What songs matter to you the most?

• Posted by Chris Rowbury August 25, 2016 - Filed in Choir Post - 1,093 views

   [A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]

   

  Back in 2012 The Guardian started a project called Six Songs of Me that asks which songs matter most to each of us on a personal level (the project has now ended).

   

  

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  I thought it might be a fun idea to do the same kind of survey here, but in the context of songs we have sung ourselves – whether we learnt them from our Mum, at school or in a professional choir.
  
  The kind of songs I’m thinking of might be:

   

  • the first song you remember hearing
  • the song you like singing the most
  • the song that you’d really like to learn
  • the song you most like to perform solo
  • the first song you ever learnt be heart
  • the song you’ve sung to a lover

   

  Not an exhaustive list by any means, but something to get you thinking.
  
  To kick us off, here are a few of mine.
  
  The first song I remember is my mother singing “Mama’s little baby loves shortening bread.”
  
  One of the first songs I learnt was from schools radio and begins “This is the way the ladies ride”.
  
  One of the songs I most like performing is “She moved through the fair”.
  
  The song I like singing most in harmony with others is the Corsican song Terzini Guagnesi.
  My favourite duet is to sing Cancion Mixteca.
  
  Please leave a comment and share with us the songs that matter to you the most (and why).
  I look forward to hearing them!

   

   

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  Chris Rowbury

   

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