I think of voice as one of the best instruments. My memories of high school and college choirs are some of my favorites. Husband loves classical music, but hates voice, so I lost mine from disuse. One of my regrets. I still battle with him when I use voice as an audio track on my videos. So wonderful to know others love that instrument, too. Van Gogh green with envy that you’re singing. Was just listening to O Magnum Mysterium and remembering.
Voice is the original instrument. Instrumental music, per se, in the Renaissance was largely derived at first from vocal lines: chant and harmonies.
Which O Magnum Mysterium? Lauridson or de Victoria (or some other)?
Lauridson is more popular nowadays, but de Victoria is one of my favorites to sing and hear. It is unusually challenging and interesting in the bass line. (Bass parts are sometimes either monotonous or jumpy, but often not melodic.)
I was in an acapella choir at college in upstate NY. Your postings touched off a wave of nostalgia We sang a version of O Magnum Mysterium but it wasn’t the Lauridsun...I’ve not been able to find a recording of the one we sang though Ican still recite a lot of the bass line from pitch memory.(My ear was what got me into the choir in the first place) I don’t do much singing anymore but I still have the ear....I can tell at a distance if it my IV pumps are going off vs’s another nurse’s from their pitch...generally our feeding pumps have two pitches... a c and a csharp and I remember a nurse asking one day..”i wonder which pump is going off...I replied “your is. the c sharp is in room 23 and the c natural is in room 27”**...which it was when she checked it. My love of has helped me in my nursing jobs in lots of ways over the years.(**relative to A440hz)