A Musical: Mixed Choir a Cappella: Vocal Score

SKU: HL.49019847

ISBN 9790001180115. 7.5x11.0x0.055 inches. German - English.

When it was possible to celebrate the Catholic Mass in the German language as well, Bertold Hummel wrote his motet Ehre sei Gott for mixed four-part choir. This piece is a 'German gloria' and can be performed liturgically in a Mass.Hummel follows traditional examples: The text, full of contrasts, is redesigned - sentence by sentence - with new musical ideas. In doing so, he reveals his extraordinary ability to write easy-to-sing music of high quality which delights choirs and listeners alike.The six-minute piece was premiered at the Cathedral of Wurzburg. The present new edition also contains a singable translation in English.

SKU: HL.49045613

ISBN 9790001166164. UPC: 841886032538. 7.5x11.0x0.05 inches. Latin.

The extremely compositional versatility of Enjott Schneider is evident even in the small(est) form of choral music. In his about four-and-a-half-minute sacred choral work Ubi caritas for six-part mixed a cappella choir (SSAATB), the award-winning composer combines various musical elements like freely created Gregorian near-quotations, unison passages, sounds of fifths and colourful harmonies, frequent changes of time, as well as meticulously graded dynamic levels into a harmonious whole. Imbued with calmness and sensuality, the church music composition is based on the text of a Latin antiphon from the Maundy Thursday liturgy. According to the composer, these anonymous verses represent for him the central statement of Christian faith: Ubi Caritas - Where there is love, there is God!

In his about four-and-a-half-minute sacred choral work Ubi caritas for six-part mixed a cappella choir (SSAATB), Enjott Schneider combines various musical elements like freely created Gregorian near-quotations, unison passages, sounds of fifths and colourful harmonies, frequent changes of time, as well as meticulously graded dynamic levels into a harmonious whole. According to the composer, the text represents for him the central statement of Christian faith: Ubi Caritas - Where there is love, there is God!

SKU: CA.230510

ISBN 9790007302115.

Swiss up your choir! The choral collection Swiss Choral Music is a real treasure trove of recent choral music from Switzerland. As diverse as the country itself, this volume of 29 choral settings of varying levels of difficulty includes not only a range of musical styles, but all the Swiss national languages (Romansh, French, Swiss/German and Italian) as well as English and Latin. For pure listening pleasure or as an aid to pronunciation, all works have been sung by the Swiss Youth Choir under the direction of Nicolas Fink. Pronunciation aids for the Rhaeto-Romanic and Swiss-German texts can be accessed via a QR code. In creating their musical excursion through this mountainous country, the editors and renowned choral conductors Johannes Meister and Patrick Secchiari have not only selected familiar names such as Beat Furrer or Heinz Holliger but also up-and-coming young composers such as Sara Bucher or Grégoire May. The collection includes a number of previously unpublished pieces. •,28 choral settings of varying levels of difficulty•,for mixed choir a cappella•,As a cost-effective edition for the choir, the choral collection WITHOUT CD is available at an attractive bulk price•,Exciting compilation of contemporary choral music from Switzerland For orders from Switzerland: Members of the SCV (Swiss Choral Association) or the SFEC (Swiss Federation Europa Cantat) please order via Éditions musicales Henry Labatiaz Sàrl, St-Maurice.https://editions-henry-labatiaz.ch/en/shop.html?id=28698

SKU: HL.49045586

ISBN 9790001166270. UPC: 841886032705. 7.5x10.75 inches. Latin.

As a singing teacher, choir director and not least as a passionate professional choir singer, Irina Rebhuna is perfectly familiar with the possibilities of the human voice. And so it is hardly surprising that the Latvian musician born in 1988 has devoted herself especially to the composition of vocal music. Her sacred choral work Libera me, Domine for mixed a cappella choir (SSAATTBB) won the special prize for the 'best composition for 4-6 voices' at the International Composition Competition 'Musica Sacra Nova' 2016. This church music gem, in which the eponymous Gregorian chorale is intonated by one of the (two) bass baritone sections at the beginning - over a musical tapestry woven by the remaining voices - and taken up again by all tenors at the end, is ideal for ambitious amateur choirs. The idea behind this work, says the composer, is 'the human reflection on the uncertain - on death, on Judgment Day or on what is inexplicable to us. Such as humility, excitement, fear,and atonement. The chant ends without ending, there is no solution. Life goes on because we ask the following question again and again: What will happen next?'.

SKU: HL.48024848

UPC: 840126909197. 8.0x11.0x0.137 inches.

This motet for mixed choir a cappella interweaves newly composed variations of Brahms' folksong In stiller Nacht with a musical setting of the Passion events from the New Testament, with the experience of the disciples staying at the garden of Gethsemane, to be precise. The musical action develops from homophonic, harmonic vocal setting and seemingly early church declamation of a chorale,with solo passages symbolizing Jesus lamenting in the presence of his sleeping disciples, to complex eight-part vocal texture. The character of a melancholy night watch remains decisive throughout.

SKU: BT.PMC4516

Evening Waterfall comes from a cycle of eleven a cappella choral pieces derived from Early Moon, a collection of poetry by Carl Sandburg. The images in these simple, direct lyrics have a depth and resonance that all but cry outfor musical expression. Evening Waterfall is one of the easiest, certainly the most diatonic, of the Early Moon pieces. Imagine yourself, or perhaps, your childhood self, sitting in a tree or lying on the grass in the gloaming ofa summer's evening. The sounds of birds, the feel of wind on your skin, the sight of early stars: all seem to conspire to give you a name...to call you by your real name. But such knowledge--a kind of certainty about one's selfand place--is ephemeral. It cannot be willed to appear, or to stay. We are left alone, wondering what was the name you called me? and why did you go so soon?

SKU: BT.BHL5402244

English.

For mixed choir (SATB), with piano accompaniment for rehearsal only. Text by Alan Jay Lerner.