Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in D (Benjamin Rogers)
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- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2011-06-19). Score information: A4, 11 pages, 121 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 and Nunc dimittis in D
Composer: Benjamin Rogers
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Evening Canticles
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
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Description: This service was a great favourite throughout the cathedrals of England after its dissemination in Boyce's "Cathedral Music". Rogers was organist at Christ Church, Dublin in his early career, an employment cutailed by the outbreak of the Irish rebellion, 1641. Except for a short interlude at Eton in the early years of the restauration, Rogers spent most of the rest of his life in Oxford (Magdalen). He was a quintessential Oxfordian of the seventeenth century: informant to Anthony a Wood, composer of music played at the dedication ceremonies of the Sheldonian Theatre, and composer of the Hymnus Eucharisticus, sung on May Morning from Magdalen Tower (probably from the 1670s, although the ritual was not formalised until about 1844).
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Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at Magnificat and Nunc dimittis.