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Vocal and instrumental scores and parts on hire
978-0-19-335510-1
22 March 1993
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for 3 soprano, mezzo soprano soli, SATB chorus and chamber orchestra Forces or CategorySATB & chamber orchestraDuration25 minutesDifficultyEasy to Moderately difficultOrchestration2 ob, bn, 2 tpt, timp, org, cym, strProgramme NotesI am not generally in sympathy with the metaphysical poets,
but, when the good songsters of Otley (picture them sitting in their local Chippendale chairs at rehearsal) sent me a poem by the Yorkshireman Andrew Marvell, I settled on it straightway for their Jubilee commission. For after the Wharfe has run broad through the cabinet makers town and escaped the beer-swillers of Tadcaster, it meanders gently through the meadows by Nun Appleton Hall (just a few miles from my home) where Marvell lived for a time and wrote some of his stanzas. Inspired by this tenuous link, and wondering if Marvell had been introduced to the Yorkshire custom of cheese with your mince pies, as I was forty years ago in Leeds, I began to explore his vivid dream of how music first began.
One of my first tasks was to find out who Jubal was, since both Marvell and
Dryden give him centre stage. He appears very early in the Bible as the first maker of instruments (Genesis 4:21). The rest of the verses, including Tennysons, speak for themselves, as indeed I hope the music does.
© Andrew Carter, May 1997
Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press
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Andrew Carter (b.1939) Andrew Carter was born in 1939 into a Leicestershire family of tower and handbell ringers. Following a music degree at the University of Leeds, he joined York Minster Choir, and was subsequently Director of Music at the Bar Convent Grammar School, where he achieved his first successes as a choir trainer.
His wealth of experience of directing both mixed-voice and upper-voice choirs has given him a deep understanding of the voice, expressed by a lyricism and sense of drama underpinned by distinctive, often bitter-sweet harmonies. His vast collection of anthems and Christmas carols, together with a substantial number of large-scale choral works, have earned him a reputation as one of Britain's most respected contemporary choral composers.Andrew Carter's website
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"In a delightful Waltz movement and elsewhere Carter writes sensitively for voices, thus making his challenges interesting to surmount...Musick's Jubilee is much more than a piece d'occasion and its harmonic content is a constant fascination for the listener." - Donald Webster, Yorkshire Post "Chorally the wriiting is just about right for keen amateurs - plenty to get your teeth into but nothing too taxing...it works well, allowing for an exciting finale with Marvell's Hallelujahs. Of the eight numbers, the fifth is a delicate and most attractive waltz...Carter matches it wil music of the utmost beauty. The work as a whole can be whole-heartedly recommended." - Choir & Organ "In a delightful waltz
movement, and indeed throughout all the work the composer writes sensitively for voices, and his work deserves to be taken up by other choirs who are looking for a new work in a distinctive idiom, whose difficulties can be overcome without undue toil." - Musical Opinion
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First was the world
Jubal
Ecchoes
Organs City
What passion
Each sought a consort
There is sweet music here
The Musick ther Mosaique
Victorious sounds
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