Solemn Notes of Sweetest Sound

Sacred music for upper voices and organ from the Charity Institutions for girls and boys in Georgian London

Notenblätter

32 Seiten

2023 | Vocal score
Oxford University Press
9780193707948 (ISBN)

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This ground-breaking collection revives the music sung by girls and boys in the chapels of the Charity Institutions of Georgian London. It contains ten mostly short anthems for varied liturgical use by men and women composers, scored for one or two upper voices featuring solo, duet, semi-chorus and tutti combinations, with organ accompaniment.

Following the publication of Jane Savage's Christmas anthem Whilst shepherds watch'd their flocks by night (CMS RS149) composed for the Asylum for Female Orphans, this anthology brings together ten works by men and women composers from publications issued by the Charity Institutions of Georgian London in the period 1729-1804. The music is scored for one or two upper voices featuring solo, duet, semi-chorus and tutti combinations, with organ accompaniment, and one anthem was composed specifically to be sung by boys and girls in alternation and together. The anthems have been selected to provide performance options across the liturgical year, and are of varied length. Composers include the famous organists John Stanley and William Russell, together with Maria Barthelemon and her husband François-Hippolyte Barthélemon who provided an English arrangement of a popular Italian psalm setting by Benedetto Marcello.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.1.2023
Reihe/Serie	Church Music Society
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	211 x 297 mm
Gewicht	98 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
ISBN-13	9780193707948 / 9780193707948
Zustand	Neuware