Listening Resources

The Father’s Love

Listen to the recording posted HERE and follow along with your music. Please listen with your score at least FIVE times before Monday!

• Then, MEMORIZE this piece for Monday!! You probably already have more of it memorized than you think! I will hear this in duets on Monday without music.

Regina

• Using the recording posted below, practice singing your part with TEXT from the beginning to m. 23

SOP 1

SOP 2

ALTO 1

ALTO 2

Wayfaring

• Using the video posted below, listen THREE times following along with your score.

Wana

• Using the video posted below, listen THREE times following along with your score.

Presentation Chant

• Using the video posted below, listen THREE times following along with your score. Then - sing along THREE more times! This should be done before Sunday morning!

Nunc Dimittis

• Using the video posted below, listen THREE times following along with your score. This should be done before Sunday morning!

O clap

• Listen to the recording posted HERE and follow along with your score. Listen THREE times before Monday!

Regina

• Listen to the recording posted HERE and follow along with your music. Listen at least FOUR times before Monday!

Wana

• ALL PARTS, please practice speaking the text in rhythm using the recording posted HERE for m. 3-27 (even if it’s not text your part sings at the beginning)

Sleepers Wake

• Listen to the recording posted on below and follow along with your music FIVE times before Sunday morning. This recording is slightly slower than we will sing it - so it’s helpful for the German text!

In dulci

• Listen to the recording posted HERE and follow along with your music FIVE times before Monday. This will help you memorize the piece as well!!

Puer Natus

• Using the recording posted HERE, practice speaking the text of the whole piece FIVE times before Monday!

In dulci

• Using the recording posted HERE, speak the text SLOWLY from pg. 9 square E to square G. What two languages are in this piece? Take you pencil and mark in/change the letters that sound different in English.

The Angel - Russian Pronunciation Video

The Angel - Choir Video

Puer Natus

Please listen to the recording posted below and follow with your score FIVE times before Monday. Don't forget, please have from the beginning of this piece to m. 11 MEMORIZED in solfege for Monday.

Wash me throughly

Listen to the recording posted below and follow along with your score SIX times by SUNDAY! (Don't forget to write in the solfege too!)

Instruments of Your Peace

• Listen to the recording posted below and follow along with your score. Listen FIVE times before Monday!

Oculus

• I have posted a recording of the text - spoken slowly - HERE. Listen and repeat the text after me SIX times while following along with your score.

This is the Day

It’s time to RAP again! Please listen to the recordings posted HERE and practice speaking the text in rhythm from m. 36-40. Please do this at least SIX times before Monday!

This is the Day

• Using the recordings posted below, practice YOUR PART from m. 32-36. On the recording I have it slowly first, sing this with solfege. Then I’ve played it at a faster tempo - try this tempo with words!

Soprano 1:

Soprano 2:

Alto:

Tantum Ergo

• Listen to the recording posted below THREE times and follow along with your score. (Don't forget - you have to write in some solfege too! Check your memo!)

This is the Day

Time to rap! :)

Using the recording posted below, practice speaking the text in rhythm from pg. 3, m. 24-31 with the recording SIX times before Monday.

Oculus non vidit

Please listen to the recording posted below FIVE times and follow along with your music. See if you can sign (not sing!) along!

Listening Intervals Practice

Instructions:

• Click the link below

• Change Intervals (in drop down) to DIATONIC

• Enter 20 questions

• Click advanced options

  • Interval type select (in drop down) ASCENDING AND DESCENDING

  • Speed Medium

Start quiz! Goal is to get 20/20! :)

CLICK HERE

Magnificat

Listen to the recording posted below of the text - follow along with your score and speak this text at least FIVE times before Monday. Make sure you are comfortable with the pronunciation!!

Magnificat Pronunciation

Magnificat

Watch the video posted on the website and follow along with your score THREE times before Monday!

Ceremony of Carols - There is no rose

Listen to the recording posted below of this movement while following along with your music. Listen at least FIVE times before Monday!

Ceremony of Carols - That yonge child AUDITION HELP!

There are sizable solos in Ceremony of Carols. Any boys interested in auditioning for any of the solos are asked to prepare movement 4a. That yonge child. I have posted two recordings of this below to practice. Auditions will be held Tuesday @ 11:50am (lunch time) in the small choral room.

Ceremony of Carols - Procession

Listen to the recording posted below and follow along with your music FOUR times before Monday! On Monday we will try singing this from MEMORY! Challenge yourself! ☺

Ceremony of Carols - There is no rose

If not completed in class, write in the solfege for your part only for this whole movement! (to pg. 16) Listen to the recording posted on the website and follow along with your music FOUR times before Monday!

Ceremony of Carols - Wolcum Yole!

Listen to the recording posted below of this movement (pg. 3-10) and follow along with your music FOUR times before Monday!

