Choral Essentials

The cornerstone of your choral library
Compiled from GIA's best sellers and newer gems, each volume in the CHORAL ESSENTIALS series highlights a particular season and includes pieces in a variety of styles, voicings, and instrumentation.

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Download Interactive GIA Catalogs

2010 Spring New Releases Catalog (pdf)

Choral Highlights Catalog for Lent, Holy Week, Eastertide, and Pentecost (pdf)

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Alright Now
by Shannon Cerneka & Orin Johnson (Oddwalk)

Certainly not your “run of the mill” recording from a christian artist. This project represents songs that the duo has developed for use in front of live audiences over the past twelve years.

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The Choral Warm-Up: Accompanied Canons for Choirs -- Conductor's Edition

This addition to the successful Choral Warm-Up series provides one of the most important tools in teaching elements of choral intonation: canons.

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The Choral Warm-Up: Accompanied Canons for Choirs -- Singer's Edition

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Woven Into Harmony
by Adam Tice

Adam Tice is an emerging hymn writer whose compelling texts cover a wide range of themes. Adam has penned hymns that speak to today's church and world in wonderfully poetic, yet direct, language.
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The Richard Proulx Hymnary
by Richard Proulx

Legendary composer Richard Proulx has made an indelible contribution to the music of the church. This volume represents Proulx's body of work for congregations in the form of hymn tunes and hymn arrangements.
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Tree of Life

by Marty Haugen

Marty Haugen and Marc Anderson unite their talents in this new collection of songs grounded in faith-based earth-keeping, replete with ethnic rhythms, singable melodies, and evocative lyrics.

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Without Seeing You
by David Haas

Each CD has over twenty titles including "Stand Up, Friends," "No Longer Strangers;" Who Calls You by Name," and "All the Ends of the Earth." The beautifully designed booklets include all of the song lyrics along with personal commentary from the composer himself.
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Glory to God
by David Haas

Each CD has over twenty titles including "Stand Up, Friends," "No Longer Strangers;" Who Calls You by Name," and "All the Ends of the Earth." The beautifully designed booklets include all of the song lyrics along with personal commentary from the composer himself.
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Seasons of Grace, Vol. 3
by Paul Tate

Paul Tate delights us with another collection of opulent piano reflections. As in volumes one and two, Seasons of Grace, Volume Three features a mixture of chant melodies, traditional hymnody, and contemporary Catholic song medleys for Lent, Advent, and Christmas.
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The Source of Life by Ian Callanan

The Source of Life is a surprisingly powerful collection of thirteen songs celebrating the Liturgical year. The mystical Celtic spirit these songs convey is born of Ian's fascination with the complexity and delicate balance manifested between each of us and creation itself. Themes of creation weave their way through the poetry contained this fresh new music. Learn More.

Total Praise
Classic Hymns for Piano

The wait is over! The highly anticipated solo piano recording by the incomparable Joseph Joubert is here! These 15 original arrangements of hymns will captivate you track after track.
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Cross Generation-CD Recording

This CD includes great music by established writers like Tony Alonso, John Angotti, Steve Angrisano, John L. Bell, Tom Booth, Ed Bolduc, Rory Cooney, David Haas, Marty Haugen, Paul Tate, Lori True, and more.

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The Image and the Hope
Flute and Keyboard Music for Worship

Dominic Trumfio (flute) and Kelly Dobbs Mickus (piano & organ) join forces for this CD, highlighting the broad spectrum of flute literature in the GIA catalog.

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Christ Be Near
by Marty Haugen, Tony Alonso, and Michael Joncas

Marty Haugen has joined with composer colleagues Fr. Michael Joncas and Tony Alonso to produce a new collection of 13 songs for worship.
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Give Me Jesus
by David Haas

The two-CD set includes 44 songs categorized into different aspects of our relationship with Christ.
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Belong
by Chris de Silva

"Belong is a collection of songs that speaks of our place in the heart of Christ. It is also a question for us. Are we ready to make a place for Christ in our hearts?"
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Healing Song
by Liam Lawton

Healing Song is a new collection of liturgical music in the signature Celtic style of Liam Lawton.
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Ten Things They Never Told Me About Jesus

John Bell explores facets of the personal life, relationships, and ministry of Jesus, which are seldom the stuff of preaching or conversation, but which are all rooted in the Gospels and are necessary if we are to be freed from the passive stereotypes that still dominate thinking about Christ.
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A Community Called Taize

Jason Santos explores one of the world's first Protestant, ecumenical monastic orders, from its monastic origins in the war-torn south of 1940's France to its emerging mission as a pilgrimage site and spiritual focal point for millions of young people throughout the world.
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Toward Center: The Art of Being for Musicians, Actors, Dancers, and Teachers

In this book, conductor and educator James Jordan details how the power of Center grounds performance, teaching, and learning, bringing the reader full circle to the ideas first introduced in his best-selling book The Musician's Soul.
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Let the Church Sing On!
Reflections on Black Sacred Music

This compilation of essays and articles from Dr. James Abbington has been gathered to encourage the Church in a practical yet challenging way. Now, many of his commentaries are joined in this bound collection that no serious church musician should be without.
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Gather Comprehensive 2, Vol. 2
Handbell Edition

To be published in three volumes, this edition of practical and accessible settings for two and three octaves handbells and/or handchimes offers parish handbell choirs an opportunity to lend instrumental support and enhance the assembly song.
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Gather Comprehensive 2, Vol. 3
Handbell Edition

This resource can be used with other hymnals containing hymn tunes with the same harmonizations.

