STEAL AWAY - arr. Stacey V. Gibbs, Baritone (Bass 1) Rehearsal Track

0:05 measure 0 (starting pitch, 3 beats before Verse 1)
0:47 measure 8 (1 measure before Chorus 1)
1:28 measure 17 (1 measure before Solo Verse)
2:13 measure 26 (1 measure before Bridge)
2:50 measure 36 (1 measure before Chorus 2)
3:33 measure 45 (3 beats before Final Tag)

STEAL AWAY, arranged by Stacey V. Gibbs
Baritone (Bass 1) Rehearsal Track, with Metronome
Key: G Major
Voice: Baritone (Bass 1)
Range: B2 - B3
Performance Example:    • CANTUS: Steal Away arr. Stacey V. Gibbs  
Sheet Music Source:
This song- https://www.jwpepper.com/Steal-Away/1...
Texas State 2023 Large School Packet- https://www.jwpepper.com/Texas-All-St...

CONDUCTOR'S REHEARSAL NOTES:
• Tenor solo starting at m.19-25
• Pronunciations: I = ah
• m.2 & 4 “to” = [tuh]
• m.3 breathe after “here”
• m.3-4 stress on “I” and “ain’t”
• m.4 stress on the dotted eighth of “stay”
• m.5 crescendo/decrescendo the word “here” and breathe after “here”
• m.6 clear shadow consonant on “done”; breathe after “done”
• m.7 carry “run” to “then”
• m.9 crescendo/decrescendo the word “home”; Tenor 2 quarter rest on beat four
• m.10 everyone take a breath after beat 4
• m.11 everyone take a breath after beat 4
• m.12 “to” = [tu]
• m.13 everyone stress on “Je-”; Bass 2 breathe after “Jesus” and connect “oh” all the way to beat one of m.13
• m.14 everyone breathe after “way”
• m.16 Baritone tenuto and cresc/decresc on “home”; Bass 2 tenuto on “home”; everyone breathe after “home”
• m.17 “to” = [tuh]
• m.18 tenuto & staccato on beat one; everyone take a breath after “here”
• m.18-25 Tenor solo; Tenor 1 sings the top notes of the Tenor 2 line
• m.24 accent every note
• m.25 Tenor 1 go back to singing original part starting on the word “I: ; everyone take a breath after “home”
• m.28 staccato “my”; tenuto on the words “Lord” and “calls”; take a breath after “me”
• m.29-30 no breath until the and of beat two in measure 30
• m.30 stress on “my”; take a breath after “Lord” and “me”
• m.31 take a breath after “thunder”; Starting on the word “the” dynamic level “mp”
• m.32 T1 breathe after beat 2 and 4; T2 breathe after beat 3 and 4; B1 accent entrance; B2 breathe after 3; B2 accent “trum-“; B1 accent “trum-pet”
• m.32-33 Bass 2 accent the words “the trumpet sounds”
• m.33 Bass1 breathe on beat one and tenuto on every “trum-“; T1/T2/B1 no breath between each “trumpet”; everyone breathe before “the”
• m.34 everyone breathe on beat 3; molto legato on “with-in-a-my”
• m.38-39 everyone breathe at the end of each measure
• m.40 “to” = [tu]
• m.41 T1,T2,B1 breath at the end of the measure; B2 breathe after “Jesus” and the “oh” across the bar
• m.42 everyone breathe at the end of the measure
• m.48 T1 (lower),T2,B1 breath at the end of the measure; B2 carry across the bar
• m.49 T2 and B1 accent each entrance
• m.50 T1 (lower),T2,B1 breathe at the end of the measure; B2 carry across the bar
• m.51 T2 and B1 accent each entrance
• m.52 T1 (upper) lift before beat four

INSTRUCTIONS/ERRATA:
•Any Divisi in a specific part for LSC will be split: Areas A-D will take the lower divisi. Areas E-H will take the higher divisi.

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