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.

Beethoven’s masterpiece is a major project for any choir, not just because of its length, but also because it contains some of the most difficult passages found in the choral repertoire. In particular the dreaded fugues of Beethoven’s late period,...

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The first of Beethoven’s two Mass settings is distinctly modern and innovative in its musical language, which is both subjective and fervent. With its dramatic alternation of vocal and instrumental passages, and great contrasts in tension and...

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Beethoven’s “Ninth” was hotly debated amongst listeners and music critics at first. But his setting of Schiller’s “Ode to Joy” in the final movement is now sung by classical music fans and many others as a matter of course. However, the catchy...

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Mozart’s Missa in C – known as the “Coronation Mass” for no obvious reason – is one of the most popular and most frequently-performed works of its kind. Although Mozart had to keep the setting short, in line with the Prince Bishop’s requirements,...

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The anthem Hör mein Bitten (Hear my Prayer) was regarded as one of Mendelssohn’s best-known sacred compositions, particularly in the Victorian period. In a dialogue with the solo soprano, the chorus has a proactive, rather than an accompanying,...

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Der Stern von Bethlehem is based on a text by Rheinberger’s wife. The composer created an impressive portrayal of the well-known story in nine movements. His masterly compositional style demands a confident, but precisely-judged choral sound,...

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With his first major vocal work, his Magnificat of 1749, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach created a magnificent and forward-looking setting of this well-known text, a work quite unrivalled for its time. In the choral writing, CPE Bach used a quite...

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Despite the considerable challenges it presents, Bruckner’s Te Deum is one of the most popular and frequently-performed choral-symphonic works in the entire repertoire. But the music, littered as it is with accidentals changes, causes even the...

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