A German Renaissance Christmas

SKU: CY.CC2979

ISBN 9790530057988.

Michael Praetorius' gorgeous Christmas carol has been beautifully arranged for Brass Quintet by, Scott MacInnes. The Praetorius harmonization is from 1609 and is the most familiar setting of this German hymn, also known as Es ist ein Ros entsprungen.
This arrangement is about 5 minutes in length and is performed below by the Pinnacle Brass from their Christmas recording The Earth Shall Ring!
This work is appropriate for moderately advanced performers and scored for Trumpets in B-flat, Horn in F, Trombone and Tuba.

SKU: GI.G-CD-992

For many years, GIA has published some of the finest arrangements for brass ensembles. Deo Gratias offers quartets, antiphonal trumpet duos, trumpets with handbells, and other configurations—and for a variety of seasons and occasions. Whether it’s a transcription of a Renaissance motet, a fantasie on a beloved German hymn, or something triumphant for Christmas or Easter, if you’re in need of a piece for your group, you just might find what you’re looking for here. Of course, the performances on Deo Gratias make it a great choice as a gift for anyone—including yourself! CONTENTS: Lift High the Cross, TUCKER (G-6572) • Two Renaissance Motets, Vol. 1, trans. EVANS (G-6796) • Two Renaissance Motets, Vol. 1, trans. EVANS (G-6796) • O Come, O Come Emmanuel, arr. TUCKER (G-6568) • People Look East, arr. TUCKER (G-6570) • Chorale from Christmas Oratorio, arr. TUCKER (G-6516) • Two Renaissance Motets, Vol. 2, trans. and ed. EVANS (G-6797) • Two Renaissance Motets, Vol. 2, arr. EVANS (G-6797) • This Joyful Eastertide, arr. EVANS (G-6798) • Immortal , Invisible, God Only Wise, arr. KELLERMEYER (G-7928) • Fantasie on “Ein’ Feste Burg,” arr. EVANS (G-6799) • Sing a New Song to the Lord, arr. HENDERSON (G-5676) • Psallite II: Two Dances, arr. HYSLOP (G-5743) • Deo Gratias, Fantasy on the Plainchant, PROULX (G-6869) • Antiphony, PROULX (G-4457) • All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name, arr. EVANOVICH (G-8077).

SKU: CA.1037812

ISBN 9790007190927. Language: German/English/French.

I wrote this Christmas cantata from Koroshegy at the request of the Council of the Komitat Somogy. When I visited the still unrenovated little church at Koroshegy about ten years ago I had no idea that this beautiful Gothic building would one day be the scene of the world premiere of one of my works. - The cantata is founded on four pillars: four organ soli which could be described as ritornelli, followed by four a cappella choruses with the same melody but different harmonizations. These are settings of the four verses of In Epiphaniam by Janus Pannonius, the most renowned Hungarian poet and humanist of the Renaissance. Between these pillars I have introduced movements for choir or for soloists based on Hungarian folk tunes and Christmas songs from Transylvania and the Komitat Somogy: songs of the shepherds, angels and wise men, and, after a pastorale for organ, a large scale mixed-voice chorus intoning Ez karacsony ejszakajan [Holy Night]. A narrator introduces the individual numbers with passages from the Christmas story. An organ postlude concludes the work. (Ferenc Farkas) This work may be performed in German, English, French or Hungarian language. Score and part available separately - see item CA.1037800.

SKU: CA.1037809

ISBN 9790007190903. Language: German/English/French.

I wrote this Christmas cantata from Koroshegy at the request of the Council of the Komitat Somogy. When I visited the still unrenovated little church at Koroshegy about ten years ago I had no idea that this beautiful Gothic building would one day be the scene of the world premiere of one of my works. - The cantata is founded on four pillars: four organ soli which could be described as ritornelli, followed by four a cappella choruses with the same melody but different harmonizations. These are settings of the four verses of In Epiphaniam by Janus Pannonius, the most renowned Hungarian poet and humanist of the Renaissance. Between these pillars I have introduced movements for choir or for soloists based on Hungarian folk tunes and Christmas songs from Transylvania and the Komitat Somogy: songs of the shepherds, angels and wise men, and, after a pastorale for organ, a large scale mixed-voice chorus intoning Ez karacsony ejszakajan [Holy Night]. A narrator introduces the individual numbers with passages from the Christmas story. An organ postlude concludes the work. (Ferenc Farkas) This work may be performed in German, English, French or Hungarian language. Score and parts available separately - see item CA.1037800.

SKU: CA.1037805

ISBN 9790007110819. Language: German/English/French.

I wrote this Christmas cantata from Koroshegy at the request of the Council of the Komitat Somogy. When I visited the still unrenovated little church at Koroshegy about ten years ago I had no idea that this beautiful Gothic building would one day be the scene of the world premiere of one of my works. - The cantata is founded on four pillars: four organ soli which could be described as ritornelli, followed by four a cappella choruses with the same melody but different harmonizations. These are settings of the four verses of In Epiphaniam by Janus Pannonius, the most renowned Hungarian poet and humanist of the Renaissance. Between these pillars I have introduced movements for choir or for soloists based on Hungarian folk tunes and Christmas songs from Transylvania and the Komitat Somogy: songs of the shepherds, angels and wise men, and, after a pastorale for organ, a large scale mixed-voice chorus intoning Ez karacsony ejszakajan [Holy Night]. A narrator introduces the individual numbers with passages from the Christmas story. An organ postlude concludes the work. (Ferenc Farkas) This work may be performed in German, English, French or Hungarian language. Score available separately - see item CA.1037800.

SKU: BR.PB-32119

ISBN 9790004215852. 10 x 12.5 inches. German.

The cantata O heilige Zeit [O Holy Time] of the former St. Thomas cantor Johann Kuhnau is the ideal baroque festive music for small scorings. Even though this is the larger of two cantatas with this text underlay, it can be performed by four soloists (SATB), single or double strings, and continuo organ. The participation of a choir in non-soloistic passages is optional, for historically unproven. The cantata was composed in the years 1704/05 and can therefore be placed in Kuhnau's term as St. Thomas cantor in Leipzig. A contemporary text by Erdmann Neumeister is fitted with a modern musical garb here while keeping unconditional adherence to it. Using a structural artifice as simple as it is effective, he provides a ritornello-like musical equivalent to the repeatedly recurring line of text O heilige Zeit!. This edition continues the series of works by Kuhnau started in the Pfefferkorn Musikverlag. Another festive music by Kuhnau with larger scoring is found in the Magnificat in C major, deemed a direct predecessor of Bach's Magnificat.