Ceremony of Carols - This little babe

Listen to the recording posted below of this movement (pg. 29-36) and follow along with your music FIVE times before Monday!See if you can speak the text while they sing - it’s fast!!

And God shall wipe away all tears

Listen to the recording posted below and follow along with your music. Listen FOUR times before Monday!

I lift my eyes

Listen to the recording posted below and follow along with your music. Listen FOUR times before Monday!

Listening Intervals Practice

This is a really great tool to practice identifying intervals! Keep everything checked EXCEPT tritone! Your goal is to keep playing until you get 20 correct answers!

Click here!

Adoramus te

Hi gentlemen, here is a really neat video to help with the Adoramus Te! Sing with this recording FIVE times with solfege before Monday!

I am his child

Listen to the recording posted here and follow along with your score FIVE times! For Monday! Click here!

By the Rivers of Babylon

Watch the two recordings posted on the website! Be prepared to discuss some similarities & differences between the two and also what you liked or didn’t like about each version! For Monday!

Sicut cervus

Please listen to the recording below and follow along with your score FOUR times before Sunday! Make sure you are very comfortable with your part!

The Sorrows of my Heart

Please listen to the recording below and follow along with your score FOUR times before Sunday!

Wash Me Throughly

Gentlemen, please listen to the recording below and follow along with your score THREE times before Sunday!

Ubi caritas

Hi lovely gentlemen! Please click on the link below for (in my opinion) the best recording of Ubi caritas. Please listen to this at least 5 times before Mass on Sunday. While listening:

- listen and just listen! :)

- listen and sign your handsigns

- listen and sign your handsigns and sing the solfege

- listen and speak text with recording

- listen and sing along with text

Ubi caritas

Beatus vir

Listen to the recording posted on the website below and follow along with your score FIVE times before Sunday! Listen to how legato and unified (they sound like two voices, not twenty!) the sound is!

He shall feed his flock

Listen to the recording posted on the website and follow along with your score FIVE times before Monday! (On this recording, there is a little alto solo introduction… our version starts about 45 seconds in!)

Silver Bells

Here is the video link for Silver Bells. This is a TTBB recording, but the harmonies are the same!

White Winter Hymnal

Here is the video link for White Winter Hymnal, This is an SATB recording, but you get a good sense of the feel of the piece!

Recording of Snow Angel!

Click the link above to listen!

Surrexit Pastor Bonus click here!

Le secret de Dieu - click here to listen!!

The Call

Hello friends! Below is the video for The Call. Listen to it three times, listening with your score the first time then singing along twice!

Jesu meine Freude

Hi gentlemen! Go down to the bottom of this page and you will find a the pronunciation of Jesu meine Freude (the date says March 1, 2016). Download this and take a listen! Follow along with your score and listen to one line, then repeat it out loud! Do this FIVE times before Monday!

The sorrows of my heart

Wash me throughly

Listening Intervals Game! <----- Click here! :)

Psalm 23 Listening (click your part below):

Psalm 23 - Alto 2

Psalm 23 - Alto 1

Psalm 23 - Soprano 2

Psalm 23 - Soprano 1

Close in my breast thy perfect love

Hi my friends! Here is a recording of Close in my breast to help you this weekend!

O salutaris

Hello gents! On the first listen, just follow along with your score. Second and third listens.... sing along! (Sopranos, use more air than she does in the recording! Listen to see how her intonation suffers - she goes flat - when she doesn't use enough air!)

Psalm 23

Take a listen, gentlemen! Listen especially to the oboe and flute part - they add so much!

*NEW* Go where I send thee

Fantastic job with the ending of this piece! Now we need to learn the beginning! :) Here are the practice tracks from the beginning to m.46!

Soprano 1 - Go where I send thee

Soprano 2 - Go where I send thee

Alto - Go where I send thee

Go where I send thee

Hi gentlemen! Below are the recordings of the rhythms at m. 47 (pg. 6) of Go where I send thee. Please listen and speak the rhythms to all five parts!! Notice on what beat each part enters - sometimes that's the only difference in the rhythm!

S-1a - Go where I send thee

S-1B - Go where I send thee

S-2a -Go where I send thee

S-2b - Go where I send thee

Alto (A) - Go where I send thee

In dulci jubilo - listen to the recording below! But make sure to practice verse 1 in solfege SLOWLY before you listen! Quartets on Monday! :)

All things bright and beautiful - take a listen, gentlemen! Feel how light this song is, sing along! :)

Palestrina - new links to videos!

Hi everyone, it seems the video's wouldn't play... my apologies!!! I have all the videos below, you should just click your part and it should open in a new window. My apologies!!!!

xo

MC

Alto 2

Alto 1

Soprano 1

Soprano 2

Princeps gloriosissime

Hi gentlemen! Please listen to the two videos below, at least three times per video.

First listen: follow along with your score and tap the beat, remember there are 4 HALF NOTES per bar!

