You might check out tenor arias from Handel's Messiah (which is available at CPDL), especially "Every valley shall be exalted" and "Thou shalt break them"
Chuck
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- 26 Jan 2007 14:45
- Forum: Musical activities
- Topic: Purpose for this forum
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6174
There were multiple reasons for starting this forum, represented by the description under the forum title on the Forum Index: This forum is for announcement and discussion of musical activities, including but not limited to: musical workshops, concerts/performances (including works available at CPDL...
- 11 Dec 2006 20:00
- Forum: Musical questions
- Topic: help - conducting a choir
- Replies: 2
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- 17 Nov 2006 15:05
- Forum: Musical questions
- Topic: Question about ancient music/church liturgy
- Replies: 8
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- 16 Nov 2006 15:10
- Forum: Musical questions
- Topic: Question about ancient music/church liturgy
- Replies: 8
- Views: 16164
- 14 Nov 2006 16:13
- Forum: Musical questions
- Topic: Octatonic series and warmup tuning exercises
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6656
Octatonic series and warmup tuning exercises
The octatonic scale/mode produces some lovely and interesting sounds, especially in choral music. The Wikipedia article on the Octatonic scale is an excellent (and accurate) resource. [ Edit Another resource which has good musical examples is Kenneth Rumery's Octatonic scale page. ] A few comments: ...
- 14 Nov 2006 16:12
- Forum: Musical questions
- Topic: Tuning Exercises
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10319
- 11 Oct 2006 19:16
- Forum: Musical questions
- Topic: Hodie Christus natus est (Palestrina)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 20820
Hi Luis,
I think the Brian Marble SATB edition (transposed up a perfect fourth) from the cipoo.net version is quite satisfactory for performance and keeps the flavor of the voicings of the TTBB edition you mentioned.
chuck giffen
I think the Brian Marble SATB edition (transposed up a perfect fourth) from the cipoo.net version is quite satisfactory for performance and keeps the flavor of the voicings of the TTBB edition you mentioned.
chuck giffen
- 03 Oct 2006 14:26
- Forum: Musical questions
- Topic: What's your favourite ensemble?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 14008
- 28 Sep 2006 14:26
- Forum: Musical questions
- Topic: What's your favourite ensemble?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 14008
- 25 Sep 2006 13:51
- Forum: New members meeting place
- Topic: Salutations!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 11416
Welcome Danny! I know that Finale PrintMusic can be a bit daunting (especially at first) and that it is somewhat limited in its features (compared to the full-fledged version of Finale), but once one gets a bit further up the learning curve, it becomes easier to use. I'm not sure if the PrintMusic e...
- 25 Sep 2006 13:25
- Forum: New members meeting place
- Topic: Hello to all
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6507
- 15 Sep 2006 14:07
- Forum: New members meeting place
- Topic: 500 registered users!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 15847
500 registered users!
Since the CPDL Bulletin Board started just over a year ago, we have passed the 500 count in registered users! It is both exciting and stimulating to have such a wide base of users interested in choral music, especially choral music in public domain, and we hope that users find this BB a useful forum...
- 05 Jul 2006 16:47
- Forum: Musical questions
- Topic: Tuning Exercises
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10319
- 12 Jun 2006 16:28
- Forum: New members meeting place
- Topic: new trio needs help
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6910