See "Split Trax" or "Stereo Trax" for choral accompaniment recordings.
See "Right Trax," "Studio Series," or "Wedding Music" for solo accompaniment recordings.

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A single song, arranged for choir, usually SATB with piano accompaniment and sized 6-7/8" x 10-1/4". Also called an "octavo." Anthems are usually accompanied by a ChoralTrax accompaniment CD or cassette (cassettes were discontinued in 1999) and orchestration.

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A Companion DVD or Accompaniment DVD contains video and audio to be used during the performance of the musical. The content will vary from musical to musical, so be sure to read the description to determine what features are included.

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Featured at wordmusicnow.com, Congregational Worship Arrangements are downloadable two key, flexible arrangements of the newest and best praise and worship songs for your worship team, choir, praise band and orchestra. Each title consists of the "Core Rhythm Package" – a set of fundamental charts for use with keyboard, guitar, bass and drums – and several "Add-on" packages for churches with more instrumentation.

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This term is used for materials that we publish that are teaching tools, not primarily made up of song arrangements.

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Available for every Kathie Hill musical, this oversized notebook includes a choral book and recording, a 30-45 minute video with professional choreography demonstrations, costume, prop and set examples, and sometimes video footage for use in your rehearsals and performance. In addition, the notebook includes over 100 reproducible pages of musical and spiritual activities for each song, attendance, outreach and enrollment forms, vocabulary cards, rehearsal plans, scripture memory cards, children's devotional booklet, kickoff party plans and audition and casting instructions.

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Available with certain older musicals, this book includes the complete musical score and script along with extensive production notes for staging the musical.

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Varying in skill level, these 9" x 12" books include several arrangements for solo guitar. Notation includes a melody line, guitar tablature and guitar chords.

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You may think of a hymnal as the book that sits in the pew, but there's much, much more to a hymnal product! Visit the Congregational Worship section of wordmusic.com for more details on all of the features of our hymnals.

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Varying in skill level, these 9" x 12" books include several arrangements for solo instruments. Usually available for Bb and C instruments (with some occasional versions in F and Eb,) the notation in the main part of the book includes the solo line and piano accompaniment. Bound in the middle of the book is a pull out section with the solo line only to minimize page turns. Some books include an accompaniment CD attached to the inside back cover. Explore the drop-down menus in our Instrumental section for our complete listing.

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The listening recording is usually a companion to a choral book, piano book or other printed music. Word Music listening recordings are never excerpted, including only complete songs from the books. Unless otherwise noted, listening recordings feature the complete instrumentation and vocals (also called a "Full Mix" or "Complete Mix,") include every song and every word of dialogue listed in the book.

Please note: in the case of the More Songs for Praise and Worship series, a "listening CD" is a "reference CD." The reference CD lets you listen to excerpts from original Maranatha!, Vineyard, Integrity and other recordings of all of the songs in this collection. These original recordings do not match the printed arrangements in More Songs for Praise and Worship, but should be a great help in learning the songs and teaching others the basic style of each piece.

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Word Music creates two kinds of orchestrations:
1. Our standalone orchestrations (Sunday Sounds, Freedom Orchestrations and Coronation Series) are designed to be performed instrumentally.
2. Our accompaniment orchestrations (anthem orchestration, musical orchestrations) are designed to allow orchestras to accompany choirs
Orchestra parts are printed single-sided on 8-1/2" x 11" paper. For more information, explore the Instrumental section of wordmusic.com

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Varying in skill level, these 9" x 12" books include several arrangements for organ .For more details, visit the keyboard section of wordmusic.com.

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Varying in skill level, these 9" x 12" books include several arrangements for piano. Many have associated recordings and may include duets with piano or other solo instruments. For more details, visit the keyboard section of wordmusic.com.

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Created for most musicals and some collections, PracticeTrax™ are a great way to teach individual voice parts to choir members.

Each package of trax includes four recordings - Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Bass. These trax are meant to be duplicated for individual choir members for rehearsal purposes.

Please note: purchasing the PracticeTrax package does not automatically grant you permission to make copies of the recordings. Your purchase price covers the intial cost of creating the PracticeTrax masters. There is an additional per-tape or per-CD charge based on the number of songs in the musical (usually between $.50 and $1.50 per duplicated recording) printed on a form that comes in the package.
Duplication of these tapes and CDs are not covered by your CCLI license.

