Vocal score.
Acrobat (CPDL, 104 KB)Voicing: SSAB solos and SSATB choir
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I have edited and transcribed a wide variety of music, sometimes for commission, and also out of my own interest in making available high-quality editions of music that is not necessarily easy to obtain.
Many of the PDF versions of my editions are hosted by the Choral Public Domain Library, and the copyright provisions of the CPDL licence apply to them. The rights of several other editions belong to copyright holders other than me; those copyright holders need to be asked for permission.
The following editions are copyrighted under my personal copyright and all rights are reserved. You must contact me to use these editions (please note the address has had to be obfuscated because of spam; the letter L is actually the number 1):
Bruckner, Mass in E minor (1882 version)
Brumel, Missa: Et ecce terre motus
Fauré, Requiem in D minor, Op. 48 (1888/1893 version)
Horsley, Euterpe
Legge, Kubla Khan
Monteverdi, Mass and Vespers
Mozart, Great Mass in C (complete – Kyrie and Gloria by themselves are CPDL licenced)
Schönberg, Gurre-lieder (Australian distribution only)
Finally, the scores listed as rehearsal aids for certain works are not copyrighted to me; they do not include the sung text, dynamics, or expression markings, and so are only useful in conjunction with the published score, for singers to learn their parts. They will only be provided to choirs that can prove they own legal copies and are intending to perform it (by publishing a concert advertisement listing the work); all copies must be deleted after the performance.
[ Allegri / Anerio / Anonymous / Back to top ]
after Gregorio Allegri (1582–1652)
Psalm 50, Miserere mei, Deus, à 9
Vocal score. Acrobat (CPDL, 104 KB)
Voicing: SSAB solos and SSATB choir
For St Peter’s Eastern Hill. My vocal score includes a separate keyboard reduction of the fauxbordon, which does not vary from verse to verse. The “traditional” Allegri Miserere with the celebrated top C, is not by Allegri; it is a 19th century fabrication (compare the supposed “Albinoni Adagio”). However, it is popular and frequently performed, so we appear to be stuck with it. Allegri’s original composition was a very simple fauxbordon, so this edition of the “top C” version clears up the (frequently clumsy) attempts at fitting the psalm text to it. In the free recitations a breve is provided as a reciting note, so choir directors may write in an explicit rhythm if desired, without causing undue confusion.
Giovanni Francesco Anerio (1567–1630)
Missa pro defunctis (1614): Agnus Dei, à 4/5
Vocal score.
For St Peter’s Eastern Hill. The Agnus Dei is retexted to conform to the ordinary of the Mass, so it may be sung as a missa brevis, particularly in Lent or Advent. (i.e., Kyrie, Gloria omitted, Sanctus, Benedictus, and Agnus Dei... miserere nobis... dona nobis pacem.) Clever, ey?
Anonymous, 12th Century English composer
Sumer is icumen in, à 6
Vocal score. Acrobat (CPDL, 104 KB)
Voicing: Canon à 4, plus pedal canon à 2
Anonymous, 13th Century French composer
Alle, psallite cum, luya, à 3; included in the TUMS Busking Book.
Anonymous, 15th Century Spanish composer
Pase el agoa, villancico à 4; included in the TUMS Busking Book.
Anonymous, 17th Century English composer
(not William Byrd)
Non nobis, Domine, canon à 3; included in the TUMS Busking Book.
Anonymous, 18th Century German composer
Gaudeamus igitur, arranged à 4; included in the TUMS Busking Book.
[ Bach / Beethoven / Berlioz / Biber / Borodin / Brahms / Havergal Brian / Brubeck / Bruckner / Brumel / Byrd / Back to top ]
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
BWV 50, Cantata movement, Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft
| Full score. |  Scorch | (35 KB) |
| Full score and parts. | Acrobat | (CPDL, 882 KB) |
| Vocal score. | Acrobat | (CPDL, 200 KB) |
| Voicing: | 2×SATB choirs | |
| Instrumentation: | 0.3.0.0 – 0.3.0.0, timp – 2.1.0.1, org | |
| Duration: | 5′ | |
BWV 1067, Suite Nº 3 in D, Air
Full score and parts.
