:

For each staff, you may introduce up to 8 lines of lyrics. The position of the lines may be adjusted for the full score, for a system, for a measure or for a specific note. The fonts, sizes, styles and colors of the lyrics may be modified to clarify the score or to set forward one of the parts.

Starting from Pizzicato Beginner, a specific window helps you to introduce the lyrics as a continuous text, where you just need to add the separations:

You may copy/paste the text from your word processor if you want to. Pizzicato will then automatically assign the lyrics to the notes already in the score.

The playing of the score and learning your part

Once the score is encoded, you may of course print it and distribute it to the members of the choir, but you may also listen to it directly on your sound card or external synthesizer.

You can then learn to sing your part. You ask Pizzicato to play all voices and you play yourself with it. Once you master your part, you may ask Pizzicato to play only the other parts and you may then sing your part with Pizzicato playing the other voices.

If you want others to use this didactic approach to learn their parts, you may:

Send them the Pizzicato document so that they can listen to it directly on their computer with Pizzicato (even if they only possess the free Pizzicato demo version, they will be able to listen to your score).

Or create a MIDI file from your score and send it to them. If they have a computer, they will be able to listen to it even without Pizzicato.

Or create an audio file with the Pizzicato audio export function. You can then make an audio CD or cassette that you may distribute to the choir members to help them learn to sing their parts correctly.

Summary

With these specific tools, Pizzicato helps the members of a choir to learn to sing their part between the rehearsals, with a didactic and interactive mean. The choir conductor may print neat scores and help the members to learn their parts.

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