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Three Easy Seasonal Preludes on well known hymns (A/B)

 £8.00

The tunes involved are ‘Horsley’ (for manuals), ‘Noël Nouvelet’, and ‘Conditor Alme Siderum’ and these are arranged in a mildly pungent and pleasant modern idiom with keyboard demands that could be mastered by Mrs Thing (q.v.).

 

Plainsong and Toccata (B+)

On  ‘Resonent in Laudibus’ 

 £5.00

The piece is intended for the opening of a Christmas service.  The choir sing the famous tune unaccompanied from, eg, the west door and then process while the organ plays a brilliant Toccata; when this is over the choir should be in the stalls and they then sing a third verse unaccompanied.  Tried and true with Gary and his forces, this will make an arresting start to the season’s festivities.  The vocal pages may be copied without charge.     

 

Two Organ Preludes (B+)

on Medieval Carol melodies 

 £5.00

 

The tunes are the Song of the Nun’s of Chester and Angelus ad Virginem, both treated with Gary’s customary sophistication and lightness of touch.

Two Pieces      (A/A+)

Prelude and Fughetta in the Dorian Mode;  Meditation for Communion at Prime

 £5.00

 

These are two relatively early pieces in Gary’s restrained disciplined style. Gary’s teacher Edmund Rubbra said he ‘really liked the fugue subject’ and Gary has always been fond of this little work. They make minimal technical demands - perhaps ‘multum in parvo’ would be an applicable description.

 

 

Mini-Cantata

 

Six Birds (B/B+)

2 Soprano or Treble Voices and Harp

Kestrel - Magpie - Owl - Peregrine - Geese - Dunlin

 1 Copy £5.00,
5 and more £3.75

All right, this is a highly unusual offering for us, but it is a lovely little work (C.5.00 min.) if you have the forces. It has already been seized upon by a Cambridge choir who have pledged to spread the good news.

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