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Choral Masterpieces - Major and Minor (Paperback): Nicholas Tarling Choral Masterpieces - Major and Minor (Paperback)
Nicholas Tarling
R2,149 Discovery Miles 21 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Choral Masterpieces: Major and Minor, historian Nicholas Tarling surveys the landscape of choral works, some standard masterpieces that are commonly performed by choruses around the world, others deserving a second, closer look. As noted in the foreword by Uwe Grodd , music director of the Auckland Choral Society, this work "is a collection of essays about a number of outstanding works, including Beethoven's Miss Solemnis and Britten's War Requiem, but he also invites attention to lesser masterpieces. If the choral movement, which includes both singers and listeners, is to survive, new works must be created and repertory expanded. The book is an easy and captivating read even if you are not a chorister." Choral Masterpieces: Major and Minor features short essays on over 28 works, from major masterpieces such as Handel's Messiah and Bach's St. Matthew's Passion to off-the-beaten path choral works such as Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Hiawatha and Frederick Delius' A Mass of Life. Throughout, Tarling offers assessments that sparkle with unique insights and at the same time ground listener's in the historical contexts of the work's production and performance. Each work is transformed in Tarling's able hands from musical work into a window into the mind and milieu of the composer. Choral Masterpieces: Major and Minor mixes choral mainstays with works that demand revisiting. Choral singers and their audiences, as well as choral societies and their directions and promoters, will find ample food for thoughts in these meditations on the choral tradition.

The Paragraph Psalter - Arranged for the Use of Choirs (Paperback): Brooke Foss Westcott The Paragraph Psalter - Arranged for the Use of Choirs (Paperback)
Brooke Foss Westcott; Edited by Ahmann
R1,329 Discovery Miles 13 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Brooke Foss Westcott (1825 1901) was a British theologian who held the position of Bishop of Durham from 1890 until his death. First published in 1912, as the second edition of an 1879 original, this volume presents the complete text of the Book of Psalms arranged by Westcott 'so as to ensure an intelligent musical rendering of each clause of the separate verses'. The text was revised and edited for its second edition by the British organist and composer of hymns Arthur Henry Mann (1850 1929). This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the Psalms, choral music and Church history."

A Conductor's Guide to Selected Baroque Choral-Orchestral Works (Hardcover): Jonathan D. Green A Conductor's Guide to Selected Baroque Choral-Orchestral Works (Hardcover)
Jonathan D. Green
R3,883 Discovery Miles 38 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In A Conductor s Guide to Selected Baroque Choral-Orchestral Works, Jonathan D. Green's sixth book-length contribution of guides for conductors, he offers this companion to his critically acclaimed A Conductor s Guide to the Choral-Orchestral Works of J. S. Bach. In this volume, Green addresses works of the Baroque era from Monteverdi through Bach's contemporaries. In addition to brief biographical sketches for each composer, Green includes for each work the approximate duration, text sources, performing forces, currently available editions, locations of manuscript materials, notes, performance issues, evaluation of solo roles, evaluation of difficulty, and a discography and bibliography. Duration information comes from a variety of sources, but Green turns to actual recording times of performances. The purpose of this book is to aid conductors in selecting repertoire appropriate to their needs and the abilities of their ensembles. The discographies and bibliographies, while not exhaustive, serve as helpful starting points for further research. A Conductor s Guide to Selected Baroque Choral-Orchestral Works should appeal to conductors in supporting their concert programming. Librarians and music student will also find this work an ideal reference title for the study of Baroque repertoire."

Veni Sancte Spiritus, K.47 - Study score (Latin, Paperback, Sargeant ed.): Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Veni Sancte Spiritus, K.47 - Study score (Latin, Paperback, Sargeant ed.)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Edited by Richard W. Sargeant
R233 Discovery Miles 2 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Along with the "Benedictus, K. 117," this short work is among the earliest of Mozart's forays into liturgical music for the Salzburg cathedral, which would reach its culmination with masterpieces like the "Coronation Mass, K. 317" and the unfinished Mass, K. 427. This newly engraved and researched edition by Richard W. Sargeant has been carefully formatted for maximum useability by condcutors and students of this interesting and somewhat overlooked repertoire.

