2023 - Summer Term

Below please find a list of the pieces we will be rehearsing/performing this term, along with - where available - rehearsal aids (YouTube videos, etc.)  The concert will be on 3 July 2023, hopefully at a larger venue, to make it more of an "occasion" for all the pieces we will have learned by then!

Rehearsal Audio Recordings from 26/6/2023 are now on Google Drive.  (Link opposite)

Can you also please have a listen through to the Mr. BLue SKy Backing Track (no choir), which has the 12 bars of the guitar solo, before "Hey You with a pretty face" in your music.  

Can you please mark on your music that there are actually 14 bars where choir does not sing from bar 47 (only two bars marked on the score arrangement you have, so it should be those 2 bars, then 12 bars of the guitar solo!  

For The Beauty of the Earth

Only the whole choir I'm afraid...but hopefully you can pick out your individual part? 

What A Wonderful World

You could also search on YouTube for other performances, as long as you put "Mark Brymer" as the name of the arranger.  I selected this one, as the individual parts are quite clearly audible.  


Audio from the performance on 27 March 2023

What A Wonderful World.mp3

You Make Me Feel So Young

Again, don't feel you have to use this version, as there are others on YouTube.  Just make sure you search for the title arranged by Jay Althouse


Audio from the performance on 27 March 2023

You Make Me Feel So Young.mp3

Linden Lea

Links to YouTube Videos with the individual SATB parts dominant on each link:


There is also a link to the source website (Choral Wiki):
Choral Wiki Link

I would also recommend that if you use a PC, download a copy of MuseScore, in which you can download/import the Music XML file and then adjust the parts using MuseScore's "Mixer", so you can make whichever part you like dominant...You can also change the "voicings" of the part to make them less annoying!  The Music XML file is available from the Choral Wiki Page.  MuseScore can be downloaded from musescore.org 


Alto Dominant

Soprano Dominant

Tenor Dominant

Bass Dominant

Mr. Blue Sky

Unfortunately, the "vocals" on this are computer-generated, so sound a bit weird...but it should give you an idea of your part(s). 


Backing Track (No Choir):

Mr Blue Sky - 165bpm.mp3

Audio from the performance on 27 March 2023

Mr Blue Sky.mp3

I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud

Can't find a link for rehearsal aids for each part, so you'll just have to try to pick out your part in the link opposite 

(The YouTube video has been taken down for some inexplicable reason).  A quick search of the interweb has revealed this site (linked opposite), which has links to the piece on a lot of the Music Streaming Services.  Hopefully you will be able to pick it up via one of those services?

Blow The Man Down

The piece was purchased from "Choir Community" website (https://www.choircommunity.net)   Where you can listen to a "snippet" of the full piece.  

Summertime

Sheet Music Publishers YouTube Channel performance (with animated sheet music!)


Thanks to Martin for the audio file (opposite) for the Bass Part (High Bass only I believe).  



Summertime - Bass Part

Here Comes The Sun

This piece also comes from the Choir Community Website: 
https://www.choircommunity.net/


Last Rose of Summer

This was downloaded from MuseScore (more encouragement for you to download this music notation software.  If you download MuseScore, you can open the file linked opposite.  There is then a "Mixer" in the software, in which you can mute parts and/or raise the volume on your part, thus use it as a rehearsal aid.  There is also an App for Android and Apple Phones.  

Link to download MuseScore:
https://musescore.org

Last Rose of Summer.mscz

Sunny Afternoon

I am afraid I have not been able to find the exact arrangement of this (by A.Shepherd).  You can get the Kinks' original on YouTube to get comfortable with the tune?