A new addition to The Catholic Choirbook Series A book for building new choirs and improving the skills and repertoire of experienced choirs.
This is a new digest created from The Catholic Choirbook series, containing the most sung music from that book as used by Catholic, Anglican and other choirs from around the world.
Designed to be affordable and easy to hold, its price is less than the cost of a lunch in many countries
Much of the music is very singable for the average choir, some is a bit more challenging to encourage excellence in the singing of your choir.
Some of the music may be sung without accompaniment, but all pieces include accompaniments for a simple reason: Many choirs struggle to find enough singers to sing all the parts. Going back in history to the time of Palestrina, who wrote for choirs of many parts, 8 and more, we have learned that when a singer was missing, that part was played on the organ, or by another instrument. For example, music written for a double choir of 8 voices, could be sung by four voices, the second choir part being played on the organ, or by other wind instruments or strings.
Our motivation for this publication is simple. Choir directors are amazed, when their choirs sing pieces from this collection, using a substitute instrument or two to strengthen the voices, to have people from their congregation who sang that piece in College, want to join the choir.
Also, many of these works may be sung with only sopranos, the organ playing the other parts. You have to sing great music to be a great choir.
Adoramus Te Christe
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Adoramus Te Christe
Francesco Gasparini
Adoramus Te Christe
Orlando di Lasso
Adoramus Te Christe
William Byrd
Adoramus Te Christe
Theodore Dubois
Ave Maria
Jacob Arcadelt
Ave Regina Coelorum
Guillaume Dufay
Ave Verum
William Byrd
Ave Verum
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ave Verum
Edward Elgar
Cantate Domino
Giuseppi Pitoni
Drop, Drop, Slow Tears
Orland Gibbons
God So Loved The World
John Stainer
God So Loved The World
John Goss
Hide Not Thou Thy Face
Richard Farrant
If Ye Love Me
Thomas Tallis
Jesu Dulcis Memoria
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Jesu! Rex Admirabilis
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Kyrie Eleison
William Byrd
Locus Iste
Anton Bruckner
Lord, For Thy Tender Mercy's Sake
Richard Farrant
Miserere Mei
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Miserere Mei
Antonio Lotti
Non Nobis Domine
Philip Van Wilder [William Byrd]
O Bone Jesu
Michelangelo Grancini
O Bone Jesu
Marc'Antonio Ingegniere
O Sacrum Convivium
Edward D'Evry
O Sacrum Convivium
Roberto Remondi
Panis Angelicus
Fr. Louis Lambillotte
Prayer Of King Henry IV
Henry G. Ley
Sing My Soul, His Wondrous Love
John Bacchus Dykes
Stabat Mater
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Tantum Ergo
Déodat de Sévrác
Thou Knowest, Lord
Henry Purcell
Sacred Music Library
Noel Jones, AAGO
Augusta, Kentucky, USA
April, 2018
