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If you direct a choir, a good part of your week goes on finding music your singers can actually read. The Choral Catalogue is built for that problem. It is a library of sacred and liturgical choral music, and every score in it is free.
Score library
Visit choralcatalogue.comThe catalogue is organised by the same traditions this magazine covers. Historic hymns, classical choral works, contemporary worship settings, and African repertoire with Cameroonian, Ghanaian and South African music among it.
That last category is the reason the library exists in the form it does. African choral music is sung widely and published narrowly, and a choir that wants it often cannot find a clean score anywhere. Collections here run to well over a hundred works.
A great many choirs read tonic sol-fa rather than staff notation, and that is not a deficiency to be corrected. It is how the singers were taught, it is fast, and for unaccompanied part singing it works.
Most score libraries ignore this, so a director working with a sol-fa choir has to transcribe by hand before the first rehearsal. Here both editions ship together. Nobody has to convert anything.
Browse by category or search, then download. There is no account, no paywall and no email capture in front of the file.
Licensing is free for personal and church use, with the terms attached to each individual work rather than applied in a blanket policy. If you compose, you can submit your own music to the library.
Choral Catalogue lives at choralcatalogue.com.