The Compline Service from St. Mark's Cathedral: Recent Episodes
The Compline Choir
A weekly podcast of the Compline service as sung every Sunday night in St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, Seattle.
The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 13A) The Service is performed by the Women’s Compline Choir ORISON: Salve, porta regis – Codex Las Huelgas, ca. 1300 PSALM 17 – Sheila Bristow (b. 1969) HYMN: Christe qui lux es et dies – Plainsong, Mode II; arr. Kevin Siegfried (b. 1969) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainchant, Tone V […]
The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 12A) The Service is performed by the Women’s Compline Choir ORISON: O Frondens – Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179); arr. Chris Foss (b. 1983) PSALMS 134 & 4 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014); adapt. Jeff Reynolds (b. 1943) & Gregory Bloch (b. 1977) HYMN: For the beauty of the earth (Tune: Dix) – Conrad Kocher (1786-1872); arr. Paul John Rudoi (b. 1985) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainchant setting ANTHEM: Of the […]
The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 11A) ORISON: Dixi forsitan Tenebrae (Tune: Farmborough) – Arthur S. Warrell (1883-1939); arr. Gregory W. Bloch (b. 1977) PSALM 139 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Almighty God, your word is cast like seed (Tune: Walden) – Jane Manton Marshall (1925-2019); arr. Gregory Bloch (b. 1977) NUNC DIMITTIS in E – Charles Wood (1866-1926) ANTHEM: Iustus germinabit sicut lilium – Jacob Handl (1551-1591) […]
The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 10A) ORISON: God be in my head – Scott Fikse (b. 1983) PSALM 91 – Plainsong, Tone IV.4 HYMN 33: Christ, mighty Savior (Tune: Christe, Lux mundi) – Plainsong, Mode VII, Freiburg MS., 14th cent. NUNC DIMITTIS in G – Charles Wood (1866-1926) ANTHEM: ‘In pace’ from Three Latin Motets – Grayston Ives (b. 1948) Scott Fikse, director • Joel Matter, reader • Theo Floor, cantor
INDEPENDENCE DAY (transferred) ORISON: ‘Phos hilaron,’ from The Evening Service – Stephen Sturk (b. 1950) PSALM 12 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) OFFICE HYMN: Te lucis ante terminum – Roupen Shakarian (b. 1950) NUNC DIMITTIS from The Evening Service – Stephen Sturk ANTHEM: Weeping Pilgrim, from The Sacred Harp, 1859 – arr. Gregory W. Bloch (b. 1977) Jason Anderson, director • William Turnipseed, reader • John Garlid, cantor
The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 8A) ORISON: ‘Psalm 119’ from Six Hymns to Doctor Watts – Alice Parker (1925-2023) PSALM 13 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN 609: Where cross the crowded was of life (Tune: Gardiner) – from Sacred Melodies, 1815; arr. William Gardiner (1770-1853) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone II; harm. Matteo Palotta (1680-1758) ANTHEM: Even such is time – Bob Chilcott (b. 1955) Jason Anderson, director • Josh Sandoz, reader • James Wilcox, cantor
The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 7A) ORISON: ‘Phos hilaron’ from Music for Compline – Kevin Siegfried (b. 1969) PSALM 86:1-10,16-17 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) OFFICE HYMN: Te lucis ante terminum – Scandinavian melody; adapt. and arr. Derek Tilton (b. 1987) NUNC DIMITTIS (Tone VI) – Tyler Morse (b. 1990) ANTHEM: Poor Wayfaring Stranger – American spiritual, arr. by Derek Tilton Jason Anderson, director • Jeffrey Ricco, reader • Jeremy Matheis, cantor
The Third Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: ‘Slowly the rays of daylight fade’ from Ten Orisons – M. Searle Wright (1918-2004) PSALM 116:1,10-17 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended (Tune: Les Commandements) – mel. Loys Bourgeois (c. 1510-1559); harm. Claude Goudimel (c. 1514-1572) and Hymnal 1940 NUNC DIMITTIS (Tone II) – Tyler Morse (b. 1990) ANTHEM: There is a balm in Gilead – African-American Spiritual; […]
