Recording made by University Recording Co., 16 Burleigh Place, Cambridge, of three choir pieces: "Drop, Drop, Slow Tears" by Gibbons; Let thy merciful ears, O Lord" by Weelkes [actually Mudd]; and "Nolo mortem peccatoris" by Morley, the last marked as by "Jesus College Chapel Choir (unaccompanied)" [conducted by Peter Hurford]
Hurford, Peter (1919-1930) ), British organist and composerConsists of a notebook listing music played on the Chapel organ at services on a day by day basis. Names of musical pieces played and names of organ scholars given.
Hurford, Peter (1919-1930) ), British organist and composerSong for female chorus (mostly in unison) and piano or organ. Lyrics: poem by William Blake. Key: B flat major. Metronome marking: 66 beats per minute.
Hurford, Peter (1919-1930) ), British organist and composerPages 1 to 3 (written in ink): FRCO Fugue for organ in G major (incomplete).
Pages 3 and 4 (upside down in pencil): incomplete piece for organ in G major. Note by the author page 4: part of original manuscript of Song 34 published by Oxford University Press in "5 short chorale preludes".
Trumpet Tune in D. Henry Purcell. Arranged by Peter Hurford (for the organ?). Metronome marking: 120 beats per minute.
Hurford, Peter (1919-1930) ), British organist and composer"They reap not where they laboured..." [incipit] for voices and organ in E major.
Hurford, Peter (1919-1930) ), British organist and composerChoral sketches.
Hurford, Peter (1919-1930) ), British organist and composerBooklet containing several sketches. Some of them are transcriptions of J. S. Bach.
Hurford, Peter (1919-1930) ), British organist and composer"Fantasia for Organ". J. S. Bach, from the "Clavierbüchlein für Rudolph Christian Otto Bach". Apocryphal piece written by Peter Hurford for the Royal College of Organists.
Hurford, Peter (1919-1930) ), British organist and composer"Truly the Lord is in this place" for tenors, basses and organ and "Through Christ Jesus" for voices (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) and organ in G major. Sentences from the series III Order for Holy Communion.
Hurford, Peter (1919-1930) ), British organist and composerMass for Series III. For voices and organ in D major. Metronome marking: 108 beats per minute.
Sections: "Our Father", "Kyries", "Gloria in excelsis", "The thanksgiving", "Sanctus", "Benedictus", "Agnus Dei", "Acclamations", "Final Ascription", "Responses to Gospel", "The Dismissal".
Variations on the carol "Tempus adest floridum" for organ pedal solo in A major. Metronome marking: 96 beats per minute.
Two copies with minor variants: manuscript (in pencil) and photocopy with pencil annotations.
Schmücke Dich for organ. Key: B flat major. Metronome marking: adagio.
Two sketches: one incomplete in ink, that contains on the reverse there is another fragment of a piece untitled for organ (in pencil). Key: A major. One in pencil with some differences.
Voluntary in trio for organ. Registration: I Great (Flutes 8, 2). II Choir: Flutes 8, 2, Sesquialtera. III Swell: Principal 8. Pedal: Flutes 16, 8. (No key). First part: adagio (60 beats per minute). Second part: quasi allegro (80 beats per minute).
Hurford, Peter (1919-1930) ), British organist and composer"Durch Adam's fall ist ganz verderbt" in E major. Three staves: treble, alto and bass clefs. Metronome marking: quaver=132 "Lente expressif".
On the last page there are some choral sketches.
"A Trio for the Duchess" for organ in D major.
Hurford, Peter (1919-1930) ), British organist and composerHymne for organ in D major. Metronome marking: 88 beats per minute, Andante. Prepare: I Great: Diapasons 8'4'. II Swell: Diapasons 8'4' (or trumpets 8'4'). III Choir: Flutes 8'4'. (IV Solo: Trumpet 8'. This registration represents the ideal. On a smaller organ, similar registration may be worked out, using a Great or Swell Reed for passages marked IV).
Hurford, Peter (1919-1930) ), British organist and composer"On a Rouen Church melody" for organ in A major. Metronome marking: 52 beats per minute, Andante. Suggested registration: II Flutes 8'4' or quiet diapason. Solo 8' Oboe and slow tremulant. Pedal: 8'16' Dulciana.
Hurford, Peter (1919-1930) ), British organist and composer"Praise my soul" choral piece; and on the reverse of the page: "Nun danket" (early version of descant arrangement) in F major.
Hurford, Peter (1919-1930) ), British organist and composerPiece for organ and voices. Incipit of lyrics: "For thee, O dear, dear country..." [Lutheran Hymn]. On the last page there is a choral piece: 10 4. 10 4. 10 10. ("Lead, birdly light, amid the enriching gloan").
Hurford, Peter (1919-1930) ), British organist and composerDescant arrangement. Key: B flat major
Hurford, Peter (1919-1930) ), British organist and composer"What care I" (with apologies to John Dowland) for voice and keyboard in A minor. Lyrics by George Wither (1588-1667). Metronome marking: 84 beats per minute.
Hurford, Peter (1919-1930) ), British organist and composerOrgan sketch in F major that ends at the end of the reverse page, which also includes a choral sketch in G major.
Hurford, Peter (1919-1930) ), British organist and composerIncomplete keyboard sketch.
Hurford, Peter (1919-1930) ), British organist and composerFestival Te Deum. Work for voices (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) and organ. Metronome marking: 132 beats per minute.
