At 11:17 AM -0400 9/3/07, Andrew Stiller wrote:
In two American choral works of the 1820s (different composers,
different cities) I have encountered alto parts that are clearly
intended to sound an octave lower than written, like the tenors.
Has anybody else ever come across this practice?
I ran across something similar in a 17th or 18th century context
(18th, I think, and English), with the soprano written very high.
Turned out that the only credible answer was to assume that it was
intended for, but not labeled for, male chorus. I adapted it to SATB
by reassigning parts and switching octaves, and in the end it worked
well. My first thought would be to check for this possibility.
John
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