Wow, CH. Both are really lovely. I would very much like to do this in either two part SA or in three part SSA. It's impressive how balanced the SB version is - which I find is often difficult to pull off with two voices that can sometimes be so strong individually that a blend is elusive. I especially like the Renaissance-ish cadence at the end. Nicely done. Would you consider scoring these for SA and SSA or SAA? I haven't looked at the score yet, but will do later today. Thank you very much for sharing this lovely piece.
Deo gratias.

@tomboysuze:

Here you go! I transposed it up a perfect fifth from the original SAB/SB versions. The top soprano goes up to high A, and the alto goes down to F. Many thanks for your kind appraisal.

You hit on the difficulty of writing (and singing) two- and three-part music, namely balance and the willingness of the musicians to submit themselves to the work as a whole, giving their conscious individuality up to the integrity of the whole work. It's not that the individuality is lost, for indeed it isn't lost - but instead it's a matter of the whole becoming more than the sum of its individual parts. This applies, of course, just as well to four or more part singing/composing (which is why I am such an advocate of Renaissance polyphony).

Oh! How kind you are, Charles. Thank you so much for your amazingly rapid work. I can't thank you enough, as my last 24 hours have been filled with difficult conversations and decisions on leaving our gig at the Monastery...(as you know) and which I've now done...
This is a lovely balm.....many, many thanks.

What is the difficulty level of this piece? (I have no experience whatsoever in vocal music, but I now want to learn polyphony very much!) Is this a good beginning piece?

agreed, Heath - I am going to read through it tonight or tomorrow night with my lead soprano - who is a freshman in H.S. - very smart. I'll let you know how it goes. We are looking forward to it, but the high A in the soprano line worries me....she won't be able to reach it.... but my very distracted soprano who cannot calm down in rehearsals will....I know, I asked for it. :)

Thanks, Charles. I was planning to do the melodic lines together as you say. And I was just going over the music to see what could be done about the A and decided that I'm going to teach it as it, because it's so beautiful. One of my girls can get a high C - so she can cover on that....I'll only change it if it's really not working. We shall see. Anyway, I'm excited to hear the texture you've written with these voices because they have a very clear pure sound with just a touch of vibrato on the ends of the phrases...so, it should be a nice fit. If all goes well, I'll send you a recording...(but that will take some weeks as three of my girls will miss rehearsal tomorrow night....and then there's Holy Week.)
But we will start it this week.