This is addressed to Eupher, because it’s right up his alley, but if anyone else knows anything at all about the matter, please feel free to illuminate me.
As many here know, I “listen†to youtube via the help of a couple of implements that hearing people would find insufferable, but which are necessary for me to “hear.â€
Anyway.
There appears to be two basic set-ups for church choirs, one of them where the choir faces the audience, like these two examples:
And then there’s another setting where the choir walks in and separates into one of two sides, such as shown here:
Okay, my question. I am aware there are two sorts of male voices, bass and tenor, although to be honest, even if someone were to put a gun to my head and demand that I “listen†and tell the difference, the trigger might as well be pulled, because I can’t. Bass, tenor, both sound pretty much alike to me.
(I can however differentiate between soprano and alto in women—of course given the appropriate equipment--although I have no idea why.)
In the example of the “split†choir, is there one side that’s bass and the other side’s tenor? If so, which is which?
It seems to me the case of the full choir facing the same way is rather more complicated, because they put the younger ones up front, and the older ones out back. I have no idea but I bet this presents a totally different “hearing†experience, as compared with a “split†choir.
Does it?
Remember, these might seem like stupid questions, but I can’t hear, so I have no idea myself.