Sacred Choral Music For Choir A Cappella

The Six and Seven-part Motets (nos. 13-29)-The Heinrich Schütz: Sacred Choral Music collection can be performed vocally and/or instrumentally. These motets offer smaller choirs and ensembles new possibilities to perform these works based on historically-informed performance practice.The Basso Continuo realisation follows the composer?s intention of using the score merely as a basis for performance but with its relatively simple realisation it allows performers to create their own version.Heinrich Schütz was a German composer and organist widely regarded as the most important German composer before Bach and one of the most important composers of the17th century. Schütz is said to have written what is considered to be the first German Opera in 1627 titled Dafne (Opitz- Shütz).

The SATB setting released last year became one of the best-selling sacred chorals for the year. This SAB setting stands easily on its on and invites a whole new group of choirs to its message. Based on John 17:20-24 thiscommissioned anthem celebrates God's love for us and honors both a choir director and organist. A captivating melody this anthem explains how our understanding of God's love for us enables us to live more fully as well. Organistsand choirs will find this an excellent anthem of praise.

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

Uses: Advent Call to Worship Introit Scripture: Isaiah 40:3-5 Mark 1:3 The words of the prophet become song in this carefully written sacred choral designed for choirs of any size. Perfect as a processional the voices can be divided into any combination maximizing the performance options. There are optional parts for children's voices and the ring and sing handbell part makes this a multi-generational and multi-ministry work. The four Advent candles are clearly presented with a verse for each to the popular carol tune O Come Little Children. Beautiful and useful!

Par BRUCKNER ANTON. This outstanding volume presents the finest of Bruckner's small-scale sacred choral works with instrumental accompaniment. All can be performed with Organ (or Piano) alone but are greatly enhanced by the use of Trombones and strings as specified. As with most of his works Bruckner revisited almost all of these motets and made revisions. The final versions for each have been chosen. This set provides the perfect opportunity for choirs to explore the work of this great composer, offering challenge and reward in equal measure./ Répertoire / SATB

Uses: GeneralScripture: Joshua 1:9; Psalm 24:1-2; Psalm 89:11Substance and beauty are found in this melodic sacred choral. Asking such questions as “who put the sand in the ocean?” and“who held the waters in place?” the anthem provides the answer: the God of all glory and grace. The pleasant lilt of the music is immediately attractive and the addition of a simple second voice adds a perfect touchto the anthem's positive impact. Consider using the optional violin (or C instrument) part for some pleasing additional texture.

Anthologised for the first time these sacred choral works have been collected over the past thirty years. They represent an illuminating cross-section of some of Robert Walker's finest choral works and should be well within the capabilities of most choirs.

There is no rose of such virtue is an anonymous mediaeval text, already well known through beautiful settings by Britten (in his Ceremony of Carols), John Joubert and others. The poem is 'macaronic' (it presents a verse in English, followed by a varying Latin refrain). This new version follows the illustrious examples above by remaining strophic and presenting broadly the same music in a succession of slightly different guises. The first verse is a straightforward four-part setting, the second gives the melody to the tenors and surrounds them with hushed, wordless writing for the other parts, and the third explores a freely canonic relationship between the tenor and soprano lines before carrying the previous verse-endings to a higher, more exalted pitch and mood. The fourth verse then expands its texture in a free climactic passage evoking the songs of praise sung by the angels. This subsides towards the final verse, where the texture of the music attenuates again to four parts, and canonic writing (based on the first four notes of the original melody) permeates all of them. This slightly extended statement leads to a hushed final cadence. Francis Pott (b. 1957) began musical life as a chorister at New College, Oxford. He held open music scholarships at Winchester College and at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he studied composition with Robin Holloway and Hugh Wood while pursuing piano studies privately in London with the distinguished British artist, Hamish Milne. Throughout the 1990s Francis was John Bennett Lecturer in Music at St Hilda's College, Oxford, and a lay clerk in the Choir of Winchester Cathedral. In 2001 he became Head of London College of Music, University of West London, later leading research across the University's Faculty of Arts and acceding in 2007 to its first Chair in Composition. Francis Pott has become recognised particularly for his sacred choral and organ music. This has been performed in concert and on radio in over three dozen countries worldwide, published by four major UK houses and released extensively on CD. Winner of four national composition awards, in 1997 he received first prize in the piano solo section of the S. S. Prokofiev Composing Competition, Moscow. In 2006 and 2011 he was a nominated finalist in the BASCA/BBC Annual Composer Awards. In summer 2012 he was winner of the international composing competition of the Cheltenham Festival, which sought new piano variations on the arioso song Bist du bei mir, well known in the arrangement by J. S. Bach. Francis lives with his wife and two children on the outskirts of Winchester. An inspiring selection of new works from a range of contemporary composers, the Novello New Choral Series offers 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. / Choeur Mixte (SATB)