Good book of sacred polyphonic chants for choirs?

Geremia

Is there a good, inexpensive book (that is currently in print) with a collection of "standard" sacred polyphonic chants to be sung at, e.g., Offertory or Communion?

Chaswjd

You could always just try cpdl.org. It has more repertoire than could fit in any reasonably sized book and the music is free for the downloading.

chonak

Geremia, are you looking for a collection of motets? Oxford's "European Sacred Music" has 54 of them, and you can get a used copy for under $10. Admittedly, not everything in it is suitable for Catholic use, but most is. I expect you can view the table of contents at Amazon's listing for the book.

canadash

http://www.frogmusic.com/thecatholicchoirbook/

Lots of choices here! You can buy the books (good price) and lots to download for free or sing off of an Ipad... :)

Casavant Organist

Oops, someone posted minutes before me... so post deleted
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princehal

I second the frog music book. All the best stuff, and lots of it.

As for beginner stuff, I just bought 2 copies of Rossini's "Canticum Novum;" I know you didn't want anything out-of-print, but you can just download it for free and print individual pieces as needed, which might work better than a book anyway.

Good luck!

Heath

Geremia,

I'll put in a plug for my two collections of motets:

http://www.lulu.com/shop/search.ep?contributorId=1340128

latraviata

How about this nice set from Byrd? Nothing more standard than the actual propers, or less expensive than free!

http://www3.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Gradualia_I_(William_Byrd)

http://www1.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Gradualia_II_(William_Byrd)

CHGiffen

There is a steadily growing collection of Heinrich Isaac works at CPDL, from his monumental opus "Choralis Constantinus," beautifully edited and engraved by our own MusicaSacra colleague Corinne Cooze. I recommend them highly.

CGM

There are also the wonderful Chester books, for instance,
— Advent & Christmas for four voices
— The English School for four voices
See the full list here.

princehal

@Iatraviata: Both those links took me to a page that says "There is currently no text on this page." Am I missing something?
Thanks! :)

a_f_hawkins

Yes me too. but try a Google search for Gradualia William Byrd.

Richard Mix

You don't actually need Google to search CPDL. The url link broke off the end, try http://www3.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Gradualia_I_(William_Byrd) &c… Another useful Title (composer) page is Choralis Constantinus (Heinrich Isaac).

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