On this page you can see and hear some rehearsal aids for items in the St James’ choir repertoire.
Training files marked Watch & Play are YouTube videos showing a play-along score of vocal parts. Other examples are provided for Soprano, Alto, Tenor & Bass where possible.
Darke: Mass in E (Kyrie)
Thorne: Mass of St Thomas
Anon: Kontakion of the Dead – arr. D Hansell
Anon: Hymn to the Trinity (words Rev’d John Venus; music Anon, arr. D Hansell)
Aston, Peter: So they gave their bodies to the commonwealth Laudate Choir
Attwood, Thomas: Teach Me, O Lord Somerville College
Bainton: And I Saw a New Heaven Kings College, Cambridge
Bennet, Richard Rodney: Out of your Sleep Polyphony
Berkeley, Lennox: I Sing of a Maiden Polyhymnia Consort
Bevan: There’s a wideness in God’s mercy Jesus, Cambridge
Britten: Hymn to the Virgin Voces8
A New Year Carol Cambridge Singers
Jubilate Deo +score
Byrd: Ave Verum Corpus The Sixteen
Call to Worship The Sixteen
Teach O Lord The Way of Thy Statutes Clare College
Bruckner: Locus Iste Voces8
Chilcott, Bob: God so loved the world BYU Singers
Be Thou My Vision Trinity College, Melbourne
Elgar, E: Ave Verum Corpus St John’s, Cambridge
Darke: In the Bleak Mid-winter St John’s, Cambridge
Farrant: Lord, For Thy Tender Mercy’s Sake Cambridge Singers +score
Hide Not Thy Face Westminster Abbey Watch & Play
Faure, G: Cantique de Jean Racine King’s College, Cambridge
Forbes L’Estrange, Joanna: The Mountains Shall Speak RSCM
Gibbons, O: Almighty and Everlasting God St John’s, Cambridge Watch&Play
Drop, Drop Slow Tears Cambridge Chorale Watch&Play
This Is the record of John King’s College, Cambridge Watch&Play
Gjeilo, Ola: Ubi Caritas CWU Chamber Choir Plainsong & translation
Goodall, H: The Lord’s My Shepherd Thamesis Chamber Choir
Goss: If We Believe That Jesus Died St Andrews Choir Watch&Play
Greene, Maurice: Thou Visiteth the Earth New College, Oxford Watch&Play
Handel, GF: Zadok the Priest Academy of Ancient Music
Hansell, David: Fanfare For All Saints
Praised Be the God of Love
Where Is This Stupendous Stranger
The Oxen
Thou O God Art Praised in Zion
Harris, WH: Faire Is the Heaven King’s College, Cambridge
Come Down. O Love Divine Norwich Cathedral
Holy is the True Light Cambridge Singers
Howells, Herbert: Like as the Hart Desireth the Water-brooks +score
Come Down, O Love Divine The Sixteen +score
Ireland, John: Greater Love Hath No Man Clare College, Cambridge
Watch&Play
Ives, Grayston: Listen, Sweet Dove St Ninian’s, Perth
Joubert, John: O Lord, the Maker of all Things Somerville College, Oxford
There is no Rose King’s College, Cambridge
Lauridsen, Morten: O Nata Lux Voces8
Lloyd-Weber: Andrew Lovingly Remembered D-day
Lloyd, Richard: The Call Bishop Wandsworth School Watch&Play
Loosemore, Henry/Gibbons, Orlando: O Lord, Increase Our Faith Downing College, Cambridge
Matthias,William: Sir Christemas Christ Church, Victoria
Messiaen: O Sacrum Convivium Kosovov Philharmonic Choir
Mendelssohn, Felix: Above All Praise and Majesty St Alban’s Cathedral Watch&Play
Then Shall a Start From Jacob Come Forth Westminster Choir College Watch&Play
Moore: What Wondrous Love
Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus Vienna Boys Choir +score
Musson: Fill Us With Love
Ouseley: From the Rising of the Sun Anglica Episcopal, Stockholm Watch&Play
O Saviour of the World Magdalen College
Purcell,H: Thou Knowest, Lord The Sixteen Watch&Play
Ravenscroft, Thomas: Remember, O Thou Man The Sixteen
Redford: Rejoice in the Lord Alway King Solomon Singers
Rutter, John: For the Beauty of the Earth Cambridge Singers
Gaelic Blessing Cambridge Singers
I Will Sing with the Spirit Cambridge Singers
Love Came Down at Christmas Cambridge Singers
Of a Rose, a Lovely Rose Cambridge Singers
Sands: Sing of the Lord’s Goodness St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast
Schubert: Holy, Holy, Holy (from German Mass) Univ. of Pikeville Watch&Play
Schutz, Heinrich: We Sing of the Birth
Stainer: God So Loved the World Clare College, Cambridge Watch&Play
Shepherd: A New Commandment Ecclesium Choir
Stanford, CV: O, For a Closer Walk with Thee Manchester Chorale + score
Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem New College, Oxford +score
Stopford, Philip: For the Beauty of the Earth Truro Cathedral +score
Taize: Ubi Caritas Catholique de France
Tallis, Thomas: If You Love Me King’s Singers
O Nata Lux Tallis Scholars Watch&Play
Verily, Verily I Say unto You Tallis Scholars Watch&Play
Tchaikowsky: Holy, Holy, Holy Church of the Nativity, Lagos Watch&Play
Townend: How Deep Is the Father’s Love for Us Watch&Play
Tye: Laudate Nomen Domini Voices of Ascension Watch&Play
O Come Ye Servants Westmont College
Vaughan Williams, R: O Clap Your Hands Gloucester Cathedral
Let All the World in Every Corner Sing King’s College, Cambridge
O, Taste and See Cambridge Singers
The Call Apollo 5
Walford Davies: Requiem Aeternam (1916) Pembroke College
Warlock, Peter: Adam Lay Y’bounden St John’s, Cambridge
Wesley, SS: Ascribe Unto the Lord Ely Cathedral Watch&Play
Thou Will Keep Him In Perfect Peace Consordia Singers Watch&Play
Wash Me Throughly Manchester Cathedral +score
Wood: This Joyful Eastertide King’s College Cambridge
How to sing Anglican Psalms Wikipedia
Anglican Chant Written-out example
Archer, Malcolm: Advent Wreath Prayer
Bramma: Oreces and Responses
Sheppard: Pepenbury Responses
New English Hymnal Wikipedia
How Shall I Sing That Majesty (w/ descant)
Gibdon arr. Ogden: Touch the Earth Lightly
Arkwright/Harris: O Valiant Hearts/The Supreme Sacrifice
Adams: O, Holy Night BYU Singers
Anon: The Lord at First Did Adam Make
Coventry Carol
Gaudete
Anon arr. Holst: Personnent Hodie
Chilcott, Bob: Silent Night The Oxford Choir
Cornelius, P: The Three Kings Consortium +score
Darke: In the Bleak Mid-winter St Salvators Watch&Play
Nelson, Robin: Out of your Sleep Marlborough College
Owens, Matthew: The Holly and the Ivy The Oxford Choir
Rudolf: Veiled in Darkness Christ Church, Sydney
Stopford, Philip: Lula, Lula, Lullay Voces8
Trad: Past Three O’clock
Tchaikowsky: A Crown of Roses All Saints, Northampton
Vaughan Williams, R: This is the Truth Sent from Above King’s Singers
Lennon & McCartney: All You Need Is Love arr. Alan Billingsley
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