Part of last night’s choir rehearsal was spent with a very enjoyable arrangement of How Can I Keep From Singing? The next anthem we rehearsed was a fairly ambitious arrangement of Lasst uns erfreuen (and, also, nicely done). There is a descant for verse 2, the sopranos have a line unlike the tune (and the meter is recast to 4) in verse 3, and there is a subtly different descant for verse 4.
Which is to say, the sopranos (who may, at times, become accustomed simply to singing a familiar tune) faced some challenges. In one of the verses last night, they dropped out, and did not manage to plug back in.
You kept from singing!, I observed. However did you manage it?!
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