Musical Works

Tune: Kitnock’s Hill. Music by Peter Tranchell; words by James Russell Lowell (1819-1891), from the poem The Present Crisis (“When [...Read More]

These settings were composed by Peter Tranchell, Precentor (Director of Music) at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, in April 1982, for use by the chapel choir in the regular round of evening services.

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Peter Tranchell's SATBrB arrangement of Or Sus, Vous Dormés Trop is known to have been performed by the Choir of Gonville & Caius College at the Perse Feast, Friday 11 December 1987. The manuscript score states that the words and music are Anon c.1360.

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Movements, composed in 1987, is one of Peter Tranchell's final works. It is scored for flute, viola, bassoon, harpsichord and piano, duration approx. 13 minutes.

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A dismissal or closing response for unaccompanied AATTBB or SATTBB choir. Duration 30 seconds.

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An anthem for SSATB and organ, piano or harmonium, composed by Peter Tranchell for the Wedding Service on 10 July 1982 of Jeremy Mark Davies and Catherine Hudson Wilks.

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A double Anglican psalm chant by Peter Tranchell for ATB or SATB.

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Since the two known versions of this psalm are both for SATB, it is likely it was composed in the [...Read More]

A double Anglican psalm chant by Peter Tranchell for SATB  or ATBB. We can assume the SATB version dates from [...Read More]

A double Anglican psalm chant by Peter Tranchell for SATTBB  or six part male voices. We can assume the SATTBB [...Read More]

From the Caius Psalter, Chant 21A by "M.W. Scot-Higson", an anagram of Moscow Nights.

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Murder at the Towers is a concert entertainment lasting about 40 minutes, composed for the 1955 Fitzwilliam House Music Society May [...Read More]

Fortunare Nos was composed in 1986, incorporating the hymn tune Wish Road originally written for Eastbourne College in 1950. The words are from a hymn by Henry J. Buckoll (1803-71) in Psalms and Hymns for Rugby School Chapel, 1850, and the Latin verse is a translation, presumably by Tranchell, of Verse 1.

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An eyebrow-raising harmonisation, written 1988.

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These settings were composed by Peter Tranchell, Precentor (Director of Music) at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, for use by the chapel choir in the regular round of evening services. [...Read More]

The anthem Cantantibus Organis for St Cecilia’s Day was written by Peter Tranchell in 1987 for use by the choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was Precentor (Director of Music), and it was sung at Evensong (presumably on St Cecilia’s Day, 22 November) that year. It was written for S.A.T.T.B. and Organ, with Soprano, Tenor and Bass solos.

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People, look East was composed in 1982 for the Gonville and Caius Choir and originally scored for AATBrBB (though with a note on the cover saying 'If necessary, the first alto part may be sung by sopranos').

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For Bass Solo, SATB Choir and Organ [Revised Version 1988].

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