People, people, people….
“…although the church is suppossed to be following the choir in worship it doesn’t mean the melody therefore has to be given to majority…”
and generally the melody ISN’T given to the majority.
“what i say is if the 1 soprano can sing the melody best, why not give it to the sopranoist?”
How does anyone know that the soprano sings the melody best if they have never compared the soprano singing the melody to an alto singing the melody, not soprano melody to alto harmony?
“I get the feeling there's a bit of bias here.
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Nope, nope, nope. According to my voice teachers, my voice range is quite wide but I am classified as soprano.“Because, if we go with your argument, then why not give the melody to the TENORS? Or, better yet, why isn't there a BASS section in gospel music (minus the use of quartets)?”
If the tenors were the majority of the congregation, I would be saying let the tenors have the melody sometime.“As Nessa stated, if you can rearrange the vocals so that altos can sing the melody every once and again.”
Done it AND was told how wonderful it was. Try it. You might like it. Your congregation might like it. Come on worship leaders/choir directors/ and musicians. Broaden those horizons.“However, harmonically speaking, the melody line is usually found on top, hence the sopranos sing that line.”
Come on, let’s mix it up a little. How much effort to spice things up sayyyyy, ohhhhh, once a year. You know, if no one ever did anything differently musically, we’d never have anything different musically. Well, at least I got you all thinking. I know you probably won’t change anything, but you did take time to think about it.