Instrumentation: strings 2.1.1.1
Your shining eyes, à 3; included in the TUMS Busking Book.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Symphony Nº 8 in F, Opus 93, 1st movement: Allegro vivace e con brio
Full score. Scorch (58 KB)
Weep O mine eyes, à 4; included in the TUMS Busking Book.
Major works
H 33, Huit Scènes de Faust, Opus 1; three of eight scenes complete
Full score.
H 75, Grande messe des morts, Requiem mass, Opus 5; six movements complete, two incomplete
Full score.
H 76, Benvenuto Cellini, opera semi-seria, Opus 23; overture
Full score.
H 79, Roméo et Juliette, dramatic symphony, Opus 17; three movements complete, and excerpts
Full score.
H 110, Chant des chemins de fer, cantata for tenor solo, choir, and orchestra, Opus 19 Nº 3
Full score.
H 118, Te deum, for three choirs, orchestra, and organ, Opus 22; all choral movements now complete!
Full score.
H 120, Vox populi, two choral works with orchestra, Opus 20
Full score, vocal score.
To aid loading this page quickly, the full table of scores has been relocated to a separate page.
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644–1704)
C 8, Requiem ex F con terza minore, à 14
Full score, vocal score, and parts.
C 61, Battalia, à 9
Full score and parts.
C App 101, Missa Salisburgensis, à 54 (1682)
Vocal score, full score, and parts. (Kyrie only)
C App 106, Motet: Plaudite tympana, à 54 (1682)
Vocal score, full score, and parts.
Polovetsian Dances, choral dances from Prince Igor, Act 2, Finale, Nº 17
Vocal score.
Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
Vocal score, complete. Edited, with reduction for organ by Andrew Raiskums.
Schickalslied, Op. 54
Vocal score, incomplete; mainly because I didn’t have it ready in time to use for a performance a couple of years ago. If anyone particularly needs this vocal score completed for a performance, I will do my best to do so.
Symphony Nº 7 in C major (1948)
Full score.
Full score and parts are being undertaken for the Havergal Brian Society. The full score is complete and being proof-read. More information is available on the Havergal Brian pages of this site.
Instrumentation: 3(3=picc).2+cor ang.2+bass cl.3(3=cbsn) – 4.4.3.1 – timp, perc, harp – 3.3.3.3.3
8 percussion players: cymbals, triangle, tambourine, bass drum, 3 side drums, gong, 2 low bells in C and E, xylophone, glockenspiel, celesta
Duration: 40′
The work is copyright 2005 © Havergal Brian Estate, c/o United Music Publishers Limited, 33 Lea Road, Waltham Abbey, Essex EN9 1ES, UK. A sample page may be available depending on demand.
Mass in E minor (1882 version) for double choir, and wind and brass orchestra
Full score, Kyrie, Gloria, incomplete.
Vocal score, complete: this was done in the old-fashioned way with scissors and glue, so please do not ask me for a PDF. A performance set is available for hire from MUCS.
Ave Maria, à 8 (1861)
Vocal score.
Os justi meditabitur, à 8 (1879)
Vocal score.
Missa Et ecce terræmotus, à 12
Vocal score, complete. (CPDL)
Voicing: SSSAAATTTBBB
Missa Et ecce terræmotus: Agnus Dei, à 12
Completion after Brumel by Philip Legge, 1996, subsequently revised.
Vocal score. Scorch 
MIDI Acrobat (CPDL, 97 KB)
Editorial notes describing the detailed work involved in making the completion are found here.
Turbarum voces, à 3 (St John Passion)
Adapted to the English Revised Standard Version translation.
[ Caldara / Carver / Charpentier / Phillip Cowie / Back to top ]
Crucifixus, à 16
Vocal score.
Voicing: 4×SATB
For Gloriana.
