SPECIAL CATHOLIC CHOIRBOOK ANTHOLOGY PRICING: Due to a generous gift by a supporter, it is available for $15 including shipping in paperback and $25 including shipping in hardbound, color cover or plain library cloth, as many copies as you like. Use this link: PURCHASE AT SPECIAL PRICE
Thank you to this supporter. Here is a link to the contents of this book, now downloaded by more than 1,000 churches worldwide. We work to provide great choral Catholic music for churches and musicians, regardless of their ability to pay. Everything that we offer is available as a free download. Those who are able to buy the music printed and shipped to them make it possible for others not so fortunate to have this music for their choirs and churches.
We create choirbooks of Catholic music that are available for purchase and for free download for you to legally print and use for free. After creating the first 5 choirbooks, we were encouraged to combine the best music of all 5 of them, add good selection of hymns in English, and print it as one book, The Catholic Choirbook Anthology 1, created to help build choirs.
Our best sellers are The Catholic Choirbook Anthology 1, followed by The Catholic Choirbook I which contains many devotional hymns and music from the last 100 years. If you take time to browse the contents of the books listed below, this should help you decide which choirbooks might be best for your choir.
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. The Catholic Choirbook II |
Tanttum Ergo |
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. The Catholic Choirbook III |
Cantate Domino |
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. The Catholic Choirbook IV |
Locus Iste |
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. The Catholic Choirbook V |
Gratia Plena |
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The Catholic Choirbook |
Anthology 1 |
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The Catholic Choirbook |
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The Catholic Choirbook |
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How this got started....
The Mass began and the choir, a rather large one, sang. But they never sang by themselves. They are between choir directors so I think that they were not quite sure what to sing aside from the music for the congregation.
Years ago this was not a problem, since the St. Gregory Hymnal and Choir Book had music for the congregation plus a section of choir music. If the choir director didn't show up you turned to the Adoramus Te, the O Sacrum Convivium or O Bone Jesu by composers the stature of Palestrina and Dubois, and you sang them. Many members could sing them from memory. The St. Gregory Hymnal And Choir Book was a great resource for the parish Catholic church.
Benedict XVI has brought attention to the pressing need to follow the documents of the church and sing Gregorian Chant and polyphony of Palestrina and other great composers.
But there are few, if any, Catholic Choir Books today that contain this music readily available for choirs to sing from. Our new series we anticipate will fill a need by combining well-loved hymns with great music, all of it eminently suited for the Catholic Church. Best-loved selections from the St. Gregory Hymnal and Choir Book are included. The texts are balanced between English and Latin.
Why purchase? It is less expensive for us to print and ship these to you than what it would cost you to copy and binding them yourselves...and we make a bit of profit, which supports the project for all of those choirs who have no money to buy music Those who choose to download have the option of making a donation only if they are able.
Why free? We want choirs to be prominent in the Catholic Church once again and they need good music to make this possible. Please download the book and copy from it and share it with everyone you know. It is legal, you have our permission to do this and we encourage you to do this. There are English language Catholic congregations around the world who do not have access to affordable music for their choirs. Making this available as a download gets this music into their choir lofts and the hearts of their people.
Thanks!
Noel Jones, AAGO
Creative Director
Our products:
The Catholic Choirbook Series from 1 through 5 contain music of great composers that was composed for Catholic choirs as well as well-loved hymns and devotional music of the Church in English and Latin.
The Anthology is our latest book, compiled from the first five books of the Choirbook Series, the most useful music from them, all in one, affordable book - adding many hymns in English to the English and Latin Motets.
• Historic Choral Works and Modern
• Beloved Catholic Hymns
• Large Size Format, 8" by 10"
• Clear, readable print size
• Variety of music for unison, duet and four part singing
• Easy to challenging music
• Organ and practice accompaniments for all music
• Playable accompaniments for organ without pedals
• Clear, open score SATB
• Durable with affordable cover and binding
• Generous Discounts when buying more than one
Can I copy and share this music legally?
Yes, in the interests of improving Catholic Music in parishes, we create these books so that those with financial hardships may freely copy and share this music. Those who are able to purchase the music from us help to make this possible. Copyright Free - entire book is public domain or Creative Commons 3.0 - copying & sharing Permitted
About the Catholic Choirbook Anthology I
62 Anthems, 54 Hymns, 5 Chants
Contents
After publishing Choirbook V we reviewed the entire Choirbook Series 1-5 and decided to create just one book that would be affordable and the most useful to all choirs in one book, and including hymns, especially Eucharistic hymns, that would serve the choir as needed for the Offertory and Communion Meditation of the Ordinary Form Mass as well as others that would be useful. Some of these are new hymns, others that are part of the great vernacular hymns of the Catholic Church.
The Catholic Choirbook Anthology Workbook Blog is based on the music in the Anthology and presents ideas and audio files to assist directors in building choirs.
The Choirbooks Series is built on my own choirbook that I built for my choir, music chosen to be appropriate for the Catholic Mass, but also to teach the choir to sing better! The Anthology are my picks from the entire series, all in one book, almost 400 pages and available at a discount when buying more than one....bulk purchase prices of this one book lower the price to less than the price of two of the choirbook series. The ideas and techniques I used with this choir I am putting on this site to share ideas and help build your choir. Noel Jones