Christmas special - selection of pieces for your Christmas programs by Musica International

• Posted by MusicaInternational September 29, 2023 - Filed in Choir Post - 265 views

  Each year, in September, Musica International (www.musicanet.org) chooses as its Favorite Piece of the Month a beautiful piece which would be perfect for your Christmas program.

  Here are a few of them, with multimedia illustrations, recordings of pronunciation and text translations:

  • Jingle Bells arranged by Jonathan Rathbone (Great Britain)
  • O Magnum Mysterium by Ivo Antognini (Switzerland)   
  • Dormi Jesu by Mark Sirett (Canada) 
  • There is faint music by Dan Forrest (United States)  
  • Jul, jul, strålande jul by Gustav Nordqvist (Sweden) 
  • Maria durch ein' Dornwald ging by Stefan Claas (Germany) 
  • Une très sainte Vierge by Bernard Lallement (France), in memoriam of Bernard Lallement  
  • El Noi de la Mare harmonised by Ernest Cervera i Astor (Spain) 
  • Lully, Lulla, Lullay by Philip W. J. Stopford (Great Britain)

  To find more:

  • browse through Musica's Favourite Pieces for September of each year since 1998;
  • type "Christmas" in the search field "Words of title or Keywords" at www.musicanet.org, and add any other criteria you like, such as choral setting, duration, additional keywords, difficulty, language, other keywords, accompaniment, etc.

  Enjoy!

  Musica International (www.musicanet.org) is a free collaborative multilingual multimedia database of the world’s choral repertoire. It provides detailed descriptions of more than 200 000 choral scores, all of them accessible through an advanced search engine based on more than 100 different types of criteria (fields), which can be searched separately or in combination. This academic database is a valuable resource for repertoire selection. To start using it, you need just to sign up with your email at www.musicanet.org or see with your choral federation/association if you benefit from priveleged access.