St. Patrick's Breastplate, GP 267 (Bax, Arnold)

Composition Year	1923/12
Genre Categories	Sacred cantatas; Cantatas; Religious works; For mixed chorus, orchestra; Scores featuring mixed chorus; Scores featuring the orchestra; For chorus with orchestra; English language

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Publisher. Info.	New York: Chappell, n.d.[1924].
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Publisher. Info.	London: Murdoch, Murdoch & Co., n.d.[1924].
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Work Title	St. Patrick's Breastplate
Alternative. Title	Lúireach naoimh Pádriag; Lúireach Phádraig
Composer	Bax, Arnold
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No.	GP 267
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No.	IAB 134
Key	E-flat major
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.	1923/12
First Performance.	1925/5/21
First Publication.	1924 - Murdoch, Murdoch & Co. Library of Congress Copyright Entries, 1924, page 1039, line 21259
Librettist	Traditional, tr. Unknown
Language	English
Average DurationAvg. Duration	15 minutes
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Early 20th century
Piece Style	Early 20th century
Instrumentation	mixed chorus (SATB), orchestra
InstrDetail	3 flutes (3 also piccolo), 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 2 trombones, bass trombone, tuba, timpani, percussion, strings
External Links	Wikipedia article (in Dutch)
Extra Information	English text listed as "From the Irish Gaelic" in the score; no translator credited. The same translation is found in "The Life of Saint Patrick" (1888) by William Bullen Morris.