Ralph Vaughan Williams: Five mystical Songs Both these works are copyright so frankly I was surprised to see that Choralia and Cyberbass have something on them - though Cyberbass only does the Orff. John Fletcher's midi site has files on them but these are only available for paying customers. For midi files, click on the link and then I find it best to choose the loudspeaker button for 'Emphasised
voice and
other voices' for your chosen voice part. Choralia
has the great advantage that the words are pronounced as well, after a
fashion. Again, right-click and 'Save target as' to save the midi file
on your PC (which doesn't always work). See the "Links" page for other midi sites. Here's a link to John Fletcher's site. https://johnfletchermusic.org/ Click on the link and then click Login, and enter your username and password. You can register with John Fletcher's website for free to gain access to out-of-copyright works - just follow his instructions. Then when you've logged in, do a search under composer name to find the piece you want, click on that link, and you will see the midi files listed according to voice. Click on each individual link to listen to your voice part - best to choose MP3, which you might like to download to your PC or MP3 player (right-click and "Save target as" or similar). Don't forget that there are other useful midi sites like Cyberbass, John Hooper, etc, listed in the Links page on the Uxchor website. Playing and Downloading Music FilesYou can play files from YouTube or specialist music sites online or download them for playing offline. There are many alternative methods. A few possibilities are detailed below. Web Based Resources for Rehearsal MusicA number of sources for music in various formats are included on the Links page.
Midi files are not actual recordings but are sounds synthesized by your computer. The music is not a performance and it sounds mechanical and soulless but it's quite useful as an aid to practising at home. Not all the works we do have been made into midi files but the number of midified scores seems to grow every year. As these files are stored on external sites there is no guarantee that they are virus-free and so I would urge everyone to have up-to-date virus-checking software and a firewall on their computers. If the work you want is not on any of the more well-known sites, you need to do a Google search on "Choral midi composer work" - in other words, if you want to see what other midi files exist on (for example) Mozart's Requiem apart from the one on Cyberbass.com, type in Choral midi Mozart Requiem and see what comes up. They do vary greatly in quality. Sometimes they don't seem to cover the entirety of the work in question, or miss out repeats, or simply fail to work properly, or they have not all been emphasised into Sop/Alt/Ten/Bass, etc. |
