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Looking at the Score Submission Guide, I am not clear on how the instrumentation details should be completed for 'part-songs', ie vocal trios, quartets, etc. with or without piano, that were really designed to be sung by a group of individual voices but can actually be sung by a choir. The logical way of doing this (eg, for an accompanied quartet) would be "voices (SATB), piano" - but the only reference to the abbreviation SATB etc. is in the orchestral works section. Can someone enlighten me on this?

having "voices (SATB) is not specific enough for category tagging, so you need to specify if this was done with a chamber ensemble of "4 voices" or for a mixed chorus (SATB).

If I were to put "4 voices", should I then add (SATB) to specify which voices they were - ie "4 voices (SATB)", or "4 voices (SSAA)" according to the specification.