O bone Jesu, à 19
Vocal score. Acrobat (CPDL, 100 KB)
Voicing: SSS-AA-8×T-3×Bar-BBB
Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704)
H 1 Messe, Kyrie and Gloria, for double choir, 2 violins and continuo
Full score. Acrobat (CPDL, 159 KB)
Voicing: 2×SATB
For St Peter’s Eastern Hill.
Cradle Song (Louis Eason)
Vocal score.
[ Dowland / Dufay / Dumont / Duruflé / Back to top ]
Come again! Sweet love doth now invite, arr. à 4
Fine knacks for ladies, à 4; both included in the TUMS Busking Book.
Nuper rosarum flores à 4 (1436)
Vocal score. 
Scorch 3 (36 KB) Acrobat (CPDL, 197 KB)
Voicing: ATTB, upper two parts divisi
Such is life, à 5
Vocal score. For Melbourne Chamber Choir.
Quatre motets sur des Thèmes gregoriens, Op. 10 (1960)
Rehearsal aid only; not a performance edition.
[ Eccles / David Ellyard / Back to top ]
My man John, catch à 3
Vocal score. Acrobat (CPDL, 28 KB)
Voicing: 3 equal voices
Round on a well-known text, canon à 3; included in the TUMS Busking Book.
Vocal score. Acrobat (CPDL, 188 KB)
Voicing: 3 equal voices
* Ellyard’s text is “The square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the two adjacent sides, fa la la, and hey! nonny no!”
[ Farmer / Fauré / Ford / Back to top ]
Faire Phyllis, à 4; included in the TUMS Busking Book.
Cantique de Jean Racine, Opus 5 (arr. Legge)
Full score and parts.
Instrumentation: strings 2.1.1.1
Requiem in D minor, Opus 48 (1888/1893 version) for soprano and baritone soloists, mixed-voice choir, organ, and orchestra
| Full score. | Acrobat | (CPDL, 1047 KB) |
| Voicing: | SBar solos and SATTBB choir | |
| Instrumentation: | 0.0.0.2 – 4.2.3.0, timp, harp – 1.3.2.1, org | |
| Duration: | 30′ | |
Since first, à 4; included in the TUMS Busking Book.
[ Gabrieli / Gesualdo / Grainer / Greagg / Back to top ]
Maria Magdalene et altera Maria, à 4
Vocal score.
Voicing: SATB
For the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic.
Don Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa (c.1561–1609)
Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday, à 6
Vocal score.
Doctor Who Theme, arr. for 5-part choir a cappella
Vocal score. The Doctor Who theme is © copyright BBC Worldwide.
[ Handel / Henry VIII / Holst / Horsley / Back to top ]
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)
| HWV 232, Dixit Dominus (Psalm 109) | |
| Practice score. | Scorch (138 KB) |
| Full score. | Acrobat (CPDL, 1.7 MB) |
| Orchestral parts. | Acrobat (CPDL, 1.2 MB) |
| Voicing: | SSATB soloists, SSATB choir |
| Instrumentation: | 0.0.0.0 – 0.0.0.0 – 2.2.1.1, continuo |
| Duration: | 30′ |
HWV 237, Laudate pueri Dominum in D (Psalm 112) | |
| Practice score. | Scorch (79 KB) |
| Full score. | Acrobat (CPDL, 930 KB) |
| Orchestral parts. | Acrobat (CPDL, 704 KB) |
| Voicing: | SATB soloists, SSATB choir |
| Instrumentation: | 0.2.0.0 – 0.0.0.0 – 2.2.1.1, continuo |
| Duration: | 25′ |
HWV 238, Nisi Dominus (Psalm 126) | |
| Practice score. | Scorch (32 KB) |
| Full score. | Acrobat (CPDL, 344 KB) |
| Voicing: | ATB soloists, SATB choir |
| Instrumentation: | 0.0.0.0 – 0.0.0.0 – 2.2.1.1, continuo |
| Duration: | 20′ |
HWV 258, Zadok the Priest, Coronation Anthem Nº 1 | |
| Full score. | Acrobat (CPDL, 348 KB) |
| Orchestral parts. | Acrobat (CPDL, 380 KB) |
| Voicing: | SSAATBB choir |
| Instrumentation: | 0.2.0.2 – 0.3.0.0, timp – 3.1.1.1, organ |
| Duration: | 5′ |
A solis ortu usque ad occasum arr. à 5 a cappella
Vocal score. Excerpted from movement 3 of Laudate pueri Dominum above, with several minor changes.
