Come, Worship God: Choral Instrumental Pak
Item: 35-PK00416477
Pickup currently not available
Buy Extra Parts (Digital PDF Download)
Parts Added to Cart!
Description
Come, Worship God: Choral Instrumental Pak isn't in MakeMusic Cloud just yet...but it could be. Let us know you'd like to see it, and you'll help shape what comes next. In the meantime, start a free trial and dive into thousands of interactive titles your students can play along with today.
Tell us you want it.
Explore everything that's ready to play right now.
Sample Audio
Sample Video
Additional Details
More about this title
Why we love this
The orchestration elevates what was already a strong choral work into something genuinely cinematic; the instrumental writing doesn't compete but rather frames the choir's message with real sophistication. This is a piece that demands your choir step up technically and emotionally, yet the payoff in rehearsal and performance makes every preparation hour count.
What to expect
You begin in a space of overwhelming grandeur, instruments and voices painting something vast and unknowable. Then the music finds its way to something quieter, purer, more direct; by the end you're singing a chant that feels both simple and profound precisely because you've traveled to get there.
Who it's for
Choirs with solid vocal maturity and the ability to sustain a large-form work with dynamic architectural shape. This piece suits programs built around concert or liturgical settings where an extended choral statement carries real weight.
How to get the most out of it
- Balance the choir's opening material against the orchestral foundation. The instruments establish harmonic context, so your singers need clarity without oversinging into the accompaniment.
- Shape the arch toward the simple chant carefully. The contrast between epic and intimate won't land if the choir hasn't been listening to and responding to the orchestral shifts in texture and color.
- Record a run-through with the accompaniment early in rehearsal. Singers will lock the harmonic progressions faster when they hear how the orchestration moves beneath them.
How to use it
Position this as a closing piece or major program statement where it can claim real estate. Its scale and recorded performance history make it a natural centerpiece for a concert built around themes of faith or transcendence, or a liturgical service marking a significant observance.
Skills your students will build
- Sustaining long harmonic progressions and melodic lines with control
- Responding to and balancing against orchestral accompaniment
- Executing large-form architecture with attention to dramatic contrast
- Blending voices across varied textures from full choir to small groupings