SEPTEM VOCES (Hoyte)

SEPTEM VOCES (Hoyte)

Composer: W. S. Hoyte (1866); Arranger: Arthur Sullivan (1874)
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Composer: W. S. Hoyte

Born: September 22, 1844, Sidmouth, England. Died: July 2, 1917. Buried: Sidmouth, England. Hoyte studied under John Goss and George Cooper. He played the organ at various locations, finally at All Saints, Margaret Street, London (1868-1907). He was also a professor of organ at the Royal College of Music (1888), and at the Royal Academy of Music (1893), and professor of the pianoforte at the Guildhall School. He was a member of the Philharmonic Society, and received his DMus degree from the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1904. --www.hymntime.com/tch  Go to person page >

Arranger: Arthur Sullivan

Arthur Seymour Sullivan (b Lambeth, London. England. 1842; d. Westminster, London, 1900) was born of an Italian mother and an Irish father who was an army band­master and a professor of music. Sullivan entered the Chapel Royal as a chorister in 1854. He was elected as the first Mendelssohn scholar in 1856, when he began his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He also studied at the Leipzig Conservatory (1858-1861) and in 1866 was appointed professor of composition at the Royal Academy of Music. Early in his career Sullivan composed oratorios and music for some Shakespeare plays. However, he is best known for writing the music for lyrics by William S. Gilbert, which produced popular operettas such as H.M.S. Pinafore (1878), The… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: SEPTEM VOCES (Hoyte)
Composer: W. S. Hoyte (1866)
Arranger: Arthur Sullivan (1874)
Meter: 7.7.7.6
Incipit: 33321 15112 23324
Key: G Major
Source: St. Alban's Tune Book, 1866
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Arrangements

Organ Solo

  • 21 Preludes on Standard Hymns for the Organ
    Composer/Editor Rob Roy Peery
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1963) pp. 46
  • The Organist Volume 57 Number 1 March 1953: Voluntaries for the Church Organ
    Composer/Editor Rob Roy Peery
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1953) pp. 24

Instances

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Church Hymnal, Mennonite #117

Audio

Small Church Music #4324

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The Cyber Hymnal #3431

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