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Cross Generation-CD Recording

This CD includes great music by established writers like Tony Alonso, John Angotti, Steve Angrisano, John L. Bell, Tom Booth, Ed Bolduc, Rory Cooney, David Haas, Marty Haugen, Paul Tate, Lori True, and more.

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I Sing as I Arise Today
by David Hurd

More than 75 hymns are presented in this compendium of the hymnic efforts of David Hurd. His tunes are coupled with texts old and new, capturing just the right mood and meaning of the words. Hurd's distinctive harmonic language and compositional style provide a wealth of musical expression for congregations and choirs alike.
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Woven Into Harmony
by Adam Tice

Adam Tice is an emerging hymn writer whose compelling texts cover a wide range of themes. Adam has penned hymns that speak to today's church and world in wonderfully poetic, yet direct, language.
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To Sing the Artist's Praise
by Sally Ann Morris

This collection features 48 of her latest offerings, as well as Black Mountain Liturgy, a complete setting of liturgical texts. The hymn tunes, while sparkling with rhythmic vitality and harmonic freshness, are singable by any congregation or community.
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Tree of Life

by Marty Haugen

Marty Haugen and Marc Anderson unite their talents in this new collection of songs grounded in faith-based earth-keeping, replete with ethnic rhythms, singable melodies, and evocative lyrics.

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Seasons of Grace, Vol. 3
by Paul Tate

Paul Tate delights us with another collection of opulent piano reflections. As in volumes one and two, Seasons of Grace, Volume Three features a mixture of chant melodies, traditional hymnody, and contemporary Catholic song medleys for Lent, Advent, and Christmas.
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The Source of Life by Ian Callanan

The Source of Life is a surprisingly powerful collection of thirteen songs celebrating the Liturgical year. The mystical Celtic spirit these songs convey is born of Ian's fascination with the complexity and delicate balance manifested between each of us and creation itself. Themes of creation weave their way through the poetry contained this fresh new music.

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A Wreath of Carols for Christmastide

arranged by Bernard Sanders

Encircle your assembly at Christmastide with this musical wreath from Bernard Wayne Sanders. Each setting is ideal for use during its individual season or feast: Advent, Christmas, feast of St. Stephen, and Epiphany.

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Pageant of Carols

by Fred Offutt

Ranging from medium difficulty to difficult, these settings are appropriate throughout the Christmas season in a variety of liturgical settings.

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Three Partitas on Welsh Hymn Tunes
by Robert Powell

Robert Powell has applied his skill to writing partitas for organ on the beloved tunes cwm rhondda (four variations), hyfry- dol (four variations), and rhosymedre (five variations). Most of the variations call for pedal, but some are for manuals only. Ranging in difficulty level from easy to medium.

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Toccata on Victimae Paschali Laudes

by Iain Quinn

Welsh organist, conductor, and composer Iain Quinn, who serves the Cathedral Church of St. John in Albuquerque, has created a magnificent toccata on the traditional Easter sequence. A spectacular way to announce the Resurrection!

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Two English Voluntaries
by Samuel Jones

Samuel Long has a relatively small musical output, but he was popular in his day (fl. 1760), as witnessed by the lengthy list of subscribers to the first edition of the source material for this current publication. A wonderful edition to add to any music library!

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King of Kings
Organ Music of Black Composers, Past and Present - Volume 2

Shortly after King of Kings, Volume 1 came off the press, GIA began editing Volume 2, which is certain to be as well received as its predecessor. The 12 compositions included in Volume 2 are as varied as the musicians who created them.
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Seasons of Grace, Vol. 3
by Paul Tate

Paul Tate delights us with another collection of piano reflections. As in the previous volumes, Seasons of Grace, Volume 3 features a mixture of chant melodies, traditional hymnody, and contemporary Catholic song medleys for Lent, Advent, and Christmas.
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Christ Be Near - Collection

Marty Haugen has joined with composer colleagues Fr. Michael Joncas and Tony Alonso to produce a new collection of 13 songs for worship. The music reflects a wide diversity of musical forms and styles, from the classical "Lauda Sion" (Joncas) to the beautiful "In the Arms of God" (Alonso) to the call-and-response "God Is Still Speaking" (Haugen). Learn More.

Give Me Jesus
by David Haas

A compilation of David's most heartfelt songs celebrating the journey of our life with Jesus Christ: conversion, incarnation, discipleship, journey, restoration, resurrection, and mission – all the various stages and aspects of our relationship with the human and divine Christ. Singing, Praying and Celebrating Our Life in Christ. Learn More.

Belong
by Chris de Silva

"Belong is a collection of songs that speaks of our place in the heart of Christ. It is also a question for us. Are we ready to make a place for Christ in our hearts?" Chris de Silva
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Healing Song
by Liam Lawton

Healing Song is a new collection of liturgical music in the signature Celtic style of Liam Lawton. His rich, tenor voice and the splendid orchestrations of Mark Cahill combine to fashion a recording that is an invocation of hope.

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