Gabriel Jackson Catalogue

Choral Leaflets/Octavos

Choral Leaflets/Octavos Sacred O sacrum convivium SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied Vocal score 9780193505100 Composed for the Feast of Corpus Christi, this setting has a poise and beauty rare in choral music. Jackson uses the full sonic opportunities offered by the divided scoring, moving effortlessly from controlled meditation to ecstatic fervour, all delivered with absolute belief and clarity. 6.5 minutes O salutaris hostia SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied Vocal score 9780193411463 This reflective and affirmatory communion motet features fluid shifts between 3/4 and 4/4 time signatures and expressive melodic lines that are often underpinned by a drone. 2.5 minutes O thou that art the light SATB unaccompanied Vocal score 9780193439191 This exquisite miniature sets an intimate prayer by St Augustine of Hippo asking for God’s grace to know and serve Him. Simple and homophonic, it is infused with Jackson’s characteristic passion and luminosity. 3 minutes Oculi omnium SATB unaccompanied Vocal score 9780193366008 This anthem sets the Oculi omnium gradual to still, reflective music. Including sections of plainchant alongside richer textures and close harmonics, it is a beautiful piece that will appeal to a range of mixed-voice choirs. 3 minutes Orbis patrator optime SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied Vocal score 9780193359383 A Prayer of King Henry VI SATB unaccompanied Vocal score 9780193359048 This spacious setting of King Henry VI’s prayer ‘Domine Jesu Christe’ presents a seamless arch of music with its fluid lines and flexible metre. The influence of the great Tudor composers is especially evident in the rich, long-breathed ‘Amen’. 3 minutes Preces and Responses SATB unaccompanied Vocal score 9780193355545 Digital 9780193535763 This largely syllabic four-part setting harks back to the music of the great Tudor masters, while the expressive harmony—including a magical key change for the Lord’s Prayer and some mellifluous Amens—are pure Jackson. 7 minutes Salus aeterna SATB unaccompanied Vocal score 9780193439092 Salus Aeterna is a bright and mercurial piece that makes full use of the delicious fleeting harmonies and close-written sonorities of its flowing melodic lines. It sets a Sequence for Advent Sunday that looks forward to Christ’s coming and subsequent judgement of all things. 5 minutes Salve Regina SATB unaccompanied Vocal score 9780193355552 This is an exquisite piece, simple and homophonic in style, and with a luminescent beauty characteristic of many of Jackson’s choral works. The piece begins quietly and reverently. There is a graceful soprano solo in the central section, after which the harmony opens out and richly blossoms in ecstatic praise of the Virgin Mary, before ending serenely as it began. 5 minutes Tantum ergo SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied Vocal score 9780193411470 This serene communion motet sets the last two verses of the Pangue Lingua and oscillates between 3/4 and 4/4 time signatures. The melodic lines are expressive and at times melismatic, and the divisi in all parts creates a rich texture. 3.5 minutes Thomas, Jewel of Canterbury SSAATTBB unaccompanied Vocal score 9780193387263 Setting a fourteenth-century text, this work presents evocative solo passages above sustained notes, and rich multi-layered canon-like passages in the upper voices. 8 minutes To Morning SSATB unaccompanied Vocal score 9780193361775 Digital 9780193524897 This setting of a poem by William Blake is evocative and appealing. Jackson ingeniously offsets simple, pure harmonies against moments of chromaticism to create beautiful, fresh music which perfectly captures the essence of the words. 2 minutes Tota pulchra es SATB unaccompanied Vocal score 9780193388321 Commissioned by the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street, London, this a cappella setting of the fourth-century Latin prayer is a hymn of praise to the Virgin Mary. 5.5 minutes Two Pentecost Motets SATB unaccompanied Vocal score 9780193404854 This work presents two contrasting yet coherent motets: the joyful ‘Confirma hoc Deus’, with its jubilant, melismatic motif; and the solemn ‘Factus est’, which features aleatoric sequences set against metred music to emphasize a reflective manner of worship. 7 minutes Ubi caritas et amor SATB unaccompanied Vocal score 9780193417311 This anthem juxtaposes the words of the Antiphon for the Washing of Feet on Maundy Thursday with ‘The red rose whispers of passion’ by the poet John Boyle O’Reilly. Jackson combines lyrical polyphonic phrases for upper and lower voices with atmospheric passages for full choir, frequently accompanied by repeated half-whispered text in free time. 6 minutes Vidi aquam SSATB and organ Vocal score 9780193379817 This attractive and uplifting anthem sets the text of the Eastertide Vidi aquam antiphon. Different parts of the text are treated to contrasting musical ideas, including extended melismatic upper-voice passages and mainly homophonic full-choir sections, and the undulating organ part represents the flowing water of the text. 4 minutes Choral Leaflets/Octavos Sacred Setting of a text by St. Robert Bellarmine (1542–1621), a Hymn for Lauds on the feast of the Guardian Angels. Jackson writes: ‘For the most part, the piece’s structure and manner are governed by purely musical considerations, though the Angel host of the final line is celebrated by the sopranos and altos gradually wending their way heavenward.’ 5 minutes 10 11