Good Friday - Tenebrae
SBD CHURCH, 8pm service
Dress rehearsal: 7:00-7:30pm
Three pieces for choir:
1. Trisagion
PDF of score (all noteheads for chant) | (without noteheads chant)
MP3 of soprano part
MP3 of alto part
MP3 of tenor part
MP3 of bass part
Video of example performance:
https://youtu.be/-xLWnJrL0Nw
2.
'O sacred head' (PASSION CHORALE)
PDF of score
MP3 of soprano part
MP3 of alto part
MP3 of tenor part
MP3 of bass part
Video of example performance with variant harmonisation:
https://youtu.be/MY-aowxVXfI
3.
‘He dies! the friend of sinners dies'
PDF of score
MP3 of soprano part - also learn tenor part (TUNE)
MP3 of alto part
MP3 of tenor part (TUNE)
MP3 of bass part
A sound recording: from the album Pleasure Tunes My Tongue, sung by One Accord (St Louis, MO)
Good tempo.
Videos of example performances:
Sacred Harp Singers of Cork (we'd sing it faster)
https://youtu.be/X26Is3TJP30?t=50s
Mount Pisgah Primitive Baptist Church (quite slow)
https://youtu.be/R-drJZcHJ6A?t=44s
...and for comedy: (although it is a bit like a spoof art-house film)...
https://youtu.be/_ml8xpBgCNo
the question still is: why?