Last update: 13/08/2007
Info, Words & Audio files to help us in rehearsal!
Here are links to information which may help us learn about the music.
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NOTES ON AUDIO FILES Audio files are both 'home grown' (where each 'voice' has a different 'instrument' assigned to it) and "external": there are links to helpful sites which have much more professionally produced files, sometimes with the sheet music as well. Files which are called 'midi' can normally be read by progams already installed on your computer (e.g. windows media player, quick time or real player). Others (e.g. Sibelius or Noteworthy) require you to download free software to be able to hear and see these. When you reach audio files, you right click on them to download the music onto your computer and listen at leisure! |
2007-2008 season - watch this space!
2006-2007 season.
Leith Hill 2007
A CD with all the audio files is available from Helen free of charge! Just ask her!
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A Good-Night Richard Rodney Bennett (Part Song) |
Site: CD 'Sea Change' includes this work, available from Amazon
Below: Audio File - HCS Version |
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Dream of Gerontius; Elgar (Full Chorus) |
Elgar site - has everything you need to know! Lindsey has tapes available for learning your part. Helen has digitised the 2nd alto part fro iPOD use! Ask her if you want it. |
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Rolling down to Rio - German (Women's Song) |
Below: Lyrics Below: Audio files - HCS version- slow and fast |
| Romance of the Epiphany |
Site: Howard Goodall's site has links to the music and the music. Below: Helen has made a copy of the audio files here. |
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Sweet Honey-Sucking Bees John Wilbye (Madrigal) |
Below: Lyrics Below: Audio files - HCS versions with parts distinguished by instrument. Transposed version being used for Leiyh Hill. 2 speeds available! (What a bargain!) Site: Choral Public Domain library for audio files (but in the wrong key for the Leith Hill!) Site: Biography of Wilbye: Site: Programme notes from Westminster Site: A very modern adaptation (Health warning: you won't like it, so don't go there!) |
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The Derby Ram - Hurlstone arr. Geehl (Men's song) |
Site: Detailed info about the folk song Site: illustrated info about the words Below: Audio files - slow and fast! |
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When Mary Thro' the Garden Went C V Stanford (Ensemble) |
Site: Audio files + score to download with parts distinguished by volume. Superb! Below: Copies of the audio files. |
A Good-Night
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Clavinova Sop: piano Alt: Oboe Ten: Trumpet Bass: Trombone |
A Good-Night- a gorgeous little part-song setting Francis Quarles and written as a contribution to "A Garland for Linda" in memory of Linda McCartney, a personal friend of the composer. He found her to be always warm and spontaneous. He wanted this work to be ‘a gentle goodbye to a remarkable woman’.
Rolling down to Rio
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HCS Audio File: Rolling Down to Rio
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Rolling down to Rio | Sop: piano
Alto: oboe |
Rolling Down To Rio
R. Kipling./P. Bellamy
Well, I’ve never seen the Amazon
and I never reached Brazil
But The Don and the Magdelana
they can go there when they will,
And weekly from Southampton
great steamers white and gold
Go rolling down to Rio,
roll down, roll down to Rio
And I’d like to roll to Rio
some day before I’m old.
Well, I’ve never seen a jaguar
nor yet an armodill...
...O, Dilloin’ in his armour
and I s’pose I never will -
Unless I go to Rio
these wonders to behold
Go rolling down to Rio
roll really down to Rio
And I’d like to roll to Rio
some day before I’m old.
Yes, I’d love to roll to Rio
some day before I’m old!
Romance of the Epiphany
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| Audio: Romance of the Epiphany | Romance of the Epiphany |
Full version from website |
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HCS Audio: Romance of the Epiphany slow version |
Sop = piano Alto = oboe Tenor = solo trumpet Bass = soft trombone
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HCS Audio: Romance of the Epiphany fast version |
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Sweet Honey-Sucking Bees
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HCS Audio file: Sweet Honey-Sucking Bees by John Wilbye; Transposed version in G minor
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Slow version (nearly 8 minutes)
Rather fast version (4 minutes) Starts after 5 seconds |
Sop 1 = piccolo Sop 2 = piano Alto = oboe Tenor = solo trumpet Bass = soft trombone |
Text and Music:John Willbye/ed. Edmund H. Fellowes
Published: Stainer & Bell/ECS Publishing
Sweet honey-sucking bees why do you still
Surfeit on roses, pinks and violets?
As if the choicest nectar lay in them,
Wherewith you store your curious cabinets
Ah, make your flight to Melisuavia’s lips.
There may you revel in Ambrosian cheer,
Where smiling roses and sweet lilies sit
Keeping their springtide graces all the year.
Yet, sweet take heed, all sweets are hard to get.
Sting not her soft lips. O beware of that.
For if one flaming dart, come from her eye,
Was never dart so sharp, Ah, then you die.
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The Derby Ram - slow version |
Ten 1: solo sweet clarinet Ten 2: Piano Bass 1: Harpsichord Bass 2: trombone |
When Mary thru' the garden went
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the relevant voices are made louder.
(Helen needs to learn how to do this on her clavinova;- if anyone can advise, please get in touch!) |
2005-1006 season
In Youth is Pleasure
Click here for an amateur audio sound file
Follow these lines:
Sop 1: piccolo
Sop 2: Piano
Alto: oboe (note 2 places where alti sing tenor part)
Tenor: trumpet
Bass: trombone