Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in C

Herbert Howells's Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis for the Gloucester service is one of his most popular choral settings. This sheet music is arranged for SATB Choir and Organ.   Herbert Howells  was a renowned English composer of church music in the Anglican evensong tradition best known for his 'Hymnus Paradisi' and as a teacher at the Royal College of Music. His lesser-known evening canticles include this piece: with its famoustreble duet opening the work it calmly progresses to an affirmation of the glory of heaven through distinctive Lydian harmony and soaring highs. Each individual voice has its own part to play in this piece with melodies that rise to uplifting highs and fall to booming lows the combination of voices blends and binds to create a gliding and soaring unity of harmony.    This Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis sheet music is the most accurate transcription available of an awe-inspiring piece that is acclaimed by fans of choral music for its beautiful composition and wondrous voicing.     

Paul Mealor: The Selwyn Service (Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis) - For SATB Choir And Organ 'In its context the work... sound(s) atmospheric and imposing and it can quickly be learnt'. Choir & Organ December 2017

Ce travail a été commandé par le maître et les boursiers du Collège St Jean, à Cambridge, à l'occasion du 500e anniversaire de la fondation du Collège. Le Magnificat a été réalisée par Andrew Nethsingha et le Choeur du Collège St-Jean le 30 Octobre 2011, et le Nunc dimittis (dans le cadre d'un spectacle complet), le 5 Février 2012. / SATB / 20 pages / Partition

Oriel service-Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis (Oriel Service) arranged for mixed voice choir and organ by Judith Bingham.

Herbert Howells is a giant of 20th century Anglican church music the remainder of whose oeuvre is in the process of gaining new appreciation. Over the course of his compositional life he created many settings for the Magnificat and the Nunc Dimittis. Howells made a practice of writing his settings for these texts and completed services specifically for the church buildings or cathedrals in which they were to be performed. In this way he wrote works for the cathedrals of St Paul’s Worcester and Gloucester as well as Westminster Abbey King’s College -- Cambridge New College -- Oxford and St John’s College --Cambridge among others. This setting was written for Francis Jacksonand the Choir of York Minster in 1973.