SONG 46

Composer: Orlando Gibbons

Orlando Gibbons (baptised 25 December 1583 – 5 June 1625) was an English composer, virginalist and organist of the late Tudor and early Jacobean periods. He was a leading composer in the England of his day. Gibbons was born in Cambridge and christened at Oxford the same year – thus appearing in Oxford church records. Between 1596 and 1598 he sang in the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, where his brother Edward Gibbons (1568–1650), eldest of the four sons of William Gibbons, was master of the choristers. The second brother Ellis Gibbons (1573–1603) was also a promising composer, but died young. Orlando entered the university in 1598 and achieved the degree of Bachelor of Music in 1606. James I appointed him a Gentleman of th… Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title: SONG 46
Composer: Orlando Gibbons (1623)
Meter: 10.10
Incipit: 13151 44432 27165
Key: F Major
Copyright: Public Domain
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Arrangements

Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations

  • Hymn Tunes in Lower Keyes: The Book to Grab When the Congregation Complains that the Hymns are Too High!
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2011) pp. 268
  • Hymn Tunes in Lower Keys: The Book to Grab When the Congregation Complains that the Hymns are Too High!
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2011) pp. 268
  • The Really Big Descant Book - Full Music Edition: 250 Settings to Raise the Roof by the World's Finest Church Music Composers
    Composer/Editor Malcolm Archer
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2009) pp. 209
  • In Communion: 40 Hymntune Meditations for Organ, Piano, or Keyboard
    Composer/Editor Charles Callahan
    Published By: MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc. (2008) pp. 35
  • Two Hundred One Hymn Tune Prelude Miniatures
    Composer/Editor Mark Winchester
    Published By: Frog Music (2005) pp. 147
  • 100 Alternative Hymn Tune Arrangements
    Composer/Editor Andrew Moore
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2001) pp. 14
  • Last Verse Extravaganza for Organ: 200 Fabulous Arrangements
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2001) pp. 171
  • More Last Verses: Another Two Hundred Varied Hymn Tune Harmonies
    Composer/Editor Noel Rawsthorne
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (1996) pp. 150

Organ Solo

  • Easy Organ Library Volume 71
    Composer/Editor Matthew McConnell
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (2022) pp. 12
  • The Organist Volume 124 Number 7 March April 2021: The Service Music Companion for the Church Organist
    Composer/Editors Carson Cooman; Matthew McConnell
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (2021) pp. 12
  • The Lord's Supper: Flexible Organ Settings of Communion Hymns
    Composer/Editor Matthew McConnell
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (2020) pp. 18
  • Joined in Song: Hymn Medleys for Organ
    Composer/Editor Matthew McConnell
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (2019) pp. 29
  • What Wondrous Love: Organ Music for Lent and Easter
    Composer/Editor Peter Niedmann
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (2019) pp. 8
  • Oxford Hymn Settings for Organists Volume 3 Lent and Passiontide: 35 Original Pieces on Hymns for Lent and Passiontide
    Composer/Editors Rebecca Groom Te Velde; David Blackwell
    Published By: Oxford University Press (2015) pp. 74
  • The Organist's Library Volume 53
    Composer/Editor Robert J. Powell
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (2013) pp. 38
  • The Organ Portfolio Volume 75 Number 4 March April 2012: The Service Music Anthology for the Church Organist
    Composer/Editors Gilbert M. Martin; Robert J. Powell
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (2012) pp. 38
  • In Communion: 40 Hymntune Meditations for Organ, Piano, or Keyboard
    Composer/Editor Charles Callahan
    Published By: MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc. (2008) pp. 35
  • In the Cross of Christ: Holy Week Hymn Settings for Organ
    Composer/Editor Robert J. Powell
    Published By: The Sacred Music Press (2008) pp. 16
  • The Organist's Companion from Lent to Easter: Over 50 Seasonal Pieces for Organ
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2000) pp. 102
  • Organ Miniatures: 200 Short Improvisations on Familiar Hymn Tunes
    Composer/Editor June Nixon
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (1999) pp. 135
  • Preludes on the Great Hymn Tunes of Lent, Holy Week and Easter
    Composer/Editor Rosalie Bonighton
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (1999) pp. 42
  • 100 Hymn Preludes for Manuals
    Composer/Editor Rosalie Bonighton
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (1996) pp. 132
  • Ten Preludes on Hymn Tunes: For the Organ
    Composer/Editor Leo Sowerby
    Published By: The H. W. Gray Company, Inc. (1956) pp. 69
  • Ten Preludes for Organ on the Lady Margaret Hall Hymn Tunes No. 6 -10: Original Compositions (New Series) No. 140
    Composer/Editor Ernest Walker
    Published By: Novello and Company Limited (1932) pp. 2

Organ or Piano

  • In Communion: 40 Hymntune Meditations for Organ, Piano, or Keyboard
    Composer/Editor Charles Callahan
    Published By: MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc. (2008) pp. 35
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