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The Choral Public Domain Library ( CPDL ), also known as the ChoralWiki, is an online database for choral and vocal music. Its contents primarily include sheet music in the public domain or otherwise freely available for printing and performing (such as via permission from the copyright holder). It is a 501 (c) (3), tax-deductible organization ...
Canticum Sacrum. Canticum Sacrum ad Honorem Sancti Marci Nominis is a 17-minute choral - orchestral piece composed in 1955 by Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) in tribute "To the City of Venice, in praise of its Patron Saint, the Blessed Mark, Apostle ." The piece is compact and stylistically varied, ranging from established neoclassical modes to ...
Windham (38b) from the Sacred Harp, showing the four-shape notation and the traditional oblong layout. Sacred Harp singing is a tradition of sacred choral music that originated in New England and was later perpetuated and carried on in the American South. The name is derived from The Sacred Harp, a ubiquitous and historically important tunebook ...
The Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom ( Russian: Литургия святого Иоанна Златоуста, Liturgiya svyatogo Ioanna Zlatousta) is an a cappella choral composition by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, his Op. 41, composed in 1878. [1] It consists of settings of texts taken from the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, the most ...
Religious music (also sacred music) is a type of music that is performed or composed for religious use or through religious influence. It may overlap with ritual music, which is music, sacred or not, performed or composed for or as ritual. Religious songs have been described as a source of strength, as well as a means of easing pain, improving ...
The All-Night Vigil ( Pre-reform Russian: Всенощное бдѣніе, Vsénoshchnoye bdéniye; Modern Russian: Всенощное бдение) is an a cappella choral composition by Sergei Rachmaninoff, his Op . 37, premiered on 10/23 March 1915 in Moscow. The piece consists of settings of texts taken from the Russian Orthodox All-night ...
SATB choir, optional continuo. " Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts ", Z. 58, [1] designates two choral settings composed by Henry Purcell. The text is one of the Anglican funeral sentences from the Book of Common Prayer. Early versions began possibly in 1672 and were revised twice before 1680. Purcell composed his last version, in a ...
Most of Johann Sebastian Bach 's extant church music in Latin — settings of (parts of) the Mass ordinary and of the Magnificat canticle—dates from his Leipzig period (1723–50). Bach started to assimilate and expand compositions on a Latin text by other composers before his tenure as Thomaskantor in Leipzig, and he continued to do so after ...