Coronation Mass, K. 317 - Vocal Score (Latin, Paperback, Taubmann ed.): Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Coronation Mass, K. 317 - Vocal Score (Latin, Paperback, Taubmann ed.)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Contributions by Otto Taubmann
R243 Discovery Miles 2 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Otto Taubmann's classic vocal score of Mozart's Coronation Mass was first issued in the early 20th century and has become the standard edition in continuous use by performers all over the world for more than a century. This digitally-enhanced reissue has added measure numbers and is produced in a very handy format designed for choruses. Unlike so many of the on-demand scores now available, this one comes with all the pages and the images have been thoroughly checked to make sure it is readable. As with all PLP scores a percentage of each sale is donated to the amazing online archive of free music scores and recordings, IMSLP - Petrucci Music Library.

Do They Sound Like Bells or Like Howling Wolves? - Interferential Diaphony in Bistritsa- An Investigation into a Multi-Part... Do They Sound Like Bells or Like Howling Wolves? - Interferential Diaphony in Bistritsa- An Investigation into a Multi-Part Singing Tradition in a Middle-Western Bulgarian Village (Hardcover, New edition)
Gerald Florian Messner
R3,105 Discovery Miles 31 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This study represents a thorough investigation of a polyphonic vocal village tradition in Bistritsa, Bulgaria. Outsiders describe the narrow intervals of these songs as being "maximally rough", while the singers themselves experience their performance as smooth, beautiful and pleasant. Almost identical polyphonic traditions can be found in places sometimes thousands of kilometers apart. This inquiry is carried out within a very broad and comparative context, whereby historical sources, the origin of different constituents and etymologies as well as electronic sound analysis are taken into account. The results are stunning and ever more relevant - and not just for ethnomusicologists: The babi or grannies of Bistritsa and their songs have been inscribed on UNESCO's List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Mankind in 2008.

Renaissance Music for the Choral Conductor - A Practical Guide (Paperback): Robert J. Summer Renaissance Music for the Choral Conductor - A Practical Guide (Paperback)
Robert J. Summer
R2,577 Discovery Miles 25 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Renaissance Music for the Choral Conductor: A Practical Guide addresses the study and performance of Renaissance music in a way that is understandable to the musician at any level. It describes how to find a good edition, mark scores, rehearse, and conduct this type of music. It explains complex ideas from proportion to linear analysis and supplies step-by-step instructions on presenting madrigal dinners ideal vehicles for the presentation of Renaissance music. This guide contains traditional toasts, stage directions, lists of appropriate music, and even instruction on selected Renaissance dances. Summer also includes a large number of musical scores to aid in his explanations on marking scores, conducting, and analyzing polyphonic music. Renaissance Music for the Choral Conductor is the ideal textbook for choral literature and choral conducting classes at the undergraduate and graduate levels. It can serve as a reference for anyone who wishes to program and explore music from this period in greater depth, including church musicians and conductors of professional ensembles. The book concludes with a bibliography, glossary, and selected discography.

Gloria in Excelsis Deo, BWV 191 - Vocal score (Latin, Paperback, Bga, Dorffel ed.): Johann Sebastian Bach Gloria in Excelsis Deo, BWV 191 - Vocal score (Latin, Paperback, Bga, Dorffel ed.)
Johann Sebastian Bach; Contributions by Bernhard Todt; Edited by Alfred Dorffel
R239 Discovery Miles 2 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An insteresting case of self-borrowing. Bach took music from this work for his own Mass in B-minor (BWV 191/1 corresponds to the Gloria in excelsis Deo, BWV 191/2 to the Domine Deus, BWV 191/3 to the Cum sancto spiritu). This unusual cantata, the only one with a Latin text, may have been written to celebrate the Peace of Dresden (which ended the 2nd Silesian war) and first performed on Christmas day, 1745. This vocal score is a reissue of the one which was originally published to coincide with Bach Gessellschaft edition. As with all PLP scores a percentage of each sale is donated to the amazing online archive of free music scores and recordings, IMSLP - Petrucci Music Library.

