Welcome, Spiritoso Singers!
Please use the following links and rehearsal tracks to help you practice!
Be Still and Consider:
Evening Hymn:
All the Diamonds:
Here is the wonderful original version by Bruce Cockburn; this is in the same key as we are doing:
https://youtu.be/7IPbWwNfNV0?si=2nM57P5gn74dW_zT
And a version similar to ours, but not exactly. This is the SATB version, with a soloist (of whom I am not a huge fan), but I am including it because it is the closest recorded version of the song to ours. To be clear, we are not using a soloist the way this choir has:
https://soundcloud.com/cypress-choral-music/all-the-diamonds-satb
Here’s a wonderful cover version by Caroline and Julie Blundell; they sing it in a different key than we are:
Descants:
(to be clear: we are just doing the lower descant of the two, for Morning Has Broken. So alto’s, you can probably sing that one!)
A Gaelic Blessing:
This is an SATB version; we are doing this melody but without most of the harmonies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8MKEpXqGko
And a lovely soprano singing it as a solo; she sings the top part of our version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ybgNoT69ck
And this is our version’s piano accompaniment:
Hymns: (these are all in the right keys):
Morning Has Broken:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgQb_OV21QE
Thine Be the Glory (please note: this is NOT the descant we will sing in verse 3, but everything else is the same):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXzmjNE-yLA
Amazing Grace (This is the only version I could find that was the melody we are doing, without more exciting rhythms!):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHpwG51i6iE
Jesus Christ is Risen Today (we are doing verses 1-4, and here they only do 1, 2, and 4):