SKU: ST.MB96

ISBN 9790220223853.

This volume is the first of two intended to extend the coverage of keyboard music in Musica Britannica comprehensively into the first quarter of the 17th century. (The other, MB102, includes material from the two virginal books in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.) The present edition contains music by anonymous and a dozen or so named composers, including the complete keyboard works of Nicholas Carleton, the surviving twenty 'Miserere' canons by Thomas Woodson, and the anonymous 'Pretty ways for young beginners to look on'. The 77 complete pieces are organised by genre, including preludes, plainsong settings, voluntaries, dances and character pieces. Drawing on 22 manuscripts which mostly also transmit music by Byrd and other noted virginalists, this residue of music from these sources shows great diversity and a pleasing level of technical skill and musical interest, sufficient to enhance our wider view of English Renaissance music.

SKU: GI.G-9192

UPC: 785147919223. English.

As her tune writing journey continues, Sally Ann Morris explores new sounds and forms while still exhibiting the craftsmanship and melodic variety that have made her tunes so widely sung and accessible. This third collection includes settings of texts by Mary Louis Bringle, Carl P. Daw Jr., Delores Dufner, OSB, Shirley Erena Murray, Adam M. L. Tice, Thomas Troeger, and others. Highlights include the delightful “Invited by God to Tango,” a joyous tune easter waltz for “Spread the Good News,” a setting of “Wordless Is the Prayer” that employs the use of resonant sounds in sung prayer, and a moving dialog hymn “You Search and Know Me, O My God.”.

SKU: GI.G-7280

ISBN 9781579998561. English, Spanish.

GIA Publications, Inc., the publisher of numerous single-author and single-composer collections of hymn texts and tunes, has put together its first-ever anthology of hymns. While insufficient in number for single-author or single-composer editions, these new texts and tunes by a diverse group of creative people are worthy of having the opportunity to “find their vocation.” Encompassing a variety of styles, this collection of 50 hymns includes new texts by John Dalles, Jacque Jones, Joy Patterson, John Thornburg, and new tunes by John Karl Hirten, Ron Krisman, and Leo Nestor. Also included are texts and tunes by John L. Bell, Mary Louise Bringle, Ruth Duck, Delores Dufner OSB, Sylvia Dunstan, Marty Haugen, Sally Ann Morris, Carl Schalk, and Adam Tice.