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Table of Contents:

• Cathedral music: Cathedral music today
• Choral tradition
• The choirs
• The organs
• The music
• Royal pageantry
• The composers
• Manuscripts and printed music
• CD music includes: Tallis: Salvator mundi / Wells Cathedral (2:59)
• Byrd: Haec dies / Wells Cathedral (2:18)
• Gibbons: O clap your hands / St. Mary's, Edinburgh (5:11)
• Purcell: Hear my prayer O Lord / Norwich Cathedral (2:28)
• S.S. Wesley: Thou wilt keep him / Guildford Cathedral (4:09)
• Parry: I was glad / Hereford Cathedral (5:09)
• Stanford: Beati quorum via / St. Mary's, Edinburgh (3:22)
• Stanford: Magnificat in B flat / Durham Cathedral (3:49)
• Wood: Nunc Dimittis in E flat (no. 1) / York Minster (2:55)
• Elgar: Ave verum corpus / Lincoln Cathedral (2:19)
• Ireland: Greater love / Guildford Cathedral (6:36)
• Bairstow: Let all mortal flesh keep silence / York minster (3:04)

• Harris: Faire is the heaven / Southwork Cathedral (5:19)
• Howells: Magnificat, Gloucester Service / Truro Cathedral (6:36)
• Vaughan Williams: Let all the world / Truro Cathedral (3:49)
• Britten: Jubilate in C / Southwork Cathedral (2:45)
• Leighton: Nunc Dimittis, Magdalen Service / Lichfield Cathedral (3:16)
• Judith Weir: Illuminare Jerusalem / Truro Cathedral (2:18)
• Tavener: the Lamb / Chester Cathedral (3:16)

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Author/Creator:

Brett, Vivien

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Cathedral music [by Brett, V.]

Related Series:

Pitkin guide

Subjects:

Church music — England — History and criticism

Cathedrals — Great Britain — Pictorial works

Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices)

Church music

Cathedrals

Great Britain

England

Genres:

Pictorial works

Physical Description:

20 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 compact disc ; 4 3/4 in.

Physical Characteristics:

24 cm

Call Numbers:

ML3131 .B74 2006
LPCD 136,777

ISBNs:

9781841651132
1841651133

OCLC Numbers:

489057115