By Antony Holborne, William Brade, Claude Gervaise, Thomas Ravenscroft, And John...(+)
By Antony Holborne,
William Brade, Claude
Gervaise, Thomas
Ravenscroft, And John
Dowland. Arranged by
Andrew Dabczynski. Music
by Antony Holborne,
William Brade, Claude
Gervaise, Thomas
Ravenscroft, and John
Dowland / arr. Andrew
Dabczynski. For String
Orchestra. String
Orchestra. String
Explorer. Level: 2 (grade
2). Conductor Score and
Parts. Published by
Alfred Publishing.
By Antony Holborne, William Brade, Claude Gervaise, Thomas Ravenscroft, And John...(+)
By Antony Holborne,
William Brade, Claude
Gervaise, Thomas
Ravenscroft, And John
Dowland. Arranged by
Andrew Dabczynski. Music
by Antony Holborne,
William Brade, Claude
Gervaise, Thomas
Ravenscroft, and John
Dowland / arr. Andrew
Dabczynski. For String
Orchestra. String
Orchestra. String
Explorer. Level: 2 (grade
2). Conductor Score. 12
pages. Published by
Alfred Publishing.
Looking Up Chorale SATB SATB, Piano St Rose Music Publishing
Choir, Piano Accompaniment (SATB Choir) SKU: HL.277282 SATB and Piano ...(+)
Choir, Piano
Accompaniment (SATB
Choir)
SKU:
HL.277282
SATB and
Piano Vocal Score.
Composed by Nico Muhly.
Music Sales America.
Classical. Softcover. 60
pages. St. Rose Music
#SRO10015201. Published
by St. Rose Music
(HL.277282).
UPC:
840126915006. 6.75x10.5
inches.
Program
note:
Looking Up
is a piece for large
chorus and orchestra, and
is in three sections,
played without pause. In
the 16th century, a
variety of psalters in
meter were printed in
England, with the idea of
making psalm-singing
something that could
happen easily at home,
with the rhyming meter
being an aid to
memorization. These
translations are
wonderful exercises in
brevity and sometimes
clumsy rhymemaking, and
were usually prefaced by
a lengthy explanation as
to their merits; the
title of one of the first
such volumes in English
is: The Psalter of Dauid
newely translated into
Englysh metre in such
sort that it maye the
more decently, and wyth
more delyte of the mynde,
be reade and songe of al
men. I thought it would
be appropriate to set one
of these introductions,
and the first section of
Looking Up sets the
preface to Thomas
Ravenscroft's psalter
(1621), in which he
writes: “The
singing of Psalmes (assay
the Doctors) comforteth
the sorrowfull, pacifieth
the angry, strengtheneth
the weake, humbleth the
proud, gladdeth the
humble, stirres up the
slow, reconcileth
enemies, lifteth up the
heart to heavenly things,
and uniteth the Creature
to his
Creator.”
It
begins meditatively, but
eventually grows agitated
and fervent, with a
vision of the
“quire of Angels
and Saints”
“redoubling
anddescanting” - an
ecstatic and terrifying
vision of the skies
opening up. Ravenscroft
then encourages the use
of instrumental musicfor
worship, at which point,
a long, acrobatic
orchestral interlude with
jagged edges antagonizes
the choir, who sing a
kind of private, anxious
meditation on two
pitches.
One of
the most delicious
biblical texts is an
Apocryphal prayer known
as the Benedicite or the
Prayer of the Three
Children (the same who
were rescued by an angel
after King Nebuchadnezzar
tried to have them burnt
in an oven for not bowing
to his image). The text
is repetitive, obsessive,
and a gift to composers -
each line is an
invocation of an element
of the natural world,
followed by the phrase,
“blesse ye the
Lord, praise him &
magnify him for
ever.” In Looking
Up, the setting begins
with three solo voices,
and then grows to include
the whole choir,
itemizing the whole of
creation. The idea that
these boys are spared
from the furnace and then
five minutes later are
saying, “O ye the
fire and warming heate,
blesse ye the
Lord...” has always
felt very loaded to me,
and the orchestra plays
with this conflict
between joyful praise and
a more terrible (in the
16th-century sense)
awefor the
divine.
The text
for the third, and
shortest, section is
taken from Christopher
Smart's (1722-1771) A
Song to David,
purportedly written
during his confinement in
a mental asylum. This ode
to King David points out
how David, as the author
of some of the Psalms,
observes the whole world
from the
“clustering
spheres” to the
“nosegay in the
vale.&rdquo.
Choral SATB choir SKU: PR.432410040 For S.A.T.B., a cappella. Comp...(+)
Choral SATB choir
SKU:
PR.432410040
For
S.A.T.B., a cappella.
Composed by Aaron
Williams, Abraham Wood,
Andrew Law, Daniel
Belknap, Daniel Read,
Jacob Kimball, Jezaniah
Sumner, John Playford,
Justin Morgan, Misch,
Oliver Holden, Samuel
Holyoke, Thomas
Ravenscroft, Timothy
Swan, W. Tansur, William
Billings, William Knapp,
and etc. Arranged by
Waldo Pratt. Sws.
