Week One: Taking Stock
Overview
Take stock of your vocal repertoire, evaluate what’s still working, organize your materials, and discover new music to inspire your artistry. This intensive invites you to reflect, share, and connect with fellow singers as you refresh your repertoire toolkit.
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Week One: Taking Stock
Monday – Start Your Rep List
Let’s kick things off by getting everything down on paper (or screen). If you already have a repertoire list,
update it and share a screenshot or outline. If you don’t, this is your invitation to start one! Include:
- Title
- Composer
- Language
- Genre (opera, art song, oratorio, etc.)
- Era (Baroque, Romantic, Contemporary…)
Tuesday – What’s Working, What’s Not?
Now that you’ve listed everything, take a good look at it. Which pieces are still serving you vocally and
artistically? Which ones feel like old shoes that no longer fit?
Post your keepers and let-go-ers with a few sentences explaining why.
Wednesday – Find the Gaps
Zoom out: Is your repertoire balanced? Are you leaning heavily on one language, genre, or era? What’s
missing?
Share what types of pieces you’d like to explore.
Thursday – Organize Your Scores
How do you keep your sheet music organized? Share your system—binders, Dropbox folders, notebooks,
whatever works for you. Ask for tips or share your own hacks.
Friday – Sing Something That Still Resonates
Pick one piece that still feels like home and post a short video or audio clip. Tell us why it’s stayed in your rotation.
Saturday – Community Roundup
Engage with other posts—cheer someone on, recommend a piece, or share a great recording or resource.
Sunday – Reflect & Reset
Take a rest day. Scroll, listen, and reflect on what you’ve learned so far.
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Sorry I am a bit late to this, was out of town and a bit ill last few days. I will send my repertoire around. It is divided into opera, broadway and art songs. her is a punch list of what songs that I would love to master:
- Largo Al Factotum from Barbiere Di Siviglia (Rossini)
O Du Mein Holder Abendstern from Tanhauser (Wagner)
"Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre" from Carmen (Bizet)
"Modern Major General" from Pirates of Penzance (Gilbert &. Sullivan)
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Thursday :
I have al lot of sheet music at home !
First, I have lose-leaf-binders with alphabetic order by composer. There are saveral categories of binders : religious music, opera, french songs, operette, musical, french melodie, Lieder, English songs, Italian songs, Spanish songs, vocalizations, Parisotti arie antiche. I also have separate binders for children songs, and for pop music songs in French and in English. These aren't listed alphabetically.
I also have a lot of sheet music books for several types of voice in different genres mostly classic music, but also chanson française, Walt Disney songs, musicals songs, or English variety, some music for children too. They are some books I never used !
Unfortunately I also have a lot of sheet music that aren't classified yet, or any more...
Some sheet music I get from colleagues, or sheet music used with my students that I didn't take time to put away... I began to sort them but this is not finished yet... I plan to separate pieces I already gave to students and pieces I did'nt.
I also have digital sheet music on my computer and my tablet, since I use a tablet to read sheet music for 2 years.
I have IMLSP sheet music, I have pop songs that I purchased individually on Musicnotes or Greatsongs for English pop music, or Quickpartitions for French pop music. I also have some collections of scores given by colleagues.
I also have all the scores I use for playing clarinet in the fanfare.
For singing lessons and for the fanfare I use to scan the sheet music with my printer's swallower, but this take some time...
What concerns the singing lessons, I have, per school year, one folder per student with the pieces he or she sings.
What is practical with digital sheet music is that you can find it back easily by doing a search in your files. For songs that I have in several keys, I note the key in the title of the file.
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Friday: Here's a super quick recording of "O Salutaris." I usually sing it a capella with minimal warm-up, so that's what I've done here as well. This, along with "Tantum Ergo", I sing each week when I lead Adoration at our chapel. It's something I've sung since I was a child, and will hopefully be something I sing for the rest of my life. It's a beautiful prayer, and the simplicity of the chant helps draw me deeper into prayerful meditation.
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Very beautiful, Michelle !
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Heidi, is my version of The american lulluby of Gladys rich
Surely, my English is not optimal... If you have any advice on pronunciation...
I think this is still good for me what concerns tessiture, and this is a quite light and humorous piece.