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PDF Download • For the Sacred Heart (3 voices)

Andrea Leal · June 3, 2021

HERE IS A GREAT NEED for simple polyphonic pieces arranged for 2-part choirs and 3-part choirs. As the demand for authentic sacred music increases, small choirs are popping up everywhere. It’s true that Covid put a stop to that for a while, but it was only a temporary halt. And now that some choirs are allowed back only in a limited fashion, mostly everyone is in need of music with reduced parts. Since I have always had a small choir with few voices, a few years back I “made an arrangement” for my group. (Read: I removed the bass part). I probably shouldn’t put music on the chopping block like that, but I had no bass singers so I wrote a clean copy without the distraction of that pesky 4th part. Frankly, if you wanted to sing this without the tenor part as well, I don’t think anyone would be mad about it.

Download this piece and start practicing soon, because the Feast of the Sacred Heart is next week.

*  PDF Download • “O COR JESU” (3 voices)
—Arranged for 3 Voices by Anonymous.

I hope these Mp3 rehearsal files will assist you:

*  Mp3 • [rehearsal] Equal Voices

*  Mp3 • [rehearsal] Soprano Emphasized

*  Mp3 • [rehearsal] Alto Emphasized

*  Mp3 • [rehearsal] Tenor Emphasized

If you desire to try the full piece as it was written, you can download the original here. Don’t forget that my colleague, Veronica Brandt, has posted another very useful 3-part motet for the Sacred Heart as well. Since both of these pieces are short, you can alternate with a few verses of a psalm tone chant of your choice to lengthen it as needed.


NOTES FROM THIS ARTICLE:

*   Sometimes I make real arrangements (not just chopping one part off), and I even make rehearsal audio for my Schola Cantorum. But since I am busy with home life, I do it quickly and move on, forgetting that I can share it with you here. I’ll try to do better with that, because I know that they can be useful to others.

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About Andrea Leal

Andrea Leal is a wife and homeschooling mother of 6 children. She serves as choir director for the Traditional Latin Mass in Las Vegas.—(Read full biography).

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“The following few hints on the selection of voices may be useful: (1) Reject all boys who speak roughly, or sing coarsely; (2) Choose bright, intelligent-looking boys, provided they have a good ear; they will much more readily respond to the choirmaster’s efforts than boys who possess a voice and nothing more; therefore, (3) Reject dull, sulky, or scatter-brained boys, since it is hard to say which of the three has the most demoralizing effect on his more willing companions.”

— Sir Richard Runciman Terry (1912)

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