This volume consists of unaccompanied choral works composed or otherwise arranged by Johannes Brahms for mixed choruses as well as individual men's and women's choruses. Contents include Gesange (songs), Motetten (motets in the manner of Renaissance precision settings of sacred Latin words), Lieder (songs), Kanons (canons), Romanzen (romances), Volkslieder (folk songs), Spruche (messages or pronouncements), and Chore (choruses).