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Jennifer Lucy Cook
Graphite Publishing
Over and Over (Practice Tracks)
A catchy piece built around canonic ideas and a synthesizer.
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Over and Over
Download audio practice tracks for Jennifer Lucy Cook’s “Over and Over” for SSAA choir with TBB and/or synth.
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.
All purchases will have a packet of audio tracks (individual part-tracks alone, individual part tracks with piano, piano only track, full mixed track).
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 Pete White) 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.
- 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.
“Over and Over” is a combination of popular and traditional music traditions. Canonic and catchy, this song is easy to learn. When life gets monotonous from social media, news, or other forms of boredom, “we” can come together as a communal “I” and unite in a single musical expression.
Composer’s Notes
Repetition can be such comforting melancholy. That strange limbo where going through the motions remains preferable to taking a leap is the space where “Over and Over” lives. It’s a canon in a major key, because we often shield ourselves with positivity as we hide sorrow amid our routines, but the bass line in the piece betrays our discomfort. I’m enamored with the way looping melodies become slightly askew when overlapping in a canon, and the melody becomes blurry, like blinking back tears. The simple text is written from the perspective of one individual to another, but when sung en masse in a choir, it’s as though every person who’s ever experienced a relationship become rote joins together to commiserate. The bass, when played on a synth, adds high frequencies as the song progresses, emulating a spirit setting itself free. Like a cathartic power ballad that you’d belt along with from a rainy driveway, consider “Over and Over” a musical inoculation to future heartbreak.
– Jennifer Lucy Cook
Text
Over and over we fight, then
Over and over we fix it
More like a foe than a lover
Now you know
What about forever?
After every high and low
Never thought I’d have to learn
A way to let you go
– Jennifer Lucy Cook
$1.00 per set
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