Orlando Gibbons: Silver Swan: SSAA: Vocal Score

Bob Chilcott's Silver Swan for SATB double choir unaccompanied. This setting of Orlando Gibbons and Catullus is a re-working of Gibbons's celebrated 17th-century madrigal (of the same title) for five voices. It retains the lilting depiction of the swan and the original composer's love of antiphonal effects and rich texture providing an ideal platform for established choirs to explore tone blend and musical imagery.

Orlando Gibbons' The Silver Swan for SATBarB. Edited by E H Fellowes. Revised by Thurston Dart.

This collection for progressing students includes art songs as well as arrangements of folksongs and spirituals. ART SONGS Anonymous: Pastime with good company · Campian: Jack and Joan · Dowland: Come again sweet love · Dowland: What if I never speed · Gibbons: The Silver Swan · Ireland: Spring Sorrow · Lawes: How happy art thou · Morley: It was a lover and his lass · Morley: Now is the month of Maying · Purcell: I attempt from love's sickness · Purcell: Nymphs and Shepherds · Quilter: Weep you no more · Vaughan Williams: The Call · Vaughan Williams: Bright is the ring of words · FOLKSONGS/SPIRITUALS All Through the Night (arr. Nicholl) · The Gospel Train (Walters) · Greensleeves(arr. Stanley) · He's Got the Whole World in His Hands (arr. Boyd) · How Can I Keep from Singing (arr. Ruck) · I gave my love a cherry (arr. Dean) · Jacob's Ladder (arr. Walters) · My Lord What a Mornin' (arr. Burleigh) · Shenandoah (arr. Walters) · Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (arr. Walters) · This Little Light of Mine (arr. Ruck).

Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) remains one of the most notable Renaissance composers of English madrigals. The musical setting of this metaphorical poem has made it his most popular to this day.

One of the best known of all English madrigals the Silver Swan floats on its polyphony with a simple elegance. It has been edited so that the pitch note values meter signature and key signature are original. The traditional voicing intended for a soprano voice to be offset by two alto parts has been expanded to SATB format.

Hosanna To The Son Of David is an anthem for six-part SSAATB Choir. It is published here with a keyboard reduction for rehearsal purposes and has been transposed to the key of Eb. Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) was an English composer organist and chorister who is one of the best known musicians from the Tudor period. He studied and sang in the choir at King’s College Cambridge and later became Organist at the Chapel Royal and Westminster Abbey. He is best remembered for his madrigals and anthems such as The Silver Swan and Almighty And Everlasting God as well as his settings of the evening canticles and his hymntunes.

Description English Songs Renaissance To Baroque - High Voice Thirty-four songs from 17 composers, complete with historical information. Songlist As I Walked Forth One Summer Day [Johnson, Robert] Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind [Arne, Thomas] Come And Trip It (G.F.Handel) Diaphenia (Francis Pilkington) Fain Would I Change That Note (Tobias Hume) Fair, If You Expect Admiring (Thomas Campian) Flow My Tears [Dowland, John] Hark! The Echoing Air [Purcell, Henry] Have You Seen But A White Lily Grow? Henry Lawes (How Happy Art Thou) Here Amid The Shady Woods (G.F.Handel) I Attempt From Love's Sickness To Fly [Purcell, Henry] If Music Be The Food Of Love [Purcell, Henry] I'll Sail Upon The Dog Star (Henry Purcell) In Sherwood Livde Stout Robin Hood [Jones, Robert] It Was A Lover And His Lass [Morley, Thomas] Jack And Joan (Thomas Campian) Let Me Wander Not Unseen (G.F.Handel) My Lovely Celia (George Munro) My Lovely Celia [Munro, George] Nymphs And Shepherds [Purcell, Henry] O Come, O Come, My Dearest [Arne, Thomas] Pastime With Good Company Rest Sweet Nymphs [Pilkington, Francis] Since First I Saw Your Face (Thomas Ford) Tell Me No More (John Blow) The Silver Swan [Gibbons, Orlando] Thou Soft Flowing Avon (Arne) Weep You No More, Sad Fountains [Dowland, John] What If I Never Speed [Dowland, John] When Daisies Pied [Arne, Thomas] When Laura Smiles (A Book Of Ayres) [Rosseter, Philip] Where E'er You Walk [Handel, George Frideric] Willow Song Wind, Tell My Sweetheart