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Tracy Wong
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Bersatu Senada (SATB Practice Tracks)
An uplifting & bilingual contemporary piece which celebrates choral singing as a way of bringing together people of different cultures and communities!
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Bersatu Senada
Download audio practice tracks for Tracy Wong’s “Bersatu Senada (Together With One Voice)” for SATB and piano.
Includes full access for 1-50 singers. These tracks are sold in batches of 50, so please round up the number of singers in your group to the nearest multiple of 50. Example: 42 singers = Qty. of 50 in your cart.
Because of the cultural content of my music, I manage all aspects of the recording and production of learning tracks of my music, and I am delighted to have Graphite be the distributor of these learning tracks. I take pride in doing my best to make sure that these are representative of me and are “ethically-sourced”. This means that the audio recordings and learning tracks for my own music would be edited and/or recorded by choral musicians who speak the language(s) I set music to, and have the lived experience of the culture which I do my best to honour through my music. These musicians are paid for their time, experience, skill, and artistry. I also commit 10% of income earned from my choral works, learning resources, and workshops on Malaysian-themed choral/vocal/composition/music towards funding Malaysian artists and music educators I collaborate with on current and future artistic & educational initiatives.
All purchases will have a packet of audio tracks (the various part-dominant tracks, full mixed track, pronunciation guide).
About the tracks:
- These rehearsal tracks are recordings of my own voice, singing all vocal parts. I have designed them (with the help of my friend in Singapore, Cherie Chai) for the benefit of distant / isolated singing in your personal spaces, and to encourage independent learning. These audio tracks work best with earphones / headphones on.
- These tracks would provide the pronunciation, style, and tone that is appropriate for the performance of this piece.
- The tracks are professionally mixed so singers are ensured high quality audio recordings to support their learning!
Important licensing & purchasing terms: The purchase of this resource allows your choral organization to distribute it to your singers and staff for their own learning at any time, but not to be duplicated, edited in any way, and/or shared beyond the organization.
Thank you for supporting ethical consumption of self-published music!
Tracy Wong
Composer’s Notes
Bersatu Senada (Together With One Voice) was commissioned in 2019 by Windsor Classic Chorale for the Windsor Choral Festival 2020. This uplifting contemporary piece celebrates choral singing as a way of bringing together people of different cultures and communities. It also takes a peek into my experience as a new Canadian immigrant – excited, scared, anxious, hopeful, and thankful – and realizing that I am surrounded by people in the choral community who support and lift me in dark times, and who celebrate with me in my successes.
The music shows the coming-together of different languages and musical elements that continue to influence my composition writing; here, the English and Malay text is co-written by Mohd Fairuz bin Mohd Tauhid and I, and represents the two languages that we were formally taught in Malaysian schools. It also signifies my continued search to define my Malaysian-Canadian identity. This can also be heard in the weaving of Malay folk elements into the contemporary Western choral setting. Snippets and small musical references of Rasa Sayang, an iconic Malay folk song, can be heard throughout the piece.
-Tracy Wong
Text
Nada
Rasa sayang hey
New places, new faces
Having the strength to take chances
And make choices
New journeys, new stories
Look around and know that
You are not alone
Rasa sayang hey
Genggamlah tanganku
Jari bersulam menyatu
Together one voice
Bersatu senada
Berbeza rupa, resam,
Percaya di hati
Rasa sayang hey
Kau, aku, bersama
Lagu kan nada, kini ku tahu
I’m not alone
Let’s clap our hands
Embrace each other
Together with one voice
Kita bersatu senada!
– Mohd Fairuz bin Mohd Tauhid
Translation:
(Tone, musical / vocal sound)
Feel love
New places, new faces
Having the strength to take chances
And make choices
New journeys, new stories
Look around and know that
You are not alone
Feel love
Hold my hand
Fingers intertwined
Together one voice
Together [singing] with one voice
Different faces, different cultures
Just believe in our hearts that
We feel the love, hey
You and me, together
Singing the same song, and now I know
I’m not alone
Let’s clap our hands
Embrace each other
Together with one voice
Together (singing) with one voice!
About the lyricist:
Mohd Fairuz bin Mohd Tauhid (b. 1982) is a choreographer, dancer, singer-songwriter, and performance artist. Currently based in Malaysia, Fairuz regularly choreographs for TV, film productions, and nation-wide advertisements. His career on the performance stage includes leading roles in multiple Malaysian musical productions (eg. Puteri Gunung Ledang, The Musical, P. Ramlee, The Musical). His exploration in the world of song writing is based on, and inspired by movement, choreography, and his viewpoint on the world of dance in Malaysia. This can be heard in his self-released songs (available on iTunes and Spotify): TARIKU (My Dance), JOGETKU (My Joget), Ikutiku (Follow Me), and Zapinku (My Zapin).
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