A Toolbox for Better Singing.
lewesclassical For those of you who weren’t at our last meeting I’m posting your homework assignment. DO NOT use a keyboard to help you with these. This is a sight reading exercise. Have fun with it and good luck. Directly below is a link for those of you who wish to download and print the page. … Read more
Hi All, Following our lovely little discussion last evening about Shakespeare’s use of rhyme in Blow, blow, though winter wind, I’ve done a little bit of Googling. The bottom line seems to be that in Shakespeare’s time the word wind was still pronounced with a long ‘i’ vowel (probably spelled wynde) a hangover from Middle English. According to … Read more
Greeting music lovers, It’s time to shiver through a sweet and lively yet wintery new piece. Aside from posting the graphics of the sheet music and the audio parts for you to listen to, I will also post PDFs of the sheet music (find links below parts) so you can download the lot and print … Read more
Hi All, I thought I would repost the local musical events that we announced at last session. First the Hospice Hymnathon 2015. It takes place Saturday 6 & Sunday 7 June 2015 at Lancing College Chapel. It’s being produced by Friends of Sussex Hospices and is a very worthy cause. Carol and I will not … Read more
Here’s a lovely and varied arrangement of Good King Wenceslas for us to warble through. There are key changes aplenty and everyone gets a shot at the melody which gets tossed recklessly––sorry, I meant artfully––back and forth. Audio for all 3 parts: Audio for all Soprano: Audio for all Alto: Audio for all Baritone:
Here it is in all its comical splendour! The Official LVW Coffee/Tea Mug–– just waiting for some happy LVW newbie to grab them up. Only 4 left! And the first 4 people to leave a comment on this site or email me will have them, free for the asking to … Read more
Welcome back, all to the Autumn 2014 LVW sessions. Here are the parts for the very excellent finale of Mozart’s Don Giovanni that we began working on last evening. I’ve included the piano part in each of the audio files to help you hear where you are, but I’ve lowered the volume of the piano and raised … Read more
Here is a really sweet, lilting 3-part song for us to work on. It was originally arranged for 4 parts (SATB) but Carol very cleverly and handily whittled it down to 3 (SAB). She also included a note about Sir Willie on the top of the first page of music that is worth reading. Have … Read more
Sakura is the flowering cherry tree, Japan’s most celebrated plant. The blossom is the national flower. This familiar (some might even say clichéd) melody is given a lovely 3 part treatment here that I think you’ll enjoy working on and singing. Sakura 3 parts audio Sakura – Soprano audio Sakura – Alto audio Sakura – … Read more
Sorry it’s taken so long, Mike but here it is at last, and I think quite a lovely arrangement, too! Baritones get the melody at the opening and then pass it off to the sopranos. And both Altos and Baritones will have fun with all the fab semi-quavers that bring it all to a close. … Read more