Vesperae solennes de confessore, K.339 - Vocal score (Latin, Paperback, Fuller-Maitland ed.): Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Vesperae solennes de confessore, K.339 - Vocal score (Latin, Paperback, Fuller-Maitland ed.)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Contributions by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland
R271 Discovery Miles 2 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This new vocal score is a digitally enhanced reprint of the score prepared by the renowned English musicologist J. A. Fuller-Maitland in 1896 to coincide with the full score issued several years before as part of Breitkopf & Hartel's complete edition of Mozart's works.

Scande coeli limina, K.34 - Study score (Latin, Paperback, Sargeant ed.): Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Scande coeli limina, K.34 - Study score (Latin, Paperback, Sargeant ed.)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Edited by Richard W. Sargeant
R260 Discovery Miles 2 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Composed at while returning from a concert trip to Italy, this setting of the Latin hymn text was possibly heard for the first time on 21 March of 1767 at the Kloster Seeon in Bavaria. The score offered here is a newly engraved one, carefully edited by Richard W. Sargeant, Jr.

Venite populi, K.260/248a - Study score (Latin, Paperback, Sargeant ed.): Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Venite populi, K.260/248a - Study score (Latin, Paperback, Sargeant ed.)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Edited by Richard W. Sargeant
R233 Discovery Miles 2 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

One of a series of liturgical works composed for the Salzburg Cathedral, the Offertorium de venerabili sacramento was first performed there on Ascension Day, 1776. With antiphonal double chorus and small orchestra, it harkens back to works of the baroque era. The score offered here is a newly engraved edition formatted in an easy-to-read convenient size. Editor Richard Sargeant has consulted all available sources to produce an authoritative edition complete with a continuo realization.

Tantum ergo, K.142 / Anh.C 3.04 - Study score (Latin, Paperback, Sargeant ed.): Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Tantum ergo, K.142 / Anh.C 3.04 - Study score (Latin, Paperback, Sargeant ed.)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Edited by Richard W. Sargeant
R262 Discovery Miles 2 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This work was once credited to Mozart but later discounted as being by him and attributed instead to the composer Jan Zach (1699-1773). Rcent Zach scholarship has largely discredited the idea of Zach being the composer. In any case, this work has remained quite popular for good reason regardless of who the actual composer may have been. This new, beautifully engraved study score edited by Richard Sargeant will be welcomed by choruses worldwide interested in this delightful piece of Latin church music from Mozart's era.

Te Deum in C major, Hob.XXIIIc.2 - Vocal score (Latin, Paperback, Sargeant ed.): Joseph Haydn Te Deum in C major, Hob.XXIIIc.2 - Vocal score (Latin, Paperback, Sargeant ed.)
Joseph Haydn; Edited by Richard W. Sargeant
R259 Discovery Miles 2 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Haydn's "Grosse Te Deum" was probably composed in 1800 for a performance given at Eisenstadt in the fall of that year. Scored with a full orchestral accompaniment, it was first published in 1802 by Breitkopf und Hartel. The score here is a newly engraved vocal score edited by Richard W. Sargeant - in a format specially designed for maximum readability for choruses.

Alma Dei creatoris, K.277 / 272a - Study score (Latin, Paperback, Sargeant ed.): Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Alma Dei creatoris, K.277 / 272a - Study score (Latin, Paperback, Sargeant ed.)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Edited by Richard W. Sargeant
R262 Discovery Miles 2 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Mozart composed this offertory to the Virgin Mary in the summer or fall of 1777, not long before his departure on a concert tour to Paris - and his resignation his position at the Salzburg Cathedral. The study score offered here is a newly engraved, researched edition by Richard W. Sargeant, Jr.

