New-York tribune., 1902-06-15
CORONATION MUSIC.
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music and ruled music paper for twenty-one years
II was during of his periods OF Protestant con-
formation doubtless that ne made his famous set
tings for four and five voices of the Litany. FOR
II was noted the English words OF the venerable
prayers. These are attributed TO Cranmer the
first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury Tallts
music in its earliest form exists in a manuscript
dated 1910 Two bishops chanted the service al
the coronation of Ethered. in the tenth century
TWO bishops on their knees sang the Litany AT the
coronation of Charles /. and Edward Wis coro-
nation the I-tany is TO be sung by two bishops
vested In copes and kneelIng at a fadstool above
the steps of the theatre. the middle of the east
side thereof the choir singing the responses 10 the
organ"
Tails will be followed by Sir Arthur Sullivan
uSf2-1GOW. The Introit of the communion service
an adaptation of the concluding portion OF the
chorus Men and Brethren from Sullivan's ora
torio, The Light of the World" composed for the
Birmingham festival of 1879 the following
words:
harken thou unto the voice of my calling, my
King, and my God; for unto thee VIII make inS
prayer.
The setting of the creed TO be sung is that Of
Samuel Sebastian Wesley +. composed in 1915
familiar in all denominations of the
Protestant Church is that borne by this composer.
who was born in 1910 and died in 1876. He was the
grandson of the Rev. Charles Wesley. and the
graudnephew of the Rev. John Wesley. founder of
the Methodist Church. His father was a musician
whose admiration for Bach was so great that he
united the Christian or tnat giant Win tidl
of his grandfather when he named his son
1t was Samuel Wesley. the father who was Bachs
first distinctively great prophet in England. AS
for Charles Wesley he the Church's lyrist. and
nearly one-quarter of the hymns in the Methodist
hynnaI to-day bear his Jesus Lover of
My Soul Christ the Lord Is Risen To-day and
'Hark the Herald Angels Sing may each stand
for a hundred hymns still active In the worship OF
nonconformst sects.
After the King has taken the oath the hymn
St,lIlS InST lire' a
relic of ancient coronations in its original Latin
form. ''Veni Creator Spritus) will be sung to the
old plain song by the choir, in unison with organ
accompaniment. King and Queen kneeling through
out Preparatory the amounting Handlers Ia
dok the Priest will be performed. The next four
acts will proceed without music. except that after
the Archbishop has placed the crown upon the
Kings head there will be another flourish of
trumpets and the great guns at the Tower will
be shot off This portion of the ceremony will
then end with an anthem. specially composed for
the occasion by Sir Walter Parratt, the text,
BE strong and play the man; keep the command
ments of the Lord thy God. and walk in his ways"
Sir Walter Parratt is Master of the Kings Musick
and organist of St Georges Chapel (RoyaD at
Windsor. He held both posts under Queen Vic
toria and was knghted by her IN 1892. He does
not figure In the English lists anthem COM
poser but he has composed some church pieces,
also music to 'Agamemnon" and "Orestes'' and
an "Elegy Patroclus.'' He received the degree
of doctor of music from Oxford in 1894.
In the original scheme which had the approval
of King Edward and was printed in The Tribune
on May a. the setting of the tie Deum to be
used was that of Henry Smart in Fan admirable
composition, but rather hackneyed this
side of the Since then c. Villiers Stan
fords setting In fat has been substituted for the
other In the professional anthem by Parry and
the tie Deum'' by Stanford the Royal Academy
and the Royal College of Music will have repre-
sentaton. The TIE Deum'' in B fiat is from a
service in the same key in which the composer
makes ingenious of the Dresden Amen which
provided Wagner with the principal theme OF his
"Parsifal" music. In anticipation of its at the
coronation probably. Professor Stanford (who has
won new honors in Germany by a performance of
his opera Much Ado About Nothing" in Leipsic)
recently scored the tie Deun' for full orchestra.
The ceremony of homage is to be accompanied