Format : Sheet music
Check out the winning entry in our Noteflight A Cappella arranging competition Brandy Kay Riha whose arrangement of the Shawn Mendes song Stitches demonstrated amazing a cappella craft and energy! Thanks to our judges Deke Sharon and Roger Emerson and congratulations to Brandy. You'll love sharing it with your students!
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.49044559
ISBN 9790001199971. German.
SKU: HL.49043990
ISBN 9790001194525. Latin.
Andreas Pieper's overall artistic aim to 'build a bridge of confidence to the world behind things' with his music can be heard clearly in his setting of Tollite iugum meum. The Latin-language motet for mixed a cappella choir (SATB) for the Feast of the Sacred Heart (Friday after Corpus Christi) is based on verses from the Gospel according to Matthew (Mt. 11,29). Permeated by changes of time and key, yet easy to master by amateur choirs, the piece is ideal for use in the church's liturgy. The devotion of the Sacred Heart of Jesus centres on the sin and thus also on the sinfulness of man, which is musically realized here through a steady and moderate tempo, with the sinful man standing before God without any instrumental means, completely naked so to speak.
SKU: HL.49044237
ISBN 9790001195492. Latin.
With Zwei lateinische Marienmotetten for mixed a cappella choir (SATB) and interlude for organ or string quintet, Andreas Pieper has created two gems of Marian devotion which are perfect for being used in church services. The two four-part chants pay homage to the Virgin Mary and refer to two different solemnities of the Roman Catholic Church celebrated in her honour. Whereas Assumpta est Maria is a motet for the Feast of the Assumption of Mary on 15 August, Benedicta es tu, virgo Maria refers to the Feast of the Immaculate Conception celebrated every year on 8 December. Both choral settings can be easily mastered by ambitious church choirs, and the interlude and postlude for organ or string quintet of Assumpta est Maria, the easier one of the two motets, can be easily performed even by amateur musicians.
SKU: HL.49019995
ISBN 9790001195539. Latin.
The Spanish composer Rafael Sanchez Mombiedro set the well-established text 'O Magnum Mysterium' on the Coming of God to music in a new and inspiring way. He plays with dynamics and strange harmonies, thus giving the concert programme of the experienced choirs that certain something.
SKU: HL.49045157
ISBN 9790001154420. UPC: 841886026513. English.
E. E. Cummings' poem about a bygone love, about despair, indifference to acceptance is set for mixed choir. Brown's music relives the story with hovering and grating sounds, demanding courage to use extremely different dynamics.
SKU: HL.49019954
ISBN 9783795746995. 7.5x11.0x0.132 inches. German.
Eine Sammlung mit all den Klassikern zu Advent und Weihnachten, die uns durch diese ganz besondere Zeit begleiten. Alle Stucke konnen a cappella gesungen oder von Instrumenten begleitet werden. Die Instrumentalstimmen finden sie als Download bei notafina.
SKU: HL.49019698
ISBN 9790001192958. 7.5x10.75x0.021 inches. German.
Diesem Stuck diente der Eingangssatz der 'Desiderata' (oder auch 'Lebensregel von Baltimore') von Max Ehrmann als Textgrundlage, in dem der Gegensatz von innerer Ruhe und ausserer Unruhe auf pragnante Weise dargestellt ist. Die Aufforderung, den in der Stille wohnenden Frieden zu bewahren, die der Text dabei zum Ausdruck bringt, gab diesem Chorstuck seine Form und den immer textbezogenen musikalischen Gestus in nahezu motettischer Umsetzung.Die durch Halteklange entstehenden Dissonanzen verfeinern das harmonisch tonale Klangbild. Eine Art 'Begleitstruktur', die auf einer Klangsilbe fast schon 'instrumental' zu singen ist, symbolisiert als Kontrast den Larm und die Hektik - die Unruhe unserer Zeit.
SKU: HL.49044340
ISBN 9790001194600. German.
Der Text aus dem beginnenden 17. Jahrhundert wurde von Albrecht Haaf neu vertont. In sehr ausdrucksvoller Weise malt er die Niederkunft der Mutter Gottes aus und tragt mit seiner Komposition zur Erweiterung des Advents- und Weihnachtsrepertoires bei.
SKU: HL.49019697
ISBN 9790001192965. 7.5x10.75x0.052 inches. German.
