Teaching CDs for Singers

Heartsongs 1

Songs to be learned by heart through the ear

A teaching CD with parts for folk harmony from the British Isles, North America and the Republic of Georgia as taught by Joan Mills to Heartsong Choir Aberystwyth.

The CD consists of nine songs separated into the full mix, then each individual part for-grounded but with the other parts in background for reference.

Three songs from British Tradition:

Ionn Da (Hebrides)

Cuckoo (16^th Century English round)

Green Grow’th the Holly (Carol of the cycle of the seasons, melody by Henry viii)

Three Shape-Note songs (wonderful three and four part modal harmony from the USA ‘ Old Baptist’ tradition):

Idumea

Sweet Prospect

Georgia

Three Georgian Polyphonic Songs (as in Republic of Georgia, former USSR)

These were the first three taught by Edisher Garakanidze and Joseph Jordania when they came to Wales

Erekles’ Mravalzhamier (Table Song of Celebration)

Chela (beautiful, sad, Megrelian Ox Drivers song)

Batonebo (Healing song, calling on the help of the ‘little Lords’)