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.

The outstanding features of Haydn’s Missa Cellensis in C major are the expression of heartfelt joy, the profoundly emotional and meticulous interpretation of the text, and the use of operatic techniques, for which Haydn was later accused of being...

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Handel’s setting of Psalm 110, Dixit Dominus, is one of his first surviving works, composed at the age of just 22 during his three-year stay in Italy. In this large-scale work, he already displays an assured mastery in his treatment of chorus and...

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Schütz’s Christmas History for soloists and six-part chorus (SSATTB) is an extremely vivid and palpable interpretation of the Christmas story. The musical setting of the words finds its highpoint in the central role of the evangelist, who embodies...

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The title Messe brève no. 7 is absolutely right for this composition. No movement lasts longer than five minutes, and as well as that, Gounod does not set the Credo. That movement is to be sung congregationally. And this makes the Mass extremely...

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The Mass in E flat major (Cantus Missae) op. 109 occupies a special position amongst Rheinberger’s 18 mass compositions, as it is written entirely a cappella for double choir, recalling the old compositional style of alternating choirs used by the...

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The psalm setting Nisi Dominus is in the style of the concertante polychoral motet, particularly developed in Italy in the late Baroque period. Use in a liturgical context calls for a certain conciseness and simplicity in the musical setting,...

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The oratorio Passions by Homilius are amongst the last compositions of this kind from the 18th century. The role of the chorus in the "St John Passion" is largely restricted to the chorales and crowd choruses, but in the latter, Homilius shows...

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The unique spatial structure and large scale of Scarlatti’s “Stabat Mater” place it amongst the very grandest musical creations of the first half of the 18th century. Its particular musical interest and charm lie in the independence of the ten...

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Mendelssohn’s intensive study of the works of Bach inspired him to compose some cantatas on chorale melodies. In the cantata "Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten", the second movement in particular poses some choral challenges: because the cantus...

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Handel opened the 1736 oratorio season in splendid fashion with Alexander’s Feast. The libretto depicts the power of music in the first part, in the form of a victory celebration for Alexander the Great. Accordingly the setting is contrapuntal,...

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