In addition to Celestial music and Great Parent, hail!, formerly in Miscellaneous Odes and Cantatas which is now replaced by PE27 Symphony Songs, PE1 contains The Yorkshire Feast Song, Of old, when heroes thought it base, which was the inaugural volume of the series, published in 1878 and edited by a founder-member of the society, W. H. Cummings. The first English score with full Baroque instrumentation, including trumpets and oboes, it is a consummate display of orchestral mastery, and represents the composer’s first response to Giovanni Battista Draghi’s 1687 setting of Dryden's Cecilian Ode From Harmony.
CONTENTS
I Celestial Music did the Gods Inspire
II Of Old, when Heroes Though it Base
III Great Parent, Hail!
Performing material now available for rental:
Celestial music did the gods inspire [19'] (Ref. HL394)
Soprano, countertenor, tenor and bass soloists and SATB choir, with two treble recorders, two oboes (optional), instrumental bass (theorbo/bassoon/bass recorder), strings 3.3.2.2. & harpsichord continuo
Great parent, hail! [27'] (Ref. HL396)
Soprano, countertenor, tenor and bass soloists and SATB choir, with two treble recorders, two oboes (optional), instrumental bass (theorbo/bassoon/bass recorder), strings 3.3.2.2. & harpsichord continuo
Of old, when heroes thought it base (The Yorkshire Feast Song) [38'] (Ref. HL395)
Soprano, countertenor, tenor and bass soloists and SATB choir, with two treble recorders, two oboes, two trumpets, instrumental bass (theorbo/bassoon/bass recorder), strings 3.3.2.2. & harpsichord continuo
