Three Responsorial Psalms: Vocal score

ISBN-13: 9780193954151 / Angielski

Peter Tranchell

Opis

for unison voices and organ Settings of Psalms 15, 126, and 133. The vocal part is fairly simple, with some interesting rhythms while the organ part adds some 'spice' with Tranchell's individual harmonies. Psalm 133 uses two different antiphons.

Recenzje

A compelling addition to the repertoire . . . If you like the idea of such psalmody but are put off by the over-simplistic material widely available, these are for you. Scored for unison voices, the organ's largely conventional harmonies take a diversion somewhere along the line into a Richard Straussian siding before slipping effortlessly back on to the regular rails again. Delicious!

O autorze

Peter Tranchell (1922-1993) was a British composer born in Cuddalore, India. Tranchell studied at the Dragon School, Oxford, and Clifton College, Bristol, and then studied Classics at King's College, Cambridge before switching to Music; he interrupted his degree to serve in the Indian Army during the Second World War. Tranchell became a Lecturer in Music at the University of Cambridge in 1950, and additionally became Fellow, Precentor and Director of Music at Gonville and Caius College, in 1960, retiring in 1989. As a composer his output ranged widely from sacred choral works and instrumental miniatures to orchestral works and operas, notably the The Mayor of Casterbridge (1951).