Composer:
Publisher:
Oxford University Press NH158 (ISBN 978-0-19-339574-9)
Year Written:
2013
Year Published:
2016
Commissioned/Written for
From score: "Commissioned by the Temple Music Trust in memory of His Honour John Toulmin, CMG, QC, chairman of the Trust from 2002 to 2012, for performance at the service of rededication of the restored organ at the Temple Church, London in 2013"
Text:
Length:
00:07:00
Scoring: Voices:
S(div.)A(div.)T(div.)B(div.)
Scoring: Instruments:
Organ
Difficulty:
3
Related Media:
From score: "First performed by the Choir of the Temple Church with Greg Morris (organ), conducted by James Vivian, on 7 May 2013."
In this composition, Gabriel Jackson sets lines 155 to 166 from John Milton's poem, Il penseroso.
Though much of the work is SATB with some occasional divisions, the alto divides from m. 36 to m. 49, the alto/tenor divides from m. 72-91 and m. 119 to m. 128, and the full chorus divides SSAATTBB for the climactic passage from m. 99 to m. 118.