Tractarian Tunes Printed in Penzance
BATTEN, Henry, and Henry VINER, composers and arrangers.
Responses, Suffrages, Tersanctus, and Chants, as used in the Church of St. Paul, Penzance ... Penzance, Viner’s Musical Repository, 1844.
8vo, pp. [4], 17, [1 (blank)], [21]–27, [1 (blank)], [31]–34, [37]–56; title in blue and red, letterpress music throughout; some browning to margins; bound in contemporary burgundy straight-grained morocco gilt with title to front cover, marbled endpapers; front board neatly rehinged, headcap perished, extremities rubbed.
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Responses, Suffrages, Tersanctus, and Chants, as used in the Church of St. Paul, Penzance ...
Exceedingly rare first and only edition of these Penzance-printed Tractarian hymns and chants composed by the local minister and his organist.
Built in the Early English Gothic style with windows by Thomas Willement, ‘the father of Victorian stained glass’, St Paul’s of Penzance was established in 1843 as a proprietary chapel sponsored by its first minister, Henry Batten, for the use of fellow supporters of the Oxford Movement. Together with his organist Henry Viner, Batten compiled and composed simple chants and hymns for his flock of the kind then being revived by the Tractarians. These were published locally in the present collection by Viner’s Musical Repository, established by Henry’s father William L. Viner, also an organist at the church, to whom one of the Tersanctus hymns printed here is attributed. William later emigrated to Massachusetts, and his archive is held by the Eastman School of Music.
OCLC and Library Hub together find only one copy, at the British Library.