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CHRISTMAS VOICES OF ALLERDALE.

Allerdale is a scenic area of Cumbria that sits by the Solway coast to the west, bordered by the Lake District National Park to the east and sandwiched between the districts of Eden to the north and Copeland to the south. It’s diversity and beauty is reflected in its people who are as varied and diverse as the landscape.

“Christmas Voices of Allerdale”, was conceived by Brian Melville who, as head of music at St. Joseph’s school in Workington for 34 years, organised the “Christmas Concert” which ran until his retirement in 2004.

The “Christmas Concert” at St. Joseph’s over the years, like many other schools all over the world, became a special event during the year for the music department and on occasions involved as many as 140 pupils singing or playing Christmas songs arranged specially for the event. Some of these arrangements over the years became such a “hit” with school children and parents that to consign them to obscurity would have been a sad option.

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After retiring from mainstream teaching in 2004, Brian then established Solway Music, an independent music support service for junior schools in Allerdale. Having already forged a working partnership with Loose Records, it then became apparent that a CD of Christmas arrangements could become a reality. The next step was to secure the co-operation of a number of schools in Allerdale and every one approached was happy to participate in the project which was beginning to take shape. The logistics of bringing together around 50-60 voices from around the district was a problem that would have been difficult and expensive to overcome given that all the schools are situated many miles away from each other. The solution was to work with each school in their own location and bring together each one in the recording studio. In effect, we had an Allerdale choir from six schools who never met. This involved

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When you write songs for yourself to sing, take into account the keys that suit your voice. Find your lowest note and your comfortable singing, and then any higher notes you could get by pushing your voice, and finally high notes that are reaction Relate the highest comfortable note to the scale of the key in which you want to write a song. Check to see if this note is scale, like the root, third or fifth. You can plan your melody to take that into consideration.

A well known recording trick is to pitch a song in a key that is slightly too high for the singer, so the straining for notes performance. Motown writers like Holland-Dozier-Holland used to pitch songs in keys that were just a bit too high for M Stubbs of The Four Tops, to bring out more passion in their voices. But if you’re going to sing your songs live, don’t use many  or you’ll never get through a set with your voice intact. The opposite effect is not so common, but worth conside something from Michael Stipe singing at the low end of his range, and as for Lee Marvin’s ‘Wanderin’ Star’. . . .With age, the voice naturally loses some of its range. This has had an interesting consequence for a singer-songwriter like relied on altered guitar tunings. Over the years her tunings have had to move down to match the drop in her voice  problems as the guitar strings have got slacker.