Voicing of works by Schütz
Posted: 05 Sep 2008 12:29
I've been doing some tidying up of some of the Schütz score pages but when it came to confirming the voicing of some works, I wasn't sure how to proceed. Works from his Opus 8 are scored variously for Soprano and basso continuo, 2 sopranos and bc, soprano and bass and bc, etc, which I happily changed to solo soprano and bc or solo soprano & bass and bc, etc. However, as I got further down the list, I found some works scored for a voicing much closer to what we might currently associate with choral music, eg. SATB, SSATB, etc. Taking a closer look at the PDFs told me that the lines aren't particularly difficult so perhaps they could be sung by a chorus, not as solos.
How should these works be categorised?
How should these works be categorised?