Venite populi, K.260 / 248a - Vocal score (Latin, Paperback, Sargeant ed.): Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Venite populi, K.260 / 248a - Vocal score (Latin, Paperback, Sargeant ed.)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Richard W. Sargeant
R291 Discovery Miles 2 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

One of a series of liturgical works composed for the Salzburg Cathedral, the Offertorium de venerabili sacramento was first performed there on Ascension Day, 1776. With antiphonal double chorus and small orchestra, it harkens back to works of the baroque era. The vocal score offered here is newly engraved and specially formatted in an easy-to-read size for today's choruses. Editor Richard Sargeant has consulted all available sources to produce an authoritative edition.

Veni Sancte Spiritus, K.47 - Vocal score (Latin, Paperback, Sargeant ed.): Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Veni Sancte Spiritus, K.47 - Vocal score (Latin, Paperback, Sargeant ed.)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Edited by Richard W. Sargeant
R206 Discovery Miles 2 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Josquin's Rome - Hearing and Composing in the Sistine Chapel (Hardcover): Jesse Rodin Josquin's Rome - Hearing and Composing in the Sistine Chapel (Hardcover)
Jesse Rodin
R2,960 Discovery Miles 29 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the late fifteenth century the newly built Sistine Chapel was home to a vigorous culture of musical composition and performance. Josquin des Prez stood at its center, singing and composing for the pope's private choir. Josquin's Rome offers a new reading of the composer's work in light of the repertory he and his fellow papal singers performed from the chapel's singers' box. Comprising the single largest surviving corpus of late fifteenth-century sacred music, these pieces served as a backdrop for elaborately choreographed liturgical ceremonies--a sonic analogue to the frescoes by Botticelli, Perugino, and their contemporaries that adorn the chapel's walls. Jesse Rodin uses a comparative approach to uncover this aesthetically and intellectually rich musical tradition. He confronts longstanding problems concerning the authenticity and chronology of Josquin's music while offering nuanced readings of scandalously understudied works by the composer's contemporaries. The book further contextualizes Josquin by locating intersections between his music and the wider soundscape of the Cappella Sistina. Central to Rodin's argument is the idea that these pieces lived in performance. The author puts his interpretations into practice through a series of exquisite recordings by his ensemble, Cut Circle (available both on the companion website and as a CD from Musique en Wallonie). Josquin's Rome is an essential resource for musicologists, scholars of the Italian Renaissance, and enthusiasts of early music.

The Cambridge Companion to Choral Music - Cambridge Companions to Music (Hardcover, New): Andre de Quadros The Cambridge Companion to Choral Music - Cambridge Companions to Music (Hardcover, New)
Andre de Quadros
R2,274 Discovery Miles 22 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Choral music is now undoubtedly the foremost genre of participatory music making, with more people singing in choirs than ever before. Written by a team of leading international practitioners and scholars, this Companion addresses the history of choral music, its emergence and growth worldwide and its professional practice. The volume sets out a historical survey of the genre and follows with a kaleidoscopic bird's eye view of choral music from all over the world. Chapters vividly portray the emergence and growth of choral music from its Quranic antecedents in West and Central Asia to the baroque churches of Latin America, representing its global diversity. Uniquely, the book includes a pedagogical section where several leading choral musicians write about the voice and the inner workings of a choir and give their professional insights into choral practice. This Companion will appeal to choral scholars, directors and performers alike.

The Use of the International Phonetic Alphabet in the Choral Rehearsal (Hardcover): Duane Richard Karna The Use of the International Phonetic Alphabet in the Choral Rehearsal (Hardcover)
Duane Richard Karna; Contributions by Susan Bender, Rene Clausen, Dan Dressen, Christine Ericsdotter, …
R3,082 Discovery Miles 30 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The fusion of text with music is one of the most powerful methods by which a composer can express emotion to an audience, yet, all too often, the diction of choral groups is lacking to such a degree as to make the text unintelligible. So argues Duane R. Karna, who in The Use of the International Phonetic Alphabet in the Choral Rehearsal brings together 30 essays by experts from around the world to describe how the character symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) can be used by singers in the choral rehearsal. In an effort to conquer one of the greatest challenges facing choral directors and their choirs, contributors explore the use of the IPA system in a vast range of languages. Readers will find essays devoted to the use of IPA on matters of lyric diction for the following tongues: Baltic Languages, Basque, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Dutch, Ecclesiastical Latin, English, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Germanic Latin, Greek, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, and Swedish. Holding firmly to the belief that basic instruction in IPA character is part of a choir's training, Karna and his contributors see enormous potential for choirs to expand considerably their foreign-language repertoire and save considerable rehearsal time. The Use of the International Phonetic Alphabet in the Choral Rehearsal is the ideal primer for choral directors and choirmasters as well as choir members.

