CNP Feedback - Small Choir

The "Feedback Box" on the CanticaNOVA Publications website has proven quite effective in promoting communications on a variety of subjects, and expressing concerns of liturgists and musicians. From time to time, we'll compile a few of these questions or comments and put them in public view, with the hope that others with similar concerns may benefit from their content.

Q. Dear CNP:

I will soon begin directing a traditional choir with only 12 members. What music can you suggest?

C.D. in Tennessee

A. Dear C.D. (Choir Director),

Twelve singers is a wonderful size group to begin introducing some traditional music in your parish in Tennessee. From our catalog I might suggest the following pieces:

• Communion Psalms for the Liturgical Seasons (Penkala) CNP Catalog #3020
   
• The Reproaches (Penkala) CNP Catalog #3080
   
• Requiem aeternam (Martini / Penkala) CNP Catalog #5092
   
• Adoro te devote: A Communion Processional on a Chant Theme (arr. Penkala) CNP Catalog #2010
   
• Emmanuel: An Advent Processional (Penkala) CNP Catalog #3035
   
• From All That Dwell (Brumby) CNP Catalog #5037
   
• Magnificat brevis (Penkala) CNP Catalog #5070
   
• Booklets of Chant, Volumes 1 - 4 (ed. Bord) CNP Catalog #2001 - 2004
   
• Prayer of Saint Francis (Penkala) CNP Catalog #5090
   
• Seven Last Words of Christ (Penkala) CNP Catalog #5097
   
• Paschal Gloria (Greene) CNP Catalog #3130
   
• Pastoral Processional (Penkala) CNP Catalog #3040
   
• We Should Glory (Buffer) CNP Catalog #5220
   
• Ten New Carols for Advent & Christmas, Vol 1 (Penkala) CNP Catalog #4010
   
• Ten New Carols for Advent & Christmas, Vol 2 (Greene, Brumby, Penkala) CNP Catalog #4020
   
• When Christ Was Born of Mary Free (Greene) CNP Catalog #5034
   
• You Will Not Be Strangers (Hill) CNP Catalog #3095

Good luck with your "band of twelve disciples". Make beautiful music for the Church!