Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in A (Charles King)

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CPDL #23894: Network.png 
Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2011-07-14).   Score information: A4, 22 pages, 255 kB   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. Please click on the link for preview/playback. Free registration at external website required for PDF download.

General Information

Title: Magnificat & Nunc dimittis in A
Composer: Charles King

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB

Genre: SacredEvening Canticles

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published:

Description: Charles King was a chorister at St Paul's, under Jeremiah Clarke, and subsequently his pupil and brother-in-law. In his turn he became a teacher to Boyce, Greene and Alcock. Although he attained a B.Mus. at Oxford (his exercise on that occasion being a setting of "The dialogue between Oliver Cromwell and Charon") he was badly trained. Prolific, melodious and forthright, his compositions are littered with technical infelicities, which prompted the comment from Greene that "Mr King was a very serviceable man".

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Magnificat and Nunc dimittis.