Viols or Violins and
Organ
SKU: ST.Y242
Composed by John Jenkins.
Edited by Andrew Ashbee.
String music. Set of
String Parts.. Edited by
Andrew Ashbee. The organ
part is available in
Musica Britannica Volume
26 (MB26). Set of parts.
Stainer & Bell Ltd.
#Y242. Published by
Stainer & Bell Ltd.
(ST.Y242).
ISBN
9790220222177.
In
the output of the
long-lived 17th-century
composer John Jenkins,
the 32 'Ayres' for two
trebles, two basses and
organ have a special
place. They were probably
composed during the
English Civil War, while
the composer was in East
Anglia, and his royalist
patrons were subject to
harassment by
Parliamentarian forces.
Though one of the pieces,
'Newark Siege', is a rare
instance of programmatic
music in Jenkins's
output, the pieces in
general are far removed
from the lightweight
dance idioms of the time,
being full of
contrapuntal interplay
inspired perhaps by the
consort airs of the court
composer William
Lawes.
The four
parts retain original
note values, and
correspond to the edition
in Musica
Britannica MB36,
though the bass parts
have alto clefs for the
higher passages. The
organ part, not included
with the instrumental
material, is played from
full score in the parent
volume.
Two Airs