Dieser irische Segenswunsch besticht durch sein zartes Dahinfliessen, in dem homophone und polyphone Abschnitte sich abwechseln. Die im Text artikulierten verschiedenen Spharen der Glaubensvorstellung werden durch die unterschiedlichen kompositorischen Satztechniken - akkordisch oder kanonartig - musikalisch zum Ausdruck gebracht. Sparsame Dissonanzen zwischen den immer als Linie gedachten Stimmen lassen uberraschende Wendungen entstehen.
SKU: HL.49044859
ISBN 9790001158954. UPC: 841886026971. 7.5x10.75x0.039 inches. English.
Zart und filigran wirken die feinen Melismen des vertonten Liebesgedichtes, die sich uber herbe und archaisch anmutende Klange erheben. Sie entfuhren Horer und Sanger in die schroffe Landschaft Schottlands, der Heimat des Dichters.
SKU: HL.49019897
ISBN 9790001192637. UPC: 841886021143. 7.5x11.0x0.063 inches. Spanish.
Die spanisch-deutsche Komponistin Raquel Cristobal, die bereits mit Ihrem Gewinnerstuck beim Kompositionswettbewerb des Chorverband NRW 'An den Mond' (C 55497) fur Aufsehen sorgte, schenkt uns zur Weihnachtszeit neue Bearbeitungen popularer Weihnachtslieder aus ihrer spanischen Heimat in verschiedene Besetzungen.Die fur jede Chorgattung neu zusammengestellte Auswahl der Stucke ist eine exquisite Bereicherung des internationalen weihnachtlichen Repertoires. So bieten die hierzulande noch eher unbekannten Melodien eine perfekte Alternative zu den vielen schon oft gehorten Weihnachtsliedern und werden sicher schnell zu Lieblingsstucken fur ihr nachstes Weihnachtskonzert!
SKU: HL.49043994
ISBN 9790001195560. German.
Ein wirkungsvolles, modernes Segenslied, das den Zuhorern viele gute Wunsche mit auf den Weg geben will. Musikalisches Niveau mit einem leichten Augenzwinkern machen Haafs Komposition zur idealen Zugabe.
SKU: HL.49019646
ISBN 9790001192736. 7.5x11.0x0.038 inches. German.
SKU: HL.49019642
ISBN 9790001192842. German - Latin.
This work with its calmly pleading character lives on the contrast between the freely metric, virtually Gregorian passages and the strict time-beating sections. It is especially in the 'Da pacem' call written in triplets that pressing, accelerating crescendos arise which can also be led into the forte excessively. The concluding Latin 'Da pacem' should then be sung in a deliberately introverted manner.
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: HL.49018287
ISBN 9790001170826. UPC: 884088620752. 7.5x10.75x0.049 inches. Hebrew.
Viktor Ullmann composed his choral arrangements of Hebrew, Yiddish and Chassidic songs in the ghetto of Theresienstadt in 1943/1944. In the function of 'Head of the Studio for New Music', Ullmann made a significant contribution to the so-called 'leisure activities' in the ghetto. The works were evidently intended for the repertoire of the various choirs at Theresienstadt, including children's choirs such as the Karel Vrbas Youth Choir in which Ullmann's son Max also sang. There is no evidence to confirm that Ullmann's choral works were actually performed in Theresienstadt, for example in one of the frequent concerts given by Rafael Schachter's choir of up to a hundred voices (cf. Milan Kuna, Musik an der Grenze des Lebens, 21998. p.313). The German translations below first appeared in the song book Makkabi-Liederbuch published in Berlin in 1930 (2nd edition 1935) which was available to Viktor Ullmann as a source for the melodies and text orthography for his choral arrangements in Theresienstadt.
SKU: HL.49045002
ISBN 9790001199575. German.
Wie schon ist es, dem Herrn zu danken - these affirmative words from Psalm 92 were used by Andreas Pieper as a basis of his composition of the same name for mixed a cappella choir (SATB), thus creating a sacred choral work that is perfect for ambitious amateur choirs and for use in church services. In this psalm song for the Sabbath day, the eternal joy at and gratitude for the deeds of the Lord become apparent both in the text and the music. In addition, the musical realization of the hymn of thanksgiving shows once again Pieper's predilection for a cappella singing. Such a limitation of the external means gives him, by his own account, 'a sense of freedom and concentration on the central musico-theological statement'. See for yourself!
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.49046012
ISBN 9790001167147. UPC: 841886033245. 7.5x10.75 inches. English.
Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella.
