Rachmaninoff All-Night Vigil Markings

Rachmaninoff All-Night Vigil Markings

·  The Musica Russica edition is a wonderful printing of this work. However, there are some serious issues with measure numbering. I will try to be clear where there is any confusion.

·  Notes marked with a plus sign should be sung on “oo” instead of hummed.

·  Unless I have explicitly given a breath mark, do not breathe please. There is a LOT of stagger breathing in this piece, so as you practice, work on not breathing at bar lines or at obvious places.

·  “A:” means a marking for the altos, “ST:” for sopranos and tenors, etc. Markings without any indications of who they are for are for the entire choir

Movement 1

·  Put a breath mark after the first “A-min” of the piece

·  Put a breath mark after bar 6, “Bogu”

·  Put a breath mark after the first note of bar 11

·  Put a breath mark at the end of page 2

·  Put a breath mark after bar 20 and 25

Movement 2: No markings needed

Movement 3

·  SA: For the first five bars, SA sing the alto line, splitting the notes. When there are three notes, sopranos split the top two notes and altos take the bottom note. Likewise bar 10-16. Likewise bar 21-27, and in this case, you can scratch out the soprano line, since it just duplicates the top alto line. Likewise bars 32-37. Likewise bars 42-47. Likewise bars 52-58 (crossing out the soprano line). Likewise bars 83-87 (crossing out the soprano line).

·  Put a breath mark after bars 5 and 9

·  Every time you have the word “Alliluiya” in this movement, put a breath mark after each time that word happens.

·  Put a breath mark after bars 16, 20, 27, 31, 37, 41.

·  A: In bar 41, second note, cross out the top note G

·  Put a breath mark after page 17.

·  Put a breath mark after bars 51, 58, 62.

·  In bar 69, put a breath mark before “A-min”, and then in the next bar after the same word.

·  Put a breath mark after bar 82.

Movement 4

·  Put a breath mark after bar 2

·  Put a breath mark before the last note of bar 4

·  B: Put a breath mark after bar 15

·  Put a breath mark after bar 27

·  SAT: Put a breath mark after bar 30

·  A: Put an eighth rest after the first note of bar 33, shortening the first note.

·  T: In bar 34, note that you cut off right away, while the women hold.

·  Put a breath mark before the last note of bar 35

Movement 5

·  S: Put an eighth rest after the first note of bar 13

·  Put a breath mark after bar 22

Movement 6

·  Put a breath mark after bar 3

·  Put a breath mark after the first note of bar 5

·  Put a breath mark after the first note of bar 9

·  A: Put a breath mark after the first note of bar 14

·  STB: Put an eighth rest at the end of bar 14

·  A: Put an eighth rest after the first note of bar 16

·  A: Put a breath mark after the first note of bar 18

·  ST: Put a breath mark at the end of bar 18

·  ST: Put a breath mark at the end of bar 20

·  ST: Put an eighth rest after the second note of bar 22

·  A: Put an eighth rest after the first note of bar 23

·  T: Put an eighth rest after the first note of bar 24

Movement 7

·  SA: Put a quarter rest at the end of bar 2

·  SA: Put a quarter rest at the end of bar 9

·  S: In bars 11-12, be sure of the notes you’re singing. Soprano 3’s sing the notes with the stems down, 1’s and 2’s the notes with the stems pointing up

·  S: The second note of bar 19 is a B-flat.

Movement 8

·  ST: Put an eighth rest after the first note of bar 4

·  AB: Put an eighth rest at the end of bar 4

·  AB: Put an eighth rest before the last note of bar 6

·  Put an eighth rest at the end of bar 8

·  ST: Put an eighth rest after the first note of bar 11

·  TB: In bars 14-18, T1’s take the tenor line, T2’s, B1’s, and B2’s take the bass line

·  ATB: Put an eighth rest at the end of bar 18

·  ST: Put an eighth rest at the end of bar 20, bar 24

·  Put an eighth rest after the first note of bar 26

·  AB: Put an eighth rest at the end of bar 27

·  ST: Put an eighth rest before the last two notes of bar 29

·  ST: Put an eighth rest before the last two notes of bar 32

·  AB: Put an eighth rest after the first note of bar 34

·  AB: Put an eighth rest at the end of bar 35

·  ST: Put an eighth rest after the first note of bar 38

·  A: Put a ritard at the end of bar 40 and breathe after the last note

·  T: Eliminate the bottom E-flat at the end of the piece

Movement 9

·  A: Put an eighth rest at the end of bar 6, 8

·  S: Put an eighth rest after the first note of bar 9

·  Put an eighth rest at the end of bar 10

·  T: Put an eighth rest at the end of bar 18, 19

·  Put an eighth rest at the end of bar 21, 22

·  SA: From bar 32 until the second-to-last note of bar 33, the S1’s should sing the soprano line, the S2’s the notes on the alto line with the stems pointing up, and the altos the notes on the alto line with the stems pointing down. Put an eighth rest before the last note of bar 33, and go back to regular voicing in the last note of bar 33.

