SKU: OU.9780193371644
ISBN 9780193371644. 12 x 8 inches.
For SATB and organ Written to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the death of the Foundress of St John's College, Cambridge, this celebratory setting is jubilant, melodic, and full of lively figuration for both the choir and the organ.
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SKU: OU.9780193411463
ISBN 9780193411463. 10 x 7 inches.
For SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied This reflective and affirmatory communion motet features fluid shifts between 3/4 and 4/4 time signatures and expressive melodic lines that are often underpinned by a drone.
SKU: OU.9780193403703
ISBN 9780193403703. 12 x 8 inches.
For SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied Setting a stanza of Tennyson's monumental and profound poem In Memoriam A.H.H., Jackson's work deals with reflections on loss and grief.
SKU: OU.9780193385856
ISBN 9780193385856. 12 x 8 inches.
For SSATB (with divisions) unaccompanied This work was awarded the British Composer Award for Liturgical Music in 2003, but is published for the first time in 2013. The Roman Catholic Liturgy includes an antiphon to the Magnificat at Vespers, O Doctor optime, which Jackson sets incorporating medieval influences such as plainsong.
SKU: OU.9780193397828
ISBN 9780193397828. 12 x 8 inches.
Rigwreck sets a text by poet Pierre Joris on the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Frequent vocal divisions, a wide range of dynamic expression, spoken lines, and powerful word-painting highlight the poem's emphasis on humanity's responsibility for the natural world and make this piece an exciting challenge for choirs.
SKU: OU.9780193361683
ISBN 9780193361683. 12 x 8 inches.
For SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied This dramatic setting of a 5th-century Ambrosian hymn perfectly epitomises the jubilation of the text. Rhythmically complex and involving some tricky melismatic passages, it is particularly suited to cathedral choirs and concert performance.
SKU: OU.9780193410800
ISBN 9780193410800. 12 x 8 inches.
For SATB and organ This setting of the well-known All Saints Day text juxtaposes flowing melodic lines in the sopranos with rich homophonic passages, each bringing the text to the fore. The organ plays a prominent role, providing gentle undulating accompaniment, as well as fanfare-like exclamations.
SKU: OU.9780193395268
ISBN 9780193395268. 10 x 7 inches.
For ATBarB unaccompanied. This is a setting of the words used to conclude a communion service: 'The Mass is ended, thanks be to God.' The tenor's heraldic opening leads into the highly rhythmic 'Deo Gratias' section. Ideal for the end of a festal or celebratory Mass.
SKU: OU.9780193388376
ISBN 9780193388376. 12 x 8 inches.
For SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied This setting was commissioned by the BBC Singers and premiered in April 2012. The text recounts the destruction of the ancient city of Jerusalem by King Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC.
SKU: OU.9780193385849
ISBN 9780193385849. 12 x 8 inches.
For SATB unaccompanied A setting of the Mass in Latin, written for the Truro Cathedral Choir.
SKU: OU.9780193395725
ISBN 9780193395725. 12 x 8 inches.
For solo soprano and SATB unaccompanied Ever-changing in mood and pace, La Musique is a setting of poems by Elizabeth Bishop and Charles Baudelaire on the transformative power of music. Jackson musically represents the complex psychological shifts contained in the texts' metaphors through alternating fully notated and indeterminate passages.
SKU: OU.9780193356771
ISBN 9780193356771. 12 x 8 inches.
For solo organ Written whilst the composer was living in Comeragh Road, the litanies of the title are sixteen discrete sections of music, varying in length from two seconds to a minute. Each of these blocks has a different texture, musical character and registration from its predecessor and the structure of the piece is articulated by a pattern of contrasts, repetitions, and allusions.
SKU: OU.9780193359383
ISBN 9780193359383. 12 x 8 inches.
For SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied Setting of a text by St. Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621), a Hymn for Lauds on the feast of the Guardian Angels.
SKU: OU.9780193387263
ISBN 9780193387263. 12 x 8 inches.
For SSAATTBB unaccompanied Setting text recorded in an early fourteenth-century Cambridge manuscript, this work presents evocative solo passages above sustained notes, and rich multi-layered canon-like passages in the upper voices.
