Preview: Church Calendar: Holy Week, Easter Men’s Quartet score: $ US Accompaniment track: $ US In March 1988, Les Nederveld, our baritone, and I were talking about the upcoming Easter service at De Anza College’s Flint Center. Les thought it would be great to for the quartet to sing there, and decided to ask our …
Tag: TTBB ensemble
Men's vocal ensembles frequently have the voice distribution "TTBB" - two tenor parts and two bass parts. A group of four such singers often describes themselves as a "barbershop quartet" (with the more detailed voice description "tenor, lead, baritone, bass"). Such quartets often have better than average singes, because the tenor and bass parts frequently sing outside the main range of "normal" men's voices.
Far Beyond
Preview: Men’s Quartet score: $ US Accompaniment track: $ US I said temporary goodbyes to a lot of friends in 1991. Paul Steele, our pastor, died of a particularly virulent and manifestly inoperable cancer, and high school friend had a painful passing from the same. My grandmother passed away due to congestive heart failure. Although …
Access
Preview: Men’s Quartet score: $ US Accompaniment track: $ US Short and simple: Doumer Liu, our bass, once commented that there wasn’t much men’s quartet music with solos for the lowest part. So I wrote him one. “Access” tells of the Old Testament times when the children of Israel were denied direct access (and Internet …
TTBB
I sang in the (erstwhile) Valley Church Men’s Quartet, aka “The Brethren” / “Alpha Tau Pi” from 1987 to around 1999 (it turned out that I was the only original member to go the whole distance…). We had some great ministry opportunities during those years, and God blessed us wonderfully. I also had the privilege …
Sing
Choraegus was a choral music company before our first handbell piece became part of our catalog. We have about 100 scores for SATB choir, SSA women’s ensemble, and TTBB men’s ensemble. The great majority of our vocal compositions were written for Living Water, the choir I directed from 1987-2010. Those songs are the Living Water …
Larry Sue
Larry Sue has been a church musician since 1974, when he became the accompanist for his church’s new youth choir. That led to opportunities with guitar, voice (natural-range baritone, but usually tenor, and occasionally bass and alto), keyboards, electric bass, choral conducting, and choral composing. He began playing to handbells in 1987 at a choral …
About
I started Choraegus ShareMusic as a way to share my music with the public. My initial impression was that I was arriving a bit late in the game. What I didn’t know, being a newbie, was that 1995 actually was still in the beginning stages of the Internet. There were only about 25,000 Web sites …
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