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I received this email message from Jeff Ostrowski at Corpus Christi Watershed (www.ccwatershed.org) – R. Schletty

Stunning Hymn With 3-Voice Polypony You Will Want To Sing For Pentecost
published 11 May 2015 by Jeff Ostrowski

OVER THE YEARS, I have learned it's better to do something simple really well than to attempt something hard, only to crash & burn. Pope Pius XII said something similar in 1958: “In general it is better to do something well on a small scale than to attempt something elaborate without sufficient resources to do it properly.”

Here's a piece you might want to do for Pentecost:

PDF Dowload • HYMN FOR PENTECOST (with Polyphony by T. L. de Victoria)

To accompany the hymn sections, organists can use this.

Go here to download score and individual voice practice audio files: Pentecost Hymn with 3-Voice Polyphony (Victoria)

By the way, in grad school, they told a story about Tomás Luis de Victoria, who may have studied with Palestrina. According to the story, Palestrina was jealous of Victoria’s first drafts—and it’s not hard to see why.