We play all with joyful sound

2nd choir can also be played by an organ
CHOIR 1
1st voice in C (flute)
1st voice in C (oboe)
1st voice in Eb (alto saxophone)
1st voice in Bb 8va (1st clarinet)
1st voice in Eb (cornet)
1st voice in Bb (cornet/flugelhorn/trumpet)
2nd voice in Bb (2nd clarinet)
2. Voice in Bb (cornet/flugelhorn/trumpet)
2. Voice in Eb (horn/alto saxophone)
3. Voice in Eb (horn/alto saxophone)
3. Voice in Bb (tenor horn/trombone/tenor sax.)
3rd voice in C (trombone/baritone)
4th voice in Bb (baritone/trombone/Bb bass)
4th voice in C (baritone/trombone)
4th voice in C (basses)
4th voice in Eb (bass). Voice in Eb (Eb bass/baritone sax.)

CHOIR II
1st voice in Bb (trumpet)
2nd voice in Bb (trumpet)
2nd voice in Eb (horn)
3rd voice in Eb (horn)
3rd voice in Bb (trombone/tenor horn)
3rd voice in C (trombone/baritone)
4th voice in Bb (trombone/baritone/bass)
4th voice in C (trombone/baritone/bass). Voice in C (trombone/baritone)
4th voice in C (bass)
4th voice in Eb (Eb-bass)

The two compositions for double choir from the 15th/16th century should serve our wind musicians in the present version to play together with the organ in church services and church concerts. However, they are also suitable for performance without the organ, whereby the two choirs can also be spatially separated. The instrumentation was done in such a way that very diverse performance possibilities are open. Note the composition about the distribution of voices. the tempos should be taken festively striding and adapted to the respective performance space.

Johannes Eccard (1531 - 1611)
Joh. Eccard was from 1567 - 1571 singer boy of the Weimar court chapel. From 1571 - 1573 he was a singer in the chapel of the Munich court, where he was a pupil of Orlando di Lasso. From 1580 he was vice-chapel master and from 1608 he was appointed court chapel master to Berlin, where he worked until his death.
Eccard wrote 250 sacred and secular vocal compositions for 4 - 8 voices. The double chorus here is also a vocal composition and the title is original 'Wir singen all mit Freudenschall'.

Michael Altenburg (1584 - 1640)
Altenburg was born on 27.05.1584 in Alach near Erfurt. He studied at the university there. In 1601 he became cantor at the St. Andrew's Church in that city. 1610 - 1621 he was pastor in Tröchtelborn and until 1637 in Sömmerda. Then he fled from the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War back to Erfurt where he worked as pastor at St. Andrew's Church until his death on February 12, 1640.