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Hymn To St. John Neumann 10/26/2009 - 11:20 AM PST
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Catholic PRWire
A New Choirbook for Catholic Churches
ENGLEWOOD, TN (October 26, 2009) - Up until the 1960's, Catholic Hymnals combined music for the congregation to sing along with music for a choir to sing. You'd find music by Palestrina, Mozart and others, hand-picked from the great music for choirs and selected for appropriate use at Mass and devotions. With Vatican II, many churches abandoned choirs and publishers followed the trend and focused on printing hymnbooks with words and melodies, providing choir copies with harmonies for some of the hymns in the collection and marketed choral music to churches only as individual copies of pieces, making them more expensive to buy than collections.
The Catholic Choirbook 1 is the first collection of music for Catholic choirs in years, in a series of books for choirs. It provides a Catholic choir with historic and modern choral music, arrangements of beautiful Catholic hymns, 35 choral works all in one book.
The Catholic Choirbook is large format, 8" by 10", yet lightweight and easy to hold. Because many choir lofts are not as well lit as they might be, the clear, readable print size makes it easy to read.
The level of difficulty ranges from easy to challenging and settings range from unison to two part to four parts. There is a good mix of English and Latin lyrics with music from Palestrina to Mozart to Edward Elgar.
Accompaniments are provided for all 35 anthems and are written for organ without pedals, so they may also be played on piano or keyboard.
A generous discount for the purchase of multiple copies helps make this book affordable for church choirs.
This book is edited and published by Noel Jones at Frog Music Press. For full information visit the website at www.thecatholicchoirbook.com.
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Frog Music Press http://www.thecatholichymnal.com TN, 37329 US noel Jones - Editor, 423-887-7594 |
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