Peter Tranchell, Composer

The BCP (Book of Common Prayer) Psalter

Welcome to the Peter Tranchell website

What's new

• When altos joined the choir - reminiscences from Chris Henshall
• Daisy stirred it up in Northampton
• Transcription of A Cambridge Opera
• Virgoan Responses now available
• An analysis of the music of Peter Tranchell by Peter Marchbank. Part I: the early years: to 1950
• Mag & Nunc in B flat now available
• Tone 4 canticles published
• Free choral, organ and piano scores published
• Caius Choir Alumni Event 2016 (with recordings)
• "Wotherspoon in C" (Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis) published
• "People, look East" released on Christmas with St. John's CD
• "Heaven" free score published
• Daisy Simpkins performance in Northampton, 1961
• Recording of The Robot Emperor published
• "Heaven" monologue added
• Psalm 119 vv1-8 and Sonatina for flute and piano nearly ready for publication
• Libran Responses in the pipeline
• Sonatina for pianoforte "For Jane" - recording published
• "Bread of the world" and three psalms available for pre-order from CMS/OUP
• A new old recording of Psalms 102 and 103
• "Bread of the world" and three psalms available to purchase from CMS/OUP
• New written works published
• Fortunare Nos and biographical material published
• An Anglican double psalm chant on the Neighbours theme tune
• What's imminent: Letters and Writings
• Facebook group established - the Peter Tranchell appreciation group
• Libran Responses for SATB published
• Psalms 133 & 141 released on CD by St George's Metropolitan Cathedral Southwark
• Quadruple Anglican chant for Psalms 12 or 13 published
• A letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Peter Tranchell
• Music for the Inaugural Triennial Caius Choir Alumni dinner, September 2018
• Recordings from the Caius Choir Alumni evensong, September 2018
• The Gentle Power of Song
• Magnificat upon Tone 8 published
• Friendly Grotesques Piano Duets published
• Psalm 141 now available
• An analysis of the music of Peter Tranchell by Peter Marchbank. Part 3: music of the 1950s
• Mag and Nunc Tone 3 now available
• Thackeray Ditties score available

About P.A.T.

• The Will, as recorded in The Independent
• Gonville and Caius College Choir under Peter Tranchell
• Divertissement, by Geoffrey Weaver, dedicated to Peter Tranchell
• A Christmas Card
• Gonville and Caius College Lent Term Concert 9th March 1964
• From "Slipstream", the memoir of Elizabeth Jane Howard
• Gonville and Caius College Lent Term Concert 11th March 1962
• Gonville and Caius College Christmas Concert 2nd December 1963
• Is the cow just an innocent bystander?
• Memorial Service Address, Leppard, 12 February 1994
• Obituary of Peter Tranchell, The Daily Telegraph, 18 September 1993
• Peter Tranchell, a poem by Paul Archer
• A voiceless velar stop
• Obituary of Peter Tranchell, Porter, The Independent, September 1993
• When altos joined the choir - reminiscences from Chris Henshall
• Memories from Eastbourne College
• A biography of Peter Tranchell by John Gwinnell

Music

• Analysis by Peter Marchbank, part I. The early years: to 1950
• Classified Handlist of the Music of Peter Tranchell
• Analysis by Peter Marchbank, part 3. Music of the 1950s
• Guidance on use of Tranchell scores

Musical Works

• Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in B flat
• Bread of the world in mercy broken
• Virgoan Responses
• Five Thackeray Ditties
• Cantantibus Organis
• Carol Voluntary
• Sonata for Organ 1958
• People look East
• Waltz and Calypso
• Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis Tone 4
• Psalm 150
• If ye would hear the angels sing
• Seven Pieces in Alphabetical Order
• Suite, Aged 13
• Zuleika
• Psalm 133: The Peace of God
• Psalm 23
• Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in C
• Heaven!
• The Robot Emperor
• The Mayor of Casterbridge
• Daisy Simpkins
• Four Voluntaries for Organ
• St Michael's Mass
• Sonatina for flute and piano
• Fitzwilliam Mass
• Sonata for piano
• Sonatina for pianoforte
• Libran Responses
• Psalm 142 double chant in E flat minor
• Double chant for Psalm 75 in A major, D major or E flat major, and Psalm 102 in B flat major
• The Bacchae of Euripides
• Antigone of Sophocles
• Festive Overture
• Fortunare Nos
• Anglican double psalm chant by "I. Hosenburg"
• Sonatina for Organ, written for Martin Neary June 1964, revised September 1967
• Triple chant for Psalm 127 for ATBB in C major, and for SATB in E flat major
• Quadruple chant for Psalms 12 or 13 in C minor (ATBB) or E minor (SATB)
• Psalm 6: two double chants in F sharp minor and major
• Nun Danket - Now thank we all our God - last verse harmonisation
• No More of THEE and ME
• Fate's Revenge
• Images of Love
• Magnificat upon Tone 8
• Bullocks terrorize household
• Friendly Grotesques
• Psalm 141 Lord, I call upon Thee
• Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis Tone 3