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When a choral arrangement warrants it, instead of (or in addition to) publishing an orchestration, we will publish praise band charts. Generally, they are the same, high quality engraved 8-1/2" x 11" pages that you expect, but these charts do not include string parts and may use a smaller set of brass.

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For every musical and collection, we create a preview pak. Unless otherwise noted in the description, preview paks contain the actual choral book and complete recording for the entire book.

The preview pak is a convenient way for a music minister to listen and look through a musical in its entirety without having to pay for a completely packaged book and recording. For musicals with DVD accompaniment, we sometimes provide a DVD Preview Pak. The DVD in this package includes the complete full mix audio, along with the real video that has a "for promotional use only" watermark. (see examples in our Worship Video site.)

Because they are sold at a discount, Preview Paks are non-returnable and may only be sold one to a church.

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Available with certain older musicals, this book includes the complete musical score and script along with extensive production notes for staging the musical.

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Right Trax™ are not the original artist trax, but professionally created three-key recordings that recreate the original artist trax as closely as possible for solo accompaniment use. They include songs made popular by singers and groups throughout contemporary Christian, gospel and praise and worship music. Where appropriate, background vocals are included.

Digital recordings of Right Trax™ are also available to be leased for custom recording creation. For more details, visit our copyright page.

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These books, usually 9" x 12", vary in content, but are designed for small group singing and unless otherwise noted, contain vocals and piano accompaniment.

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On the left channel:
the recording has the complete accompaniment playing - full instrumentation.
On the right channel:
the recording has the full choral vocals, omitting any solos.

The result is a very flexible product. With a mixing board, you can choose to use as much or as little of the vocal parts as you need and you can route them to different speakers for different use. Many choirs use a certain amount of the track vocals only in the choir monitors so that they can hear the vocal parts, but the sound being picked up by the microphones above the choir is overwhelmingly the live singers. Split Trax are great for rehearsal also because you can use more of the vocals when learning the music and less as you get closer to the presentation. For more information on using Split Trax accompaniment recordings in your church, contact your favorite music supplier or Word Music through our contact page.

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A Split/Stereo accompaniment recording contains the entire musical or collection twice: once in Split Trax format, once in Stereo Trax format. See the two individual definitions for information on the two recording styles.

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A Stereo Trax accompaniment recording is a normal stereo recording, playable on any audio system, large or small. It contains only the instrumental accompaniment parts, no vocals whatsoever.

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Studio Series™ are always the original artist trax. Always.
These recordings are designed for solo accompaniment use and include background vocals where appropriate. They include songs made popular by singers and groups that record on labels from our parent company. To find out more about the artists on our record labels, visit www.wbrchristian.com. Please note that not all songs recorded by our label are available as trax.

Beginning in February of 2003, all newly released Studio Series™ CDs will now be in a 3-key format! Each CD will include the original performance key, and two more trax digitally shifted a step and a half higher and a step and a half lower.

Studio Series™ are not available to be leased for custom recording creation.

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Available for Celeste Clydesdale children's musicals, this oversized notebook includes over 100 reproducible pages of pre-musical planning material, a Bible study booklet, large group lesson plans, small group lesson activities, production notes, choreography instructions and early bird activities. More recent releases are available in CD-ROM format ("Digital Teacher Resource Kit") for easy access and storage.

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Videos listed as products associated with musicals can vary in content and format. Check the musical description to determine whether the video is instructional or a demonstration performance or both. See also "Worship Video."

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These books, usually 9" x 12", vary in content, but unless otherwise noted, are designed for solo singing and contain a vocal melody line, guitar chords and piano accompaniment. See a complete list in the Vocal Folio section of wordmusic.com.

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Wedding Music Trax are not the original artist trax, but professionally created two-key recordings that are arranged to specifically work as solo accompaniment trax in wedding celebrations. Various titles are designed for the ceremony and reception use.

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Worship videos are four to ten minute, self-contained dramas that aid in worship by provoking thought and communicating a message. Useful for main worship services, special events and other occasions, each VHS video features a complete contemporary Christian song, straight from the original recording, and new, original drama, ready for your service. Find out more in the Worship Video section of wordmusic.com.

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