For the feast of Christ the King (Oct 31 this year, last Sunday of October in the EF, and last Sunday of the Year in the OF) It's the second antiphon at second Vespers, and part of me thinks it should be two equal voices, but ....
comments welcome.
Regnum ejus -- for 2 voices for Christ the King.pdf
Thank you for sharing this composition. For the exact right two voices, it seems like it would work.
I'm also bass-baritone, admittedly leaning bass, but the E and F will definitely have me singing with a slightly different tonality, though not undoable.
It isn't obvious to me why the E-d-c-b in measure 7 (bass part) can't be an octave lower (though admittedly then there is a slightly awkward jump up of a 7th -- doesn't bother me).
Similarly, it isn't obvious (to me, a non-composer) why the passage in measures 17-20 (perhaps until [edit: but not including] the G#) cannot be an octave lower.
It's the high F (and perhaps the E) that are a bit high for most basses. Pitched down a whole step might make it more accessible (low G to high E-flat).
After the wise thoughts of Charles Giffen and the practical comments of my own son Charles and Michael Dickson I've retooled this piece, in the bass part, to accommodate a larger group of basses.
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