Choral music Books

Book Synopsis“In this one-of-a-kind celebration of singing with others, I’d call her pitch nearly perfect.”—The Atlantic For Stacy Horn, regardless of what is going on in the world or her life, singing in an amateur choir—the Choral Society of Grace Church in New York—never fails to take her to a place where hope reigns and everything good is possible. She’s not particularly religious, and her voice is not exceptional (so she says), but like the 32.5 million other chorus members throughout this country, singing makes her happy. Horn brings us along as she sings some of the greatest music humanity has ever produced, delves into the dramatic stories of conductors and composers, unearths the fascinating history of group singing, and explores remarkable discoveries from the new science of singing, including all the unexpected health benefits. Imperfect Harmony is the story of one woman who has found joy and strength in the weekly ritual of singing and in the irresistible power of song.

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Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging contribution to the study of nationalism and the social history of music examines the relationship between choral societies and national mobilization in the nineteenth century. From Norway to the Basque country and from Wales to Bulgaria, this pioneering study explores and compares the ways choral societies influenced and reflected the development of national awareness under differing political and social circumstances. By the second half of the nineteenth century, organized communal singing became a primary leisure activity that attracted all layers of society. Though strongly patriotic in tone, choral societies borrowed from each other and relied heavily on prominent German or French models. This volume is the first to address both the national and transnational significance of choral singing. Contributors are: Carmen De Las Cuevas Hevia, Jan Dewilde, Tomáš Kavka, Anne Jorunn Kydland, Krisztina Lajosi, Joep Leerssen, Sophie-Anne Leterrier, Jane Mallinson, Tatjana Marković, Fiona M. Palmer, Karel Šima, Andreas Stynen, Dominique Vidaud, Ivanka Vlaeva, Jozef Vos, Gareth Williams, Hana Zimmerhaklová.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ... vii Notes on Contributors ... viii Introduction ... 1 Krisztina Lajosi and Andreas Stynen 1 German Influences: Choirs, Repertoires, Nationalities ... 14 Joep Leerssen 2 Choral Societies and Nationalist Mobilization in Nineteenth-Century France ... 33 Sophie-Anne Leterrier 3 Song in the Service of Politics and the Building of Norway ... 53 Anne Jorunn Kydland 4 Choral Societies and Nationalist Mobilization in the Nineteenth Century: A Scottish Perspective ... 70 Jane Mallinson 5 Fighting Choirs: Choral Singing and the Emergence of a Welsh National Tradition, 1860–1914 ... 83 Gareth Williams 6 The Large-Scale Oratorio Chorus in Nineteenth-Century England: Choral Power and the Role of Handel’s Messiah ... 99 Fiona M. Palmer 7 National Art and Local Sociability: Dutch Male Choral Societies in the Nineteenth Century ... 111 Jozef Vos 8 The Choir Scene in Flemish Belgium in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century: The Vlaemsch-Duitsch Zangverbond ... 130 Jan Dewilde 9 Choral Societies and Nationalist Mobilization in the Basque Country: The Orfeon Donostiarra ... 152 Carmen de las Cuevas Hevia 10 Choral Societies and Nationalist Mobilization in Catalonia, 1850–1930 ... 157 Dominique Vidaud 11 “By Means of Singing to the Heart, by Means of Heart to the Homeland”: Choral Societies and the Nationalist Mobilization of Czechs in the Nineteenth Century ... 187 Karel Šima, Tomáš Kavka, and Hana Zimmerhaklová 12 Collapsing Stages and Standing Ovations: Hungarian Choral Societies and Sociability in the Nineteenth Century ... 206 Krisztina Lajosi 13 Choral Societies and National Mobilization in the Serbian (Inter)national Network ... 225 Tatjana Marković 14 Choral Societies and National Mobilization in Nineteenth-Century Bulgaria ... 241 Ivanka Vlaeva Bibliography ... 261 Index ... 280

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Book SynopsisMost choirs spend their rehearsal time focusing on notes rhythms and precision. They rarely if ever discuss a song''s meaning and feeling even though those elements are precisely what draws people to the music in the first place. Thousands of books have been written about choral technique teaching people how to sing technically well. What sets ÊThe Heart of Vocal HarmonyÊ apart is its focus on honest unified expression and the process of delivering an emotionally compelling performance. It delves into an underdeveloped vocal topic ä the heart of the music and the process involved with expressing it.ÞÊThe Heart of Vocal HarmonyÊ is not just for a cappella groups ä it is also for vocal harmony groups ensembles and choirs at all levels with or without instruments. In addition to the process the book features discussions with some of the biggest luminaries in vocal harmony: composers arrangers directors singers and groups ä including Eric Whitacre Pentatonix the Manhattan T

