Practice Materials
Scores
This term, because we are singing music composed by young composers whose work is in copyright, we have ordered all scores from their accredited publishers: Boosey&Hawes for Tin’s The Lost Birds, Schirmer for Berko’s You Through Me and we have purchased a PLLM licence to copy Jonathan Dove’s The Passing of the Year (movements 1 and 7 only ).
In general, the music we sing can be purchased either through online sites or, even better, through your local music shop. You can also always try your local library, if it is big enough to carry a music scores department.
Schotts of Great Marlborough Street
Chimes of Kensington/Chimes Barbican
Practice aids
This term, you will only find the pieces by Jonathan Dove available on John Fletcher -see below. For the Lost Birds and You Through Me, we have circulated downloadable audio parts kindly arranged for us by David Harrod, our esteemed accompanist, to help you learn the pieces.
Otherwise, there are several sites that provide practice materials to help when working on a new piece. In general, they are broken down by voice part.
The material on all three services below is different, and they are priced differently – they are all useful in their own way as preparation for the term’s work.
Rehearsal Arts
Reheasal Arts charge $21.80 per voice part, and provide a downloadable MP3, with highlights for particularly difficult spots in the music to study and a user guide.
John Fletcher
John Fletcher provide free files where music is out of copyright, or have a paid subscription for in-copyright music. You will need to create an account first and register as a subscriber in order to access the audio files.
https://johnfletchermusic.org/category/free/
Choraline
Choraline have a large database of helpful materials to aid with learning parts. They also have a useful app for searching for and playing music from your phone.
Choralia
Choralia provides free training aids for choral singers. Audio files are provided, which allow singers to gradually learn their parts by listening to electronically-synthesized sound. The main technology is named Virtual Singer (VS), as lyrics are also “sung” by electronically-synthesized human voices.
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