SKU: CY.CC2768

Ave Maria is a traditional Catholic prayer asking for intercession from the Virgin Mary. The prayer has often been set to music.

Frank Gazda has beautifully arranged four musical settings of the prayer for Trombone Quartet or four-part Trombone Ensemble by: Jacob Arcadelt (Renaissance), Johann Joseph Fux (Baroque), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Classical) and Giuseppe Verdi (Romantic).

Although originally composed as four-part choral settings, they work perfectly for the Trombone. Each piece stands on its own as a work of beauty, or the four can be performed as a whole. They are at a moderately advanced level of difficulty.

SKU: GI.G-006188

UPC: 641151061887. English.

Another great year-round resource for teachers, catechists, parents, and anyone who works with and cares about the faith formation of young children (ages 5-10)! Like Catholic Corner Volume 1: Saints & Holy Ones (006186), this book and CD-ROM set includes 30 reproducible pages about signs and symbols of Catholic tradition, as well as hands-on activities. Sharing activities and prayer opportunities invite children and adults into the richness of Catholic life together. Send home with children in school or religious education programs, use as a starting point for lessons on the saints, mail with school or parish newsletters, share as a multi-generational activity in the home. A worthwhile investment in the faith-future of children!

SKU: HL.978474

ISBN 9781638871361. UPC: 196288090922. 9.0x12.0x0.102 inches.

This one of a kind album pairs two of the most performed Ave Maria's for violin and piano, meticulously edited by Jascha Heifetz' protege, Endre Granat. The first of these is Schubert's melody, which was originally composed as a setting of a song from Walter Scott's popular narrative poem The Lady of the Lake, titled, “Ellen's Third Song” (Ellens dritter Gesang). The opening words and refrain of Ellen's song, namely “Ave Maria” (Latin for “Hail Mary”), may have led to the idea of adapting Schubert's melody as a setting for the full text of the traditional Roman Catholic prayer. The Latin version of the song is now so frequently used with Schubert's melody that it has led to the misconception that he originally wrote the melody as a setting for the “Ave Maria.” The second Ave Maria in this collection was created when Gounod famously improvised the melody over the background of J.S. Bach's Prelude No. 1 in C major, BWV 846, from The Well-Tempered Clavier. Gounod's beatiful improvisation was transcribed by his future father-in-law Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann, which was published with the Bach keyboard accompaniment in 1835 under the title “Méditation sur le Premier Prélude de Piano de S. Bach.” Alongside Schubert's version, the Bach/Gounod Ave Maria has become a fixture at funerals, wedding masses, and quinceañeras. Both works have been recorded hundreds of times during the twentieth century.

SKU: MN.50-9069

UPC: 688670590696.

Spiritual. Maintains simple beauty and flowing melody of gospel hymn, HOLY QUIETNESS, while developing contrasting theme in accompaniment and varying key and vocal parts for each stanza. Appropriate introduction of traditional gospel hymnody to choirs/congregations.