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Book SynopsisChoral Voices: Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality is about sacred and secular choirs in Goa and Shillong across churches, seminaries, schools, auditoriums, classrooms, reality TV shows, and festivals. Voice and genre emerge as social objects annotated by tradition, nostalgia, and innovation. Piety literally and metaphorically shapes the Christian lifeworld, predominantly those belonging to the Presbyterian and Catholic denominations. Indigeneity structures the political and cultural motifs in the making of the Christian musical traditions. Located at the intersection of Sociology, Anthropology, and Ethnomusicology, the choral voices emplace affect' and the visual-aural dispatch. Thus, sonic spectrum holds space for indigenous and global musicality.This ethnographic work will be useful for scholars researching music and sound studies, religious studies, cultural anthropology, and sociology of India.Trade ReviewChoral Voices is fantastic! In destabilizing notions of culture, colonization, and sound, Sebanti Chatterjee weaves a compelling story of belonging and faith. Through aural participation and multi-sited ethnography readers are transported to the overlooked arenas of identity and indigeneity in contemporary India, with crucial insights for worlds beyond. * Duncan McDuie-Ra, Professor of Urban Sociology, The University of Newcastle, Australia *Choral Voices is an important addition to the growing body of work that challenges fondly held notions of 'East' and 'West.' * Naresh Fernandes, author of Taj Mahal Foxtrot: The Story of Bombay's Jazz Age *This excellent study brings together an understanding of music, sound, voice, indigeneity, sacrality, and the ways in which these are knitted together in the choral music of Shillong and Goa. The book is also a moving personal account of crossing given religious, linguistic, regional, and cultural identities through the practice of music. * Vidya Rao, singer, writer, and editor, Orient BlackSwan publishers *Sebanti Chatterjee constructs a beautifully detailed and captivating ethnographic account of Christian choral singing within contrasting locales in India. Highlighting colonial influence as well as indigenous agency, Chatterjee's account demonstrates the intertwining roles of faith and musical genre in creating a people's sacred imagination. Her book is an important addition to anthropological and ethnomusicological studies of Christian communities. * Monique Ingalls, Associate Professor of Music, Baylor University, USA, and author of Singing the Congregation: How Contemporary Worship Music Forms Evangelical Community (2018) *Sebanti Chatterjee’s work is a significant contribution to the emerging field of voice studies in South Asia. Backed by a rich ethnography, it parses choral voices in multiple sites to revisit questions of repertoire, indigeneity and faith practice and in the process indexes a complex set of social relations and meaning making. * Lakshmi Subramanian, Visiting professor of History, BITS Pilani Goa, India *Table of ContentsListofIllustrations Prologue: Warming Up 1 Introduction: Choral beginnings: Inside the chapel and a home studio 1.1 A biography of community- delineating the Sacred and the Heritage 1.2 Establishing a musical cadence 1.3 Framing choral music within Christian landscapes 1.4 Aural Intentions: Summary of chapters 2 Making of the Indigenous 2.1 Interrogating the Indigenous 2.2 Emplacing the Indigenous 2.3 Understanding Indigeneity, Inculturality and Decoloniality 2.4 Music and Decoloniality 2.5 Exploring the relationship between Indigeneity and Sacrality 2.6 Indigenous Possibilities in curricula and performance: Field narratives 2.7 Towards Sonic Interculturality 3 From Loft to the Recording Studio: Shillong Diaries 3.1 What brings you to Shillong? Introduction 3.2 Cusp of Sacrality, new Technologies and Creative Processes 3.3 Choral Voices as ethnographic objects 3.4 Short Historical Snippets about Christianity and Musicality in Khasi and Lushai Hills 3.5 Discussing Genre, Intertextuality and Territorialisation 3.6 Shillong Chamber Choir 3.7 Repertoire- Medleys/Crossovers 3.8 Beyond performance 3.9 Aroha Choir 3.10 Conclusion 4 The Language of Music: Notes from a Goan Seminary 4.1 Inhabiting the Seminary 4.2 Outlining Goan Sacred Music 4.3 A brief history of music and language in Goa 4.4 Entering the field site 4.5 Rachol Seminary 4.6 Introducing the seminarians 4.7 Syncretic musical experimentations in Goan Sacred music 4.8 Goan Sacred music- Motets 4.9 Conclusion 5 Mapping Choral Voices: Role of People and Places 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Hierarchization of voices 5.3 Indigeneity and Christian Music Tradition 5.4 Music Performance 5.5 Conclusion 6 Tutti: Concluding Section 6.1 The Musical Clef Notating Certainty- Uncertainty 6.2 Positing the Vocal Phrasing Acknowledgments Bibliography Glossary Appendix Documentary – Da Capo Index

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Book SynopsisMendelssohn describes his 1840 work, Hymn of Praise, to his friend Klingemann as "a 'symphony for chorus and orchestra'... First are the three symphonic movements, to which 12 choral and solo movements are added;... from the words of the Psalms, 'Everything which has breath, Praise the Lord'; one understands that first the instruments give praise in their own way, and then the chorus and the individual voices."