3 copies: Manuscript copy and photocopies with pencil markings.
Suite "Laudate Dominum" for organ. I: "Processional", II: Rondo da Chiesa, III: "Meditation", IV: Scherzo, V: "French Carol", VI: "Exurgat Deus".
Two full drafts (one seems to be a more complete draft than the other).
Work for voices and organ. Words by John Milton: [Hymn] "Let us with a gladsome mind". Key: E flat major. Metronome marking: minim=72.
Hurford, Peter (1919-1930) ), British organist and composer"The Loyal Air", arranged by Peter Hurford for organ duet and two chamber organs. Key: C major. Metronome marking: 52 beats per minute.
Hurford, Peter (1919-1930) ), British organist and composer"Wedding Responses" for voices in B flat major. On the reverse of the page there is a draft in pencil (of other wedding responses?).
Hurford, Peter (1919-1930) ), British organist and composerHymn for voices (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) and organ. "Our Father, by whose servants...". Key: E major.
Hurford, Peter (1919-1930) ), British organist and composerPsalm-Prelude (No. 1) for organ [From Two Psalm-Preludes for Organ]. "I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands" - Psalm 143 v. 5. Key: E major. Metronome marking: 58 beats per minute.
Two slightly different drafts.
Descant arrangement. Two parts.
Hurford, Peter (1919-1930) ), British organist and composerPiece for voice and keyboard [?]. Arrangement by Peter Hurford. Key: B flat major.
Hurford, Peter (1919-1930) ), British organist and composerResponses for boys' voices (Set B) for three and four voices in F major.
Hurford, Peter (1919-1930) ), British organist and composerAgnus Dei for two sopranos and organ in D major. Metronome marking: 84 beats per minute.
Hurford, Peter (1919-1930) ), British organist and composerAscendit Deus. An Introit or short anthem for the feast of the Ascension. For voices (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) and organ. Key: D major. Metronome marking: dotted minim = 56.
Two copies: one complete, the other one an incomplete draft.
"I will lift up mine eyes" (psalm 121) set for treble solo, two sopranos, alto, tenor, bass and organ. Key: A major. Metronome marking: 80 beats per minute.
Two manuscript copies: one in pencil and one in ink.
Nunc Dimitis (Evening Service in A [major]). For voices (treble, alto, tenor, bass) and organ.
Hurford, Peter (1919-1930) ), British organist and composerGloria: Alternative setting for congregational use. Series III Communion Service. For voice and organ. Key: D major. Metronome marking: dotted minim = 60.
Hurford, Peter (1919-1930) ), British organist and composerNo. 3 Gott des himmels. Hymn for organ in D major. Metronome marking: 72 beats per minute.
Reverse of the page: draft of another short piece.
A musical setting of appropriate sections of The Order of the Holy Communion (Series III) in the Church of England and of The Holy Eucharist (Second Service) in the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America. For voice and organ. Keys: F major, D minor. Gloria, Responses to the Gospel, The Creed, Sursum Corda, Sanctus and Benedictus, The Acclamations [sic], The Final Ascription, Our Father, Agnus Dei (American use), Agnus Dei (English use), The Dismissal, Kyrie Eleison.
Letter from James H. Litton, general editor Hinshaw Music, asking Peter Hurford to produce a translation of Benedictuses Domine and Kyrie Pantokrator (copy of the texts included), dated December 30, 1976.
Hurford, Peter (1919-1930) ), British organist and composerPlainsong chant E. H. No. 1 for voices (soprano, alto, two tenors, bass) in A major.
Hurford, Peter (1919-1930) ), British organist and composerSong for tenor and piano or organ. Lyrics: poem by A. E. Housman (1859–1936), taken from "A Shropshire Lad" (1896) "With rue my heart is laden". Key: G major.
On the reverse there is a draft of a song for voice and keyboard in ink containing lyrics, and at the end five bars written in pencil with a comment that reads: Dowland "I saw my lady weep" "English Ayres" (although the bars do not seem to be related with Dowland's piece).
"Et lux perpetua..." for three voices (alto, tenor and bass [?]).
On the reverse page there is a short sketch in pencil.
"In manus tuas". Introits for Church use. No. 4. For voices (treble or alto I (divided), alto II, tenor, bass). Key: F major.
Hurford, Peter (1919-1930) ), British organist and composer"The Church's one foundation" for organ and voices in unison. Key: E major.
Hurford, Peter (1919-1930) ), British organist and composerTwo anthems: 1. "Blessed is he", Psalm 41 versicles 1-3, for solo treble voice, flute and organ in E flat minor, metronome marking: 80 beats per minute. 2. O Praise the Lord, Psalm 117, for three treble voices, flute and organ in B flat major, metronome marking: 132 beats per minute.
Hurford, Peter (1919-1930) ), British organist and composerQuam dulcis est amor! Words: Dutch, 1599. Translated by R. C. Trevelyan. For voices (soprano, alto, tenor) in C major.
Hurford, Peter (1919-1930) ), British organist and composer"Holy spirit, make us strong..." for voices (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) in B flat minor.
Hurford, Peter (1919-1930) ), British organist and composer"God disclose, Gold a royal child proclaimeth..." for voices (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) and organ in B flat minor.
Hurford, Peter (1919-1930) ), British organist and composer