King Henry VIII of England (1491–1547)
Pastyme with good companye, à 3; included in the TUMS Busking Book.
[The Planets], seven pieces for large orchestra, Op. 32
Full score, very incomplete!
Charles Edward Horsley (1822–76)
Euterpe, an Ode to Music, Op. 76 – Chorus Nº 1, All Hail to Thee, Sound!
| Full score, excerpt. | Scorch (35 KB) |
| Vocal score. | Acrobat (CPDL, 400 KB) |
| Voicing: | SATBB choir |
| Instrumentation: | 2.2.2.2 – 4.2.3.1, timp – 2.1.1.1 |
| Duration: | 8 ½′ |
[ Ingegneri / Back to top ]
Marc’Antonio Ingegneri (c.1536–1592)
Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday, à 4, edited by Geoffrey Cox
Vocal score.
For St Peter’s Eastern Hill and St Patrick’s Cathedral, Melbourne. Please contact Dr Cox regarding availability (c/o Australian Catholic University, or St Patrick’s Cathedral, Melbourne).
[ Josquin Desprez / Back to top ]
Josquin Desprez (ca.1440–1521)
El grillo, à 4; included in the TUMS Busking Book.
Præter rerum seriem, à 6
Vocal score. Scorch (25 KB) Acrobat (CPDL, 100 KB)
Voicing: SAATBB
Qui habitat in adjutorio altissimi, canon à 24
Full score.
Parts. Acrobat (CPDL, 100 KB)
Voicing: 6 × SATB
[ Lassus / Marie-Louise Legge / Philip Legge / Ligeti / Back to top ]
Orlande de Lassus (c.1532–1594)
Missa Quand’io pens’al martire, à 4
Vocal score. Acrobat (CPDL, 200 KB)
Voicing: SATB, SATTB in Agnus Dei.
For St Peter’s Eastern Hill. Revised to include Credo.
Passio secundum Johannem, à 5 (St John Passion)
Adapted to the English Revised Standard Version translation.
Marie-Louise Legge (born 1939)
Songs of Faith
Collection of 12 songs for voice and piano. Words and music by Marie-Louise Legge.
Ave atque vale, motet à 4 (2006) [Opus 3]
Vocal score. Acrobat(CPDL, 83 KB)
Voicing: SATB
Fanfare for the orchestral brass (2007) [Opus 5]
Full score and parts.
Instrumentation: 4 horns, 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, tuba; timpani and percussion ad libitum
I hear the land (2007) [Opus 4]
Vocal score. Acrobat (CPDL, 83 KB)
Instrumentation: SSAATTBB, tenor drum
Ite missa est (2009) [Opus 6]
Full score, vocal score, and parts. Acrobat (CPDL, 573 KB)
Voicing: SATB
Instrumentation: tenor trombone, keyboard, timpani and 5–6 percussion
Kubla Khan [Opus 1]
Poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1798)
Scored for harp, 2 flutes, mixed-voice choir (SSAATTBB), and soprano solo
(An electronic keyboard with a full set of octaves and a decent harp-like timbre may be substituted)
Initial sketches 29/30 September 2001; composed 15 December 2003 – 27 May 2004; 225 bars.
| Full score. | Scorch | (52 KB) | MIDI | (74 KB) |
| Sample pages from score. | Acrobat | (125 KB) | ||
| Vocal score. | Acrobat | (1052 KB) | ||
| Duration: | 7′ |
Music, scores, MIDI file and programme notes, are all copyright © 2004 Philip Legge. All rights reserved. The sample pages in Acrobat have printing disabled.
