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Cantica sacra

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Dorian Mass setting by Wallace Hornady: scores and recordings

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

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.

“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.

  • Psalms

    Third Sunday after Epiphany

    January 26, 2021 /

    PropersPsalms Propers         Introit Adorate Deum. Psalm 97All ye angels of God, fall down, and worship before him: Sion heard, and was exceeding joyful, and the daughters of Judah were glad. The Lord is King, the earth may be glad thereof: yea, the multitude of the isles may be glad thereof. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end. Amen. All ye angels of God . . .         Collect Almighty and everlasting God, mercifully look upon our infirmities: and in all our…

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    Ken Myers
  • Psalms

    Psalm 126.
    In convertendo Dominus captivitatem Sion

    January 16, 2021 /

    Plainchant setting The recording below is based on the Sarum Psalm tones as presented in the St. Dunstan’s Plainsong Psalter. It is chanted to Tone I A 2.

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    Ken Myers
  • Psalms

    Psalm 107:1-16.
    Confitemini Domino, quoniam bonus

    January 16, 2021 /

    Plainchant setting The recording below is based on the Sarum Psalm tones as presented in the St. Dunstan’s Plainsong Psalter. It is chanted to Tone VIII 1.

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    Ken Myers
  • Psalms

    Psalm 101.
    Misericordiam et judicium

    January 16, 2021 /

    Plainchant setting The recording below is based on the Sarum Psalm tones as presented in the St. Dunstan’s Plainsong Psalter. It is chanted to Tone VII 5.

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    Ken Myers
  • Psalms

    Psalm 100.
    Jubilate Deo, omnis terra

    January 16, 2021 /

    Plainchant settingAnglican chant by Thomas Attwood (1765–1838)Anglican chant by Jonathan Bielby (born 1944)Genevan Psalter setting by Claude Goudimel (1510–1572), sung in JapaneseChandos Jubilate by George Frideric Handel (1685–1757) Plainchant setting The recording below is based on the Sarum Psalm tones as presented in the St. Dunstan’s Plainsong Psalter. It is chanted to Tone VIII 1. Anglican chant by Thomas Attwood (1765–1838) Born in 1765, Thomas Attwood was a chorister in the Chapel Royal whose musical abilities were recognized by the Prince of Wales (George IV). The Prince sent him abroad to study in Italy and in Vienna under Mozart. In 1796, he was appointed organist of St. Paul’s Cathedral and…

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    Ken Myers
  • Psalms

    Psalm 97.
    Dominus regnavit; exsultet terra

    January 16, 2021 /

    Plainchant setting The recording below is based on the Sarum Psalm tones as presented in the St. Dunstan’s Plainsong Psalter. It is chanted to Tone V 2.

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    Ken Myers
  • Psalms

    Psalm 22:20–32.
    Erue a framea, Deus

    January 16, 2021 /

    Plainchant setting The recording below is based on the Sarum Psalm tones as presented in the St. Dunstan’s Plainsong Psalter. It is chanted to Tonus Peregrinus A.

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    Ken Myers
  • Psalms

    Psalm 22:1–19.
    Deus, Deus, meus, respice in me

    January 16, 2021 /

    Plainchant setting The recording below is based on the Sarum Psalm tones as presented in the St. Dunstan’s Plainsong Psalter. It is chanted to Tone II 1.

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    Ken Myers
  • Psalms

    Psalm 17.
    Exaudi, Domine, justitiam meam

    January 16, 2021 /

    Plainchant setting The recording below is based on the Sarum Psalm tones as presented in the St. Dunstan’s Plainsong Psalter. It is chanted to Tone VII 6.

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    Ken Myers
  • Psalms

    Psalm 13.
    Usquequo, Domine, oblivisceris me?

    January 16, 2021 /

    Plainchant setting The recording below is based on the Sarum Psalm tones as presented in the St. Dunstan’s Plainsong Psalter. It is chanted to Tone III A 4.

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    Ken Myers
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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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