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O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (three​-​voice)

from Carol Colors by Rudi Seitz

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This three-voice version of O Come, O Come, Emmanuel employs the same soprano and bass lines that can be found in the two-voice version on this album. When a possible third voice enters the mix, the question is always how to employ it in a way that achieves something meaningful that would be hard to do in a two-voice version. For some time I wondered whether there was any good reason to add a third voice, but the reason became clear when I realized that a beautiful effect might arise if the inner voice could transform the implicit minor tonality at the cadences into a major tonality, an effect that I had heard in other, very different arrangements of this piece. Once I decided what the inner voice would do at the cadences, the rest of the line came together. This setting for harp and upright bass reminds me of what Renaissance vocal music sometimes sounds like when it is transcribed for an ensemble of plucked instruments.


Instrument: harp, upright bass
Style: three-voice counterpoint

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from Carol Colors, released December 15, 2014

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Rudi Seitz Boston, Massachusetts

Rudi draws upon his passion for the counterpoint of Bach and Renaissance masters, his delight in the expressive poignancy of Schubert and Chopin, and his fascination with jazz and the musics of North and South India to craft compact works in which every note counts. Along with composing, he sings and plays guitar. Rudi lives in Boston, MA. ... more

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