Non nobis, Domine, canon à 3 / fuga à 4 (2005/6) [Opus 2]; included in the TUMS Busking Book.
Vocal score. Acrobat (CPDL, 96 KB)
Voicing: SAB, T ad libitum
Lux æterna, à 16 (1966)
Rehearsal aid only; not a performance edition.
[ Mahler / P.D. McCormick / Mendelssohn / Messiaen / Monteverdi / Morley / Moss / Mozart / Back to top ]
Symphony Nº 2 in C minor “Resurrection”
Choral score. Acrobat (CPDL, 393 KB)
Voicing: SA solos and SSAATTBB choir
Symphony Nº 8 in E flat
[Vocal score, very incomplete.]
Symphony Nº 9 in D minor
[Full score, very incomplete.]
Symphony Nº 10 in F sharp minor
[Full score, very incomplete. Partial transcription of composer’s autograph.]
Peter Dodds McCormick [=“Amicus”] (c.1834–1916)
Advance Australia fair, à 4
Vocal score; text is the two standard modernised verses.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Overture, Op. 21
Full score, incomplete.
O sacrum convivium!
Rehearsal aid only; not a performance edition.
Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643)
L’Orfeo, Favola in Musica (1607)
Full score (Toccata, Prologue, and Act One only).
Sanctissimæ Virginis Missa... ac... Vesperæ
Mass & Vespers of the Blessed Virgin (1610)
Several movements in preparation, including full score, vocal score, and parts:
Kyrie (Mass)
Dixit Dominus, Laudate pueri Dominum, Lætatus sum, Nisi Dominus, Audi cœlum, Lauda Jerusalem, Sonata sopra Sancta Maria (Vespers).
Domine ad adiuvandum, à 6
Full score, vocal score, parts. Acrobat (CPDL)
Voicing: SSATTB
Instrumentation: 2 cornettos, 3 trombones, 2 violino da brazzo, 4 viuola da brazzo, contrabassa di gamba, basso continuo.
Sonata sopra “Sancta Maria ora pro nobis”, à 8
Full score. Scorch (44 KB)
Now is the month of maying, à 5; included in the TUMS Busking Book.
Rubber duckie, arr. à 5 a cappella
Vocal score.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–91)
K 386, Rondo for piano and orchestra in A major
Full score, urtext and reconstruction; in progress.
Instrumentation: pf solo; 0.2.0.0 – 2.0.0.0, timp, – 2.1.1.1
K 427 (417a), “Great” Mass in C
Full score, complete. Excerpts available in vocal score from the Choral Public Domain Library website: [1]–[12], [A1]. Movements [9]–[12] copyright © Philip Legge, all rights reserved.
| [1] Kyrie | Scorch |
 Sibelius |
(32 KB) | Acrobat (CPDL) | |
| [2] Gloria in excelsis Deo | Scorch |
Sibelius |
(24 KB) | Acrobat (CPDL) | |
| [3] Laudamus te | Scorch |
Sibelius |
(28 KB) | Acrobat (CPDL) | |
| [4] Gratias | Scorch |
Sibelius |
(16 KB) | Acrobat (CPDL) | |
| [5] Domine Deus | Scorch |
Sibelius |
(22 KB) | Acrobat (CPDL) | |
| [6] Qui tollis | Scorch |
Sibelius |
(30 KB) | Acrobat (CPDL) | |
| [7] Quoniam | Scorch |
Sibelius |
(30 KB) | Acrobat (CPDL) | |
| [8] Jesu Christe – Cum sancto spiritu | Scorch |
Sibelius |
(45 KB) | Acrobat (CPDL) | |
| [9] Credo in unum Deum | Scorch 3 |
(54 KB) | Acrobat (CPDL) | ||
| [10] Et incarnatus est | Acrobat (CPDL) | ||||
| [11] Sanctus – Osanna | Scorch |
Sibelius |
(45 KB) | Acrobat (CPDL) | |
| [12] Benedictus – Osanna | Scorch 3 |
 Sibelius 3 |
(56 KB) | Acrobat (CPDL) | |
| Appendices: | |||||
| [A1] Crucifixus – Et resurrexit | Scorch 3 |
Sibelius 3 |
(39 KB) | Acrobat (CPDL) | |
| [A2] Et in Spiritum Sanctum | |||||
| [A3] Et vitam venturi | |||||
| [B1] Agnus Dei | Scorch 3 |
Sibelius 3 |
(33 KB) | Acrobat (CPDL) | |
| [B2] Dona nobis pacem | Scorch 3 |
Sibelius 3 |
(32 KB) | Acrobat (CPDL) | |
| Voicing: | SSTB soloists, 2×SATB choirs | ||||
| Instrumentation: | 1.2.0.2 – 2.2.3.0, timp – 2.2.1.1, org | ||||
| Duration: | 60′ | ||||
K 477 (479a), Maurerische Trauermusik
Full score.
