The Renaisance Choir is a choir of about 35 singers of all ages, which meets weekly in Emsworth in Hampshire on a Friday evening. The choir gives several public performances every year, in Hampshire and Sussex. The spectrum of music is fairly broad but contains a preponderance of Renaissance music written for the church. If anyone wishes to know more, please contact the website at www.renaissancechoir.org.uk
The music in this section is for use from November 2023
The files on this site contain the accompaniment and vocal parts synthesised on the Roland D20, or on an AWE32 computer sound card. The quality of the result however will depend on the quality of your own sound card and sound system on your computer. The accompaniment is spread evenly across both channels, but the parts are arranged on either the left stereo channel, or, in the case of your part, on the right stereo channel. Thus if you set your stereo balance to the centre you will hear a reasonable balance of all parts. However if you set the balance to the right, you should hear your part dominating. Conversely, if you set the balance to the left, your part should be almost inaudible (for confident singers, who probably don't need this help anyway!)
If you are using stereo headphones the effect can be achieved by offsetting the relevant earpiece so you hear less or no sound from it.
Please note that this is strictly for practice, and you should not expect a particularly pleasant sound, and I am afraid no dynamics.
Sometimes there are solo parts alongside the choral parts. In this case they will always be heard on both channels.
Before unaccompanied pieces, or pieces starting with no piano intro, to strike the rhythm for the singer, two extra bars are inserted at the beginning. The first bar contains the initial note of the part on each beat of the bar, and the second bar is empty.
You are here if you wish to select one or more MIDI files to help you with your practice. Find your voice in the table alongside the piece of music you wish to hear or load down.To hear the midi file played, just click on it. Depending on your browser settings the file may play at once with QuickTime, or with MediaPlayer. Or you may get a pop-up which will offer you the option to "Open" the file, or "Save" it with some warnings about safety. If you only wish to save the file without playing it, its better to right-click and follow the drop-down menu to the "Save" option. In either case, you will be asked to choose where on your computer to place it.
| Title of Piece - alphabetic order | Composer | Versions for each part | Youtube? | |||||||||||||||
| A Maiden Most Gentle
100 Carols for choirs P21 | Carter | Sop 1 | Sop 2 | Alt 1 | Alt 2 | Ten 1 | Ten 2 | Bass 1 | Bass 2 | 0.0 | ||||||||
| Away in a Manger
100 Carols for choirs P61 | Arr. Wilcocks | Sop | Alt | Ten | Bass | |||||||||||||
| Child in a Manger 100 Carols for choirs P68 | Rutter | Sop 1 | Sop 2 | Alt | Ten | Bass | 0.0 | |||||||||||
| Glory to the Christ Child Normal speed | Alan Bullard | Sop | Alt | Ten | Bass | 0.0 | ||||||||||||
| Glory to the Christ Child Slower speed foe practice | Alan Bullard | Sop | Alt | Ten | Bsdd | 0.0 | ||||||||||||
| Hallelujah Chorus The Messiah no 44 | Handel | Sop | Alt | Ten | Bass | 0.0 | ||||||||||||
| Hodie Christus Natus Est | Pelestrina | Sop 1 | Sop 2 | Alt 1 | Alt 2 | Ten 1 | Ten 2 | Bas 1 | Bas 2 | 0.0 | ||||||||
| Jingle Bells (Noel p75) Slower version for practice (cpm=90) | Pierpont Arr. Allwood | Sop 1 | Sop 2 | Alt 1 | Alt 2 | Ten 1 | Ten 2 | Bass 1 | Bass 2 | 0.0 | ||||||||
| Laudate Dominum | Guerrero | Sop 1a | Sop 1b | Sop 2 | Alt 1 | Alt 2 | Ten 1 | Ten 2 | Bass 2 | 0.0 | ||||||||
| Sans Day Carol
100 Carols for choirs P219 | Rutter | Sop | Alt | Ten | Bass | 0.0 | ||||||||||||
| Shepherds Pipe Carol,
100 Carols for choirs P86 | John Rutter | Sop | Alt | Ten 1 | Ten 2 | Bas 1 | Bas 2 | 0.0 | ||||||||||
| Star Carol
100 Carols for choirs P293 | Rutter | Sop 1 | Sop 2 | Children | Alt | Ten | Bass | 0.0 | ||||||||||
| The Twelve days of Christmas
100 Carols for choirs P246 | arr. Rutter | Sop 1 | Sop 2 | Alt | Ten | Bass | 0.0 | |||||||||||
| Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day (With percussion) Noel p224 | Gardner | Sop | Alt | Ten | Bass | 0.0 | ||||||||||||
| Wassail Song 100 Carols for choirs P362 | Vaughan Williams | Sop 1 | Sop 2 | Alt 1 | Alt 2 | Ten 1 | Ten 2 | Bass 1 | Bass 2 | 0.0 | ||||||||
| We Wish You a Merry Christmas
100 Carols for choirs P164 | Warrel | Sop | Alt | Ten | Bass | 0.0 | ||||||||||||
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