Gibbons - This is the Record of John
  • Chris
    Posts: 80
    Can anyone recommend a good source for a keyboard reduction for this piece? CPDL has a good open score setting (arr. - Fowler), but without a reduction. I'm hoping not to have to write it out for myself, but I will if I must. Or possibly, does anyone have the capability to, via notation software, condense these parts into a reduction? I'd really appreciate the help.

    Thanks.

    Chris
  • Andrew Mills
    Posts: 4
    The Oxford Book of Tudor Anthems has what is apparently a 17th-C. organ part, which, it claims, is incompatible with the viol parts. I've always preferred to play it from the old Novello edition (ed. Wm. Palmer, c. 1957, Anth. # 1330). Here, "the accompaniments to the vv. are a literal transcription of the viol parts." There are also far fewer page turns than in Oxford!
  • eft94530eft94530
    Posts: 1,577
    The New Church Anthem Book: One hundred anthems compiled and edited by Lionel Dakers
    http://www.amazon.com/New-Church-Anthem-Book-Hundred/dp/0193531097/
    pages 463-472

    This is the record of John
    John 1:19
    Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
    edited by Peter le Huray
    (c) Oxford University Press 1978

    Comparing against the Fowler,
    this NCAB version has organ accompaniment continuous throughout on two line staff below SAATB;
    m1-m2 organ as in Fowler,
    m3 alto enters with organ as in Fowler,
    m10 organ varies from Fowler (bass=de-fg-a-a, alto=a-b-e-e),
    m18 choir enters with organ doubling SATB as in Fowler,
    m21 onward
    alto solo line always included in organ with harmony above and below,
    choir accompanied by organ slightly varying from Fowler.
  • Chris
    Posts: 80
    Thanks very much - this is very helpful!

    Chris
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