Christmas Carols and Their Stories
Puzzle 29 · Collectors and the Carol Revival · Page 47 in print
Stainer and Bramley
In Bramley and Stainer’s Christmas Carols New and Old, the king’s lines in Good King Wenceslas are marked for a tenor soloist and the page’s replies for a treble.
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The words
Berners Street
The London street of Novello, Ewer and Co., the book’s publisher.
Crucifixion
Stainer’s best-known sacred work, first sung in 1887.
Gideon
The oratorio Stainer wrote for his Oxford doctorate in 1865.
Horspath
The Oxfordshire parish where Bramley became vicar in 1861.
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Magdalen
Magdalen College, Oxford, where Bramley was a fellow and Stainer organist.
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Marylebone
St Marylebone church, where The Crucifixion was first performed.
Novello
The London music publisher of Christmas Carols New and Old.
Organist
Stainer’s post at Magdalen and later at St Paul’s.
Oriel
The Oxford college where Bramley matriculated in 1852.
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Ouseley
Sir Frederick Ouseley, who made the young Stainer organist at Tenbury.
Sevenfold Amen
Stainer’s choral Amen, sung at two coronations.
Southwark
The London district where Stainer was born in 1840.
St Paul's
The London cathedral where Stainer was a chorister and, from 1872, organist.
Tenbury
St Michael’s, Tenbury, where Stainer trained under Ouseley.
Verona
The Italian city where Stainer died in 1901.
Sources
- Christmas carols, new and old : [1st series] : Stainer, John, Sir, 1840-1901H. R. Bramley and John Stainer, Christmas Carols New and Old, first series (London: Novello, Ewer and Co., [1871]); Internet Archive scan
- Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement, vol. 3, ‘Stainer, John’ by W. G. McNaught; Wikisource transcriptionWikisource
- Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886: Bramley, Henry RamsdenJoseph Foster, Alumni Oxonienses 1715–1886, vol. 1, ‘Bramley, Henry Ramsden’; Wikisource transcription
- The Oxford Book of Carols : Percy Dearmer, R. Vaughan Williams, Martin ShawThe Oxford Book of Carols, ed. Dearmer, Vaughan Williams and Shaw (Oxford University Press, 1928); Internet Archive scan (preface and notes)