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#1

Note question for a song

Posted: 8/29/05 at 11:30pm

What is the music note (like, starting note of 'I') for the line "I've heard it said.." in 'For Good' in the musical Wicked? Thanks!
<--- the set of A Midsummer Night's Dream that I was assistant stage manager for during the 2007 season at the STNJ outdoor stage.

-Dre-
You must remember all the same that at the crux of every game is knowing when it's time to leave the table... And it's important to be artful in your exit. No turning back, you must accept the con is done... It was a ball, it was a blast. And it's a shame it couldn't last. But every chapter has to end, you must agree.
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~

There's a special kind of people known as show people. We live in a world full of dreams. Sometimes we're not too certain what's false and what's real. But we're seldom in doubt about what we feel.
~Curtains~

It is a far, far better thing I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to, than I have ever known.
~A Tale of Two Cities ~
#3

re: Note question for a song

Posted: 8/30/05 at 12:07am

From listening it sounds like an Eb to me...

This song was transposed from the original key and put into C (or maybe F or G...something easy) so it would be easier to play. Which key do you want? What you hear on the recording isn't what's in the vocal selections...
Idina: Somehow I got myself to the stage, came out at the end of the show, and I had some kind of closure.
Some guy: You looked great!
Idina: Thanks...I WAS SO HIGH! 8/21/05
#4

re: Note question for a song

Posted: 8/30/05 at 12:07am

my first double post :x
Idina: Somehow I got myself to the stage, came out at the end of the show, and I had some kind of closure.
Some guy: You looked great!
Idina: Thanks...I WAS SO HIGH! 8/21/05

Updated On: 8/30/05 at 12:07 AM

#5

re: Note question for a song

Posted: 8/30/05 at 12:11am

Being as anal as I am, I can't believe I didn't notice that!

Now I'm gonna have to transpose the damn thing merely out of curiosity. Thanks...
artistic dominion
#6

re: Note question for a song

Posted: 8/30/05 at 12:22am

i don't have the vocal book with me and I need it for tomorrow. And I want to know what it is on the recording. Thanks!!!!!!
<--- the set of A Midsummer Night's Dream that I was assistant stage manager for during the 2007 season at the STNJ outdoor stage.

-Dre-
You must remember all the same that at the crux of every game is knowing when it's time to leave the table... And it's important to be artful in your exit. No turning back, you must accept the con is done... It was a ball, it was a blast. And it's a shame it couldn't last. But every chapter has to end, you must agree.
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~

There's a special kind of people known as show people. We live in a world full of dreams. Sometimes we're not too certain what's false and what's real. But we're seldom in doubt about what we feel.
~Curtains~

It is a far, far better thing I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to, than I have ever known.
~A Tale of Two Cities ~
#7

re: Note question for a song

Posted: 8/30/05 at 12:27am

Pretty sure it's a D in the vocal score...don't balme me if it's wrong. I know it's in C....hope this helps re: Note question for a song
#8

re: Note question for a song

Posted: 8/30/05 at 1:15am

it could be a D, but it sounded like an Eb to me.
Idina: Somehow I got myself to the stage, came out at the end of the show, and I had some kind of closure.
Some guy: You looked great!
Idina: Thanks...I WAS SO HIGH! 8/21/05
#9

re: Note question for a song

Posted: 8/30/05 at 1:55am

I just looked in my Wicked piano/vocal selections book and it starts on a D.
#10

re: Note question for a song

Posted: 8/30/05 at 2:04am

you do not need to transpose it. any song you want in it's original form, you just ask Stephen for it. His email is in the front of the book - he is VERY nice about it!
"You look like a Christmas tree with a drinking problem!" - MEMPHIS
#11

re: Note question for a song

Posted: 8/30/05 at 11:19am

I don't think it even is transposed though. At the front of the book he says that some of the songs have been changed a bit (beginnings/endings of songs were changed, some things were taken out) so that it makes more sense out of the context of the show. I don't know why "For Good" would be transposed because there clearly wasn't any effort to make "Defying Gravity" or most of the other songs easier to play.
#12

re: Note question for a song

Posted: 8/30/05 at 2:45pm

go to his site. Before the vocal selections were released he said that song was going to be transposed to C because it was only a 1/2 step or something and it's in a very difficult key. I just played it along with the recording, they're not in the same key. I'm not wrong...or going crazy.

I'm also not going to go through his site to find "proof" because it's not really my problem.
Idina: Somehow I got myself to the stage, came out at the end of the show, and I had some kind of closure.
Some guy: You looked great!
Idina: Thanks...I WAS SO HIGH! 8/21/05
#13

re: Note question for a song

Posted: 8/30/05 at 4:23pm

Wow, calm down. All I was saying is that he doesn't say in the book that he changed the key for any of the songs and I just found it odd that he would decide to change "For Good" into an easier key, yet "Defying Gravity" is kept in a key with 5 flats in the key signature. I believe you, but if you feel it's "not really your problem" then why are you even bothering to post in this thread?
#14

re: Note question for a song

Posted: 8/30/05 at 5:02pm

Maybe I wasn't clear.

For Good was changed because he only had to move it a half step to get it into C Major. So he went from a complex key sig to one that most people would be able to play by moving it only a half step. To do that with Defying Gravity, the key would have had to be changed more drasticly...so those Fs at the end would have either become a lot higher or a lot lower, in which case they would either be impossible to sing, or not have the same effect.
Idina: Somehow I got myself to the stage, came out at the end of the show, and I had some kind of closure.
Some guy: You looked great!
Idina: Thanks...I WAS SO HIGH! 8/21/05

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