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 the great ability and power of music 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 diminish the variations in performance.