{"id":64,"date":"2004-06-25T13:41:02","date_gmt":"2004-06-25T13:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhkssinging.wordpress.com\/2004\/06\/25\/more-on-mags-and-nuncs\/"},"modified":"2015-08-18T19:12:54","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T19:12:54","slug":"more-on-mags-and-nuncs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2004\/06\/25\/more-on-mags-and-nuncs\/","title":{"rendered":"more on Mags and Nuncs"},"content":{"rendered":"

A quick calculation shows that the 21-CD Priory Records Mag and Nunc set (see my previous posting<\/a>) contains some 188 different settings of the canticles (including a few instances of free-standing Mags or Nuncs). A few settings appear more than once, such as Dyson in D. About a third of these 188 I would be unlikely ever to sing, because they are only in local use, and\/or for men’s voices only or for trebles only (in practice I’m never asked to sing canticles of this last type). I estimate that I’ve sung a little over half of the rest at one time or another. Many of them I learnt with the choir of my Cambridge college, which performed about thirty different settings a year.<\/p>\n

188 different settings – but which ones aren’t there? I found one very striking omission: William Mathias’ ‘Jesus College’ canticles, which I think of as a standard part of the repertoire; at any rate I can recall the music instantly to mind. I found that early settings were rather under-represented (for example Caustun, Humphrey, and a couple I’ve done by Tomkins). Perhaps when the recordings were made there weren’t good editions, or they were inconveniently long. The same two reasons may account for the absence of Stanford’s Magnificat in B flat for double choir, which has enjoyed a recent surge in popularity thanks to a new edition (I will leave to another time my views on on whether this is deserved or not!).<\/p>\n

Some of the missing ones are missing for good reason! I can’t remember anything about Arnold in A, Nicholson in D flat or Macpherson in D, for example. There was a time when these and their like formed a large proportion of the settings I sang – a pity when there were good settings around which were no harder.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, listening to these CDs has reminded me of many settings I ought to add to my wishlist: among them Ayleward, Howells in B minor, Purcell in B flat, Tippett St. John’s, Parry in D. Now that the music list for my forthcoming trip to Winchester has been announced I see that I get a chance to sing Bairstow in D for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A quick calculation shows that the 21-CD Priory Records Mag and Nunc set (see my previous posting) contains some 188 different settings of the canticles (including a few instances of free-standing Mags or Nuncs). A few settings appear more than … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[432,430,431,349,338,45,429,434,231,433,96,83,49,177,47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3444,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/3444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}