Magnificat And Nunc Dimittis

Herbert Howells's Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis for the Gloucester service is one of his most popular choral settings. This sheet music is arranged for SATB Choir and Organ.   Herbert Howells  was a renowned English composer of church music in the Anglican evensong tradition best known for his 'Hymnus Paradisi' and as a teacher at the Royal College of Music. His lesser-known evening canticles include this piece: with its famoustreble duet opening the work it calmly progresses to an affirmation of the glory of heaven through distinctive Lydian harmony and soaring highs. Each individual voice has its own part to play in this piece with melodies that rise to uplifting highs and fall to booming lows the combination of voices blends and binds to create a gliding and soaring unity of harmony.    This Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis sheet music is the most accurate transcription available of an awe-inspiring piece that is acclaimed by fans of choral music for its beautiful composition and wondrous voicing.     

Thomas Tertius Noble (1867-1953) was a British organist composer and choirmaster who spent the latter part of his career in the United States. He studied at the Royal College of Music before serving at Ely and the York as organist and choirmaster. In 1913 he took up a position at St Thomas Episcopal Church in Manhattan New York where he remained for thirty years and is credited with establishing a choir school in the Anglican tradition that continues to this day. His second setting of the evening canticles the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis is in the key of A major. It is scored for SATB chorus with Piano or Organ accompaniment.