Good Friday - Tenebrae


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

The chanted confession (verses A, B, C, D, E) is better explained in rehearsal...

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?