Instrumentation: 0.2.1+3bst hns.0cbsn – 2.0.0.0 – 2.2.1.1
K 522, Ein musikalischer Spass
Full score and parts.
Instrumentation: 2 horns, 2 violins, viola, contrabass
K 525, Eine kleine Nachtmusik, arr. à 6 a cappella
Vocal score.
K 543, Symphony Nº 39 in E flat, 1st movement: Adagio – Allegro
Full score. Scorch (44 KB)
K 618, Motet: Ave verum corpus, arr. à 8 a cappella
Vocal score.
K 626, Requiem mass in D minor
| Full score, urtext. | Acrobat | (CPDL, 898 KB) |
| Voicing: | SATB solos and choir | |
| Instrumentation: | 0.0.2bsst hrns.2 – 0.2.3.0, timp, – 2.1.1.1, org | |
| Duration: | 30′ | |
| Contents: | ||
| Introït & Kyrie | Folio 1r – 9r; Introït completely scored by Mozart, Kyrie vocal parts and organ bass only. | |
| Dies iræ | Folio 11r – 15v; violin and viola parts incomplete | |
| Tuba mirum | Folio 16r – 19v; solo trombone; violin and viola parts incomplete | |
| Rex tremendæ | Folio 20r – 22r; 1st violin part nearly complete | |
| Recordare | Folio 22v – 28v; basset horn, violin and viola parts incomplete | |
| Confutatis | Folio 29r – 32r; basset horn, bassoon, violin and viola parts incomplete | |
| Lacrymosa | Folio 33r & 33v; 8 bar fragment | |
| Domine | Folio 35r – 41r; violin parts incomplete | |
| Hostias | Folio 43r – 45r; violin and viola parts incomplete | |
| Notes | Pages 93 – 95 | |
| Lacrymosa (cont.) | Page 96; Süßmayr bars 24–28 | |
| Amen | Page 96; 16–bar sketch | |
| Sanctus | Page 97 | |
| Osanna | Page 98; bars 11–16 | |
| Benedictus | Page 98; bars 1–4 | |
| Agnus Dei | Page 99 | |
| K220, Gloria, excerpt. | Page 100 | |
[ Okeghem / Back to top ]
Jean de Okeghem (ca.1410–1497)
Deo gratias, canon à 36
Full score, realisation by Philip Legge. Scorch Acrobat (CPDL, 224 KB)
Vocal score (1 page). Acrobat (72 KB)
[ Palestrina / Parry / Passereau / Penberthy / Pérotin / Poulenc / Purcell / Back to top ]
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (ca.1525–1592)
Missa Iste confessor, à 4
Vocal score. Acrobat (CPDL, 145 KB)
Voicing: SATB
Missa O Rex gloriæ, à 4
Vocal score. Acrobat (CPDL, 162 KB)
Voicing: SATB
Vocal scores for St Peter’s Eastern Hill. N.B. Neither mass includes the Credo.
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848–1918)
Jerusalem
1993: Vocal score, arranged for SATTBB choir a cappella.
2004: Full score and parts, arranged for SATTBB choir and brass band.
