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An abundance of recordings and commentary concerning the music of Advent is presented on this page.

“Resting in Love’s quiet watch” — Josef Gabriel Rheinberger’s name is well known among church organists. It should be better know among lovers of sacred choral music.

The recordings of hymns made in our “Choir in Quarantine” series are all available on this page.

Interview with Thomas Forrest Kelly on the history of musical notation.

“The Christian Singer from the Gospels to the Gothic Cathedrals” — a series of six lectures by Christopher Page.

“Music, Imagination, and Experience in the Medieval World” — a series of six lectures by Christopher Page.

Interview with Christopher Page on The Christian West and Its Singers: The First Thousand Years.

William Byrd’s setting of the Te Deum adorns this familiar text with a kaleidoscopic sequence of sound.

Texts from our liturgical life

Advent Prose

Conditor alme siderum

Gaudete in Domino semper

Justorum animae

The Lord’s Prayer

Miserere mei, Deus

Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin

Nunc dimittis

O antiphons

O magnum mysterium

O sacrum convivium

Ordinary of the Mass

Psalm 23

Psalm 51

Psalm 130

Rorate caeli

Te Deum laudamus

Tribus miraculis

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About our hymns

“Deck thyself, my soul, with gladness” originally featured six stanzas that we don’t now sing . . .

Charles Wesley’s triumphant “Hail the day that sees him rise” is one of many triumphant hymns to celebrate the Ascension

This mid-19th-century hymn was written to defend the Creed’s claims about the Church

This hymn was written as musical partner for the reading of I Corinthians 13.

 

Singing Psalm 47

There are many references to the elements of music in this Psalm: clapping, singing, melody, a merry noise, and the sound of a trump(et). That proliferation of musical allusions may account for the large number of settings of this Psalm to music.

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The wonder of Thomas Tallis

One of the greatest composers in the early years of Anglicanism navigated the changes in ecclesiastical life with remarkable poise and creativity.

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William Byrd’s Te Deum

Our parish typically sings this great ancient hymn to Anglican chant. Most of the many settings of this text are in Latin, but one of the greatest in English is by William Byrd.

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