SKU: ST.MB83

ISBN 9790220221323.

John Ward's music for four viols shows less consistency of style than his work for five- or six-part consort. The smooth madrigalian lines of the six Oxford fantasias most clearly approach the accomplishment of his characteristic pieces for larger ensembles. The Paris fantasias, which with the In nomines also included in the collection feature uniquely in a single source in the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, are more variable in texture and idiom. The volume also includes six ayres for two bass viols and organ, brief, tuneful compositions in dance-like rhythm redolent of the almain.

SKU: ST.EM19

ISBN 9790220223860.

CONTENTS
A satyr once did run away (SSAT)
Come, sable night (SSATTB)
Die not, fond man (SSAA (or T) TB)
Flora, fair nymph (SSAT (or A) B)
Fly not so fast (SSA)
Free from Love's bonds (SSA (or T) B)
Go, wailing accents (SSA)
His heart his wound received (SSA)
Hope of my heart (SSATB)
How long shall I? (SST (or A) B)
I have entreated (SSAATB)
If the deep sighs (SSATTB)
In health and ease am I (SSA (or T))
Love is a dainty (SSAT)
My true love hath my heart (SSA)
O divine love (SSAA (or T) TB)
O my thoughts, surcrease (SAA (or T) T (or B))
O say, dear life (SSA (or T))
Oft have I tender'd (SSAT (or A) TB)
Out from the vale (SSAT (or A) BB)
Phyllis, the bright (SSATB)
Retire, my troubled soul (SSATBB)
Sweet Philomel (SSATB)
Sweet pity, wake (SST (or A) B)
There's not a grove (SSAT (or A) TB)
Upon a bank of roses (SSATB)
Weep forth your tears (SSATTB)
Ye sylvan nymphs (SSA (or T) T (or B) B).

SKU: ST.EM38

ISBN 9790220217807.

CONTENTS
As sharps and flats (SSAT (or A) TB)
Con mio (Deh non languire) (SSATB, Organ)
Cruel unkind, O stay (SSATB)
Down in a dale (SSATB)
If heaven's just wrath (SSATTB)
My breast I'll set (SSATB)
No object dearer (SSATTB, Organ)
Well-sounding pipes (SSAT (or A) T (or A) B).

SKU: ST.B946

ISBN 9780852499467.

Organist of Gloucester Cathedral from 1896 till his death in 1928, as well as composer, choir-trainer, adjudicator and teacher, Sir Herbert Brewer was involved for over three decades with the Three Choirs Festival, and his Memories of Choirs and Cloisters offers a vivid account of the planning and execution of the festivals in that time, those at Gloucester in particular.

Though his professional life was spent exclusively in the provinces, his championing of contemporary music brought him into wide contact with composers and other artistic figures both from Britain and the continent, including Robert Bridges, Elgar, Glazunov, Rider Haggard, Parry, Quiller-Couch, Ravel, Saint-Saens and Sibelius (whose Luonnotar he premiered). John Morehen's fine new edition places Brewer's lively and insightful recollections of these and other encounters and connections in context for the modern reader, making the book an important addition to our fuller understanding of a remarkable period in British music.

Neither a conventional autobiography nor a diary, but a collection of reminiscences compiled towards the end of his life, Brewer's Memories reveals a scrupulous and astute musician of great integrity, warm-hearted with a devotion to social justice and civic duty, and with a mischievous sense of humour.

SKU: ST.EC19

ISBN 9790220216978.

There are particular problems of establishing authentic sources for much of Tye's music. Nonetheless, its high quality places him, with Taverner and Tallis, at the forefront of English 16th-century church music. This first volume of his work contains 15 full anthems, evening canticles, and his famous setting of texts from The Acts of the Apostles, dedicated to Edward VI.

SKU: ST.Y295

ISBN 9790220223518.

The hymn tune Rhosymedre is the work of the nineteenth-century Anglican priest John David Edwards, who named it after the village of Rhosymedre in North Wales, where he served as the vicar for 43 years until his death in 1885. Vaughan Williams's organ prelude has been arranged for many different instrumental groups, including orchestra, string quartet and brass quintet, but not until now for brass band. This arrangement was prepared in 2008 to mark the 50th anniversary of the composer's death and was first performed by the Royal Northern College of Music Brass Band at the 2008 RNCM Festival of Brass, conducted by Christopher Houlding.