Editing Gordon Jacob (section)

===Arrangements===
Jacob's first major success was written during his student years: the ''William Byrd Suite'' for orchestra based on the [[Fitzwilliam Virginal Book]]. Boult conducted the first performance in February 1923. ''The Times'' called it "a brilliant piece of adaptation", and expressed the hope that it would be heard again.<ref>"Week-end Concerts", ''The Times'', 19 February 1923, p. 7</ref> The music critic for ''The Times'' commented in 1932 that there was "something magical" about the way in which Jacob's arrangements transformed the original music into scores that might make the listener think that the new version was what the composer really intended.<ref>"Arranging for Orchestra", ''The Times'', 30 January 1932, p. 8</ref>

Most of Jacob's ballet scores were arrangements of existing works, such as ''[[Les Sylphides]]'' (1932, using music by [[Frédéric Chopin|Chopin]]), ''Carnival'' (1932, [[Robert Schumann|Schumann]]), ''Apparitions'' (1936, [[Franz Liszt|Liszt]]), and ''[[Mam'zelle Angot]]'', (1947, [[Charles Lecocq|Lecocq]]). In 1958 [[Noël Coward]] composed a one-act work ''London Morning'' for the [[English National Ballet|London Festival Ballet]], which Jacob orchestrated. In 1968, Jacob re-orchestrated the score of [[Frederick Ashton]]'s ballet ''[[Marguerite and Armand]]'', replacing a previous orchestration by [[Humphrey Searle]] of music by Liszt.<ref>[http://www.rohcollections.org.uk/work.aspx?work=395&row=14&letter=M& "Marguerite and Armand"], Royal Opera House performance database. Retrieved 2 November 2018</ref>

During the Second World War Jacob was one of several composers who contributed arrangements of popular tunes to the [[BBC]] comedy show ''[[ITMA]]''.  Shortly after the war, on Boult's recommendation, Jacob was commissioned by a music publishing firm to orchestrate [[Organ Sonata (Elgar)|Elgar's Organ Sonata]] (1946). After a single performance in 1947 this version remained unplayed until 1988, when the [[Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra]] conducted by [[Vernon Handley]] recorded it for CD. Reviewing the recording, [[Edward Greenfield]] commented that dubbing the orchestrated version "Elgar's Symphony No. 0" was amply justified.<ref>Greenfield, Edward. "Elgar's lost symphony", ''The Guardian'', 12 October 1989, p. 31</ref>

Jacob's trumpet-heavy fanfare arrangement of the [[God Save the Queen|national anthem]] was used for the [[coronation of Queen Elizabeth II]] in 1953, in 2022 for [[Death and state funeral of Elizabeth II|her funeral]], and again in 2023 for the [[coronation of Charles III and Camilla]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=18 September 2022 |title=Order of Service for the State Funeral of Her Majesty The Queen |url=https://www.royal.uk/order-service-state-funeral-her-majesty-queen |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230827231826/https://www.royal.uk/order-service-state-funeral-her-majesty-queen |archive-date=27 August 2023 |access-date=27 August 2023 |website=royal.uk}}</ref><ref name=web/><ref>{{cite news |title=Coronation order of service in full |work=BBC News |date=5 May 2023 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65503950 |access-date=6 May 2023}}</ref> It was also used in Norway in 2016 for the 25th anniversary of King [[Harald V]]'s accession in 1991 due to the fact that [[Kongesangen|the nation's royal anthem]] shares the same melody as the [[God Save the King|national anthem]] of the United Kingdom.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=shared&v=Q8onzXA9ruo |title=Kongesangen - Norway Royal Anthem at Nidarosdomen - Gud, Sign Vår Konge God |date=2021-05-13 |last=Ola Nordmann |access-date=2024-10-22 |via=YouTube}}</ref>