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The ".Loop Songs". by Bertrand Grö.ger (Jazzchor Freiburg) are modern choir exercises for all SATB groups. Originally conceived as warm-ups or to loosen up repertoire rehearsals, many songs are also suitable as concert songs.
The 44 compositions, devided into four graded levels of difficulty, offer a versatile practice method for style characteristics in relation to rhythm, harmonics and melodics. By means of ".learning by singing"., the singers acquire skills in scat syllables, timing and intonation. This collection contains two and a half hours of music and presents a wide range of music genres: Swing, Latin, Afro, Gospel, Rand.B, Funk, Pop, Rock and World music.

With Zwei lateinische Marienmotetten for mixed a cappella choir (SATB) and interlude for organ or string quintet, Andreas Pieper has created two gems of Marian devotion which are perfect for being used in church services. The two four-part chants pay homage to the Virgin Mary and refer to two different solemnities of the Roman Catholic Church celebrated in her honour. Whereas Assumpta est Maria is a motet for the Feast of the Assumption of Mary on 15 August, Benedicta es tu, virgo Maria refers to the Feast of the Immaculate Conception celebrated every year on 8 December. Both choral settings can be easily mastered by ambitious church choirs, and the interlude and postlude for organ or string quintet of Assumpta est Maria, the easier one of the two motets, can be easily performed even by amateur musicians.

Latin.

Carl Orff's masterpiece Carmina Burana composed in 1936 undoubtedly is one of the best-known musical creations throughout the world. By popular request, we now publish a separate edition of the opening chorus O Fortuna taken from the piano score (ED 2877) of the complete work. This new separate edition provides the opportunity to perform O Fortuna in a mixed concert.

Latin.

During his time as Master of the Queen's Music, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies wrote a new carol for Her Majesty the Queen each Christmas. Ave, Plena Gracia , written for Christmas 2009, was the fifth in this series after An Heavenly Song, Wonder Tidings, The Yule-tide Bell and Kings and Shepherds all of which are published in the Schott Royal Collection.

First performed in St. James's Palace by the choir of the Chapel Royal on the Epiphany at the end of the 2009/2010 Christmas period, Ave, Plena Gracia is a short and traditional Latin setting that would be perfect for amateur choirs looking for new repertoire.

Nino Rota's Mass was composed in Rome in 1962, the very same year when the Second Vatican Council formally opened in 1962, whose fundamental changes regarding the use of liturgical music directly found expression in Rota's work: As a result, the anticipation of Christmas was to be expressed by pure a cappella works without accompaniment in the Advent season.

Hungarian - English - German.

Beide Kanons sind im strengen Stil gehalten, wirken aber ganz unterschiedlich: Wahrend der erste das Stromen des Flusses in tonaler Harmonik illustriert, versinnbildlicht der zweite (fur Frauenchor gedachte) Kanon wildes Tratschen durch Klangballungen und Akzentverschiebungen. Die ungarischen, deutschen und englischen Sprachvarianten haben jeweils einen ganz eigenen sprachlichen Reiz.

Latin.

Nino Rota wurde vor allem durch seine Filmmusiken zu ".Der Pate". (Francis Ford Coppola) und zu Filmen von Federico Fellini (La dolce vita / Das susse Leben, Otto e mezzo / achteinhalb, Il Casanova u.a.) und Luchino Visconti (Il Gattopardo / Der Leopard, Rocco e i suoi fratelli / Rocco und seine Bruder) bekannt. Daneben hat er aber immer auch Kammermusik und Vokalmusik komponiert, wobei die Chormusik einen besonderen Stellenwert hat. Hierbei sind Melodik und Harmonik unmittelbar eingangig und der geringe Schwierigkeitsgrad macht seine Chorstucke auch Laienchoren erreichbar. Und gerade in Unum panem sind Chor, Kinderchor und Orgel wirkungsvoll eingesetzt.

Latin.

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Mit jugendlicher und unbeschwerter Ironie entlasst dieses Stuck das Publikum mit einem Schmunzeln aus dem Konzert. Ideal fur junge oder jung gebliebene Chore.