Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-09
MUSIC SELECTED
FOR CORONATION
Five New Compositions
Make Appearance in
"ServiCe Book"
BY. H. J. j. SARGENT.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LONDON, May (NANA).-The
music to be played during the corona
ton has now been chosen and has
been issued in the form of service
book" under the authority of the mas
ter Of the Kings music, Sir Walford
Davies, and the organist of Westmin-
ster Abbey, DR. Ernest Bullock.
Five new compositions make their
appearance in the book The first is
the anthem, Let My Prayer Come
Up which is sung at the beginning
Of the communion service after the
King has had administered to him by
the Archbishop of Canterbury the dec
laration prescribed by act of Parlia-
ment. The composer Is Sir Edward
Bairstow of York Minister.
The music of the confortare, which
follows Immediately upon the placing
of the crown on the Kings head, has
been written by Sir Walford Davies
himself and this is followed by six
anthems which will be sung during the
time when homage is done to the
sovereign by the princes and peers.
The new music includes long work
entitled TIE Deum Laudamus," writ
ten by DR.. Vaughan Williams This
will be sung after the blessing and will
be the final music of the ceremony
except for the national anthem.
Homage Anthems.
Great periods Of English church
music are represented in the homage
anthems and include works by Chris
Boyce and S. S. Wesley, while a still
earlier age contributes music for the
communion by William Byrd and the
Pastor Noster by John Merbecke. who
was organist Of st. Georges Chapel,
Windsor, in 1910, and who war after
ward convicted of heresy and sem
fenced to be burned at the stake,
from which he was saved by the in
tervention Of the Bishop of Win
chester, prelate of the Order OF the
Garter.
The anthem to be sung as their
majeSties enter the Abbey is Sir Hubert
Parry's setting of the beginning of the
l22nd psalm, 4 was glad when they
said said unto me, let us go into the
house Of the Lord" In this anthem,
Parry has incorporated the shouts
Of s''vivite," with which, by ancient
custom, the Kings scholars Of West
minister School who have places in
the Abbey greet the King and Queen.
Composition by Handel.
There is also that imposing piece
OF music, written by Handel for the
coronation of George II, entitled
'Zadoc the Priest and Nathan the
Prophet" from the first Book of Kings.
This anthem, which has always formed
an integral part of the coronation
George II, is sung during the anoint-
ing
All the church bells throughout
the land will be ringing during the
coronation ceremony At certain
ancient churches, such as ST. Mar
garet's. Westminster, the official
church Of the House of Commons,
definite fees are claimed by the bell
ringers on these great occasions. The
records show, for instance, that the
ringers received five shiIlings at the
coronation of George w in 1921, but
at the GROWING of William and Mary,
a century and half before. they re-
ceived only a shilling each. The same
amount was paid to the bell men Of
that church in the days OF Queen
Elizabeth for ringing at the be-
heading of Mary Queen of Scots"
Bells Of St. Clements.
Other notable churches whose bells
will be heard on coronation day will
be st. Clements Dane in the Strand,
which records the Danish overlordship
Of England thousand years ago and
more and still bears as its badge an
anchor in commemoration of the
overseas character of the Danes. The
bells of this church are commence
rated in the old nursery rhyme about:
Oranges and lemons
Say the bells of ST. Clements"
Another church whose bells will be
heard in London will be st. Mary LIE
Bow In Cheapside, whose bells Bow
Bells) make every one born within
their sound Cockney.
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