Music for OT-4-B (Jan 29)

Prelude:           Voluntary 1.1 in C Major (Adagio): Stanley
Processional Hymn: 285: All Hail The Power Of Jesus Name
Gloria:            94: Mass of Creation: Haugen
Readings:          588
Offertory:         Voluntary 1.1 in C Major (Lento-Allegro): Stanley
                   (11) Venite: Gibbons
Acclamations:      103-104-105: Mass of Creation: Haugen
Agnus Dei:         108: Mass of Creation: Haugen
Communion Hymn:    359: Blest Are They
Final Hymn:        298: Praise To You O Christ Our Savior
Postlude:          Voluntary 1.1 in C Major (Andante): Stanley

Music Notes:


John Stanley (1713-1786), born in London, blinded in infancy
by an accident. He became a student of Maurice Greene (1695-1755);
at age 11 was appointed organist at All Hallows (1724), and later
at St Andrew (1726); graduated Oxford (B Mus 1729), then was
organist at Temple Church (1734), Master of the King's Band (1779).
Held in great esteem as a performer and teacher, well known for
having an outstanding musical memory. He wrote much music,
including three sets of Ten Voluntaries which, when published,
made him the most influential composer of the form, and the format
was often imitated by his contemporaries.


His "Voluntary Set One Number One (1745)" is in four sections
and provides tempos and registrations: (1) Adagio [diapasons],
(2) Andante [trumpet], (3) Lento [swell], (4) Allegro [flute];
in the second and fourth he also indicated that some phrases
were to be "eccho" and therefore both gallery and antiphonal
organ stops will be heard in alternation.


Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) born in Oxford England, the youngest
son of a family of musicians; 1596-98 King's College Cambridge choir;
1606 BMus; appointed Gentleman of the Chapel Royal (by James I);
1615-25 organist of Chapel Royal; 1622 honorary DMus (Oxford) and
appointed Westminster Abbey organist; died in Canterbury of apoplexy;
a monument to his memory was built in Canterbury Cathedral. One of the
most versatile English composers of the late Tudor and early Jacobean
periods; wrote keyboard works, ~30 fantasias for viols (1610), book of
madrigals (e.g., "The Silver Swan") (1612); many popular verse anthems.