Performance. With
Standard notation. 64
pages. Theodore Presser
Company #432-41004.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.432410040).
ISBN
9781491109687. UPC:
680160094202. Octavo
inches.
Composed by
Thomas Ravenscroft.
Arranged by Ludwig Bohme.
Sacred vocal music.
Separate edition with
choral collection. Sacred
vocal music. Full score.
Composed 2013. Duration 3
minutes. Carus Verlag #CV
03.155/50. Published by
Carus Verlag (CA.315550).
ISBN 9790007176327.
Key: E major. Language:
English.
5 recorders (SSATB) or strings or Gamben (Parts) SKU: HL.49014623 Compose...(+)
5 recorders (SSATB) or
strings or Gamben (Parts)
SKU: HL.49014623
Composed by Thomas
Ravenscroft. Edited by
Nicolas Steinitz. Sheet
music. Edition Schott.
Classical. Individual
part. 2 pages. Schott
Music #ED 11517-02.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49014623).
Unison voices, optional
Orff instruments or
handbells - Intermediate
SKU: MN.50-9809
Composed by Michael
Burkhardt. Canon. 21st
Century. Octavo.
MorningStar Music
Publishers #50-9809.
Published by MorningStar
Music Publishers
(MN.50-9809).
UPC:
688670598098.
Writt
en for 3 to 14 Voice
Canons, with opt. Orff or
Handbell ensemble.
Comprised of selections
from Pammelia, an early
17th century collection
of rounds and canons
compiled by Thomas
Ravenscroft. Edition
includes facsimiles of
the original 1609
publication. The canons
and rounds may be
performed in concert as
processionals and anthems
representative of 16th
and 17th century popular
English songs. The canons
and rounds may be sung in
worship as processionals,
anthems, introits, calls
to worship, and psalm
refrains throughout the
Church Year.
SATB choir SKU: CA.337920 Composed by Thomas Ravenscroft. Choral collecti...(+)
SATB choir
SKU:
CA.337920
Composed by
Thomas Ravenscroft.
Choral collections.
Separate edition with
choral collection. Folk
songs and settings of
folk songs, Secular
choral music. Full score.
Composed 1611. 2 pages.
Carus Verlag #CV
03.379/20. Published by
Carus Verlag (CA.337920).
Composed by Cecilia McDowall. 12 pages. Duration 6.5'. Oxford University Press #...(+)
Composed by Cecilia
McDowall. 12 pages.
Duration 6.5'. Oxford
University Press
#9780193406131. Published
by Oxford University
Press (OU.9780193406131).
5 recorders (SSATB) or strings or Gamben (Parts) SKU: HL.49014622 Compose...(+)
5 recorders (SSATB) or
strings or Gamben (Parts)
SKU: HL.49014622
Composed by Thomas
Ravenscroft. Edited by
Nicolas Steinitz. Sheet
music. Edition Schott.
Classical. Individual
part. 2 pages. Schott
Music #ED 11517-01.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49014622).
SATB choir SKU: CA.337890 Composed by Thomas Ravenscroft. Choral collecti...(+)
SATB choir
SKU:
CA.337890
Composed by
Thomas Ravenscroft.
Choral collections.
Separate edition with
choral collection. Folk
songs and settings of
folk songs, Secular
choral music. Full score.
Composed 1611. 2 pages.
Carus Verlag #CV
03.378/90. Published by
Carus Verlag (CA.337890).
5 recorders (SSATB) or strings or Gamben (Parts) SKU: HL.49014624 Compose...(+)
5 recorders (SSATB) or
strings or Gamben (Parts)
SKU: HL.49014624
Composed by Thomas
Ravenscroft. Edited by
Nicolas Steinitz. Sheet
music. Edition Schott.
Classical. Individual
part. 2 pages. Schott
Music #ED 11517-03.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49014624).
SATB choir SKU: CA.337810 Arranged by Thomas Ravenscroft. Choral collecti...(+)
SATB choir
SKU:
CA.337810
Arranged by
Thomas Ravenscroft.
Choral collections.
Separate edition with
choral collection. Folk
songs and settings of
folk songs, Secular
choral music. Full score.
Composed 1609. 4 pages.
Carus Verlag #CV
03.378/10. Published by
Carus Verlag (CA.337810).
5 recorders (SSATB) or strings or Gamben (Parts) SKU: HL.49014625 Compose...(+)
5 recorders (SSATB) or
strings or Gamben (Parts)
SKU: HL.49014625
Composed by Thomas
Ravenscroft. Edited by
Nicolas Steinitz. Sheet
music. Edition Schott.
Classical. Individual
part. 2 pages. Schott
Music #ED 11517-04.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49014625).
5 recorders (SSATB) or strings or Gamben (Parts) SKU: HL.49014626 Compose...(+)
5 recorders (SSATB) or
strings or Gamben (Parts)
SKU: HL.49014626
Composed by Thomas
Ravenscroft. Edited by
Nicolas Steinitz. Sheet
music. Edition Schott.
Classical. Individual
part. 2 pages. Schott
Music #ED 11517-05.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49014626).