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.

Handel’s Utrecht Te Deum HWV 278 enthralled London audiences right from its first performance, and it continues to do so today in concert halls and churches all over the world. It was performed for the first time to celebrate the Peace marking the...

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The famous Gradual for the church consecration, written in 1869 for the consecration of the Votive Chapel of Linz Cathedral. A great piece to immerse yourself in a common choral sound – if everyone has practised their notes beforehand. Simply...

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“That is indeed something one can learn from,” Mozart is said to have exclaimed after a performance of Bach’s motet in 1789. And that goes for the composition as well as for the choral singers. With its many coloratura passages, independent...

Carus Choir Coach for download (audio only), zip file, mp3 file, practice aids, voice part soprano

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Johann Sebastian Bach’s cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben BWV 147 originates from his Weimar period. But seven years after its composition, he adapted and extended it for performance in Leipzig. It is one of Bach’s most popular cantatas, and...

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Just how is it possible for the voice parts in both choirs to sing rapid coloratura passages together in a double-choir piece? This is not the only difficulty presented by Bach’s funeral motet for J. H. Ernesti, his predecessor as Rector at St...

Carus Choir Coach for download (audio only), zip file, mp3 file, practice aids, voice part soprano

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It’s one thing above all, a magnificent choral work! Of course there are also solo movements, but the choir has the lion’s share of the musical action and has not only a lot to sing, but very varied movements of this most impressive...

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Together with Debussy, Ravel, and Dukas, Lili Boulanger was one of the most important representatives of impressionism. Despite her short life of just 24 years, she developed a distinctive personal style, and composed a huge variety of works...

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Schütz’s Weihnachts-Historie for soloists and six-part chorus (SSATTB) is an extremely vivid and palpable interpretation of the Christmas story. The enlivening presentation of the words finds its highpoint in the central role of the evangelist,...

Carus Choir Coach for download (audio only), zip file, mp3 file, practice aids, voice part soprano

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Long rumored to be by Johann Christoph Bach, Ich lasse dich nicht, du segnest mich denn is now believed to be Johann Sebastian Bach’s earliest surviving motet, but it is yet to have been adopted into the canon of his works. This early composition,...

Carus Choir Coach for download (audio only), zip file, mp3 file, practice aids, voice part soprano

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