Resources - Spring 2024 Concert Pieces
Michael W. is currently (January) deleting the older links and posting the Spring 2024 items. Your patience is appreciated.
Here is the PDF-Score of Brahms' German Requiem (with Ryan's notes)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HAr6snhbGjLVXakzDD4Topez3MMIT_Nq/view?usp=drive_link
YouTube and other videos: You can copy & paste the web addresses below, or click on the Bold, Underlined text, which is linked to the YouTube recordings. A drop-down menu may prompt you to 'open link in new tab', just click on that.
For some links, you may get popups, alerting you that the link is an 'External Source'.
Just click 'open link in new tab'.
For YouTube and some other sites, click 'Skip Ads' once recording begins.
J. BRAHMS - EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM
Choralia: These are 'synthesizer generated' and sound quite artificial, but can be very useful. You can copy & paste the web addresses below,
....or click on the Bold, Underlined text, which is linked to the MP3 page source.
Choralia (https://www.choralia.net/br01mp3/br01mp3en.htm)
ChordPerfect: These are real voices, individual SATB parts emphasized, all other voices diminished. Movements I - VII are available through each link.
Soprano: (https://www.chordperfect.com/brahms-a-german-requiem-soprano-chorus-rehearsal-aid/)
Alto: (https://www.chordperfect.com/brahms-a-german-requiem-alto-chorus-rehearsal-aid/)
Tenor: (https://www.chordperfect.com/brahms-a-german-requiem-tenor-chorus-rehearsal-aid/)
Bass1: (https://www.chordperfect.com/brahms-a-german-requiem-1st-bass-chorus-rehearsal-aid/)
Bass2 (https://www.chordperfect.com/brahms-a-german-requiem-2nd-bass-chorus-rehearsal-aid/)
Omaha Symphony - Recordings, Rehearsal Track, Pronunciation Guides, ......the works!!
(https://www.omahasymphony.org/choral-collaborative-resources)
Spoken, German Pronunciation: Just click the 'Slower' or 'Faster' text.
YouTube - J. BRAHMS - EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM (14 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilw_aW0ncz0
This and more available here:
https://www.cncs.org.uk/pre-start-conductors-notes/
This link is a PDF that Includes IPA phonetic transcription and word-for-word English translation:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wlwu_-EIYj6ElI72ddiXnOrBC_GHQYO8/view?usp=drive_link
Resources from Previous Seasons
Geistliches Lied, Opus 30 - Brahms:
Oh Schöne Nacht Op 92 No 1 - Brahms
Thanks Roland!!!! ... for finding these tracks and making them available to us!
Fellow Choristers:
Click link to download a printable 'Ecclesiastical Latin Pronunciation Guide'
Straw Exercises
The following videos provide instructions and demonstrations of the straw exercises Ryan shared in rehearsal.
From the scientist who popularized it:
What he doesn’t do is show how to use water and to switch from just air to singing and back.
https://youtu.be/0xYDvwvmBIM?si=2tEUqxNld3Md41v3
From other teachers: