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Victoria Sings	34 a cappella rounds, songs and chants for community singing
Short Stuff	62 small songs for group singing
Home recordings	Rough versions of useful stuff

Victoria Sings: a cappella rounds, songs and chants for community singing

If you lead or attend a singing session or group, and are looking to add to your repertoire, you've come to a good spot.

Since its release in late 2004, our repertoire development package for community singing, Victoria Sings, has demonstrated how valuable this medium can be for the distribution of new material. This double CD and song book comprises 34 easy to teach, easy to learn a cappella rounds, songs and chants.

The songs are recorded and documented in a way that makes it easy for even the most unassuming of singing leaders to introduce these songs to their groups.

Most of the songs have been written by Victorian singing leaders, many of whom were involved in the recording.

Fay White, in her introduction, writes: "We see these songs as seeds. Their keynote is simplicity. They are designed to be within the grasp of any competent singing leader or teacher with a good ear and a reasonable musical memory. To learn them and sing them requires no formal musical training."

At $30 (plus a little for postage and handling), Victoria Sings is a wonderful tool for leaders of community singing groups. For less than a dollar a song, it offers singing groups endless hours of pleasure, illumination and exercise.

You can order Victoria Sings by downloading the form and forwarding it to us.

'Short Stuff', the new package of songs for group singing, released November, 2007

A new compilation of 62 small songs for group singing will be available from 24/10/07. This double CD and songbook (with lyrics and notation) has been designed to assist leaders of singing sessions and circles with a repertoire that can be introduced to participants quickly and easily. It costs $44 plus $6 postage and packaging.

You can order Short Stuff by downloading the form and forwarding it to us.

Home recordings

We're intending to build a series of very cheap, short and funky 'home recordings' to help singing leaders with repertoire and new ideas. We've begun with two:

Songs for ESL singing
This is a collection of 9 very simple songs that may be useful for teachers of 'English as a Second Language' to sing with their studets.

Ideas for Improvisation
This is an edited recording of a gathering of singing leaders where ways of practically facilitating group improvisation were exchanged.

There's a small charge to cover the CD, the burn, packaging and postage.

If you're interested in either of these, contact Nimity at the CMV office by calling on 03 9662 1162 or emalling on cmv@netspace.net.au

And if you're still not satisfied