Does anyone know where I can get the entire Missa ad Fugam by Palestrina? a PDF and MIDI would be helpful. If not, perhaps another polyphonic Mass setting that means simple enough, SAB would be amazing. Thanks!
Try the Byrd Mass for Three Voices. It is really ATB and usually sung down a step for that combination. I have done it SAB at pitch and that is quite satisfactory. When I sing it with my full choir, I split the tenors, some singing the A part some the B.
The piece is a wonder of counterpoint, making the very most of the limited resources of three parts: you cannot double any note of the triad, and so every note has to count; maintaining full triadic sonority involves some real tricks, all of which Byrd has developed to the full.
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