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On a sheet of choir music, how do you interpret two notes represented by two heads on a single stem?

It’s a divisi, meaning that the singers of that part divide their section into two. In most choirs, the part assignments will already have been made within each section. The Tenors, for example, will ...
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On a sheet of choir music, how do you interpret two notes represented by two heads on a single stem?

First of all, in your circled example the two note heads have their own stems, so they're not sharing a single stem. You didn't provide the staff assignment. SATB hymn scoring (mostly homophonic) ...
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On a sheet of choir music, how do you interpret two notes represented by two heads on a single stem?

There are many possibilities, depending on the context. If it is a four-voice choir written on two staves, there are two voices assigned to the bass-clef staff, typically tenor and bass. If there are ...
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