Practice Aids

Practice Aids

Innovative practice aids from Carus, available as mp3 download or CD (Carus Choir Coach) or app (carus music), offer ideal support and help choral singers to quickly learn new repertoire: they contain first class recordings with the individual voice part amplified, making learning by listening much easier. In addition pieces can be practiced at slower tempo, permitting effective work on complicated passages. carus music, the choir app, also offers a well laid-out music text from Carus vocal scores with a marker feature in the software enabling users to follow the music. With Vocal scores XL we are offering major choral works in reader-friendly large print. Vocal scores XL will help all choral singers who find reading small-sized notes and text strenuous, and will contribute to relaxed singing.

This motet is quite different. As a five-part work in several movements with constant alternation between chorale and motet-like setting of the text, its vitality comes from the changes between different styles. For the choral singer this work...

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The Messa a 4 voci was composed by the 22-year-old Giacomo Puccini at the end of his schooldays, and revised about 15 years later. Even in this early work, the subtlety of writing found in Puccini’s later operas is clear, works in which he...

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Mendelssohn described his 1840 work as "a symphony for chorus and orchestra". The development from darkness to light forms the most important poetic image in it. In several numbers the biblical message is initially expounded by a soloist, then...

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Composed in nine parts and scored for SSAT soli, SATB chorus, strings and continuo, Vivaldi’s Magnificat, RV 610, is exceptionally moving, fundamental and profound. Among the work’s special moments is the "Deposuit potentes”, where the chorus...

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Mozart wrote the Vesperae Solennes de Confessore in Salzburg when he was 24 years old, shortly after his mother had died in Paris. As with several other compositions from this period, he used this piece to work through his grief, especially...

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With his first major vocal work, his Magnificat of 1749, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach created a magnificent and forward-looking setting of this well-known text, a work quite unrivalled for its time. In the choral writing, CPE Bach used a quite...

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Bach's Mass in B minor poses one of the really great challenges of the entire choral literature. The proportion of choir participation is very high and the choral settings are among the best that Bach composed: A performance of the Mass in B...

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While the choir has less to sing in the St. Matthew Passion than in the St. John Passion, but the writing for double choir and the divisi voices associated with it presents a greater demand for tonal certainty by each individual singer. The...

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Bach's St. John Passion is one of the most magnificent passion settings in the history of music. Four respectively diverging performances by Bach himself are documented. Bach began copying yet another differing fair copy, but it was completed by a...

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This motet, no matter how popular it is, presents Bach scholars with a few puzzles: is it really by Bach? Somehow the text doesn’t fit with the notes, at least not so that it’s comfortable to sing. And is the musicologists’ problem the same for...

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