Song and Choir Sheet Music of the New Community
Lied- und Chorblatt der neuen Gemeinschaft (Song and Choir Sheet Music of the New Community). With an understanding of music's great potential to unite people behind an ideology, these booklets were distributed as “Pflichtlieder” (mandatory songs) for the years 1942-44. Some were provided with additional parts for the choir. Although it was assumed that the population was already familiar with many of the songs in the booklet, the aim was to provide a “verbindliche Fassung”, an authoritative, canonical edition of these songs that would eliminate variations in performance.
