Te Deum and Jubilate Deo in D

Vocal score

Forces or Category: SSATB soloists, SSATB choir, 2 trumpets, strings & continuo

Orchestration: 2 tpt, vln 1, vln 2, vla, vc, cb, organ, theorbo (opt.)

Classic Choral Works

for SSATB soloists, SSATB choir, 2 trumpets, strings and continuo
Written for St Cecilia's Day 1694, Purcell's Te Deum and Jubilate in D was ...

Te Deum and Jubilate Deo in D

Vocal score

Henry Purcell
Edited by Robert King

Description

for SSATB soloists, SSATB choir, two trumpets, strings and continuo
Written for St Cecilia's Day 1694, Purcell's popular Te Deum and Jubilate in D was the first work of its kind to be scored for orchestra, and it became the model for future settings of the text by Blow, Croft, and Handel. This new edition by Robert King has been prepared using the earliest available source material, combining up-to-date scholarship with a clear and practical layout. The edition includes an organ reduction for rehearsal purposes.
Orchestral material is available on hire/rental.

Te Deum and Jubilate Deo in D

Vocal score

Henry Purcell
Edited by Robert King

Classic Choral Works

Composer Information

Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

Edited by Robert King

Purcell was the outstanding musician and composer of his time in Britain. Like other seventeenth-century musicians, Purcell's career began in the church, first as a chorister at the Chapel Royal, then as organist at Westminster Abbey composing anthems. At court he enjoyed the favour of successive monarchs composing odes on special occasions, but his works for Mary II are the best known, composed when Purcell was reaching the height of his powers, just before his premature death.

Te Deum and Jubilate Deo in D

Vocal score

Henry Purcell
Edited by Robert King

Classic Choral Works

Reviews and Awards

"This 'late' work is the product of a prodigiously talented composer in his mid-30s. Baroque craftsmanship and the ability to fuse national styles are at a premium: the poise and allure of Lully, the dash and ebullience of Corelli, and the contrapuntal invention of Buxtehude are fused with flair and acumen, and couched in an effervescent Englishness that is unmistakeably Purcellian. . .King has provided an edition that is a model of clarity and sound editorial practice, together with an organ part that is a credible and wholly manageable orchestral reduction." - Jeremy Summerly, Choir & Organ, March/April 2013