This is the day (Osbert Parsley)

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• (Posted 2024-05-11)  CPDL #80621:       

Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2024-05-11).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 39 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: A bar-less edition based on an OUP score from 1960, edited by Maurice Bevan, in which note values are halved, and the music is transposed up a minor third.

• (Posted 2001-04-02)  CPDL #02468: 

Editor: Rod Mather (submitted 2001-04-02).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 37 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. Re-registered as CPDL #3626 on 2002-05-25.

• (Posted 1999-04-08)  CPDL #00006:        (Finale 1998)

Editor: Rafael Ornes (submitted 1999-04-08).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 95 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.

General Information

Title: This is the day
Composer: Osbert Parsley (attributed)
Source of text: Psalm 118 v. 24

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Anthem

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published:
Description: The Hamond partbooks in the Bodleian Library attribute this piece to Osbert Parsley (1511–1585). A privately owned, seventeenth-century contratenor partbook attributes the piece to 'Mr Henry Molle' (c.1597–1658). Stylistically the attribution to Parsley is the more credible.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 118.