300 Sacred Songs

A collection of the most popular and most important sacred songs. Sacred Classics contains twelve essential sacred favourites for classical singers including Panis Angelicus Ave Maria and Crucifixus. All arranged for High Voices and Piano with a CD featuring all the songs with and without piano accompaniment.

from Schmelli's Hymnal for Voice and Guitar BWV 439-507. Johann Sebastian Bach?s arrangements of the ?69 Sacred Songs? from the Musical Hymnal by Georg Christian Schemelli (Leipzig, 1736) have long been part of the German language vocal concert repertoire and a mainstay in vocal pedagogy. Originally, only these 69 of the 954 hymns in the collection were published with a single bass line as the accompaniment. Bach?s contribution was to specify harmonies to be played over those same bass lines by adding figured bass numbers and symbols beneath each note.A figured bass line can easily be turned into a relatively simple guitar accompaniment or a more elaborate setting, offering a range of possibilities that make working with this music both interesting and rewarding for the guitarist. While other period and modern editions of the ?69 Sacred Songs? offer accompaniments for keyboard instruments, this Mel Bay publication features intermediate to advanced transcriptions exclusively for the guitar.Best suited to college-level players or advanced aficionados, this special Mel Bay Publications edition includes the vocal line with German lyrics and the guitar accompaniment transcribed from Bach?s figured bass lines. Written in guitar-friendly keys, 29 of the transcriptions employ a capo to achieve the original key designed for high voices. Without the capo, these same arrangements would be suitable to be sung by lower voices. The remaining 40 hymns are in their original guitar-friendly keys and so do not require a capo.This volume contains accompaniment settings of all 69 of the sacred songs and arias for which Bach wrote figured bass annotation. For performance variety and convenience, this book includes online access to PDFs of the ?Scores in their Original Keys,? and stand-alone ?Guitar Accompaniment,? and ?Bass Parts".

The Album Of Sacred Songs was first published in 1918 as part of the ever-popular Schirmer's Library Of Musical Classics. Since then it has been re-released and re-printed many times but the original and much-loved collection of songs it contains has remained the same. Hidden within its 100+ pages are 22 sacred works by Bizet Gounod Hiller Mendelssohn Saint-Saens and many others all arranged for High Voice and Piano. This is a volume that will be treasured and re-used many times.

The Vocal Library. A huge collection of 70 sacred songs for classical singers spanning an enormous range of literature including art songs traditional songs 28 classic Burleigh spiritual arrangements (experts on African-American spirituals contend they are for singers of all ethnic heritages) and distinctive concert arrangements of hymns and folksongs by Richard Walters. There are four duets included. This collection will be as useful in the voice studio as in every working singer's repertoire and every church music library.

Eric Thiman's Two Sacred Songs is arranged for Low Voice with Piano Accompaniment. The two songs included are The God of Love My Shepherd is in the key of F Major and Jesus the Very Thought of Thee in the key of B Flat Major.

A fantastic collection of Sacred settings by Robert S. Frost for trombone or Bassoon. Includes classic and favourite sacred songs such as Onward Christian Soldiers by Arthur Sullivan and Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus.

The most important religious songs of the past 250 years appear in this collection a treasury of sacred songs known and loved by singers and listeners at home in church and in concert. This compilation includes settings of Ave Maria Ave Verum Corpus and Panis Angelicus.