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New in the Downloads area of the website: the Evening Service in E by Miss Lucy Moseley dating from 1812. Little is know...
21/05/2024

New in the Downloads area of the website: the Evening Service in E by Miss Lucy Moseley dating from 1812. Little is known about Lucy Moseley beyond being from Exeter, where a volume of church music was printed in 1813 containing several works that were sung at the Cathedral. This is 60 or so years earlier than other choral settings of canticles by women composers previously identified. Here's the start of the Nunc dimittis...

The CMS is delighted to announce the publication of the Preces & Responses by David Trendell, composed when he was organ...
09/04/2024

The CMS is delighted to announce the publication of the Preces & Responses by David Trendell, composed when he was organ Scholar at Exeter College, Oxford, before going on to become one of the most admired scholar-performers of his generation, and a great friend to so many. He sadly passed away too young, ten years ago this year. The P&R have already been sung twice on BBC Radio 3's Choral Evensong, directed by Jeremy Summerly at St Luke's, Chelsea, and by Matthew Martin from the Edington Music Festival. Available from OUP now!

The Music Downloads page now contains a new reconstruction of the splendid but fragmentary 6th Evening Service by Thomas...
07/02/2024

The Music Downloads page now contains a new reconstruction of the splendid but fragmentary 6th Evening Service by Thomas Weelkes. It contains significant differences to the other versions currently available in print or online, e.g. the realisation of the Tenor verse 'He hath shewed strength' as a duet, as shown here.

And here's an excerpt from the SATB version...
07/02/2024

And here's an excerpt from the SATB version...

This little-known setting in the Wanley partbooks, like the famous setting by Stone, has the appropriate short text used...
07/02/2024

This little-known setting in the Wanley partbooks, like the famous setting by Stone, has the appropriate short text used at Matins and Evensong. It's ideal for Lower Voice services, or there's an arrangement for SATB provided as well in which some of the movement of the inner parts (one of which is editorial in any case) is adjusted. Here's the start of the AATB original...

07/02/2024

Newly available on the Music Downloads page of the website are editions of most of the surviving 16th-C. settings of the Lord's Prayer in English not already published in print form by the CMS:

A) Anonymous, Wanley partbooks (AATB)
B) Anonymous, Wanley partbooks (arr. for SATB)
C) Anonymous, Wanley partbooks (TTB)
D) John Sheppard (SAATB)
E) William Parsons (1563; SATB)
F) William Daman (1579; ATTB)
G) William Daman (1591 tune in Tenor; ATTB)
H) William Daman (1591(ii) tune in Cantus; SATB)

Those by Parsons & Daman use the standard tune also found in the settings by Morley and Farmer. The Sheppard setting is a polyphonic work, given here in the key of G.

The splendid cover image is a woodcut in the manner of Dürer by van Oostsanen dating from 1514.
07/02/2024

The splendid cover image is a woodcut in the manner of Dürer by van Oostsanen dating from 1514.

Here's that final Tallis cadence in Homo quidam...
07/02/2024

Here's that final Tallis cadence in Homo quidam...

The fifth release in our series of great 16th-C. Responds edited by Sally Dunkley is now available from OUP: Tallis, Hom...
07/02/2024

The fifth release in our series of great 16th-C. Responds edited by Sally Dunkley is now available from OUP: Tallis, Homo quidam (a certain man...). This is scored for SATTBarB, with the chant placed in the 2nd Tenor part. Intended for the Feast of Corpus Christi, it can be sung at any Eucharistic service, either as a straight-through motet or alternating with chant, in which case the superb final cadence is heard three times.

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