Missa Ad Fugam
  • 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!
  • mahrt
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    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.