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SIX HYMN-PRELUDES BOOK ONE, PERCY WHITLOCK

SIX HYMN-PRELUDES FOR ORGAN (1945) BOOK 1: 1. DARWALL’S 148th 2. SONG 13 3:19 3. DEO GRACIAS 7:17 Nearing the end of the war in 1944, Whitlock had submitted a manuscript of five Chorale Preludes to the OUP. His publisher Norman Peterkin at the OUP asked for one more so they could produce two books, each containing three pieces. For the additional Prelude, Whitlock transcribed an earlier orchestral score, ‘Fanfare on the Tune Song of Agincourt’ written in 1940. He completed the transcription for solo organ on the 12th of May 1944. He had cut out quiet a bit of repeated material from the original score The 1940 orchestral score (with part for organ) had been written after Whitlock and his wife Edna heard a broadcast of ‘Agincourt Song’. Edna said to him ‘You should write a piece on this fine tune’, so he did, ‘& started on the score straight away’. The new piece was eventually given the title ‘Deo Gracias’, words taken from the Latin chorus of the 15th century Folk Song. An entry for the 24th May 1944 reads, ‘9pm to St Stephen’s. Tried over my new Hymn Preludes. E[dna] came. The new on[e] on ‘Agincourt Song’ far the best’. The two books were published by the OUP in 1945. Malcolm Riley suggests that ‘two of the Preludes, on Werde Munter (Jesu joy) and Darwell’s 148th had originally been composed as far back as November 1923 when Whitlock was still a student at the RCM’. The Prelude on Orlando Gibbons’ Song 13 could also be assumed to be ‘an early effort’ being very much influenced by the Cantata writing of J.S. Bach. In the July 1946 issue of Musical Opinion, an anonymous reviewer wrote. ‘…these preludes exhibit that originality and freshness of expression which distinguish so much of [Whitlock’s] work for the organ’. Whitlock’s health was on the decline at this time and given this and the momentous events of the final months of the war, it is amazing that his composing and public performances remained unabated. His last organ works to be proof-read by his friend Bernard Walker ‘Reflections – Three Quiet Pieces for Organ’ were to follow. He died on the 1st of May 1946 aged only 43. The hymn tunes may be found at: 1. DARWALL’S 148th (J. Darwall, 1731-89) NEH 475, AMR 371, 552, HAMNS 198, 316(ii) 2. SONG 13 (Orlando Gibbons, 1583-1625) NEH 382, AMR 105, 211, 319, HAMNS 136, 496 3. DEO GRACIAS (English Traditional Melody) EH 249, NEH 361, SP 684 This recording was made by Robert Fielding using the digitally sampled set for Hauptwerk by Llannerch Organs of BLACKBURN CATHEDRAL. https://llannerchorgans.square.site/b... Link to a recording of Whitlock's 1940 orchestral score ‘Fanfare on the Tune Song of Agincourt’    • Music for Orchestra: Fanfare on the tune '...   The organist and composer Ernest Farrar used the melody in his 1918 Heroic Elegy: For Soldiers op.36. Farrar studied at the RCM in 1905 with Stanford and Parratt and there befriended Frank Bridge. He later taught the 14-year-old Gerald Finzi being his first composition teacher. His best man at his wedding was Ernest Bullock. Whitlock was to follow in his footsteps at the RCM in 1920. Farrar was killed on the Western Front near Le Cateau in the Somme Valley on 18 September 1918. Arriving in France on the 8th September, he had been at the actual front for only two days. Link to a recording of Ernest Farrar's 1918 'Heroic Elegy: For Soldiers' op.36.    • Herioc Elegy, Op. 36