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Vivaldi
Magnificat
From Wikipaedia; Vivaldi worked in Venice as a priest and director of music at an orphanage for girls, Ospedale della Pietà, and left a substantial amount of sacred music.[3]
Ospedale della PietàHe composed settings of the Magnificat canticle, a regular part of vesper services.[4][5] Musicologists differ in dating the works, for example before 1717[6] or in 1719.[7] According to the musicologist Michael Talbot, Vivaldi wrote the earliest version in G minor for the orphanage c. 1715, and copied it for a Cistercian monastery of Osek soon afterwards.[4] He revised it in the 1720s, making the tenor and bass parts more suitable to male voices, and adding two oboes, which he used prominently as obbligato instruments in an expanded version of "Sicut locutus est".
Top Free Rehearsal Aids for Vivaldi’s Magnificat
CyberBass (Standard MIDI Tracks)
Best for simple part-learning. You can select your voice part (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass) for each movement.
Choralia (With Synthesized Lyrics)
Unique because it uses "Virtual Singer" technology so you can hear the Latin words being sung by the computer.
John Fletcher Music (High Quality Files)
Offers "Part Predominant" tracks where your voice part is louder than the others to help you stay on track.
Learn Choral Music (Basic MIDI)
Very lightweight and works well on older smartphones.
YouTube (Visual Scrolling Scores)
Ideal if you want to see the sheet music moving across the screen while you sing.
Free Sheet Music
If you need a digital copy of the score to follow along while using the links above:
CPDL (Choral Public Domain Library): www.cpdl.org
IMSLP (Petrucci Music Library): imslp.org,RV_610(Vivaldi,_Antonio)