Second listen: follow with your score, tap the beat with your foot and see if you can sign the solfege for your part with the video

Third listen: follow with the score and see if you can sign AND sing along!

(For the Hong Kong Treble Choir video, our piece is the first song they sing!)

Suscepit Israel

Please find below three separate videos/recordings, SOPRANO 1, SOPRANO 2, ALTO. Please listen to the recording OF YOUR OWN PART.

- First listen, listen only and follow with your score

- Second listen,sing with recording on "oo"

- Third listen, sing with text

Ave verum corpus

Here are two different recordings for you to listen to this weekend. The first recording is beneficial because the score is part of the video, sing a long and follow the score! The second video is a beautiful version of this piece as well. Listen to the LEGATO lines and the richness of the alto voices especially!

Ubi Recording

Hi gentlemen, it is very important for you to listen to the recording of Ubi Caritas found when you click the link below. Please note the recording is at the bottom of the page and you must press play.

Ubi caritas recording

Ubi pronunciation

Hi gentlemen, please click the link below for the pronunciation attachment for UBI CARITAS. Listen to the WAVES!

Ubi pronunciation

Surrexit pastor bonus

Please listen to this beautiful version of Surrexit pastor bonus. Listen to the richness and full sound! That's what we need as well!

Hosanna filio David - chant (Palm Sunday)

Hi gentlemen, below is the link for the chant, copy and paste into your browsers - LISTEN AND PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE! :)

http://gregorian-chant-hymns.com/hymns-2/hosanna-filio.html

God be in my head

Hi singers! Take a listen to this version of God be in my head. Keep in mind that this is a SATB arrangement (unlike ours), but listen to the push and pull!! That's what we need to work towards as well! :)

Jesu meine Freude - PRONUNCIATION

Hi gentlemen, please use the link below to listen to the pronunciation of the German text. Repeat each line SLOWLY after it is said! :)

Interval Listening

Hi singers! Please click the link below for the INTERVAL TRAINER! This is FANTASTIC practice for our test on Monday!! Please press the "Direction" button on the right hand of the screen so that the intervals are played ascending and descending.

Listening Intervals

Parce Domine - Obrecht

Hi gentlemen! Please take a listen to the recording below:

- Notice how the line of chant flows directly into the piece.... we will be doing that as well!!

- Listen once & follow with your score, tap the QUARTER NOTE (think 4/4)

- Now listen again & follow with your score and tap the HALF NOTE (think 2/2) - this is the feeling we want! :)

As pants the hart - di Lasso

Hello friends! As mentioned on the weekly memo, please see the practice tracks found below for each section for As pants the hart. Please listen and practice with this 5 times before Mass on Sunday, this is a short week!!!

xo

Ubi caritas - Ola Gjeilo

Hi lovely gentlemen! Please click on the link below for (in my opinion) the best recording of Ubi caritas. Please listen to this at least 5 times before Mass on Sunday. While listening:

- listen and just listen! :)

- listen and sign your handsigns

- listen and sign your handsigns and sing the solfege

- listen and speak text with recording

- listen and sing along with text

Ubi caritas - Ola Gjeilo

Bless the Lord, O my soul

Hi gentlemen! Take a listen to the recording of Bless the Lord, O my soul BEFORE mass on Sunday! :)

Sleepers, Wake!

Hi gentlemen! Below you will find a file with the pronunciation of Sleepers, Wake! Please listen carefully and repeat the line out loud after each line is spoken (there is time on the recording for you to do this!) I also have the text below so that you can follow along without your music!

Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day - Rutter

Hi gentlemen, here are some videos for your reference. Please watch all the videos and write your observations, performance differences, what you liked/what you didn't like and any general opinions on each performance. Be prepared to share your observations on Monday! (November 2nd)

Adoramus Te - di Lasso

Hi gentlemen, here is a really neat video to help with the Adoramus Te. I've also included another recording which you will find below.

For the Beauty of the Earth - Rutter

Please use this recording/lyrics for review! Verse B must be prepared for tomorrow (Wednesday, October 6th)!

Ms. C

Beati Omnes - Ewer

Here is a recording of Beati Omnes, make sure to listen every night this week please!

xo

Ms. C

There's a Wideness in God's Mercy - Hampton

There's a Wideness in God's Mercy

Here is a recording of There's a Wideness in God's Mercy. Take a listen and sing along! Try to start memorizing this!

xo

Ms. C

Duo Seraphim - Dering

Hello singers! Here are some recordings of Duo Seraphim by Richard Dering we will be singing at Mass next Sunday, September 27th. These recordings aren't perfect, some of the tempos vary, but I encourage you to sing a long with each recording to get the overall shape of the music. Then in rehearsal, how do you know which tempo to sing..... WATCH ME!

The last recording is just organ accompaniment with light electronic voices over the accompaniment. This track is great to use last after you have solidified your part.