Part-songs

[Phillip21]

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?

[Sallen112]

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).

[Phillip21]

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.