20 Greatest Sacred Music

Johann Sebastian Bach-Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Baroque era of Western classical music. His music full of rich harmonic language and melodic genius has endured the course of time and has been transcribed and arranged for all types of instruments and instrumental combinations. His music translates well on the Marimba and is frequently used for recital and audition repertoire. The music in this collection includes many of Bach's best-known works transcribed for the Marimba and carefully selected for the developing mallet player. This collection can also serve as a useful resource for the advanced player looking forsight-reading material or repertoire to perform at special events ceremonies or receptions. Each work is presented in versions for both two and four-mallet techniques for Marimba players with different ability levels. The works can be performed individually or together in a group. Includes: 'Jesu Joy of Mans Desiring' 'O Sacred Head Now Wounded' 'Sheep May Safely Graze' 'Gavotte' 'Badinerie and Minuet from Orchestral Suite No. 2' 'Bourreé' and more.

Par NIX BRAD. Sing and Celebrate 10! honors the tenth anniversary of this outstanding series for sacred, younger elementary choirs! This special, multi-purpose volume contains 2 Mini-Musicals or 10 Stand-Alone Anthems for use throughout the church year. Each mini-musical provides five songs with age-appropriate scripts plus flexible suggestions for sets, props, staging, costumes, and cast assignments. The songs in each mini-musical may also be sung separately as individual anthems. Sing and Celebrate 10! comes packed with creative lesson plans, teaching resources, and rehearsal planning ideas necessary for building a successful, engaging choir program-in one value-packed Book with digital download access! Digital downloads include accompaniment and performance tracks, reproducible singers\' pages, supplemental teaching resources, and colorful PDF song charts for projection options. Like every volume in the series, Sing and Celebrate 10! promises to nurture the musical and spiritual growth of your singers to last a lifetime. Included in this volume are Creation Celebration! (General Mini-Musical) and The Greatest Gift of All (Christmas Mini-Musical). Also available in the Sing and Celebrate! series: the original Sing and Celebrate! (35028238), Sing and Celebrate 2! (35028755), Sing and Celebrate 3! (35029219), Sing and Celebrate 4! (35029809), Sing and Celebrate 5! (35030476), Sing and Celebrate 6! (35031059), Sing and Celebrate 7! (35031739), Sing and Celebrate 8! (35032293), Sing and Celebrate 9! (00295391) / Date parution : 2022-06-14/ Recueil / Choeur à L\'Unisson

Schubert's Mass No.2 in G D167 for SATB choir and Piano accompaniment.Franz Schubert composed his ?Mass No. 2 in G major? in less than a week (March 2 to 7 1815). Schubert was an Austrian composer who was extremely prolific during his lifetime ? despite dying at 31 his output consists of over six hundred secular Vocal works (mainly Lieder) seven complete symphonies sacred music operas incidental music and a large body of chamber and Piano music. Schubert is ranked among the greatest composers of the late Classical era and early Romantic era and is one of the mostfrequently performed composers of the early nineteenth century.

A Cappella Anthems for Any Occasion compiled by Joseph M. Martin-Here is the ultimate a cappella collection for church choirs everywhere. Between these covers you will find bestsellers for almost every occasion. Some of the greatest names in sacred music are represented here: Roy Ringwald Gordon Young Don Besig Patsy Ford Simms Joseph Martin Pepper Choplin and many others. There are exciting gospels and expressive ballads delightful seasonal offerings and useful service music selections to enhance yourworship planning. Bring the glory of the human voice into your music program with this amazing compilation.

