Here you can find a list of
useful links with some comments to choral music
related resources in particular
resources about Polish choral music
and Polish early music.
We also will publish here free MP3 choral
music links and links to free choral music scores.
Note that this section will be updated periodically, so don’t forget to check for updates.
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interest links to choral music resources not
listed here.
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- links to choral music festivals.
General choral music resources.
1. Polish Early Music Completorium
Polish Music from Middle Ages to Baroque - “What's this thing, Polish Early Music? Never heard of it!"
We would be not surprised if you didn't. No offence meant: it is obscure. Here you can listen to some samples of Polish EM and learn a bit about our composers. And if you liked the site and the music, come again or drop us a note. We will be more than happy to help you within the limits of our knowledge and resources. ”
Really the best site about Polish Early Music on the net! A lot’s of MIDI, composer’s biography, free music sheets, essays and so on. Only one deficiency in so small numbers of MP3 files, only 2 mp3 files available.
2. Choir and Choral Music Web Ring
“The Choir and Choral Music Web Ring is an unbroken chain of choir and choral music web sites ranging in content and style from Palestrina to Barbershop.”
A chain of sites about choral music linked together.
3. Classical Music Web Ring
“The Classical Music Web Ring is a chain of many hundreds of classical music web sites.
Boost traffic to your site by adding it to the largest classical music web ring on the Internet. ”
One more web ring, but this time this is a chain of sites about classical music in general. Of course some of sites represents choral music.
This section represents free choral music resources in MP3 and MIDI formats.
1. Russian Orthodox songs
A good MP3 files (24 files for this time!) collection of Russian Spiritual music. The following Russians composers represented on this site: Chesnokov, Rachmaninov, Archangelski and many others.
2. Polish Early Music Completorium presents a huge collection of choral music in MIDI format. Currently 387 compositions in 7 topical collections.
3. Polish Early Music Completorium also presents 2 MP3 files of Grzegorz G. Gorczycki (“Omni die dic Mariae ”, “In virtute Tua” ) for free downloading.
4. Russian spiritual music. choral ensemble MARKELL'S VOICES from Novosibirsk, Russia, presents his program “Fulfill my heart by gladness" program of
Russian spiritual music XVI-XVII cc. (5 good MP3 files.) Some others program of this ensemble in MP3 format you can find from this location: http://www.sol.ru/Culture/Djembe/index_e.htm.
Free choral music scores on the net.
1. The Choral Public Domain Library. An Archive of Free Choral Music. The biggest free choral music scores archive on the Net! More than 1500 free choral scores availabale for downloading for this time. Very powerfull search capabilities.
2. Music Scores Archive from Boris Tarakanov. This link represents only one part of choral music scores from very big music scores archive. You can find here scores for choir a cappella, for choir with accompaniment, Russian Spiritual music scores and folk songs. All others non-choral music scores you can find here: http://www.cdru.com/tboris/notes/main.htm.
3. Polish Early Music Completorium presents 10 free choral music sheets of early composers like Waclaw z Szamotul, Mikolaj Gomolka and some others. All scores in PDF format.
The list of choral music festivales related sites.
1.
Lapskie Te Deum. The Polish Regional Festival of Sacred Song. "Consonance" choir take part in this festival in April, 2000 and awarded some prizes.
2. Gaude Mater. International Festival of Sacred Music (Czestochow, Poland).
3. Belarussian Music Society "Lyra" presents Festival of Sacred Music (Minsk, Belarus). Here you can find a history of festival and a set of free mp3's, songs was performed during festival programs. Also available information about St. Roch Cathedral, and some photos. Most of iformation available in Belarussian language.