Talk:Lumen ad revelationem gentium (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)

six voices?

My clarification of the voicing has been reverted, so I'll just point out here that the prevailing number of voices is 4 for the verses and 5 for the antiphon & GP. Voices 2 and 3 both descend as far as f, and the 'alto 2/tenor 1' is never higher than b'. Richard Mix (talk) 08:12, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

The voicing is very clear in the source: some verses have 2 cantus parts; some have 2 tenor parts; you need to have both 2 sops and 2 tenors to sing the whole piece. I've taken a slight liberty in the final Lumen, to treat the T2 part as a bass. Note that both tenor parts go down to an E-flat in the 5th Lumen - few altos would thank you for asking them to sing either of these parts. The alto part only has handful of low Fs, but lots of high B-flats - speaking as a tenor myself, you wouldn't want to listen to most tenors trying to sing this part. Adrian M. Wall (talk) 08:58, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

If the source (I was assuming Haberl) is 6 part books then that's certainly suggestive! It would be interesting to see what the ranges are of all parts; certainly mixed choirs complicate maters. What do you think of piping the voicing category SSATTB|SATB, SSATB & SATTB? Richard Mix (talk) 20:17, 12 April 2016 (UTC)