Writings

• Jottings of a Domestic Bursar
• CAMBRIDGE FESTIVAL MUSIC, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, Volume LXXIII, 13 October 1951
• THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE, Leppard, The Cambridge Review, Volume LXXIII, 13 October 1951
• THE HISTORICAL PAGEANT OF BRITISH MUSIC, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, Volume LXXIII, 13 October 1951
• THE ANATOMY OF MUSICOLOGY, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 3rd November 1951
• JESUS COLLEGE ORGAN RECITAL, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 17th November 1951
• THE GOLDEN AGE SINGERS, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 2nd February 1952
• PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY – THE SEASONS, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 16th February 1952
• JAN SMETERLIN AT THE GUILDHALL, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 23rd February 1952
• LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA AT THE REGAL CINEMA, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 1st March 1952
• A Cambridge Opera, Tranchell, Cambridge Today, Michaelmas Term 1951
• Summer letter to the Choir, August 1988
• THE MARJORIE HAYWARD SEXTET, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 8th March 1952
• Music from Caius LP: text and notes part 1
• MUSICO-FOLK-LORISTIC SPECULATION, Tranchell, The Caian, mid 1960s
• THURSDAY CONCERT, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 10th May 1952
• SOLOMON, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 10th May 1952
• C.U. Composers’ Club, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 7th May 1952
• A May-Week Concert, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 31st May 1952
• C.U.M.S. MAY WEEK CONCERT, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 7th June1952
• THE BEGGAR’S OPERA, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 11th October 1952
• SOLOMON, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 1st November 1952
• Trial by Jury and H.M.S. Pinafore at the Arts Theatre, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 29th November 1952
• THE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY CONCERT [Fauré Requiem, 29 January], Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 7th February 1953
• HOMERTON COLLEGE MUSICAL SOCIETY [This Sorry Scheme of Things, February 13], Radcliffe, 21st February 1953
• LARRY ADLER, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 7th March1953
• A LONG RECITAL, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 18th April 1953
• ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 2nd May 1953
• THEATRE [Bulbul and his Oriental Ballet at the Arts], Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 16th May 1953
• TWO CONCERTS, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 16th May 1953
• A NEST OF SINGING BIRDS, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 30th May 1953
• A PIANO COULD BE A LOVESOME THING, GOD WOT, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 7th November 1959
• A NEW OPERA IN CAMBRIDGE, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 24th February 1962
• THE PLEASURES OF INFORMALITY, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 13th June 1959
• THE PRESERVATION OF THE LINGUA FRANCA, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 6th June 1959
• THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE, Radcliffe, The Cambridge Review, 7th February 1959
• Opera-production course, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 21st February 1959
• MUSIC AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR EXERCISE, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 24th January 1959
• A QUESTION OF FOCUS, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 29th November 1958
• A QUESTION OF EXPRESSION, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 11th October 1958
• RECITAL by PHYLLIS PALMER, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 1st March 1958
• HAYDN’S CREATION, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 1st February 1958
• THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 30th November 1957
• THE RAKE’S PROGRESS, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 24th November 1956
• THE CAMBRIDGE PHILHARMONIC, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 2nd June 1956
• ROBERT SHAW CHORALE AND ORCHESTRA, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 26th May 1956
• Tranchell’s Decalogue, Epps, The Cambridge Review, 3rd March 1956
• THE MUSIC FOR THE “BACCHAE”, Radcliffe, The Cambridge Review, 25th February 1956
• COMPOSERS AS CRITICS, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 25th February 1956
• MEANING IN MUSIC, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 21st January 1956
• ANOTHER TRIUMPH OF RESEARCH, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 26th November 1955
• MOISEIWITSCH, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 12th November 1955
• MUSICAL CLEANLINESS, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 29th October 1955
• THE TURN OF THE SCREW, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 15th October 1955
• MUSIC IN THE LONG VACATION, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 8th October 1955
• THE TRUTH ABOUT TUNES, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 4th June 1955
• THE CAMBRIDGE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY – Fidelity, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 28th May 1955
• FAREWELL TO THE “78”, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 23rd April 1955
• POUISHNOFF, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 5th March 1955
• INFLATION EVERYWHERE, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 26th February 1955
• Dvorak’s Stabat Mater, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 5th February 1955
• THE CHILDHOOD OF CHRIST, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 27th November 1954
• PROGRAMME NOTES, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 27th November 1954
• ZULEIKA—HER MUSIC, Lowe, The Cambridge Review, 13th November 1954
• THE CAMBRIDGE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 5th June 1954
• SANCTA CIVITAS in King’s College Chapel, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 15 May 1954
• PILGRIM’S PROGRESS - C.U.M.S., Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 27 February 1954
• PRINCESS IDA, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 28 November 1953
• ENTERTAINING STRATEGIES, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 14 November 1953
• Leppard Chamber Orchestra, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 31 October 1953
• THE CYCLOPS IN LYONS, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 24 October 1953
• A PAGEANT FOR CORONATION YEAR, Tranchell, The Cambridge Review, 17 October 1953

Writings

• Peter Tranchell in The Cambridge Review

List of Musical Works

Works

• Daisy Simpkins
  • Daisy Simpkins performance in Northampton, 1961

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• The Commemoration CD
• Music from Caius

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