[The views expressed in this blog are from my personal experiences from 25 years of leading non-auditioned community choirs in the UK, as well as adult singing workshops. My focus is on teaching by ear using a repertoire of songs from traditions across the globe. Your experiences may differ from mine, so do feel free to leave a comment and let's begin a conversation! A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]
If you’re anything like me, you leave everything to the last minute.
In which case, you might be short of simple arrangements for your Christmas concert. Well, I’m here to help!
Unless you’ve been thinking about Christmas since June (believe me, many choruses do), you may well find you have a few gaps in your Christmas concert repertoire.
Or perhaps – like me – you enjoy teaching a simple harmony arrangement to the audience at the end of your concerts (great recruiting tool!).
I have six simple arrangements of some well-known British Christmas carols available. All except one (which is SATB) are in three parts with not too great a range. They can be sung SAT or by voices of one gender, or mix the octaves – plenty of scope. And they're ridiculously cheap! You only have to buy one copy: £3 for musical score or recorded parts, and £5 for both score and parts.
I’ve taught all the songs to audiences before and they’ve gone down really well.
The six carols are:
You can find them in the Easy British Christmas carols tab on the song arrangements page of my website.
And if you look under the Complete listings tab, you'll find some other Christmas songs:
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