Blest Pair Of Sirens is one of Hubert Parry's best-known works. An ode by John Milton Parry's setting is for SSAATTBB Chorus and Orchestra. This item is the Vocal Score.   The words of one of the greatest poets in the English language are taken here and set by undoubtedly one of the more influential composers in English orchestral and choral music. Blest Pair Of Sirens was commissioned by Charles Villiers Stanford who bestowed upon Hubert Parry the claim of being the greatest English composer since Purcell.    Milton's 'At A Solemn Musik'provides the source for this wonderful work of Choral composition whose lush harmonies and sweet melody lulls the listener into a calmness and serenity. C. Hubert Parry is perhaps most familiar to millions as the composer of the great English hymn 'Jerusalem' but the brilliance of this song is similarly represented across his other works.    Any audience is sure to be hugely impressed with a performance of a beautiful Choral piece such as this. Our Blest Pair Of Sirens sheet music will ensure that every note in this sublime work is as perfect as possible. 

Scored for Chorus SATB and Organ Parry’s Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis alternates unison lines with Chorally complex phrases in both movements. It includes examples of Parry’s characteristic forward-looking harmonies.Composer and Organist Hubert Parry creator of the great hymn Jerusalem among many other works was not intended by his family for a career in music. When he finished at Eton in 1966 he spent the summer studying composition in Germany before matriculating at Exeter College Oxford where he read law and modern history. During his time there he did very little composition but did create this Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in D.

A wonderful hymn anthem composed by C. Hubert Parry to a text by Whittier. Arranged for SATB and Organ by H.A. Chambers.

For those who know Jerusalem the song needs no description. For those who do not the work is the creation of composer Hubert Parry in the last years of his life when he was established as a well-respected composer conductor and educator. He was asked to create a song for a patriotic meeting using Blake’s words in 1916 during the dark days of the First World War. The work gained an immediate popularity which it has never lost.The inspiring messageand words of Jerusalem have brought it close to the hearts of the English and British -- who sing it in school and at church before rugby matches and Olympics in the Women’s Institute before Labour Party Conferences and onalmost endless occasions.The song is a simple two-verse strophic piece with a short introduction and intercession between the verses which are always played. This version for three Voices may be sung SA only or TB only or SATBwith Tenor doubling the Sopranos.

Seven of Parry’s most appealing partsongs for unaccompanied SATB choir: My Soul there is a Country/ O Love they Wrong Thee Much/ You Gentle Nymphs/ Love is a Sickness/ Music when Soft Voices Die/ Since Thou O Fondest/ My Delight and Thy Delight.

So clever and satisfying to bring in Parry's “Jerusalem” hymntune along with Holst's “Thaxted” from “The Planets” to carry the majestic text “I Lift Up Mine Eyes” from the Psalms.There is a regal excellence from start to finish. A superb traditional church choir anthem.

Among the UK's most noted choral composers and conductors Ronald Corp does not hesitate to bring his own musical vision to a much-loved poem by the sixteenth-century lutenist songwriter and 'Doctor of Physick' Thomas Campion following the example not only of Campion himself but also of Charles Wood and Hubert Parry. Eschewing the manner of Parry's resonant polyphony for a simple harmonised setting in a flexible verbal rhythm reflecting the measure of the words this is a heartfelt plea for spiritual release uttered in a quietly elegiac tone in which the serenity of the entreaty rather than its pathos is to the fore.

Influencé par Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, compositeur irlandais Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) a développé un en langue anglaise romantique musicale de la sienne.Cette évolution est perceptible surtout dans ses trois motets en latin dans lequel un cadre typiquement 'anglais' ton règne qui se caractérise par des mélodies, des harmonies très fluides et lisses singability grande et évite plutôt les contrastes. Avec Edward Elgar et Hubert Parry, Stanford a grandement contribué à la rénovation de la musique anglaise.Ces trois compositions sont parfaites pour les services religieux et des concerts. / Choeur Mixte (SATB) Et Piano

1911 version-This edition of Parry's renowned anthem presents the 1911 version prepared by the composer for George V's coronation. Rutter's fascinating editorial preface provides contextual notes and informative performance considerations.

Compiled by Noelle BarkerCONTENTSBUSH Geoffrey: The end of love (C - F)DOWLAND John: Come away come sweet love (F sharp - F)HATTON John Liptrot: The Hag (A - F)HOLST Gustav: Betelgeuse (B - F)IRELAND John: My true love hath my heart (D - F sharp)PARRY Hubert: Dirge in the woods (B - E)PINTO George Frederick: Invocation to nature (D - F)PURCELL Henry: Dear pretty youth (D - E); Sweeter than roses (B - E)SULLIVAN Arthur: The Willow Song (B - E)THIMAN Eric: I wandered lonely as a cloud (C - F)WEBB William: As life what is so sweet (C - E)WELDON John: The wakeful nightingale (D - F)

Description The most important religious songs of the past 250 years appear in this collection, a treasury of sacred songs known and loved by singers and listeners at home, in church, and in concert. This compilation includes settings of Ave Maria, Ave Verum Corpus and Panis Angelicus. Songlist Agnus Dei [Bizet, Georges] And God Shall Wipe Away All Tears (The Light Of The World) [Sullivan, Arthur] Ave Maria [Bach, Johann Sebastian] [Gounod, Charles] Ave Maria [Franck, Cesar] Ave Maria Op.52 No.6 [Schubert, Franz] Ave Verum Corpus [Chausson, Ernest] Ave Verum Corpus K.618 [Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus] Cantique De Jean Racine [Faure, Gabriel] Contentment [Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus] En Priere [Faure, Gabriel] Hosanna [Granier, Jules] Jerusalem [Parry, Hubert] Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring (Cantata BWV 147) Kol Nidre La Procession [Franck, Cesar] Le Crucifix [Faure, Jean-Baptiste] Le Sommeil De L'enfant Jesus [Busser, Henri] Litany For All Souls' Day [Schubert, Franz] My Heart Ever Faithful [Bach, Johann Sebastian] Nazareth [Gounod, Charles] No Candle Was There And No Fire [Lehman, Liza] Noel [Holmes, Augusta] O Divine Redeemer [Gounod, Charles] O For The Wings Of A Dove [Mendelssohn, Felix] O Holy Night (Cantique de Noel) [Adam, Adolphe] Panis Angelicus [Charpentier, Marc Antoine] Panis Angelicus [Franck, Cesar] Pie Jesu (Requiem) [Faure, Gabriel] Pieta, Signore [Stradella, Alessandro] Preghiera [Rossini, Gioacchino] Ring Out, Wild Bells [Gounod, Charles] Sleeping Christ Child [Wolf, Hugo] Tantum Ergo [Franck, Cesar] Tantum Ergo [Vierne, Louis] The Heavens Declare [Beethoven, Ludwig Van] The Holy City [Adams, Stephen] The Lost Chord [Sullivan, Arthur] The Palms [Faure, Jean-baptiste] The Virgin's Slumber-song [Reger, Max] There Is A Green Hill Far Away [Gounod, Charles] To Thee, My God [Beethoven, Ludwig Van]