The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #14533   Message #1077230
Posted By: Barbara Shaw
21-Dec-03 - 12:36 PM
Thread Name: Shape Note or Sacred Harp
Subject: RE: Shape Note or Sacred Harp
Update on "Star in the East." Burke tells me that s/he has a 4-part arrangement, which I hope to see sometime. Not in time for this morning, however, when we did it during the regular Sunday service at church!

Turns out our soprano came down with laryngitis, so the guy who was doubling my tenor part QUICKLY learned the soprano part and sang it an octave lower. That filled the three parts, with me singing tenor, one male voice singing bass and one male voice singing - what would you call soprano an octave lower?

It actually worked very well.