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.

Haydn composed his first mass as a youth when he and his brother still sang as boy sopranos at St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna. Presumably, he wrote the two ornamented solo voices for himself and his brother. With numerous short interjections...

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Johann Sebastian Bach’s motets are rightly regarded as a high point, if not THE high point of challenging a cappella literature. They display not only a kaleidoscope of compositional techniques, but have long been renowned for their varied...

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Characterized by gripping drama and at the same time by an intimacy of trust in God, something which was no longer a matter of course even in Mendelssohn’s lifetime, this oratorio offers a wealth of musical means of expression, ranging from...

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Friede auf Erden op. 13 is regarded as Arnold Schoenberg’s last tonal composition and is one of the few choral works of the Second Viennese School. On the same day that he completed his op. 13, Schoenberg made the first sketches for his 2nd...

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Heinrich Schuetz composed the Musikalische Exequien SWV 279-281 for the funeral of his patron Prince Heinrich Posthumus Reuß 1635/1636. The work comprises three parts which were to be sung at different points within the funeral service. The first...

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Dvorák composed his Mass in D as a commissioned work for the consecration of a chapel. So the first version was simply for chorus, soloists and organ – an orchestra probably would not have fitted into the space. The full attention is therefore on...

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For the choir the notes in Schubert’s Mass in C major are not difficult, and yet, there are always surprises when the choir and orchestra coincide. The violins often proceed in sixteenth notes or, as in the Sanctus, are written in complementary...

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The Protestant chorale played an important role for Mendelssohn, even in his early years. Inspired by Bach’s works, he too composed cantatas on chorales, including one on the Lutheran Christmas hymn Vom Himmel hoch which is still well-known and...

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Saint-Saëns’ delicate-sounding Oratorio de Noël, in the tradition of the Catholic rite, offers a few lyrical, expressive movements in which the chorus has a dialog with one or more of the soloists. A few sudden tempo changes also demand...

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