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| Angel-of-Music* |
On My Own top note...Does anyone know what note "pretending" and "known" are on in on my own. in my sheet music it says c, but the accompanist keeps ranting about how my copy is in the wrong key, and im worried she means the actual song is higher... if i have to belt any higher i think my vocal cords will snap lol |
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| Eponine93 |
If you have the sheet music, why would it be a problem if it isn't in the key that the accompianist is used to? What are you using the song for?
I'm sorry if I sound nosy, but I don't understand why having music in a different key (note: I said different, not wrong) is a problem. Do you really think every girl who has ever sung the song, from the ones who sing it on the Broadway stage down to the girls who sing it in the shower, have sung it in the same key? |
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| Orestes Fasting |
It's a C in both the piano/vocal selections and the official stage version. The song starts in D and modulates into F in every version I've seen.
If she's used to playing it in a different key, I can understand her frustration, but your copy is most certainly not in the wrong key. |
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| Eponine93 |
My sheet music shows a middle C for "pretending" and then the C the octave above that for "known", but I know most actresses usually sing the C up an octave. Also, at the end of the second verse for "all I see is him and me forever and forever" the ever in my music is the high C even though I though it was usually sung on the middle C.
Is my sheet music book rare or something? My mom got it right when the show first opened in London, and it corresponds to the London cast recording. It's got the standard songs that appear in pretty much every Les Mis songbook, and then it's got the original, full-lengh "Little People" and the full Love Montage, with the London lyrics and "I Saw Him Once." |
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| Orestes Fasting |
 Probably rare, and definitely out of print.
...send me scans of I Saw Him Once? Pretty please? |
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| Aimee |
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Les-Miserables-Piano-Vocal-Guitar-Music-Song-Book-NEW_W0QQitemZ170126534362QQihZ007QQcategoryZ31211QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem
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| Eponine93 |
I don't have a scanner... sorry. If I did, I would definitely share. I'll see if any of my friends have scanners. Actually, I think my printer has a scanner but I've never used it.
I guess there are some good things about having a mom who is a former-Les Mis fan (she kept complaining about going to see the revival because she didn't want to see the show for a fourth time and making comments like: "She's good, but she's no Randy Graff" or "The original Broadway cast was so much better.") Aimee... neither of the books are the ones I have. |
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| The Pirate King |
That's not the vocal book we're talking about. |
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| Angel-of-Music* |
thanks 
i was worried because, even though i'm definately singing it in this key for the concert, mr school is thinking of doing les mis, and if i go to the audition prepared with the song in the key i have, and then its higher.. i think i would explode lol |