SS/SA/Two Part Lenten music
  • PolskaPiano
    Posts: 255
    I hope everyone is doing well after recovering from Christmas and now prepping for Lent.

    I am not looking for rounds, but SA or even SS pieces for my 8 person choir.
    (3 very capable altos; not enough strong sopranos to do SSA, however.)

    I'm taking the long term approach and are working on sightreading/solfeg to strengthen their skills.
    However, in the meantime, I'm hoping to find a few very nice pieces for SA to add to our GIA/OCP saturated masses for Ash Wed/Lent/Triduum.

    As a last resort, I don't mind arranging, but I don't have much experience arranging and would appreciate guidance or principles to approaching this.

    Thank you.
  • JacobFlahertyJacobFlaherty
    Posts: 337
    This Dulcis Christe has always served me well: https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Dulcis_Christe_(Michelangelo_Grancini)
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  • PolskaPiano
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    Thank you very much. This is perfect for my choir.
  • PhilipPowell
    Posts: 117
    It can be used as a round but still very good: https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/1/10/Miserere_(Sweelinck).pdf
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG8Ggo_jnBA
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  • GerardH
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    Check out the works of Dom Stephen Moreno OSB at the Australian Digital Repository. I'll try and post a link later
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  • Chris Garton-Zavesky
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    Orlando di Lasso has collections (plural, I think) of two-part music.
  • ServiamScores
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    That Sweelinck is amazing! Such little material can combine into something that sounds as if Byrd or Palestrina wrote it themselves. This is such an exciting discovery for me. We are definitely learning it!
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  • Chaswjd
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    I would suggest the Salieri's De Profundis. While it was originally written one part for men and one for women, it could easily be sung with the male part being assigned to alto.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaHNWyzfU8c
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  • lmassery
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    That Sweelink is cool but I'm really confused about how to perform it according to the video. Can anyone clarify? Sounds like by the end you have sopranos and altos singing both parts and tenors and bases singing both parts a measure behind?
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