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English Saints' Offices: II Unison Choir - Sheet Music

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Vol. 69, no. 2. Edited by David Hiley. Library Volumes; English Church Music. Early English Church Music. Choral Score. Stainer & Bell Ltd. #EC69. Published by Stainer & Bell Ltd. (ST.EC69).

ISBN 9780852499801.

Edited by David Hiley
322 pages

A major addition to the plainsong subseries of Early English Church Music, and the first tripartite collection of music in the edition, EC volumes 68–70 present transcriptions from over forty cycles of liturgical chants for the Office hours, in alphabetical listing and with English translations by Henry Howard, and comprising over 1,300 individual chants composed in England from the tenth to the fifteenth centuries. While the history and context of the veneration of saints has been extensively studied, the aim of these volumes, drawing on the lifetime’s expertise of the editor, is to enhance our knowledge of the melodies, to facilitate comparison between cycles, and to make possible a better appreciation of their character and relation both to one another and to older parts of the chant repertory.

Ranging alphabetically from Ethelbert of East Anglia to Osmund of Salisbury, the seventeen offices collected in EC69 include, among other local saints, those of Ethelburga of Barking, Guthlac of Crowland, Iwi of Wilton, John of Bridlington, Mellitus of Canterbury and Mildred of Thanet. Also represented in the volume are Offices for Gregory the Great, Helen, James the Greater, Margaret of Antioch, the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (I, II), and Mary Magdalene.