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.

“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...

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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...

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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 in the chorale – but please keep...

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“Der saure Weg” – the bitter path – is how this motet is popularly known, taking its nickname from the fugue theme, with its awkward intervals which are a challenge to sing cleanly. But Bach’s choral music contains a whole range of other...

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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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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 minor...

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Despite their high musical qualities the Lutheran Masses, as they are known, are often overshadowed by other church works by Bach. Like the other Missae breves, the Mass in G minor, with its six-movement structure, consists largely of parodies...

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As well as the Mass in B minor, Bach composed four further shorter mass settings. Despite their high musical qualities, they are often overshadowed by other church works by Bach. With their six-movement structure, they had their specific...

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Bach composed particularly demanding and difficult works in his first year in Leipzig in 1723. These include the Magnificat, first written in E flat major for a Christmas performance and reworked about eight years later into the present D major...

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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 chorus...

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