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Chapter 3: Fundamental concepts 72<br />

3.4.2 Four-part SATB vocal score<br />

Most vocal scores of music written for four-part mixed choir with orchestral accompaniment such<br />

as Mendelssohn’s Elijah or Handel’s Messiah have the choral music and words on four staves,<br />

one for each of SATB, with a piano reduction of the orchestral accompaniment underneath.<br />

Here’s an example from Handel’s Messiah:<br />

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None of the templates provides this layout exactly. The nearest is ‘SATB vocal score and<br />

automatic piano reduction’ – see Section A.4 [Vocal ensembles], page 152 – but we need to<br />

change the layout and add a piano accompaniment which is not derived automatically from the<br />

vocal parts. The variables holding the music and words for the vocal parts are fine, but we shall<br />

need to add variables for the piano reduction.<br />

The order in which the contexts appear in the ChoirStaff of the template do not correspond<br />

with the order in the vocal score shown above. We need to rearrange them so there are four<br />

staves with the words written directly underneath the notes for each part. All the voices should<br />

be \voiceOne, which is the default, so the \voiceXXX commands should be removed. We also<br />

need to specify the tenor clef for the tenors. The way in which lyrics are specified in the template<br />

has not yet been encountered so we need to use the method with which we are familiar. We<br />

should also add the names of each staff.<br />

Doing this gives for our ChoirStaff:<br />

\new ChoirStaff <br />

\new Lyrics \lyricsto "sopranos" { \sopranoWords }<br />

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