Wouldn't you like to look at any melody and instantly know how it sounds' If so then this book is for you. This book teaches you a sight-singing technique or trick that truly works how to memorise the sound of each scale degree. Once you've memorised these sounds you'll be able to sight-sing any melody instantly. This book is suitable for anyone who wants to be able to look at written music…

Sing along with the Nashville Bluegrass Band and share in their distinctive harmony singing techniques in this special DVD workshop.In an exciting exchange of musical ideas the band guides you from basic duet singing to the beautiful and stirring three- four- and five-part harmonies that characterise this heart-warming vocal style. By singing each part separately the band give you a rare opportu…

Blake Fragments was written for performance in Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic Guggenheim Museum in New York City and calls for the solo voices to be placed in various positions on the concentric rings that rise up from the central rotunda. In subsequent performances this configuration will generally be impossible but the soloist arrangement that was used is included should performers like to respond…

Anthem taking liturgical text premiered by the Tallis Scholars in 1997.Quoting Tavener: In this work The Hymn of the Unwaning Light massive monolithic and resplendent with the joy of the Risen Christ alternates withthe Proclamation of Easter and with the Processional Angels in the Heavens. The Proclamation of Easter is sung in Greek first by a male voice (the Psaltis) and finally by the wh…

These five spirituals for unaccompanied chorus despite the occasional appearance of complexity are basically simple: the harmony indeed is of the simplest possible. The apparent complexity arises primarily from the number of parts which are not however all real parts. These in fact seldom comprise more than the traditional four. Lines are frequently doubled at the octave rather in the manne…

This work was commissioned by St Dunstan's College South-East London for the celebration of its centenary in 1988. It is an anthem and uses a setting of Psalm 100. The work has three main sections (fast-slow-fast) and is essentially jubilant in nature. After a brief instrumental introduction the choir enters using as its text the first two verses of the Psalm. This reaches a climax on the word…

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Écrits des castrats sur le chant, volume 2
L?art des castrats repose sur peu de documents imprimés à caractère technique (méthodes, traités). La fameuse « feuille » de Porpora (bref recueil d?exercices censés mener à une haute maîtrise) reste inconnue, même si une édition anglaise tardive clame le contraire. Seuls subsistent de nombreux solfeggi manucrits, composés par les ma…