Choralphilia

There is also an a cappella version that I would love to perform at some point…

Who knew you could combine a ridiculous number of pop songs into a hilarious choral piece? Tra$h Ma$h - The Australian voices

Explanation of the “gamut” of the staves, from The Modern Musick-Master by Peter Prelleur, 1730.

If Ye Love Me - Thomas Tallis

Palestrina left hundreds of compositions, including 105 masses, 68 offertories, at least 140 madrigals and more than 300 motets. In addition, there are at least 72 hymns, 35 magnificats, 11 litanies, and four or five sets oflamentations.[2] His attitude toward madrigals was somewhat enigmatic: whereas in the preface to his collection ofCanticum canticorum (Song of Songs) motets (1584) he renounced the setting of profane texts, only two years later he was back in print with Book II of his secular madrigals (some of these being among the finest compositions in the medium).[2] He published just two collections of madrigals with profane texts, one in 1555 and another in 1586.[2] The other two collections were spiritual madrigals, a genre beloved by the proponents of the Counter-Reformation.[2]

Duxerunt Pullum ad Jesum (Liturgie du diocèse d’Auxerrre) performed by Ensemble Organum

Autograph of the Te Deum à 8, H. 145, by Charpentier (1643-1704)

“For unto us a Child is born” from Handel’s Messiah performed by The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, The Brandenburg Consort ; conducted by Stephen Cleobury.

Decca Records is on the hunt for someone who can sing a low E, nearly three octaves below middle C.

Mormon Tabernacle Choir

  (via sophiamaria)

REQUIEM MASS IN D MINOR, K. 626: VII. LACRIMOSA BY MOZART

and people wonder why i make fun of sopranos…