This Halloween we’re frightfully excited to share some songs you could consider singing in your Trinity Classical and Jazz Singing exam! From classical repertoire to popular musicals, we’ve got you covered, with the scariest, and most chilling songs you could choose for your next exam!
‘Something Spooky’ (Marsh)
This Grade 2 piece certainly gets you in the mood for Halloween, with a creepy, repetitive minor piano accompaniment and a vocal line which includes singing ghostly ‘ooo’s! There’s definitely ‘something spooky’ that gives you a fright in this song!
‘Grizelda’ (Crawley)
Another piece from our Grade 2 singing syllabus, ‘Grizelda’ from Three Songs for Halloween, tells the story of a witch who is a kind as gentle as can be, with a big black cat. She has trouble casting spells, but in this song you get to sing a spell in which you reach out to the ‘spirits’!
‘Ghosts in the Belfry’ (Nelson)
This eerie song from our Grade 2 syllabus describes how the church bells were ringing in the night… but no one knows who did it! Scary!
‘You Spotted Snakes’ (Armstrong Gibbs)
This ethereal and mystical song in our Grade 4 song selection, bids the snakes with double tongue and thorny hedgehogs to stay away from the fairy queen! There’s a beautiful, legato lullaby in the middle section of the song, which is in a ternary form, before returning to the minor in the final refrain where frightening creatures such as beetles and spiders return…
‘Grow for Me’ (Menken)
Another grade 4 song, this time from the musical, Little Shop of Horrors. In this piece, Seymour sings to his alien plant which isn’t growing, and he can’t understand why... until he realises it wants to drink his blood, eurgh!
‘A Blackbird Singing’ (Head)
Head composed this song from the cycle Over the rim of the moon (1918) to words by the poet Francis Ledwidge who was killed in action near Ypres in 1917. The subtitle reads ‘To one dead.’, and the song is mournful, evoking the image of a blackbird singing on a moss upholster'd stone. You can sing this piece for your Grade 6 exam.
‘I’m Not That Girl’ (Schwartz)
Fancy being the Wicked Witch of the West, i.e. Elphaba from the musical Wicked? You can take on this role in our Grade 6 singing syllabus, singing the emotive ‘I’m Not That Girl’, in which Elphaba laments that she will never be loved by Fiyero.
‘Music of the Night’ (Lloyd Webber)
Finally, you can channel your inner Phantom, and sing as the main character in our Grade 7 song selection, with the song ‘Music of the Night’. In this piece, the Phantom has lured Christine to his lair and sings of his unspoken love.
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