Research Catalog

Title

Cathedral music : being a collection in score of the most valuable and useful compositions for that service / by the several English masters of the last two hundred years ; the whole selected and carefully revised by William Boyce ; the present edition has been carefully revised and the organ accompaniment added by Vincent Novello.

Publication

London : London Sacred Music Warehouses, J.A. Novello, 1849.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Boyce, William, 1711-1779.
• Novello, Vincent, 1781-1861.
• Drexel Collection.

Description

1 score (xii, 1020 p. in 3 v.) + 1 organ part (343 p. in 2 v.); 40 cm.

Alternative Title

Boyce's collection of cathedral music

Subjects

• Anthems
• Evening service music
• Morning service music
• Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices) with organ

Note

• Each v. has added t.p., decorated in colors: Boyce's collection of cathedral music / in vocal score with a separate accompaniment for the organ by Vincent Novello.
• Includes index.
• Includes thematic catalog and brief biographies of the various composers included in the collection.
• "Memoirs of Dr. William Boyce" - reprinted from 'Second edition of Cathedral music', 1788 -- p. i-vii.

Contents

• Vol. 1: Preces, Morning and Evening services [C major] / Thomas Tallis -- Service for the burial of the dead [G minor] / Thomas Morley -- Morning and Evening services [G minor] / Richard Farrant -- Morning and Evening services [D minor] / Elway Bevin -- Morning and Evening services [F major] / Orlando Gibbons -- Morning and Evening services [E minor] / William Child -- Morning and Evening services [D major] / Benjamin Rogers -- Morning and Evening services [A major] / John Blow -- Morning and Evening services [G major] / Henry Aldrich -- Morning and Evening services [G major] / John Blow -- Morning and Evening services [G major] / John Blow.
• Vol. 2: O Lord the Maker of all things / King Henry the Eighth -- I call and cry to Thee O Lord / Thomas Tallis -- I will exalt Thee O Lord ; Sing unto the Lord / Chistopher Tye -- Call to remembrance / Richard Farrant -- O Lord, turn They wrath (1st part) ; Bow Thine ear, O Lord (2nd part) ; Sing joyfully unto God / William Byrd -- Hosanna to the Son of David ; Lift up your heads ; Almighty and everlasting God ; O clap your hands (1st part) ; God is gone up (2nd part) / Orlando Gibbons -- Hear my prayer, O God ; O praise the Lord, all ye heathen ; Deliver us, O Lord / Adrian Batten -- Praise the Lord, O my soul ; O Lord, grant the King ; Sing we merrily / William Child -- Behold, now praise the Lord ; Teach me, O Lord / Benjamin Rogers -- God is our hope ; O God, wherefore art Thou ; Save me O God ; The Lord hear thee ; My God, my God look upon me / John Blow -- Out of the deep have I called ; O give thanks unto the Lord / Henry Aldrich -- I will arise / Robert Creyghton -- O God, Thou art my God ; O God, Thou hast cast us out ; O Lord God of Hosts / Henry Purcell -- I have set God always before me / John Goldwin -- Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem / Jeremiah Clark -- God is gone up with a merry noise ; Put me not to rebuke O Lord / William Croft -- In Thee, O Lord ; Hear my crying, O God / John Weldon -- The Lord is my light / William Lawes -- Lord, let me know mine end / Matthew Locke -- Have mercy upon me, O God ; O Lord, my God why hast Thou forsaken me? / Pelham Humphrey -- I was in the spirit on the Lord's day / John Blow -- Prepare ye the way of the Lord / Michael Wise -- Awake, put on thy strength, O Sion / Michael Wise -- Thy way, O God, is holy ; Be merciful unto me, O god / Henry Purcell -- How long wilt Thou forget me / Jeremiah Clark -- O praise the Lord, all ye heathen ; Give the King Thy judgments, O God / William Croft.
• Vol. 3: Morning and Evening service [D minor] / William Byrd -- Morning and Evening service [D major] / William Child -- Morning and Evening services [E minor] / John Blow -- Morning and Evening services [B♭ major] ; Purcell's second Morning and Evening service [B♭ major] / Henry Purcell -- O Lord, my God I will exalt Thee / John Bull -- Thou art my King, O God ; Like as the hart ; Hear, O heavens ; Rejoice in the Lord ; Haste Thee, O God / Pelham Humphrey -- The ways of Zion do mourn ; Thy beauty, O Israel ; Awake up, my glory ; Blessed is he that considereth the poor / Michael Wise -- O Lord, I have sinned ; O sing unto God ; O Lord, Thou hast searched me out ; I beheld, and lo, a great multitude / John Blow -- Lord Thou hast been our refuge / William Turner -- Behold! I bring you glad tidings ; They that go down to the sea in ships ; Thy Word is a lantern ; O give thanks unto the Lord / Henry Purcell -- I will love Thee, O Lord / Jeremiah Clark -- Sanctus [F major] / Orlando Gibbons -- Sanctus [E minor] / William Child -- Sanctus [D major] / Benjamin Rogers -- Sanctus [E♭ major] / Robert Creyghton.

Call Number

Drexel 4641-4645

OCLC

8184671

Title

Cathedral music : being a collection in score of the most valuable and useful compositions for that service / by the several English masters of the last two hundred years ; the whole selected and carefully revised by William Boyce ; the present edition has been carefully revised and the organ accompaniment added by Vincent Novello.

Imprint

London : London Sacred Music Warehouses, J.A. Novello, 1849.

Local Note

Includes 2 volumes of organ part.

Includes portrait of Vincent Novello opposite title page of v. 1 of organ part.

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Added Author

Boyce, William, 1711-1779. Editor

Novello, Vincent, 1781-1861. Editor

Drexel Collection.

Research Call Number

Drexel 4641-4645