SKU: OU.9780193368675
ISBN 9780193368675. 12 x 8 inches.
For SATB (with divisions) and trumpet The Spacious Firmament 2: Yet we who neither burn nor shine is a sequel to The Spacious Firmament. Both pieces may be performed separately, but The Spacious Firmament should always come first if they are programmed together (perhaps either side of an interval).
SKU: OU.9780193413474
ISBN 9780193413474. 10 x 7 inches.
For SATB with divisions, unaccompanied This setting of texts from Cymbeline and The Merchant of Venice, and Sonnet 98, is characterised by inventive textures and vibrant word-setting. The harmonic language is mostly diatonic but never plain, and there are pungent dissonances in the music of evocative power.
SKU: OU.9780193408258
ISBN 9780193408258. 12 x 8 inches.
SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied Grodek is thought to be the last work of the Austrian poet Georg Trakl; the title refers to the town where Trakl served as a medical officer in the First World War. Jackson's setting captures the darkness of the text, with an eerie opening building to a powerful climax.
SKU: OU.9780193404854
ISBN 9780193404854. 12 x 8 inches.
For SATB unaccompanied This work presents two contrasting yet coherent motets: The joyful 'Confirma hoc Deus', with its jubilant, melismatic motif; and the solemn 'Factus est', which features aleatoric sequences set against metred music to emphasise a reflective manner of worship.
SKU: OU.9780193392489
ISBN 9780193392489. 12 x 8 inches.
For SATB unaccompanied Commissioned by the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music, this short work sets the Eucharistic hymn by Thomas Aquinas. It starts with an expressive, rhythmic soprano line, and finishes with a calm, homophonic passage.
SKU: OU.9780193378490
ISBN 9780193378490. 12 x 8 inches.
For SATB with divisions, unaccompanied This is a sensitive and uplifting setting of a text by Geraldine Atkinson, who tragically died aged 24. The reflective nature of the music makes it particularly suitable for memorials. This piece is suitable for either amateur and professional choirs.
SKU: OU.9780193521933
ISBN 9780193521933. 12 x 8 inches.
For SATB soloists or choir unaccompanied This powerful work is a sequence of meditations on loss, longing, fear, and hope. The text is in Latvian and English - a pronunciation guide for the Latvian text is included in the vocal score. Jackson also employs percussion for dramatic effect, played by three of the singers.
SKU: OU.9780193376502
ISBN 9780193376502. 12 x 8 inches.
For SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied This sacred a cappella work is a joyous anthem, written for the Papal visit to Westminster Abbey in September 2010.
SKU: OU.9780193412514
ISBN 9780193412514. 12 x 8 inches.
For SATB with cello and offstage flute (or oboe). Not no faceless Angel is a beautifully reflective work. The themes of loss and love are articulated through expressive melodic lines and touching imagery.
SKU: OU.9780193379756
ISBN 9780193379756. 12 x 8 inches.
For SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied Jackson effectively intersperses sonorous polyphonic passages for full choir with spoken text and murmuring ostinato motifs in free time.
SKU: OU.9780193382671
ISBN 9780193382671. 12 x 8 inches.
For SATB (with divisions) anaccompanied This work sets a poem by George Meredith. The poem, Winter heavens, begins as a winter landscape, before coming richer, stranger and more metaphysical. Winter heavens was premiered in December 2011 by the BBC Singers and Stephen Cleobury.
SKU: OU.9780193417311
ISBN 9780193417311. 12 x 8 inches.
For SATB unaccompanied This anthem juxtaposes the words of the Antiphon for the Washing of Feet on Maundy Thursday with John Boyle O'Reilly's poem 'A White Rose'. Jackson combines lyrical polyphonic phrases for upper and lower voices with atmospheric passages for full choir, often accompanied by repeated half-whispered text in free time.
SKU: OU.9780193523760
ISBN 9780193523760. 10 x 7 inches.
For solo tenor and SSATB unaccompanied Following Jackson's settings of the seven 'O' antiphons (Seven Advent Antiphons), this is a setting of the text recognised as the eighth 'O' antiphon and performed as such in many Christian traditions. Jackson's imaginative setting features a melismatic line for tenor soloist and aleatoric writing.