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Common of Saints: On Feasts of Several Martyrs (or Confessors)
From Hymn melodies for the whole year from the Sarum service-books (and in honor of the Martyrs of Japan, whose feast day is today): On Feasts of Several Martyrs (or Confessors): 1st Ev....
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J.M. Neale: The Hymnal Noted: Parts I & II
Here's a nice find at Google Books. It's J.M. Neale's 1851 book of hymns from the Salisbury hymnal. Included are chant scores and English translations - presumably Neale's own, which are always...
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"Breviary Offices: The Night Hours, Volumes 1-2"
From Google Books, this is the companion volume to Breviary Offices, from Lauds to Compline Inclusive (Society of St. Margaret, Boston). The book says "Catholic Church" on the cover, but that's...
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The Ash Wednesday Communion Song: Qui meditabitur
Qui meditabitur ("He that shall meditate") is the Communio for the Ash Wednesday mass:The text comes from Psalm 1, vv 2-3:He that shall meditate day and night on the law of the Lord, shall bring forth...
View ArticleAsh Wednesday: Call to Remembrance, O Lord (Farrant)
Sung here by the Tewkesbury Abbey School Choir: Call to remembrance, O Lord, thy tender mercies and thy loving kindness, which hath been ever of old. O remember not the sins and offences of my youth:...
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The Lent I Offertory: Scapulis suis
The Offertory on the First Sunday in Lent is Scapulis Suis ("His pinions"); it uses exactly the same text - with a different melody - as the Communion song on the day.Here's an mp3 of the Offertory...
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The Lent 2 Gradual: Sciant Gentes
Sciant Gentes ("Let the Gentiles know") is the Gradual for the Second Sunday in Lent.Gradual • Sciant Gentes Quoniam Nomen Tibi Deus from Corpus Christi Watershed on Vimeo.The text is taken from Psalm...
View ArticleAttende, Domine
This 10th-Century Mozarabic hymn, sung here by "Cantori Gregoriani, Stirps Jesse, Enrico de Capitani," is especially appropriate for Lent.Here's the original Latin text:Attende Domine, et miserere,...
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The Lent 3 Offertory: Iustitiae Domini ("The judgements of the Lord")
Iustitiae Domini is the beautiful Offertory for the 3rd Sunday in Lent, sung here by the Nova Schola Gregoriana:This is the English translation of this chant, from Prosper Gueringer 's book on the...
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St. Photine of Samaria
The story of "the woman at the well" was the Gospel reading for today.While she remains nameless in the West, in the Orthodox world she's celebrated as a major saint, given the name "Photine" or...
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On the Feast of the Annunciation of the B. V. Mary (Mar. 25)
From Hymn melodies for the whole year, from the Sarum service-books:On the Feast of the Annunciation of the B. V. Mary (Mar. 25): as on the Feast of the Conception. And the hymns at that listing in...
View ArticleSequentia for Annunciation: Ave Maria (Virgo Serena)
The Sequence hymn for Annunciation is sung here by the Schola Cantorum de Regina Pacis (Klaipeda, Lithuania). Here are the Latin and English words; the translation comes from this PDF file on the...
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The Lent 4 Offertory: Laudate Dominum and Illumina oculos meos
Laudate Dominum is the Offertory for the Fourth Sunday in Lent (except in Year C, and more on that below). Lent - Fourth Sunday: Offertory from Corpus Christi Watershed on Vimeo.Here's CCWatershed's...
View ArticleSeen and heard today at Divine Service, Lent 4 (3/30/14)
The choir sang this Bobby McFerrin composition - a piece he dedicated to his mother - at the Psalm today:The Lord is my Shepherd, I have all I need,She makes me lie down in green meadows,Beside the...
View Article"Listen to services | King's College, Cambridge"
King's College, Cambridge has begun webcasting their sung services.From October 2013 King's College is providing regular recordings of choral services in the Chapel. For the first time in 500 years,...
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The Lent 5 Communion Song: Videns DominusThe Lent 5 Communion Song
In year A, the song at Communion for the Fifth Sunday in Lent is Videns Dominus. Here's a nice, briskly-paced version of it (only 52 seconds long!):This text is from the portion of John's Gospel read...
View ArticleJ.S. Bach - St. John Passion, BWV 245
From the YouTube page:Masaaki Suzuki conducts the Bach Collegium Japan in a performance of Bach's St. John Passion BWV 245 at the Suntory Hall in Tokyo on July 28, 2000.Midori Suzuki, soprano; Robin...
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A Responsory for Palm Sunday: Ingrediente Domino
I've never heard it used, but this Responsory is prescribed for use upon the (re-)entrance into the church after the Palm Sunday procession, just before the mass itself begins.Here's an English...
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Compline at St. Mark's: "Old time, new age"
At The Economist (April 4, 2014):RELIGION in America is clearly changing, but it can be difficult to fathom where it is going. While Evangelical Protestantism is declining and Liberal Protestantism is...
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The Tract for Maundy Thursday: Ab ortu solis
Here's a video of a very interesting Mozarabic-ish take on this amazing tract, sung by Countertenor Eric de Fontenay.As you can see, he's labeled the video "XIème siècle" - i.e., "11th Century"; I'm...
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