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.

Mendelssohn composed the Gloria at the age of 13. It is his first larger-scale church music composition, one where he uses a Latin text from the Catholic tradition for the first time. Musically, in many respects the Gloria displays Mendelssohn’s...

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In keeping with the triumphal occasion of this work, Handel often writes for the choir in five parts (using a divided soprano part) and in a homophonic manner. The choir’s blocklike interjections are festive and impressive; it is important that...

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The Stabat mater occupies a special place in Rossini’s output: it was written over a ten-year period in two phases of composition (1831–41). In this work Rossini uses the typical musical means of chromaticism and sighing motifs to express the pain...

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Composed in nine parts and scored for SSAT soli, SATB chorus, strings and continuo, Vivaldi’s Magnificat, RV 610, is exceptionally moving, fundamental and profound. Among the work’s special moments is the "Deposuit potentes,” where the chorus is...

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The core of the extensive and wide-ranging body of choral music composed by Rheinberger is found in the music which he worte for use in Catholic services. Perhaps the best-known sacred composition of Rheinberger is his six-part motet "Bleib bei...

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In the Gloria and Credo of his “Little Organ Mass”, Haydn takes the principle of the Missa brevis to the extreme: the entire text is distributed simultaneously among the four voices so that the long text in the Gloria is treated in 19 measures....

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Haydn's Missa in B flat major has gone down in music history as the Theresienmesse, even though the reason for this designation is unclear. In order to give fullest justice to this beautiful work and to be able to offer the widest possible range...

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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...

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The popular “Nicolai Mass” by Haydn is both diverse and traditional. Haydn conveys this exhilarating jubilance through numerous wide leaps, in particular sixths and octaves, that the chorister has to hear well in order to reach the high notes...

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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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