A major influence on Bach ? who once walked 200 miles to hear him perform ? Buxtehude is among the great names in Organ music and the study of counterpoint. Born five decades after Heinrich Schütz the 'father of German musicians ' and a little less than half a century before Bach he bridged the era between the founder of Protestant Baroque music and its greatest master. This collection of church chorales attests to Buxtehude's reputation as an outstanding composer of sacred Vocal music.For his texts the composer drew upon scripture as well as church hymns and contemporary or medieval sacred poetry. Albert Schweitzer in his famous biography ofBach observed that Buxtehude's chorale preludes are 'chorale fantasias of the most varied kinds from the simplest to the most ingenious. In the simple ones the melody goes its way quietly just embellished here and there with a few ornaments and accompanied by interesting and always ingenious harmonies. . . . In the large chorale preludes Buxtehude tears the melody in pieces throws the fragments into the flood of a brilliant animated fantasia.'Authoritative and modestly priced this treasury of Buxtehude's works offers organists a source of endless satisfaction and inspiration.Reprint of the Breitkopf & Härtel Leipzig 1903 edition.

Nunc autem manet was written for the wedding of Paul and Angharad de Cates in 2010. The text is taken from Corinthians 13:13 – ‘Now but three things remain: faith hope love. But of these three the greatest – this is love.’ The piece reveals the three fundamental tenets of Christian life with contrasting austere and lush harmonies and brief contrapuntal episodes ending with a gently pulsing chord-shift on the word ‘caritas’ over which the well-known plainsong melody ‘ubi caritas’ can be heard.The Novello New Choral Series is an inspiring selection of new works from a range of contemporarycomposers offering pieces for all types of choirs including sacred and secular works from simple four-part settings to more expansive yet accessible repertoire in an exciting variety of styles. This collection is perfect for choirs looking to broaden their repertoire and explore some of the best new music around.Born in 1963 John Duggan was a chorister at Westminster Cathedral and studied music at Oxford. Whilst still a boy he dreamed of writing in the choral tradition of Victoria Tallis and Palestrina. His vocal music has delighted both singers and audiences across Europe and the USA. He has written for a number of choirs including Commotio Westminster Cathedral Choir the Hildegard Choir and Sospiri and has received commissions from the Edington Music Festival Crossover Intergenerational Dance Group Oxford Youth Dance and The Oxford-Grenoble Association. He composers regularly for film and dance and performs as a singer and choral director whilst working as a recording engineer and producer.

Requiem op. 89 Urtext edited by Klaus Döge [solos,ch,orch] duration: 95' solos: SATB ' choir: SATB ' 3(picc).3(cor ang).3(B-clar). 3(dbl bsn). ' 4.4.3.1. ' timp.perc' hp' org ' str Dvo?ák's Requiem is one of the Czech composer's great sacred works and one of the greatest Requiem settings in music history.

L’Orfeo is an opera from 1607 based around the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice. It is often cited as the earliest opera still regularly performed today. The libretto was written by the Italian lawyer anddiplomat Alessandro Striggio (1573-1630) for a carnival in Mantua. The music was composed by the Italian priest Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) arguably the greatest composer of the Renaissance era who is bestknown for his madrigals as well as his sacred works such as the Vespers.The Choruses From L’Orfeo have been edited by the Italian composer musicologist and editor Gian Francesco Malipiero(1882-1973).

This is the full/performing score for John Tavener's To A Child Dancing In The Wind for Soprano Flute/Alto Flute Viola and Harp. The entire work lasts around 30 minutes and sets a number of poems byW.B. Yeats considered by Tavener as one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. To A Child Dancing In The Wind?was commissioned by the Little Missenden Festival and firstperformed on 16th October 1983 at Little Missenden Parish Church. John Tavener is well-known for his extensive catalogue of religious music but occasionally he was drawn to less overtlysacred sources. The ?frailty tenderness and spiritual transparency of Yeats? poetry? inspired this song-cycle from 1983 for Soprano Flute Harp and Viola. Tavener held Yeats in high regard and was to return to hispoems in later works such as Mini Song-Cycle for Gina (1984) A Nativity (1985) and Supernatural Songs (2003). To A Child Dancing In The Wind is dedicated to Tavener?s first wife VictoriaMaragopoulou.