I Was Glad (Parry) for SATB?
  • joriedjoried
    Posts: 4
    Has anyone come across an SATB version, rather than the original SSATTB? I'd love to teach it to my choir, but we don't have enough singers for the six parts. Thanks!
  • Chris Garton-Zavesky
    Posts: 6,902
    Joried,

    You'd damage the original if you reduced the parts.

    Thanked by 4M. Jackson Osborn CHGiffen Liam Casavant Organist
  • CHGiffenCHGiffen
    Posts: 5,151
    Actually, the work in question is for double choir, SATB.SATB, with some SSATTB and SATB tutti (and semi-chorus) sections.
    Thanked by 2M. Jackson Osborn Casavant Organist
  • Chris Garton-Zavesky
    Posts: 6,902
    Charles,

    Of course, if it's impossible for the choir to sing two different pitches at the same time on two distinct syllables, this only compounds the problem of trying to reduce the parts.
  • CharlesW
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    I don't have enough singers for all those parts, either. However, I would disagree with the statement, "You'd damage the original if you reduced the parts."

    I like this piece very much, but it isn't on the level of Holy Writ delivered by the hand of God on a smoking mountaintop. Many of us adapt works frequently to make them fit our resources. I don't see anything wrong with that and if you find a decent SATB version, please share it.
    Thanked by 2Adam Wood Heath
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