The first arrangement was made to allow Jerusalem to be sung with its harmonic underpinnings, rather than in usual fashion as an unaccompanied unison song. The second arrangement was made at short notice for the 55th IVCF, which was to perform Jerusalem in concert with brass band accompaniment, but the traditional brass band scores and parts could not be found. The scores did turn up eventually, so in the end my version was not needed. The first version however was sung several times in rehearsals without the brass band!
Il est bel et bon, à 4; included in the TUMS Busking Book.
Bedlam Hills
Vocal score.
Voicing: SATB choir, piano accompaniment.
Conducted by Philip Legge at the 60th Intervarsity Choral Festival, Hobart Town Hall, 11 July 2009 – the first performance since 1962?
Viderunt omnes, organum quadrumplum
Voicing: TTTT (or TTTB)
Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence, à 8 (1938–39)
Rehearsal aid only; not a performance edition.
Figure humaine, à 12 (1943)
Rehearsal aid only; not a performance edition.
Z 323, Come, ye Sons of Art, birthday ode for Queen Mary, 30 April 1694
Full score, vocal score, and parts complete.
Instrumentation: 2.2.0.0 – 0.2.0.0, timp – 2.1.1.1, continuo
Voicing: SATB choir, SAAB solos
Z 397 b, If music be the food of love, arr. à 4 a cappella; included in the TUMS Busking Book.
The alternate version (Z 397 a) has been consulted to provide two verses, with resultant slight differences in the music.
[ Respighi / Reville / Back to top ]
Fountains of Rome: Fountain of Valle Giulia at dawn
Full score; excerpt. Scorch (28 KB)
[ Schönberg / Schubert / Schütz / Stanford / Striggio / Back to top ]
Gurre-lieder (1900–11)
Choral score; not in the public domain? See IMSLP.
Title page and prefatory notes. Acrobat (21 KB)
The prefatory notes include a useful list of corrections to the existing Universal Edition full and vocal scores. A rant and an apologia for my Gurre-lieder score may be found here; I have had conflicting legal advice about the copyright status of Gurre-lieder.
D 759·3, Symphony Nº 8 in B minor (1822): Scherzo. Allegro
Full score, complete. Parts in preparation.
D 759·1–3 + D 797·1, Symphony Nº 8 in B minor (1822), completed
Full score, revision of draft in progress.
SWV 38, Alleluja! Lobet den Herren in seinem Heiligtum, à 16 (Psalmen Davids, Dresden, 1619)
| Full score. | Scorch 3 (100 KB) | Acrobat | (CPDL, 372 KB) |
| Vocal score, cori favoriti. | Acrobat | (CPDL, 216 KB) | |
| Vocal score, cori capelli. | Acrobat | (CPDL, 216 KB) | |
| Instrumental parts. | Acrobat | (CPDL, 1100 KB) | |
| Voicing: | SATB–SATB + SSAB–SATB | ||
| Instrumentation: | 1.0.0.2 – 0.4.4.0 – 3.0.0.0, continuo | ||
SWV 277, Das ist je gewißlich wahr, à 6 (1630)
Vocal score. Acrobat (CPDL, 104 KB)
Voicing: SSATTB
SWV 494, Deutsche Magnificat à 8
Vocal score.
Voicing: 2×SATB
For Gloriana.
Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924)
Magnificat in B flat for double choir a cappella, Op. 164, (1919)
Vocal score.
Voicing: 2×SATB
This was done in the old-fashioned way with scissors and glue, so please do not ask me for a PDF. A performance set is available for hire from MUCS.
Alessandro Striggio I (ca1537–92)
Ecce beatam lucem, à 40
Full score, 5 choir books.
