Faure: Requiem: ALL voices can be found with this link
On the page you will see Requiem – 1890 and below that you voice part. For example, if you click on ‘Soprano Chorus Rehearsal Aid’ it will take you to a page where you can choose which movement you want to work on. It very easy.
Dvorak: Mass in D is on cyberbass – Here it is. Enjoy.
Christmas 2021 – Saviour’s Day
Saviour’s Day – SOPRANO – FAST
Saviour’s Day – SOPRANO – SLOW
Saviour’s Day – ALTO – FAST
Saviour’s Day – ALTO – SLOW
Saviour’s Day – TENOR – FAST
Saviour’s Day – TENOR – SLOW
Saviour’s Day – BASS – FAST
Saviour’s Day – BASS – SLOW
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Vivaldi Gloria – 1st movement
Vivaldi Gloria Soprano part
Handel: Surely he hath borne our griefs
Surely Soprano part
Handel: And with his stripes
And with his stripes Soprano part
And with his stripes Alto part
And with his stripes Tenor part
And with his stripes Bass part
Handel: All we like sheep
All we like sheep Soprano part
Bruckner: Ave Maria
Bruckner Ave Maria Soprano part
Bruckner Ave Maria 1st Alto part
Bruckner Ave Maria 2nd Alto part
Bruckner Ave Maria 1st Tenor part
Bruckner Ave Maria 2nd Tenor part
Bruckner Ave Maria 1st Bass part
Bruckner Ave Maria 2nd Bass part
Rossini Petite Messe Kyrie
Lauridsen: Sure on this shining night
Sure on this shining night Soprano
Sure on this shining night Alto
Sure on this shining night Tenor
Sure on this shining night Bass
The following is some useful information and links to articles including how to learn your part, singing technique and sight singing:
1. Learning Your Voice-Parts
2. Singing Technique and Vocal Health
3. Sight Singing and Music Theory
1. Learning Your Voice-Parts
The internet provides a wonderful selection of audio practice files that can be downloaded and played directly on your computer or (in many cases) also played on portable MP3 players. In addition to a number of commercial on-line businesses offering practice files, there are also many choral music enthusiasts who create these files and very generously make them freely available for download. It is perhaps appropriate to mention that at least two of these sites have a mechanism (i.e. PayPal) to make a donation toward their support and which you may consider doing if you choose to use those files.
Although there are many possible file formats, the two most common are the MIDI (i.e. .mid) and the MP3 (i.e. .mp3) . Where there is a choice, you will of course need to select the format that meets your particular need.
If you’d like to be able to see the score, control the tempo and be able to start and stop your playback at particular bar lines then you should use midi files when they are available. This does however require you to use your desktop, laptop or even a mobile devise for the playback. Assuming you have a Windows 7 or 8 or Mac OS 10.4 or later operating system, I’d recommend that you download a programme called Midi Sheet Music available from here. When the page opens, click the button labeled “Download Windows” or “Download Mac OSX” as appropriate. A pop-up titled “Opening MidiSheetMusic-2.6.exe” should then appear. Assuming the pop-up does appear, click the “Save File” button on that pop-up to get this piece of software downloaded to your computer. If the pop-up didn’t appear then click the Midi Sheet Music ( the white text on black background) and then click the green “Download MidiSheetMusic-2.6.exe”. When the download is complete, go to your download folder (that folder will be called Download in Window machines, unless you’ve changed it) and click on the file labelled MidiSheetMusic-2.6.exe to make it run.
When the programme opens, click “File”, then “Open” and then select the midi file you wish to play – you should have already downloaded your .midi practice files. Note that this programme will download very rapidly as it is only 1.372 MBytes in size and does NOT install itselfon your machine i.e. it is a free standing application like the Notepad and Calculator programmes on your Windows computer.
If you prefer to listen to your downloads on a CD player, then it is possible to convert “.mid” and “.mp3” files to an intermediate format (named as “.wav”) and then into a format suitable for burning onto a blank CD-R disk. Unfortunately, you will need the appropriate software and hardware to do this.
The list below identifies a selection of commercial and open source sites and provides the site’s name, its URL (a.k.a. web address) and some general comments that you may find helpful in deciding which one to use.
| Commercial | General Comments | |
| Chorus Rehearsal | www.chorusrehearsal.co.uk | CDs available. |
| Note Perfect | www.note-perfect.com | CDs and a limited selection of MIDI & Scorch formats. |
| ChoralLine | www.choraline.com | CDs and vocal scores also available.Telephone number: 01285 644845 |
| CyberBase | www.cyberbass.com | CDs also available. |
| Open Source | General Comments | |
| John Fletcher | www.johnfletchermusic.org/ | The largest selection of files in MP3, MIDI and two Scorch formats available anyway (probably). |
| Choralia | www.choralia.net | MP3 with electronic voicing (also helps with learning the words). |
| ChoralTech | www.choraltech.us | Midi files only. |
| John Hooper | www.learnchoralmusic.co.uk | Good selection but in midi format only. |
2. Singing Technique and Vocal Health
This section will be developed over the coming months but to begin with, here are some excellent sources of information available on the web:
- Breath and Support for Singing
- Exercises for Warming-up in Preparation to Sing
- Damaging Vocal Techniques
- Advise from a great voice teacher
- How Humans speak, sing, squeak and squeal
3. Sight Singing and Music Theory
This section will also be added to over time but to begin with, here are some useful web based tools: