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.

Mozart wrote the "Vesperae Solennes de Confessore" in Salzburg when he was 24 years old, shortly after his mother had died in Paris. As with several other compositions from this period, he used this piece to work through his grief, especially...

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In the "Sanctus" of Mozart's "Mass in C major", the sparrows twitter from the eaves in the violin part. And yet, despite its traditional aspects, this mass has several pitfalls for the choir in the "Kyrie" and the "Gloria": In the "Kyrie", the...

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In the Missa Brevis in G major K. 140 the buoyant folk-inspired melody with a voice leading containing many parallel thirds and sixths approaches the genre of the pastoral mass. The movements are characterized by songlike themes. The voices move...

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The Missa Brevis in B flat major K. 275 is characterized by a prevailing cheerful, buoyant mood, which Alfred Einstein attested to be "a refinemenet of inconspicuous polyphony and, above all, chromatic movement and boldness". The carus music app...

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It was only later that Schubert decided to emphasize the festive character of the mass through the use of brilliant trumpets and timpani; the original scoring is more sparse. The genuineness of the composer’s faith is particularly moving in this...

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Schubert's "Magnificat in C major" was composed in 1815 and is widely popular among choristers for its tonal beauty. Despite the work’s brevity, lasting only 10 minutes, Schubert pulls out all the musical stops and ensures a maximum of diversity...

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For the choir the notes in Schubert's Mass in C are not difficult but nonetheless, when the choir and orchestra coincide, time and again this leads to surprises. The violins often proceed in sixteenth notes or, as in the Sanctus, are written in...

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Telemann's cantata output is estimated at about 1,700 works, well exceeding his contemporary, J.S. Bach. The five-part cantata Machet die Tore weit (“Open wide the gates”) was composed for the 1st Sunday in Advent in 1719. The lively character of...

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Vivaldi was able to combine the Vatican's demands for text clarity together with the Venetians' wish of for splendor. He dispensed with soloistic arias and with regard to declamation the choir was used, for the most part, homophonically. This is...

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Despite its relatively short length, Mozart’s Missa brevis in D is a work which makes a lasting musical impression, not least because of its heightened tendency towards minor keys in sections such as the "Quoniam" and "Et in Spiritum Sanctum",...

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