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Choral Music
The rich history of both sacred and secular vocal music has seen many diverse styles emerge, including Early Music, Renaissance, Russian and English sacred music, and 20th Century compositions that push the boundaries of harmony, vocal technique and composition. We carry a wide selection of choral CDs from the finest ensembles and choirs from around the world. |
Choral Arrangements
If you're a fan or performer of choral music, you know that many of the amateur ensembles tend to lean towards the same repertoire. We all know that it's not their fault - it's just hard to find a broad range of pieces of sheet music to perform, right? Er... well, actually, no. Look no further! Whether four-century-old folk music, liturgical pieces, or even a choral take on 1980's pop, we've got everything a choral fan and performer needs to expand their repertoire and make their singing the freshest experience it's ever been, including choral songbooks and sheet music from some of the top choral arrangers and ensembles of the last half-century.
Choral Sheet Music Series
While we offer a wide selection of songbooks and collections of vocal harmony arrangements we also carry thousands of individual folios. Here we have arrangements of every style and genre sorted by the various publisher's sheet music series featuring both a sacred and secular titles.
Choral Conducting
As any singer knows, a good conductor makes or breaks a choir. But if you don’t have the time, money or skills to go to a university program to study to be a conductor, where can you learn those important skills that will help you lead your group to the excellence you know is buried within? We’re glad you asked! You’ve come to the right place… Here you can learn how to conduct with feeling, how to encourage communications or evoke just that sound you’re looking for, we’ve got the books for you. You can learn basic conducting skills or advanced techniques, so we’re good for the beginners and the experienced!
Choral Arrangers
From simple arrangements for kids choirs to complex multi-part arrangements for experienced choruses we list here some of the most talented arrangers published todya.
Choral Recordings
The rich history of both sacred and secular vocal music has seen many diverse styles emerge, including Early Music, Renaissance, Russian and English sacred music, and 20th Century compositions that push the boundaries of harmony, vocal technique and composition. We carry a wide selection of choral CDs from the finest ensembles and choirs from around the world.
Choral Development Material
A good choral group makes it all sound so easy, as they sweep you away with their music. With these instructional and developmental works, your choir, too, can fool the audience into thinking it's a breeze. From the basic beginnings of forming the choir, up to the complexity of gaining that world-class sound, in every genre of choral music, it's all here, in book, video & DVD format.
Choral Directors
There are many elements necessary to create a great choral sound from the quality of the singers to the intricacies of an arrangement but none are more important than the director. Directing the choir, choosing repertoire, auditioning singers are just some of the talents needed to be a successful director. Fortunately many directors have created many fine recordings and many have shared their knowledge with a wide variety of choral development books and DVDs. Here we have bios and photos of some of the top directors from around the world.
The Choirs
There are inumerable great choirs throughout the world and here is a list of some of the best.
Choral Composers
So much of what many of us would think of as choral music is traditional, centuries-old works, things our parent and grandparents grew up with, but that’s really not the be-all and end-all of choral works. There are many talented, genius composers of the last century and a bit, who have created some beautiful, stellar works that are being sung by choirs around the world today. Why not check out some of these brilliant men and women’s work? If you’ve never tried modern choral work, you’re in for a lovely surprise.
Choral Singers Resources
Singing in a choir is certainly lots of fun but there is not always the time or opportunity for the individual singer to improve their voice. Here we offer a selection of books that are specially designed for the choral singer to help make them better singers.
Early Music
The very definition of music, and particularly, a cappella, has changed throughout the centuries. Here, with these groups, you can hear what a cappella sounded like in the days when it really was written to be performed in the chapel.
Children's Choirs
This is your one-stop shop for everything a children’s choir enthusiast will want, whether it’s from the role of someone directing a children’s choir, or just someone who loves to listen to the beautiful singing of these talented kids around the world. In the half-dozen sections covered under this category, we have got books for our customers the conductors, CDs for the fans, and arrangements galore, and it’s the opportunity to enjoy lovely sounds and learn how to create them yourself with your own groups. Listen to the music, and then learn how to bring it home to your kid’s group.
Choral Performance DVDs
How often do you get to see world-class choral groups from Africa or Europe in your hometown? With these terrific choral DVDs, the answer is "any time you want!" Better yet, not only can you take these international-caliber performances in world-famous concert halls home to your own living room, you can buy the DVD that teaches you how they do it. Excellent for the classroom also.
Choral Christmas Music
In a genre that has been split along gender lines for most of a century, who'd have expected mixed barbershop to be successful? Well, whoever didn't, should have. The great thing about mixed barbershop quartets is that they combine the best of the single-gender groups, and build on them. Mixed barbershop is on its way - you'll definitely want to get on the train now!
Choral Music for Easter
As one of the most important times in the Christian calander there is a rich tradition of music for Easter including for Ash Wednesday and Lent, Passiontide, Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday. We offer here a selection of both recordings and arrangements which celebrate this special period.