Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Short Service) - Ayleward, Richard

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"This service is a late composition by Ayleward, and is quite possibly the very last work he composed. It was written while he was Organist at Norwich Cathedral, and was written for the choir and organ of that place. From an account of Michael Woodward, a warden of New College, we know that work on the service had only recently started in the spring of 1667, just two years before Ayleward’s death. This is his only surviving setting for full choir, with all his other surviving choral material being verse settings. It is a complete service, setting all the canticles and sung passages for the day that were used at Norwich Cathedral at the time. The service is in the Short Service mould. It is full throughout, with antiphonal passages in many of the canticles – although not the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis. A complete set of contemporary ornamentation survives for the Evening Canticles."

⌛ Period → Baroque ◈ Genre / Form → Evening Canticles

♯ Key D major

⁄ Time Signature 2/1

♬ Voicing → SATB

↕ Range E2 – G5

¶ Language → English

Measures 99

Texture mixed texture

Parts 9

Instruments SATB, Organ

Pages 14

CPDL # 68943

Editor Hugo Janacek

Posted 2022-04-22

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

C4 – E5

Treble

E4 – F#5

MusicXML Part

E2 – E5

Tenor

D3 – E5

Bass

E2 – G5