Format : Vocal Score
Oxford Choral Classics: English Church Music assembles in two volumes around 100 of the finest examples of English sacred choral music. The second volume presents a wealth of service material suitable for use throughout the year. The evening canticles are given due space with seventeen settings including those by Byrd Gibbons Purcell Walmisley Stanford Noble Howells Walton and Tippett. Also included are settings of the Te Deum and Jubilate Deo alongside seven settings of the Preces and Responses and two additional early Lord's Prayers. The selection is completed with three supplementary items: a set of previously unpublished Psalm chants byHowells John Sanders's Good Friday Reproaches and a written-out Order for Compline.Robert King has prepared completely new editions of all the pre-twentieth-century works going back to the earliest and most reliable manuscripts or printed sources. Playable keyboard reductions have been added for the majority of unaccompanied items.
SKU: OU.9780193570566
ISBN 9780193570566. 11 x 7 inches.
For SATB and organ This compelling anthem presents an assortment of historic sacred texts, artfully compiled by the composer to form a complete setting, with alternative text for Lenten use. Firmly rooted in the English cathedral tradition, it was composed to mark the 900th anniversary of the Priory Church of St Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield.