Musical Works

Peter Tranchell's enigmatic 'Tone 15' Nunc Dimittis

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.

Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in G for Men's Voices (TTBB) were composed for use by the choir in the regular round of evening services in the Chapel of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. The set was written in 1967, and the Magnificat was revised in 1969.

Fauxbourdons Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis on the third tone, by Peter Tranchell, composed in 1974 and 1975, suitable for AATTBB or SATTBB

Simple and effective painchant and fauxbourdons settings of the Magnificat and Nunc DImittis for AATTBB or SATTBB unaccompanied choir, composed 1975.

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. Although written three years apart and for a slightly different disposition of voices, Tranchell clearly saw them as a ‘set’ since they were recorded together in 1981 for private release on the LP recording ‘Music from Caius’ in 1985.