Elegy on the death of Mr Shenstone (John Broderip)
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- (Posted 2011-08-20) CPDL #24196:
- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2011-08-20). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 51 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
- Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download.
General Information
Title: Elegy on the death of Mr Shenstone
Composer: John Broderip
Lyricist: John Cunningham
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: TTB
Genre: Secular, Glee
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published:
Description: John Broderip was perhaps the most prominent member of a dynasty of west country musicians. He was organist at Wells Cathedral (succeeding his father) and published psalmody and glees. This glee comes from his collection of six (Op. 5), c.1770. Cunningham's elegy was to William Shenstone
, poet and pioneer practitioner of landscape gardening. Thomas Arne also set a portion of the elegy as a glee: see Elegy on the death of Mr. Shenstone (Thomas Arne).
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Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at Elegy on the death of Mr Shenstone.