Written by Military Wives composer Paul Mealor, the choral work De Profundis includes a low E, which lies more than two octaves below middle C.
It is six semitones below the lowest note found in a mainstream choral work – a B flat in Rachmaninov’s Vespers.
The search for the bass voice will take place via trade magazines and online.
“My setting of De Profundis calls for a rich and powerful voice; a voice that can not only touch the heart with its sincerity and truth, but also make every fabric of the human body resonate as it plunges into the very lowest parts of the vocal spectrum,” said Mealor.
(Ed. note: the current Guiness World’s Record for lowest note is F#, a whole step above this target, sung in 2011 by US gospel quartet singer Roger Menees)
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