Find your piece
What is the slot, is it spoken or sung, and where?
Voice
Where
🪶 Poetry📜 Word for word
The Cremation of Sam McGee Poetry Reading Guide
“There are strange things done in the midnight sun”
The Cremation of Sam McGee, Robert W. Service (1907)
⏱ 2:00📄 12 lines🌍 Canada Read the poem →Nothing matches all of that. Loosen one.
How these pieces are written
Four promises
📜Full text only when it is everyone's
A public domain poem or anthem is printed word for word. A protected song gets its first line, its meaning, its pace and a link to the text. Never a reprint.
🎙️Marked for the voice
Every line comes twice: the plain words, and the words with the stressed syllables in capitals and the pauses marked, so you know where to lean.
🧍The room's manners first
An anthem or a hymn tells you what the room does before the first line: stand, hands, hats, the silence after. The country's rule, not ours.
🎹A note to start on
A sung piece carries its key, its tempo and where to breathe, with a reference note and a metronome on the page.