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Book SynopsisAmong Verdi's many compositions, as a work of sacred music, the Requiem remains unique. It was composed as a musical memorial for the Italian national poet Allessandro Manzoni, deeply admired by Verdi, and was first performed on the first anniversary of his death on 22 May 1874 in Milan Cathedral. The exploration of many extremes places Verdi's tonal language with musical means, wholly in the service of a dramatized liturgy. The edition is based on the autograph asthe primary source and makes accessible one of the most important requiem settings of the 19th century in a modern scholarly edition. In addition to the musical text the score contains a detailed foreword in three languages, a critical report with information on the source situation, the edition andthe various readings. The complete performance material will be available for sale.

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Book SynopsisFor his Oratorio Mendelssohn made a discreet selection from St. Paul''s eventful life as recounted in the acts of the Apostles. The story begins with the stoning of St. Steven by the Jews, and continues through his miraculous conversion to the scene in Lystra, where Paul himself is nearly martyred by stoning, and his farewell in Miletus. Hardly any Oratorio of the Romantic period, could match St. Paul in popularity. Only years later was it overtaken in the public esteem by Mendlessohn''s Elijah. In the first two years following its premiere performance it was performed in over fifty German cities, in many European capitals and the United States.Paulus op. 36 (Klavierauszug): Für SATBB soli, Chor und OrchesterDas Paulus-Oratorium ist ein Auftragswerk des Frankfurter Cäcilien-Verein. 1832 wurde es in Auftrag gegeben wurde und in seiner endgültigen Fassung 1836 in Liverpool aufgeführt. In zwei Teilen erzählt Mendelssohn in diesem Werk die Geschichte des Apostels Paulus. Dramatische wichtige Szenen lässt der Komponist aus. Es geht Mendelssohn nicht um die Nacherzählung der Apostelgeschichte sondern um die Darstellung der Persönlichkeit des Paulus. In dieser Form ist das Oratorium ein Appell zur Bekehrung.

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Book SynopsisI thought Heaven was open and seeing the Creator of all things, Handel is said to have shouted after finishing the second part of the oratorio with the famous Hallelujah. In about three weeks he wrote down the score. In 1742, the Messiah was premiered with great success as a charity concert for several charities in Dublin. Since then it has been one of the most important works of sacred music. Edition for Soli, Chorus and Piano reduction.Der Messias HWV 56 (Klavierauszug)Georg Friedrich Händels berühmtestes Werk Der Messias, engl. Messiah, wurde 1742 in Dublin zu einer Wohltätigkeitsveranstaltung uraufgeführt und erfreut sich dank ihrer prachtvollen Gestaltung bis heute größter Beliebtheit. Das Werk teilt sich auf in drei Abschnitte, die auf biblischen Texten basieren. Der erste Abschnitt befasst sich mit alttestamentarischen Prophezeiungen der Geburt Christi, der zweite handelt vom Leben Jesu und der dritte Teil von Erlösung Auferstehung.

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Book SynopsisIn this new Urtext edition, Klaus Burmeister builds on our 1929 edition by Kurt Soldan. The piano part has been revised for consistency alongside our new full score, supplying instrument cues and supporting accompaniment in a cappella passages, while retaining rehearsal letters and measure numbers.Elias op. 70 (Klavierauszug)Revidierte Neuausgabe (Urtext) nach den Quellen Ersetzt die bisherige, 1929 von Kurt Soldan vorgelegte Peters-Ausgabe. Moderner Klavierauszug mit großzügigem und übersichtlichem Notensatz Neue Seitenaufteilung unter Beibehaltung der traditionellen Taktzahlen und Studierbuchstaben Klaviersatz neu durchgesehen, optimiert und mit Instrumentenhinweisen.

