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LITTLE CORNARD

LITTLE CORNARD

Composer: Martin Shaw (1915)
Published in 61 hymnals


Printable scores: PDF
Audio files: Recording

Composer: Martin Shaw

Martin F. Shaw was educated at the Royal College of Music in London and was organist and choirmaster at St. Mary's, Primrose Hill (1908-1920), St. Martin's in the Fields (1920-1924), and the Eccleston Guild House (1924-1935). From 1935 to 1945 he served as music director for the diocese of Chelmsford. He established the Purcell Operatic Society and was a founder of the Plainsong and Medieval Society and what later became the Royal Society of Church Music. Author of The Principles of English Church Music Composition (1921), Shaw was a notable reformer of English church music. He worked with Percy Dearmer (his rector at St. Mary's in Primrose Hill); Ralph Vaughan Williams, and his brother Geoffrey Shaw in publishing hymnals such as Songs… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: LITTLE CORNARD
Composer: Martin Shaw (1915)
Meter: 6.6.6.6.8.8
Incipit: 61233 65312 36176
Key: E♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Arrangements

Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations

  • Hymn Tunes in Lower Keyes: The Book to Grab When the Congregation Complains that the Hymns are Too High!
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2011) pp. 143
  • Hymn Tunes in Lower Keys: The Book to Grab When the Congregation Complains that the Hymns are Too High!
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2011) pp. 143
  • 200 Last Verses: Completely Revised to Complement the Keys in Major Hymn Books
    Composer/Editor Noel Rawsthorne
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2009) pp. 85
  • The Really Big Descant Book - Full Music Edition: 250 Settings to Raise the Roof by the World's Finest Church Music Composers
    Composer/Editor Rosalie Bonighton
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2009) pp. 116
  • 200 New Last Verses
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2007) pp. 104
  • The Ultimate Finishing Touch: Last-verse Arrangements of Well-loved Hymn Tunes
    Composer/Editor Harrison Oxley
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2000) pp. 78
  • Final Flourishes: Hymn Tune Settings for Organ and Congregation
    Composer/Editor Antony Baldwin
    Published By: The Sacred Music Press (1997) pp. 21
  • Finishing Touch: One Hundred Last Verse Arrangements of Well-Known Hymn Tunes - New and Enlarged Edition
    Composer/Editor Harrison Oxley
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (1996) pp. 29
  • After the Last Verse: 200 Hymn Improvisations
    Composer/Editor Malcolm Archer
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (1995) pp. 85
  • Accompaniments for Unison Hymn-Singing
    Composer/Editor Gerald H. Knight
    Published By: The Royal School of Church Music (1981) pp. 36

Organ Solo

  • Oxford Hymn Settings for Organists Volume 1 Advent and Christmas: 38 Original Pieces On Hymns and Carols
    Composer/Editors Rebecca Groom Te Velde; David Blackwell
    Published By: Oxford University Press (2014) pp. 67
  • 100 New Hymn Preludes
    Composer/Editor Robert Jones
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2008) pp. 156

Instances

Instances (1 - 37 of 37)

A New Hymnal for Colleges and Schools #499

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Ancient and Modern #6

Text

Ancient and Modern #39

Anglican Hymns Old and New (Rev. and Enl.) #55a

Anglican Hymns Old and New (Rev. and Enl.) #307

Celtic Hymn Book #2

TextPage Scan

Christian Worship #781

Church Hymnary (4th ed.) #687

Text

Common Praise (1998) #302

Text

Common Praise #4

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Common Praise #29

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Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New #282

TextPage Scan

CPWI Hymnal #319

Hymns and Psalms #237

Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) #242

Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) #259

Text

Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) #261b

Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) #488

Hymns of Glory, Songs of Praise #687

Magnify the Lord #512

Praise! psalms hymns and songs for Christian worship #218

Redemption Hymnal #140

Singing the Faith #172

Audio

Small Church Music #351

The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook #43

Text

The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook #296

The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook #587

The New English Hymnal #7

The Presbyterian Hymnal #279

The Summit Choirbook #228

Together in Song #469

Text

Voices United #277

Worship (3rd ed.) #365

Text

Worship (3rd ed.) #556

Worship (3rd ed.) #592

生命聖詩 - Hymns of Life, 1986 #257

Include 24 pre-1979 instances
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