Orlando Gibbons: The Silver Swan: Mixed Choir: Vocal Score

Mixed choruses and chamber ensembles will frequently use and enjoy this collection of English madrigals selected and edited by former King's Singer Philip Lawson. Selections include: Sweet Suffolk Owl (Thomas Vautor) The Silver Swan (Orlando Gibbons) The Nightingale the Organ of Delight (Thomas Weelkes) Sweet Honey Sucking Bees (John Wilbye) Of All the Birds (John Bartlett).

Hosanna To The Son Of David is an anthem for six-part SSAATB Choir. It is published here with a keyboard reduction for rehearsal purposes and has been transposed to the key of Eb. Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) was an English composer organist and chorister who is one of the best known musicians from the Tudor period. He studied and sang in the choir at King’s College Cambridge and later became Organist at the Chapel Royal and Westminster Abbey. He is best remembered for his madrigals and anthems such as The Silver Swan and Almighty And Everlasting God as well as his settings of the evening canticles and his hymntunes.

This collection for progressing students includes art songs as well as arrangements of folksongs and spirituals. ART SONGS Anonymous: Pastime with good company · Campian: Jack and Joan · Dowland: Come again sweet love · Dowland: What if I never speed · Gibbons: The Silver Swan · Ireland: Spring Sorrow · Lawes: How happy art thou · Morley: It was a lover and his lass · Morley: Now is the month of Maying · Purcell: I attempt from love's sickness · Purcell: Nymphs and Shepherds · Quilter: Weep you no more · Vaughan Williams: The Call · Vaughan Williams: Bright is the ring of words · FOLKSONGS/SPIRITUALS All Through the Night (arr. Nicholl) · The Gospel Train (Walters) · Greensleeves(arr. Stanley) · He's Got the Whole World in His Hands (arr. Boyd) · How Can I Keep from Singing (arr. Ruck) · I gave my love a cherry (arr. Dean) · Jacob's Ladder (arr. Walters) · My Lord What a Mornin' (arr. Burleigh) · Shenandoah (arr. Walters) · Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (arr. Walters) · This Little Light of Mine (arr. Ruck).

The Silver Swan was originally written in 5 vocal parts the 2 parts in this arrangement are the Cantus and Quintus (upper 2 voices) from the original work. Arranged for SA Chorus a cappella.

For SSAB chorus and Piano accompaniment. Alexander Tilley's setting of a famous madrigal text also set by the sixteenth century composer Orlando Gibbons.

Description English Songs Renaissance To Baroque - High Voice Thirty-four songs from 17 composers, complete with historical information. Songlist As I Walked Forth One Summer Day [Johnson, Robert] Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind [Arne, Thomas] Come And Trip It (G.F.Handel) Diaphenia (Francis Pilkington) Fain Would I Change That Note (Tobias Hume) Fair, If You Expect Admiring (Thomas Campian) Flow My Tears [Dowland, John] Hark! The Echoing Air [Purcell, Henry] Have You Seen But A White Lily Grow? Henry Lawes (How Happy Art Thou) Here Amid The Shady Woods (G.F.Handel) I Attempt From Love's Sickness To Fly [Purcell, Henry] If Music Be The Food Of Love [Purcell, Henry] I'll Sail Upon The Dog Star (Henry Purcell) In Sherwood Livde Stout Robin Hood [Jones, Robert] It Was A Lover And His Lass [Morley, Thomas] Jack And Joan (Thomas Campian) Let Me Wander Not Unseen (G.F.Handel) My Lovely Celia (George Munro) My Lovely Celia [Munro, George] Nymphs And Shepherds [Purcell, Henry] O Come, O Come, My Dearest [Arne, Thomas] Pastime With Good Company Rest Sweet Nymphs [Pilkington, Francis] Since First I Saw Your Face (Thomas Ford) Tell Me No More (John Blow) The Silver Swan [Gibbons, Orlando] Thou Soft Flowing Avon (Arne) Weep You No More, Sad Fountains [Dowland, John] What If I Never Speed [Dowland, John] When Daisies Pied [Arne, Thomas] When Laura Smiles (A Book Of Ayres) [Rosseter, Philip] Where E'er You Walk [Handel, George Frideric] Willow Song Wind, Tell My Sweetheart