Voicing: 5 × SATB–SATB
[ Tallis / Tye / Back to top ]
Spem in alium nunquam habui, à 40
| Full score. | Scorch (24 KB) Acrobat (CPDL, 421 KB) | ||
| Partbooks: Soprano | Acrobat (CPDL, 189 KB) | Choir books: | |
| Alto | Acrobat (CPDL, 198 KB) | Choirs I & I | Acrobat (CPDL, 189 KB) |
| Tenor | Acrobat (CPDL, 192 KB) | Choirs III & IV | Acrobat (CPDL, 189 KB) |
| Baritone | Acrobat (CPDL, 190 KB) | Choirs V & VI | Acrobat (CPDL, 189 KB) |
| Bass | Acrobat (CPDL, 167 KB) | Choirs VII & VIII | Acrobat (CPDL, 189 KB) |
Scored for eight 5-part choirs (SATBarB). Published on CPDL, 28 November 2004; revised on 8 April 2006 to include the contrafactum “Sing and glorify heaven’s high Majesty”. The partbooks include a thoroughbass (a part collated from the lowest sounding voice amongst the 40 parts). Choir books including a (reasonably full) keyboard reduction are now available.
Finally, as a bit of a joke, I have also made a “dérangement” of Spem for 20 voices. A friend of long-standing once presented the work, reduced to 14 voices, on the principle that with Tallis’ triadic chord spacing you only need that many voices to cover the typical vertical density, however this does not account for false relations, suspensions, or passing notes increasing the harmonic opacity. My alternate version respects most of Tallis’ polyphony, and utilises four 5-part choirs (A, B, C, and D; 20 voices) which sing through virtually the entire work; the partbooks also contain extra parts for four more choirs (E, F, G, and H; 20 voices ad libitum), which may be sung by as many supernumary choristers that happen to be available; these parts thicken the polyphonic texture at five or so points in the work.
Christopher Tye (c.1505–c.1572)
The Actes of the Apostles (1553), Chapter 4: (Laudate nomen Domini, à 4)
Study score and new performing edition. Scorch (25 KB) Acrobat
Vocal score. Included in the TUMS Busking Book.
Voicing: SATB
The essay written for Karl Aloritias’ web site to explain the history of Tye’s work is found here.
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Alexandra Uitdenbogerd (born 1964)
Space Tale (2004), arranged for band by Philip Legge (2006)
Full score, vocal score, parts.
Who’s in the next room (2006); entry in the 2007 ROCS Occasional Choral Composition Competition.
I wandered lonely as a cloud (2007); entry in the 2007 ROCS Occasional Choral Composition Competition.
[ Vecchi / Veitch / Vicentino / Victoria / Vulpius / Back to top ]
Fa una canzona, à 4; included in the TUMS Busking Book.
Leanne Daharja Veitch (born 1970)
Crescent moon (2006); 2nd-place entry in the 2007 ROCS Occasional Choral Composition Competition.
Nicola Vicentino (c.1511–1572)
Compositions from L’antica musica ridotta alla moderna prattica (1555)
Vocal score; in preparation.
Tomás Luis de Victoria (c.1548–1611)
Officium defunctorum, à 6 (1605): Agnus Dei
Vocal score.
The Agnus Dei is retexted to conform to the ordinary of the Mass, so it may be sung as a missa brevis, particularly in Lent or Advent. (i.e., Kyrie, Gloria omitted, Sanctus, Benedictus, and Agnus Dei... miserere nobis... dona nobis pacem.)
Passio secundum Joannem, à 4 (St John Passion)
Vocal score; adapted to the English Revised Standard Version translation.
Asperges and Vidi aquam, à 4
Vocal score; adapted to the English ICEL translation.
Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen/Lo, how a rose, canon à 4; included in the TUMS Busking Book.
[ Wallner / Weelkes / Wheeler / Winikoff / Back to top ]
Peace be, arr. à 3
Parts arranged for 2 flutes (or, flute and alto flute) and cello.
Journey of Happiness; entry in the ROCS Occasional Choral Composition Competition.
All at once well met, à 5; included in the TUMS Busking Book.
Old Mother Hubbard, à 4; included in the TUMS Busking Book.
This is Australia, à 4 (2007); winning entry in the 2007 ROCS Occasional Choral Composition Competition.
Three madrigals, à 3 (2006); entry in the ROCS Occasional Choral Composition Competition.
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