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.

Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem is the key work among the sacred compositions by the French master. Already during the composer’s lifetime, it proved very successful with the audiences, and this success remains undiminished all over the world to this day....

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George Frideric Handel was regarded as the first and most important exponent of the genre of oratorio in England. And it is Messiah above all which is regarded as the perfect example of sacred music. Handel is very singable and great fun for...

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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 re-used...

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On the surface, the Petite Messe solennelle is an occasional work, written for the dedication of the private chapel of a well-to-do Parisian nobleman. Rossini himself never published the work. The typically Rossinian rhythms and capricious drama,...

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Verdi’s Requiem is one of the major works in this genre in the 19th century. It demands just about everything of the choral singer: rapidly-changing harmonies, also in distant keys, and some tremendously fast tempi serve the liturgy, to which...

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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 setting of the...

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Heinrich Schütz composed the Musikalische Exequien for the funeral of his sovereign prince Heinrich Posthumus of Reuss in 1635/1636. The work comprises three parts which were to be sung at different points within the funeral service. The first and...

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Brahms’ German Requiem is indisputably one of the key works in the history of oratorio. The choir, as the voice of the people, carries the musical action almost continuously. In his Requiem Brahms masterfully combines compositional techniques...

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Haydn's magnificent Creation marks something akin to the "birth" of the great German oratorio, in view of the fact that this work – which is popular all over the world –stands as a landmark between the great oratorios of Händel and Mendelssohn....

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When Haydn wrote the Nelson Mass ("Missa in Angustiis") in less than eight weeks in 1798, he had written no masses in the preceding 14 years, but instead, had composed numerous symphonies and chamber music works. In the Nelson Mass, which was...

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