The Songbook: recordings & scores
Watch and listen to our four new commissioned songs and new works by A level music students at BHASVIC in Brighton & Hove and East Sussex Academy of Music in Lewes, East Sussex
Recordings by Classical Media.
Explore new notated scores by our professional composers as pdfs:
Rowland Sutherland: Modes of the Downs
How do our professional composers put their music together?
Discover sketches by Evelyn Ficarra and Ed Hughes in our FREE Pack
Coming soon:
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new scores and recordings by GCSE music student composers from Hastings Academy
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Upload your new song!
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If you've written a new song inspired by this project, send us an mp3 or a video and we'll upload it here!
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South Downs Songbook Tour June 2022
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ACCA: Monday 20 June 2022
Watch and listen to our first four commissions by Evelyn Ficarra, Ed Hughes, Rowland Sutherland and Shirley J Thompson. This video also includes (at 26:00) a discussion chaired by Trevor Beattie, Chief Executive of the South Downs National Park, featuring all four composers and our Education Consultant, Duncan Mackrill.
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Event programme including programme notes, song texts here.
BHASVIC: Friday 24 June 2022
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Watch and listen to new songs by A level music students at BHASVIC, written to the South Downs Songbook brief. You can skip to each piece by clicking on the chapters under the film in Youtube.
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Event programme including programme notes for every song here.
East Sussex Academy of Music:
Thursday 29 June 2022
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Watch and listen to new songs by A level music students at ESAM, written to the South Downs Songbook brief.
You can skip to each piece by clicking on the chapters under the film in Youtube.
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Event programme here.
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