Tantum ergo, K.142 / Anh.C 3.04 - Vocal score (Latin, Paperback, Sargeant ed.): Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Tantum ergo, K.142 / Anh.C 3.04 - Vocal score (Latin, Paperback, Sargeant ed.)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Richard W. Sargeant
R229 Discovery Miles 2 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This work was once credited to Mozart but later discounted as being by him and attributed instead to the composer Jan Zach (1699-1773). Rcent Zach scholarship has largely discredited the idea of Zach being the composer. In any case, this work has remained quite popular for good reason regardless of who the actual composer may have been. This new, beautifully engraved vocal score edited by Richard Sargeant will be welcomed by choruses worldwide interested in performance or study of this delightful piece of Latin church music from Mozart's time.

Alma Dei creatoris, K.277 / 272a - Vocal score (Latin, Paperback, Sargeant ed.): Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Alma Dei creatoris, K.277 / 272a - Vocal score (Latin, Paperback, Sargeant ed.)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Richard W. Sargeant
R229 Discovery Miles 2 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Scande coeli limina, K.34 - Vocal score (Latin, Paperback, Sargeant ed.): Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Scande coeli limina, K.34 - Vocal score (Latin, Paperback, Sargeant ed.)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Contributions by Richard W. Sargeant
R229 Discovery Miles 2 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Composed at while returning from a concert trip to Italy, this setting of the Latin hymn text was possibly heard for the first time on 21 March of 1767 at the Kloster Seeon in Bavaria. The vocal score offered here is a newly engraved one in a very easy-to-read and convenient format designed for choruses, carefully edited by Richard W. Sargeant, Jr

Missa Sancti Nicolai, Hob.XXII.6 - Study score (Latin, Paperback, McAlister ed.): Joseph Haydn Missa Sancti Nicolai, Hob.XXII.6 - Study score (Latin, Paperback, McAlister ed.)
Joseph Haydn; Edited by Clark McAlister
R422 R365 Discovery Miles 3 650 Save R57 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4 - Vocal score (German, Paperback, Bga, West ed.): Johann Sebastian Bach Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4 - Vocal score (German, Paperback, Bga, West ed.)
Johann Sebastian Bach; Contributions by Gustav Schreck; Translated by Henry Sandwith Drinker
R266 Discovery Miles 2 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For this beloved Cantata, the classic vocal score arranged by Bernhard Todt as a companion to the renowned Bach Gesellschaft Ausgabe was re-engraved by G. Schirmer in the early part of the 20th century with Henry Drinker's English translation added beneath the original German text. Now available in an easy-to-use, convenient size designed to fit comfortably in choral folders.

Bach'S Dialogue with Modernity - Perspectives on the Passions (Book): John Butt Bach'S Dialogue with Modernity - Perspectives on the Passions (Book)
John Butt
R1,303 Discovery Miles 13 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Providing a detailed analysis of Bach's Passions, this 2010 book represents an important contribution to the debate about the culture of 'classical music', its origins, priorities and survival. The angles from which each chapter proceeds differ from those of a traditional music guide, by examining the Passions in the light of the mindsets of modernity, and their interplay with earlier models of thought and belief. While the historical details of Bach's composition, performance and theological context remain crucial, the foremost concern of this study is to relate these works to a historical context that may, in some threads at least, still be relevant today. The central claim of the book is that the interplay of traditional imperatives and those of early modernity renders Bach's Passions particularly fascinating as artefacts that both reflect and constitute some of the priorities and conditions of the western world.

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