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Book SynopsisMagische und vergnugliche Momente sind bei jeder Art des Musizierens moglich. Nie aber gelingt dies so direkt und spontan wie im Offenen Singen. Hier ist das Musizieren unabhangig von Alter, Stil und Kultur, und die Mitwirkung geschieht in groter Freiheit. Unter einer guten Anleitung werden musikalisch authentische Erlebnisse fur alle Beteiligten auf direktem Weg erfahrbar. Neben methodischer Feinarbeit und Kommunikationsfahigkeit ist hierfur eine geschickte Repertoirewahl die wesentlichste Voraussetzung.Dieser Sammelband bietet eine breite Auswahl an bewährten und neuen Stücken für alle Arten des Offenen Singens und gibt wertvolle Tipps für deren erfolgreiche Planung und Durchführung.Über 160 Stücke in 6 Rubriken: Kanons, Humor, Bewegung Aus aller Welt Klassisches und Geistliches Advent und Weihnachten Gospel, Blues, Jazz Rock, Pop, Schlager Für alle Altersstufen Für verschiedenste Gelegenheiten Für Chortreffen und -festivals Für Chöre und Publikum Für Sänger und Nichtsänger Mit einem umfassenden Kapitel zur Methodik des Offenen Singens Mit leicht realisierbarem Repertoire und modular aufbereiteten Liedern Mit internationalen Highlights, bewährten Klassikern und Neukompositionen Mit vielfältigen Gestaltungshinweisen und Bewegungsanleitungen Mit praktischer Einteilung der Lieder nach Kategorienover Sing along! Sing mit!: song book for open singingMagical and enjoyable moments are possible with every type of music making. But this is never achieved as directly and spontaneously as in open singing. Here, making music is independent of age, style and culture, and participation takes place in the greatest freedom. With good guidance, musically authentic experiences can be experienced directly for everyone involved. In addition to methodical precision work and communication skills, a skillful choice of repertoire is the most important prerequisite for this.This anthology offers a wide selection of tried and tested and new pieces for all types of open singing and gives valuable tips for their successful planning and implementation.

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Book SynopsisReine Frauensache!was released on occasion of the German Choir Festival in Stuttgart in May 2016. Divided into four sections (Secular, Sacred, Folklore and Popular) the collection covers newer compositions which are part of the repertoire of many womens choirs already as well as ageless beautiful titles from older eras; music spans from Palestrina, Telemann, Gounod, Brahms, Distler and Chaminade to NancyTelfer, Sandra Milliken, Sarah Quartel and Eriks Ešenvalds.The editors focus is on musical quality, well singable, mostly 34 part titles to meet the capabilities of non professional singers and moreover on the quality of texts. It is a highly vivid collection with attractive compositions from different origins, genres and eras a treasure trove for those interested in womens choirs.Reine Frauensache!: 60 Highlights für FrauenchorMit 60 Stücken für hohe Stimmen, überwiegend a cappella, spannt Reine Frauensache! den Bogen über sechs Jahrhunderte und verschiedenste Stilrichtungen von geistlicher Musik bis Pop. Immer den Blick auf gute Singbarkeit und wirkungsvolle Klangergebnisse gerichtet, enthält die Sammlung zeitlos schöne Originalkompositionen von Komponisten wie Palestrina, Bach, Eric Whitacre und Eriks Eenvalds sowie Arrangements von Pop-Klassikern wie Somewhere over the Rainbow und I Will Survive.60 leichte bis mittelschwere 3- bis 4-stimmige Chorsätze, bestens für Laienchöre geeignetWirkungsvolles und vielseitig einsetzbares Repertoire in vier Kategorien: Weltlich, Geistlich, Folklore und PopulärÜberwiegend a cappella; obligate Klavier- und Orgelbegleitungen separat erhältlichMit sinngemäßen Übersetzungen fremdsprachiger Texte im Anhang Eine Fundgrube für alle Frauenchöre!

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Book SynopsisUpper-voice choirs were delighted with the award-winning first volume of Reine Frauensache! (BEST EDITION 2017), and Edition Peters are now proud to release Volume 2 in the series. Containing 25 choral settings graded easy to intermediate in three or four parts, Reine Frauensache 2 is sure to become a standard resource for choirs of all abilities. The repertoire ranges from Pergolesi to ABBA and from Beethoven to Beyonce in original settings and arrangements, edited by four of the most respected choral specialists of our time.Oberstimmenchöre waren begeistert vom preisgekrönten ersten Band von Reine Frauensache! (BEST EDITION 2017) und Edition Peters ist stolz darauf, nun Band 2 der Reihe zu präsentieren. Mit 25 drei- bis vierstimmigen Chorsätzen in den Schwierigkeitsgraden leicht bis mittelschwer ist Reine Frauensache 2, herausgegeben von vier der angesehensten Chorspezialisten unserer Zeit, das Standardwerk für Chöre aller Leistungsstufen. Das Repertoire enthält Originalsätze sowie Arrangements und reicht von Pergolesi bis ABBA und von Beethoven bis Beyoncé.

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Book SynopsisComprises what remains of a gigantic cathedral codex commissioned in Bruges about 1463 and containing English, Franco-Flemish, and Italian sacred music of the fifteenth century - including works by the celebrated composers Guillaume Du Fay and Henricus Isaac.

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