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Sicut cervus

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Choose your part: hear the opening with it lifted out of the choir, then practise it in the app. Free, and without an account.

Voicing
SATB / ATTB / TTBB
Key
F major
Time
4/4
Tempo
quarter note = 120
Length
58 bars
FreeSATBSicut cervusGiovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

The parts

The opening, 16 bars, on the app's piano: your part clearly, the others quietly.

  1. Soprano part

    Range

    Lowest C4Highest C5

    Practise in the app soprano part

  2. Alto part

    Range

    Lowest F3Highest G4

    Practise in the app alto part

  3. Tenor part

    Range

    Lowest C3Highest D4

    Practise in the app tenor part

  4. Bass part

    Range

    Lowest F2Highest B♭3

    Practise in the app bass part

Not sure which part you sing? Test your range

With a free account, the app plays the parts sung.

The words

  1. Verse 1

    Sicut cervus desiderat ad fontes aquarum, Sicut cervus desiderat ad fontes aquarum, desiderat ad fontes aquarum, i ta desiderat ita desiderat, ita desiderat, desiderat, ita desiderat anima mea ad te Deus, anima mea ad te Deus, ad te Deus.

Free to sing: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina died in 1594.

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