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.

Wide leaps, completely exposed coloratura passages for the individual choral parts (including some real danger spots), combined with difficult entries and intervals. Only the soprano can relax a little at the end during the chorale – but please...

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

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The Birth of Christ and The Passion of Christ are two fragments of an oratorio, which Mendelssohn was unable to complete. The Birth of Christ concentrates on a four-part choral section, introduced by two short sections for soloists. The choral...

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

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Christus is a fragment of an oratorio which Mendelssohn never completed. He had probably planned a third section to follow the two sections Die Geburt Christi and Das Leiden Christi. Das Leiden Christi essentially comprises compact choral sections...

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

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Bruckner completed his solemn Mass in E minor in 1866, but extensively revised the score in the years 1876-1882. Among his masses, this work (specifically composed for outdoor performance) is unusual in terms of its instrumentation: Bruckner...

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Bruckner’s great Mass in F minor is one of his most important works – and indeed a highpoint of 19th-century choral music. Here the composer uniquely succeeds in illuminating through music this central act of worship. The mass is quite...

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Goethe’s dramatic ballad The First Walpurgis Night inspired Mendelssohn to write a magnificent and vivid portrayal of the conflict between an old heathen community and the new aspirations of Christianization, between belief and superstition on...

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The Carus Choir Coach offers choir singers the unique opportunity to study and learn their own, individual choral parts within the context of the sound of the entire choir and orchestra. For every vocal range a download containing each choir part...

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

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One of his later works, Haydn’s Missa in tempore belli, composed in 1796, is also referred to as the “Paukenmesse” (Kettledrum Mass) through the use of timpani in the Agnus Dei. For the Vienna premiere, Haydn added flutes, clarinets and horns to...

Carus Choir Coach (audio only), mp3 CD, practice aids, voice part soprano

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The Codex Buranus, that celebrated collection of medieval poems and dramatic texts from the Benediktbeuern monastery, still holds many exciting secrets: Who was the author? Why, and above all, for whom were they written? In his work Perpetuum...

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