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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

    Psalm 70.
    Deus, in adjutorium meum intende

    April 4, 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 IV 8.

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    Ken Myers
  • Psalms

    Psalm 59.
    Eripe me de inimicis meis

    April 4, 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 IV 7.

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    Ken Myers
  • Psalms

    Psalm 58.
    Si vere utique justitiam loquimini

    April 4, 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 4.

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    Ken Myers
  • Psalms

    Psalm 35:15–28.
    Et adversum me lætati sunt

    March 27, 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 6. Plainchant setting with cantor and choir The Choir of York Minster directed by Philip Moore chants Psalm 35 to to Tone I A 1. Anglican chant setting by George Mursell Garrett (1834-1897) and Edward Cuthbert Bairstow (1874-1946) All 28 verses of Psalm 35 are sung in the recording below; verses 1–10 are sung in a setting by George Mursell Garrett who was for forty years Director of Music at St. John\’s College, Cambridge. Another setting by Garrett is used in verses 11–16.…

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    Ken Myers
  • Psalms

    Sunday next before Easter,
    “Palm Sunday”

    March 26, 2021 /

    PropersPsalms from the Daily OfficeOffertory setting by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Propers         Introit Domine, ne longe. Psalm 22.O Lord, remove not thy succour afar from me; have respect to my defence, and hear me: deliver me from the mouth of the lion; yea, from the horns of the unicorns hast thou regarded my cry. My God, my God, look upon me; why hast thou forsaken me: and art so far from my health, and from the words of my complaint? O Lord, remove not . . .         Collect Almighty and everlasting God, who, of thy tender love towards mankind, hast sent thy…

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    Ken Myers
  • Psalms

    Psalm 35:1–14.
    Judica, Domine, nocentes me

    March 26, 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 1. Plainchant setting with cantor and choir The Choir of York Minster directed by Philip Moore chants Psalm 35 to to Tone I A 1. Anglican chant setting by George Mursell Garrett (1834-1897) and Edward Cuthbert Bairstow (1874-1946) All 28 verses of Psalm 35 are sung in the recording below; verses 1–10 are sung in a setting by George Mursell Garrett who was for forty years Director of Music at St. John\’s College, Cambridge. Another setting by Garrett is used in verses 11–16.…

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    Ken Myers
  • Psalms

    Psalm 119:145–160.
    XIX. Clamavi in toto corde meo
    XX. Vide humilitatem

    March 13, 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 4.

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    Ken Myers
  • Psalms

    Psalm 119:57–72
    VIII. Portio mea, Domine
    IX. Bonitatem fecisti cum servo tuo

    March 13, 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 IV 10.

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    Ken Myers
  • Psalms

    Psalm 119:33–56.
    V. Legem pone, Domine
    VI. Et veniat super me misericordia tua
    VII. Momor esto verbi tui servo tuo

    March 13, 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 12.

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    Ken Myers
  • Psalms

    Psalm 69:1–19.
    Salvum me fac

    March 13, 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
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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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