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Brian Daubney
1929 - 2022
Great Britain, England
Brian Blyth [Brian] Daubney (10/07/1929 - 04/11/2022), an English composer (born in Bardney (Lincolnshire). He studied in Leicester with Benjamin Burrows, on whom he wrote a M Phil thesis in 1980. He was editor, and later chairman, of the British Music Society. Until his retirement in 1982 he was Principal Lecturer in Music at the Simon de Monfort University in Leicester, after which he was an examiner for the London College of Music until 1999. Being fully retired now, he devotes his time to writing music and poetry.
Brian Blyth Daubney is a Lincolnshire composer who has written a considerable amount of choral music both 'a cappella' and with organ accompaniment. Much of it is suitable for church use and several extended pieces (Stabat Mater, Requiem and Six Psalms) are ideal for concert performance.
A requiem - When I am dead my dearest
Song "When I am dead, my dearest", 1948, for mezzo-soprano and piano.
When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet; And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget. I shall not see the shadows, I shall not feel the rain; I shall not hear the nightingale Sing on, as if in pain: And dreaming through the twilight That doth not rise nor set, Haply I may remember, And haply may forget. Christina Rossetti (from Goblin Market and other Poems, published 1862)
Requiem
A short setting of the requiem mass for organ and choir with solists. Suitable for choirs with a reasonably high standard. It was first performed by the choir of Tryon Presbyterian Church, North Carolina, USA.
It contains: 01. Introit - Kyrie 02. Dies irae 03. Pie Jesu 04. Offertorium 05. Sanctus - Benedictus 06. Agnus Dei 07. Lux aeterna
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