[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]
Back in 2012 The Guardian started a project called Six Songs of Me that asks which songs matter most to each of us on a personal level (the project has now ended).
I thought it might be a fun idea to do the same kind of survey here, but in the context of songs we have sung ourselves – whether we learnt them from our Mum, at school or in a professional choir.
The kind of songs I’m thinking of might be:
Not an exhaustive list by any means, but something to get you thinking.
To kick us off, here are a few of mine.
The first song I remember is my mother singing “Mama’s little baby loves shortening bread.”
One of the first songs I learnt was from schools radio and begins “This is the way the ladies ride”.
One of the songs I most like performing is “She moved through the fair”.
The song I like singing most in harmony with others is the Corsican song Terzini Guagnesi.
My favourite duet is to sing Cancion Mixteca.
Please leave a comment and share with us the songs that matter to you the most (and why).
I look forward to hearing them!
Chris Rowbury
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