Choir
SKU: ST.EC45
Composed by Robert
Fayrfax. Edited by Roger
Bray. Library Volumes.
Edited by Roger Bray.
First published in 2004.
Pages: 176. Format:
Hardback. Dimensions
(mm): 325 x 246 x 23.
Choral Score. Stainer &
Bell Ltd. #EC45.
Published by Stainer &
Bell Ltd. (ST.EC45).
ISBN
9790220221248.
Both
large-scale masses by
Robert Fayrfax included
in this volume are
believed to be late
works. O quam
glorifica, in
particular, was composed
in 1511 for his
supplication for the
degree of Doctor of Music
at Oxford, and in it the
composer comprehensively
explores the
possibilities of extended
structural planning. A
feature of this edition
is the restoration of the
metrical character of the
original, distorted in
all surviving copies.
Probably predating O
quam glorifica, Tecum
principium exhibits
a simpler form, and is
remarkable for the
stylistic feature of
unprepared dissonant
fourths in the final
section of the Agnus
dei.
