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SE05 EP13 - Becoming a Sacrifice of Praise: Advice for Choral Directors for Pursuing Musical Excellence & Developing a Polyphonic Repertoire in Parish Choirs - with Christopher Berry

Square Notes: The Sacred Music Podcast

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How to Sing a Polyphonic Ordinary

If your choir has never sung a polyphonic ordinary before, let's say they've got some motet repertoire under the belt. Homophonies are our friend and really accessible keys like G major is always good. There's another piece again, which the St. Solsk Choir taught me, I would recommend it, the Cassiolini mass in A minor. The curios are very easy and not too polyphonic but the other movements are dense with more challenging polyphony.

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