This book contains the complete, original sheet music for Charles V. Stanford's "Magnificat, Op.164", a musical composition for eight-part chorus. It was dedicated to his student Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, who died in the World War I just months before the armistice and the publication of this piece. Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852 - 1924) was an Irish composer, conductor, and teacher of music. He was educated at the University of Cambridge and continued his studies in Berlin and Leipzig. Stanford was a very influential composer, responsible for making Cambridge University Musical Society an internationally-acclaimed organisation. Stanford was also a profuse composer, producing a large corpus of work in many genres; however, he is perhaps best remembered for his Anglican choral works for church performance. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in a modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the history of musical notation.