Welcome to the New Year 2021 practice resources page for Cambridge and Leith Hill Timeline Choirs. During the Coronavirus lockdown, Claire and Stef are collaborating to bring you a selection of folk songs and uplifting music to help us stay positive in troubling times! As always, new resources will be added after each choir rehearsal. The theme this term is Singing the Seasons. We’ll move from beautiful winter songs to lift the spirits in the dark months, to joyful spring songs to celebrate the warmer weather and (hopefully) being together again soon…

We’re doing our best to choose songs that are well suited to singing at home (no high soprano parts, for example!), with singable individual parts, and beautiful words to keep us connected and inspired.

Scores and Lyrics:

Download/resource link	Title	Sung by?
Auld Lang Syne	Auld Lang Syne	SATB
New Year Carol Britten	New Year Carol	All, unison
Orientis Partibus	Orientis partibus	All, two parts
Oh Lovely Spring – 4 part round	Oh Lovely Spring	4-part round
In the Month of January – 2021	In The Month Of January	4-part SATB
byrd–ave_verum_corpus	Ave verum corpus (Byrd)	4-part SATB

Warm Ups and Rounds:

Here is a new warm-up video for you to use at home to help you get ready to sing.  I am using some of the techniques and exercises I learnt from Katy Thomson recently through Sing For Pleasure training.

 

Here’s a lovely piece of gregorian chant for Lent… Cambridge will be singing one verse per week for the rest of term (Leith Hillers, you can join in in your own time with this video):

And here are the learning resources for this term’s warm-ups and shorter songs:

Download/resource link	Title	Sung by?
	O Lovely Spring	4-part round, full mix (including unison)
	Soualle	3-part song, full mix
	Soualle	Soprano
	Soualle	Alto
	Soualle	Bass
	December: 6am	Full mix
	December: 6am	Main part (echo part repeats the same line as an echo)
	December: 6am	Alto harmony
	December: 6am	Soprano harmony