OTHER RESOURCES
Spoken Text Files
These audio files are intended for singers not familiar with diction rules for each work's language. Texts are usually for choral parts only. Please note that your conductor may prefer a different approach.
All files are spoken by Gary D. Cannon unless otherwise indicated.
Johannes Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem
- 1. Selig sind, die da Leid tragen
- 2. Denn alles Fleisch, es ist wie gras
- 3. Herr, lehre doch mich
- 4. Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen
- 5. Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit
- 6. Denn wir haben hie kleine bleibende Statt
- 7. Selig sind die Toten
Abraham Kaplan: Eight Days of Chanukah
spoken by Abraham Kaplan
- 1. Haneirot Halalu
- 2. Blessings for Chanukah
- 3. Maoz Tzur
- 4. Mamlakha
- 5. Am Ne'emaney
- 6. Heikhalo
- 7. Malki
- 8. Ikhlu
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 3
Carl Orff: Carmina Burana
These files use twelfth-century Germanic Latin, which is different than modern Germanic Latin. Check with your conductor to confirm whether these files apply to your situation.
- 1. & 25. O Fortuna
- 2. Fortuna plango vulnera
- 3. Veris leta facies
- 5. Ecce gratum
- 7. Floret silva
- 8. Chrame, gip die varwe mir
- 9. Reie
- 10. Were diu werlt alle min
- 12. Olim lacus colueram
- 13. Ego sum Abbas
- 14. In taberna quando sumus
- 18. Circa mea pectora
- 19. Si puer cum puellula
- 20. Veni, veni, venias
- 22. Tempus est iocundum
- 24. Ave formosissima
- Children's Chorus (complete)