Re: Vocal Music from the British Isles
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 10:22 am
Does anyone know for certain what Stanford's Op51 is?
IMSLP recently published his list of works with just a
question mark against this particular opus number.
So I did a bit of delving and found that his 3 Motets Op38
were published in the 1970s as Op51. But it's not clear if
this number is genuine or spurious.
Curiously, Op38 itself has two works attributed to it on IMSLP,
the other one being The Queen of the Seas Concert-Overture,
as listed in Porte's book.
To add to the confusion, Stanford scholar Jeremy Dibble
lists this concert-overture as Op33, which according to
Porte and IMSLP is 6 Part Songs.
My conclusion to all these contradictions is that these should
be the correct opuses:-
Op33 6 Part Songs
Op38 The Queen of the Seas
Op51 3 Motets.
If I'm right, the usual attribution of Op38 to the 3 Motets
is indeed wrong, and the 1970s publication is correct.
So, rightly or wrongly, I've now altered the details of
Op51 on IMSLP to fit my theory.
IMSLP recently published his list of works with just a
question mark against this particular opus number.
So I did a bit of delving and found that his 3 Motets Op38
were published in the 1970s as Op51. But it's not clear if
this number is genuine or spurious.
Curiously, Op38 itself has two works attributed to it on IMSLP,
the other one being The Queen of the Seas Concert-Overture,
as listed in Porte's book.
To add to the confusion, Stanford scholar Jeremy Dibble
lists this concert-overture as Op33, which according to
Porte and IMSLP is 6 Part Songs.
My conclusion to all these contradictions is that these should
be the correct opuses:-
Op33 6 Part Songs
Op38 The Queen of the Seas
Op51 3 Motets.
If I'm right, the usual attribution of Op38 to the 3 Motets
is indeed wrong, and the 1970s publication is correct.
So, rightly or wrongly, I've now altered the details of
Op51 on IMSLP to fit my theory.