First Preces (Orlando Gibbons)

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• (Posted 2019-03-15)  CPDL #53580:         

Editor: Paul R. Marchesano (submitted 2019-03-15).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 87 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Note values halved; transposed up a fourth to suit modern mixed choirs.

General Information

Title: First Preces
Composer: Orlando Gibbons
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SAATB
Genre: Sacred, Preces and Responses

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published:
    2nd published: 1873 by Novello
Description: The 1873 publication by Novello, edited by Rev. Sir Frederick A. Gore Ouseley, with the identifying note: "OF WHICH THE SCORES ARE NOT CONTAINED IN DR. BOYCE'S COLLECTION" and only existed prior in manuscript and part books. Source: Identified as "First Preces" in Aldrich mss. copy at Christ Church Oxford and at St. Peter's College Cambridge.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Preces and Responses.