Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (Dorian) (Elway Bevin)
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- (Posted 2011-06-18) CPDL #23761:
- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2011-06-18). Score information: A4, 14 pages, 162 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download.
General Information
Title: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis on the Dorian mode
Composer: Elway Bevin
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SAATB
Genre: Sacred, Evening Canticles
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1641 in John Barnard, The First Book of Selected Church Musick
2nd published: 1760 in Cathedral Music, Volume 1, p. 107, 112
Description: Bevin was reputedly a pupil of Thomas Tallis and was teacher in his turn of William Child. Organist at Bristol Cathedral fom 1589 until dismissed in 1637, he was also a member of the Chapel Royal from 1605. In Archbishop Laud's "Visitations" (1634) Bevin is described as "a verie old man", past work. Anthony a Wood asserts that Bevin lost both his posts upon accusations of Romanism. This statement cannot now be proven since the Chapter books of Bristol, Wood's authority, were destroyed with the rest of the Cathedral library during the Reform Riots, 1831.
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Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at Magnificat and Nunc dimittis.