·  T: Bar 47, T1’s sing the tenor solo line, and return to the tenor line in the last note of bar 48. Turn the second note of the tenor solo line in bar 48 into a dotted quarter note with an eighth rest

·  A: Put an eighth rest after the third note of bar 51

·  TB: Put an eighth rest at the end of bar 55, 58, 61

·  ATB: Put an eighth rest at the end of bar 62, 64

·  Put an eighth rest at the end of bar 67, 69, 73

·  SA: Put an eighth rest at the end of bar 76

·  SAT: Put an eighth rest at the end of bar 77

·  Put an eighth rest at the end of bar 81, 84

Movement 10

·  Put an eighth rest at the end of bar 11, 12

·  SA: Turn the first note of bar 19 into a quarter note with a quarter rest

·  Put an eighth rest at the end of bar 22, 24

·  SA: Put a quarter rest at the end of bar 32

Movement 11

·  ATB: Put an eighth rest after the first note of bar 3 (the first note before the bar line is bar zero, not bar one, so bar 3 is the last bar on the first system)

·  Upside-down carat marks are breath marks, like what appear over the SAT lines in bar 6. Please pay careful attention to where these marks appear throughout the movement, and circle them

·  SAT: Put an eighth rest at the end of bar 10

·  Put a breath mark after the third note of bar 12

·  Put a breath mark at the end of bar 13, and any other place there’s a double bar

·  SAT: Put an eighth rest at the end of bar 25

·  Put a breath mark after the third note of bar 27

·  B: Put an eighth rest before the last note of bar 34

·  SAT: Put an eighth rest before the last note of bar 35

·  SAT: Put an eighth rest at the end of bar 43

·  Put a breath mark after the third note of bar 45

·  TB: In bar 45, the B2’s should sing the notes of the bass line, while the T1’s, T2’s, and B1’s sing the three notes of the tenor line. Be sure to draw arrows from the previous bar to bar 45 and from bar 45 to the next bar to be sure you move from the correct line to the correct line. Do the same thing in bar 64 and the last five eighth notes of bar 85.

·  Put an eighth rest at the end of bar 52

·  A: The third note of bar 56 is an E-flat, please mark it as such

·  SAT: Put an eighth rest at the end of bar 62

·  Put a breath mark after the third note of bar 64

·  Put a breath mark at the end of bar 66

·  Put an eighth rest after the first note of bar 70

·  Put an eighth rest after the fourth note of bar 71

·  Put an eighth rest at the end of bar 72, 75

·  B: Put an eighth rest after the first note of bar 75

·  A: The dot after the first note of bar 78 is an error, please cross it out

·  SAT: Put an eighth rest at the end of bar 83

·  Put a breath mark before the word “Tia” in bar 85

Movement 12

·  A: Put a quarter rest at the end of bar 2

·  AT: Put a quarter rest after the first note of bar 6

·  A: Put a quarter rest after the fifth note of bar 9

·  T: Put a quarter rest after the first note of bar 12

·  S: Put a quarter rest at the end of bar 13

·  A: Put a quarter rest after the first note of bar 19

·  S: Put a quarter rest after the first note of bar 22

·  AT: Put a quarter rest at the end of bar 22

·  Put a quarter rest at the end of bar 36, 38. (This is a place bar numbers are screwed up; bars 36 and 38 are the second and fourth bars of the bottom system on page 86.)

·  SAT: In the third bar of page 89, put a quarter rest after the second tied-over note, before the word “Spodobi”.

·  Put a quarter rest at the end of each of the two systems on page 90

·  TB: In all of page 92, and through the first bar of page 93, The B2’s should sing the bass line, while the T1’s, T2’s, and B1’s sing the three notes of the tenor line.

·  A: Put a quarter rest after the first note of bar 92

·  B: Put a quarter rest at the end of bar 92

·  TB: Put a quarter rest at the end of bar 95

·  Put a quarter rest at the end of bar 98

·  SA: Put a quarter rest at the end of bar 100

·  Put a quarter rest at the end of bar 102, 105, 110, 115, 120, 122, 124, 126

·  SB: Put a quarter rest at the end of bar 127

Movement 13

·  S: Put an eighth rest after the fifth note of bar 4

·  T: Put an eighth rest after the first note of bar 4

·  B: Put an eighth rest after the first note of bar 5

·  SAT: Put an eighth rest at the end of bar 6

·  B: Put an eighth rest after the fourth note of bar 6

·  Put a quarter rest at the end of bar 9

Movement 14

·  Put a quarter rest at the end of bar 7

·  SAT: Put an eighth rest at the end of bar 12

·  B: Put an eighth rest after the second note of bar 12

·  ST: Put an eighth rest at the end of bar 15

·  A: Put an eighth rest after the third note of bar 15

·  B: Put an eighth rest after the first note of bar 16

·  Put a quarter rest at the end of bar 19

·  Put an eighth rest at the end of bar 23

Movement 15

·  Put a quarter rest at the end of page 108

·  SA: Put a quarter rest at the end of bar 13

·  STB: Put a quarter rest at the end of bar 19

·  A: Put an eighth rest after the fourth note of bar 19

·  A: Put an eighth rest after the second note of bar 25

·  STB: Put a quarter rest after the first note of bar 26

·  Put a quarter rest at the end of bar 29

·  We will repeat the entirety of page 112, with no ritard the first time, and a substantial ritard the second time