Choirs are always looking forward to singing Christmas carols again. If there are a limited number of male voices or they are still very young, the Carus catalog has a large selection of Christmas music for two female voices and one male voice. Below are several ideas, some with a small instrumental accompaniment.
In this comprehensive collection of works for three-part choirs, the right piece can be found for every Christmas occasion. The edition contains over 80 Christmas carols and motets from the Renaissance to the present, covering the period from Advent to Epiphany. A selection can also be listened to on the enclosed CD.
Youth choirs, children's choirs, and choirs that are young at heart will enjoy the colorful selection from this choir book. Classic Christmas carols like "In dulci jubilo" stand next to hits like "God rest you merry gentlemen" or "We wish you a merry Christmas". Discover French Noëls and new songs by Peter Schindler and York Sommer, all arranged with piano accompaniment. The enclosed CD includes recordings by the Calmus Ensemble.
Several three-part choral works for Advent and Christmas with organ accompaniment are also offered in our choral collections Chorbuch Gotteslob and Chorbuch zum Evangelischen Gesangbuch. Corresponding choral scores (SAM, Carus 2.162 and 2.182) and the organ parts (2.160/20 and 2.180/20) are available.
Markus Schönewolf's "Ich seh an deiner Kripper hier" is a new work based on Bach's popular Christmas carol. It has been published both in a separate edition and in Chorbuch a tre.
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Hugo Distler has arranged the Advent song "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland" for three-part choir. Carus offers the work both as a separate edition and as part of the collection Chorbuch a tre.
Melchor Vulpius' "Ich bin eine Simme eines Rufers" is a motet for three female voices and one male voice (SSAM). It appears in our Chorbuch Advent and is also available as a separate edition. The work is suitable for performance within a liturgical context.
The Ukrainian Christmas carol "Ring Christmas Bells" has been a staple Christmas song at least since the Christmas movie classic "Home Alone". Here it has been arranged for 3 voices and piano by the Russian composer Gureev, both as a separate edition and in chorissimo! Christmas.
This Spanish Christmas carol appears in a gripping arrangement for three female voices and one male (SSAM). It can be found both as a separate edition and in chorissimo! Christmas.
This three-part Christmas carol by Leipzig composer Johannes Weyrauch is part of the Thomanerchor Leipzig's Christmas Carol Book and is also available as a separate edition.
The popular Christmas carol "O du fröhliche" can now be performed in a funk style with three-part choir and piano, either individually or together with other gripping Christmas songs from chorissimo! Christmas.
This motet is one of four Christmas interludes to the Magnificat in E-flat major and can be wonderfully performed on its own. Following the more frequently performed, later version of the Magnificat in D BWV 243, this edition has been transposed down a semitone.
Buxtehude set the complete text from the Christmas carol "In dulci jubilo" in a work for choir SAM and 2 to 3 string instruments. It also includes several motivic references to the original carol.
The opening chorus from the Advent cantata "O hosanna, thou Son of David" will put both your choir and audience in a festive mood.
The"Canticum in nativitatem Domini" is one of four Christmas pieces for 3 soloists and/or 3-part small choir in oratorical style, which can be performed individually or cyclically with the other three Cantica.
This small Christmas cantata "Maria durch ein Dornwald ging" is for choir SAB. It can be performed with strings and woodwinds, or with organ.
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