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What makes Hinalad music and materials unique?
All songs are original with texts in Cebuano.
We have made a bold effort to use Cebuano musical terms, indicators, descriptive markings, and other musical expressions as far as possible for the purpose of making the sheet music more comprehensible to the Cebuano singers, the Cebuano choir directors, the Cebuano accompanists, and the Cebuano worshipers in general.
We believe that our local Cebuano dialect (and any local musical dialects for that matter) should not be undervalued in our (sometimes too Westernized) churches, in the same manner that the Gospel can be preached in any spoken dialect and through any music.
Musical Style
With our belief that any musical style is a gift from God, we made it a point to showcase varied styles in the collection, ranging from chant-like, to polyphonic, to rock style, to hymn style, to cantata-like anthems, and a lot more. Along with the breadth of musical styles are also varying arrangements from choir unison or congregation unison, to solos, two-part, three-part, and full mixed choir.
Biblical References
Most of the texts used in the songs are based on Biblical passages. Some are paraphrased while some are directly lifted verbatim from the Bible, with Biblical references indicated on the first page of the piece.
Cebuano - English Translations
Each Cebuano lyric is provided an English translation in prose form for those needing the alternate version, including a short annotation about the song which we hope will be helpful to worship leaders, the congregation, and the choir in understanding the context and intentions of these precious compositions.
Rehearsal Friendly
Rehearsal marks are aligned at the beginning of the phrase where the new section begins (thanks to Maria Cristina Mendoza’s brilliant suggestion), not on measure following the pick-up notes. In doing so, the choir director needs not waste time in instructing a few words, such as, “Let us return to pick-up of rehearsal A.” This is especially applicable to sections that begin with anacrusis or pick-up notes.
Collection Features
The collection comes with useful tracks, such as listening tracks, accompaniment tracks, voice tracks as rehearsal guides (SATB), including lyric sheets, PowerPoint, vocal scores, and full scores. It is our hope that these features would facilitate a friendlier rehearsal atmosphere as the choirs strive to offer their best to the God of Sound and Silence.
