SKU: GI.G-9596
UPC: 785147959663.
This third installment in the Gathered to Worship organ series, has 25 new titles arranged by some of today’s finest composers of organ music. This volume contains classic hymn tunes—many composed in the nineteenth century—and also a good sampling of folk melodies. From the setting of laudate dominum in a Baroque style, to the contemplative meditation on southwell, to the energetic fanfare of lauda anima, and triumphant toccata on thaxted, this collection and its preceding volumes are essential for the library of every church organist!
SKU: HL.48180116
Composed by Marcel Dupre, Laudate is the last of the Four Motets. Written for a mixed SATB and two organs, the lyrics are in Latin and the volume includes all the scores: female soprano and alto, male tenor and bass and the two organ scores. The piece is introduced by the two organs and the male voices are the first to start singing (tenor, followed quickly by the bass). The full SATB then sings together, sometimes alternated by the organs and the organ parts include an outstanding toccata. Laudate is an amazing way to finish this series with a triumphant and glorious celebration of God. The organ scores require some upper intermediate skills, with the knowledge of pedals and the vocal parts, quite demanding, evolve in polyphony and polyrhythm. Marcel Dupre is a French composer and virtuoso organist who won the Prix de Rome in 1914. He became famous when he played the works of Bach in its totality from memory in 1920. He later became the professor of many renowned students at the Paris Conservatoire such as Olivier Messiaen, Jean Langlais and Pierre Cochereau amongst others.
SKU: CA.5020700
ISBN 9790007090241.
For lovers of romantic choral music this volume is a treasure trove. It contains the complete motets for mixed choir a cappella (with opus numbers) published by the Munich Court Composer. Among these works is the famous Abendlied in its original version, which he composed in his youth. The version with Latin text is also published, as well as the Motets op. 58 and 107 - until now the latter collections had yet to be published in new editions. This volume contains numerous facsimiles and historical information concerning the music.
SKU: C4.9790902261180
ISBN 9790902261180. 8.27 x 11.7 inches.
Excelsis 1 is the first volume in A Distant Music, an anthology of sacred music by Australian composers, curated by church musicians Michael Leighton Jones, Daniel Mitterdorfer, Brooke Shelley and The Rev'd Christopher Waterhouse. This volume contains 25 descants and reharmonisations of well-known hymn-tunes, with reproducible descant sheets for the singers.
SKU: BR.SON-339
ISBN 9790004802854. 10.5 x 13.5 inches. Latin.
The present volume contains the Psalmi Davidis Poenitentiales, seven penitential psalms that had already been supplemented with the motet Laudate Dominum de coelis in the first edition (1584). In the Complete Edition, however, the compilation is preceded by the vocal piece S u Su p e r per Super (1567), which experiments with syllables. Though reprinted many times, it was assigned to various genres according to its place of publication: while the piece was considered as a motet in Germany, in France it was classified as a chanson and in Italy as a madrigal a unique case in the reception history of vocal music in the 16th century. To this day we still do not know the significance of the vocal text Super flumina Babylonis, which gradually evolves out of syllables. Perhaps Lasso wanted to depict a biblical scene that evokes the gradual learning of a language.
