Format : Octavo
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: ST.EC20
ISBN 9790220216633.
This volume, the first of five devoted to Taverner's music, contains the three surviving 6-part masses: Gloria tibi Trinitas, Corona spinea, and O Michael. Elaborate festal works intended for use on major feasts or patronal festivals, they are printed here in the order followed in the Forrest-Heyther partbooks.
SKU: ST.W227
ISBN 9790220223617.
The Gloria in Excelsis was written by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford for the coronation of HM King George V on 22 June 1911. It was an occasion of some note in the annals of British music, for Elgar's Coronation March and Parry's grand festival Te Deum were also heard for the first time that day. In addition, there was music by Thomas Tallis, Orlando Gibbons and Sir John Stainer, as well as by the Master of the King's Music and organist of St George's Chapel, Windsor, Sir Walter Parratt. It was published the following year as part of Stanford's Opus 128, the Festal Communion Service for voices and orchestra, which was also made available with the accompaniment arranged by the composer for organ. However, such was the popularity of the Gloria, a magnificent and wholly representative example of Stanford's genius for church music, that it soon became popular as a separate piece, either with organ or orchestral accompaniment, and it was included in the orders of service for the coronations of HM King George VI on 12 May 1937 and HM Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953. Orchestral material is available on hire (ref. HL189).
