This vintage book contains Charles V. Stanford's "Carmen Sæculare, Op. 26", a musical composition for piano set to the words of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's eponymous ode, originally composed to commemorate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee on 20 and 21 June 1887. Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892) was a British poet who remains one of the most famous and popular. During the Victorian Era he was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland. 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. He 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. His music eventually became overshadowed by that of Edward Elgar and a number of his former pupils in the 20th century. 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.