The Second Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Now cheer our hearts this eventide – Nathan Jensen (b. 1968) PSALM 33:1-11 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: O God of Bethel (Tune: Dundee) – mel. from The CL Psalmes of David, 1615; harm. The Psalmes of David in Prose and Meeter, 1635 [H40 497] NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone VII; harm. Thomas Morley (1557-1602) ANTHEM: In pace – John Sheppard (c. 1515-1558) Jeremy Matheis, director • Scott Fikse, reader • Joel Bevington, cantor
The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary ORISON: Virgin born, we bow before thee (Tune: Mon dieu, prête-moi l’oreille) – mel. Loys Bourgeois (c. 1510-1559); harm. Claude Goudimel (c. 1514-1572) PSALM 113 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN 269: Ye who claim the faith of Jesus (Tune: Den des Vaters Sinn geboren) – Johann Anastasius Freylinghausen (1670-1739) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone I; harm. Thomas Morley (1557-1602) ANTHEM: Ave Maria […]
THE DAY OF PENTECOST: WHITSUNDAY ORISON: O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit – Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585) PSALM 104:25-32,35-37 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN 503: Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire (Tune: Come, Holy Ghost) – John Henry Hopkins, Jr. (1820-1891); adapt. and harm. David Hurd (b. 1950) NUNC DIMITTIS – Anonymous, from Lumley Books, c. 1547-1552 [No. 29] ANTHEM: Kiida, mu hing, Isaandat – Cyrillus Kreek (1889-1962); ed. […]
The Seventh Sunday of Easter: The Sunday after Ascension Day ORISON: God is ascended (Tune: Gen Himmel aufgefahren ist) – German, 16th cent.; arr. Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) PSALM 68:1-20 – Peter R. Hallock HYMN 217: A hymn of glory let us sing (Tune: Jam lucis orto sidere) – Plainsong, Mode I, Mailander Hymnem, 15th cent. NUNC DIMITTIS – Anonymous, from Lumley Books, c. 1547-1552 [No. 26] ANTHEM: Ascendo ad Patrem meum – Blasius Amon (c. […]
The Sixth Sunday of Easter; Rogation Sunday ORISON: Jesus, thou Joy of loving hearts (Tune: Christe Redemptor) – Sarum Plainsong, Mode I [see HYMNS] PSALM 66:1-11 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN 210: The day of resurrection (Tune: Ellacombe) – from Gesangbuch, 1784; harm. William Henry Monk (1823-1889), alt. NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone VIII; harm. John Holmes (d. 1629) ANTHEM: Victimae paschali laudes – William Byrd (c. 1540-1623) Jason Anderson, director • Jeremy Matheis, reader • Theo Floor, cantor
The Fifth Sunday of Easter ORISON: ‘The Call’ from Five Mystical Songs – Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) PSALM 31:1-5,15-16 – Plainsong, Tone IV.2 HYMN: Thou art the Way (Tune: Saint James) – Raphael Courteville (d. 1735); vs. 4 harm. Henry G. Ley (1887-1962) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone II; harm. John Holmes (d. 1629) ANTHEM: Love bade me welcome – David Hurd (b. 1950) Jeremy Matheis, director • William Turnipseed, reader • John Garlid, cantor
The Fourth Sunday of Easter ORISON: The Lord is my shepherd – Bobby McFerrin (b. 1950) PSALM 23 (Setting I) – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: The King of love my shepherd is (Tune: Saint Columba) – Irish mel., harm. Hymnal 1940 and Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone VI; harm. Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) ANTHEM: The Good Shepherd – Alice Parker (1925-2023) Jason Anderson, director • Josh Sandoz, reader • James Wilcox, cantor
The Third Sunday of Easter ORISON: God himself is with us (Tune: TYSK) – from Psalm und Choralbuch, 1719; arr. Gregory Bloch PSALM 116 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Lift your voice rejoicing, Mary (Tune: FISK OF GLOUCESTER) – Thomas Foster (1938-2025) NUNC DIMITTIS – Melchior Franck (c. 1579-1639); arr. Robert Preston & Gregory […]
The Second Sunday of Easter ORISON: This joyful Eastertide (Tune: VREUCHTEN) – Dutch carol; harm. George Wood (1866-1926); vs. 2 harm. Alice Parker (1925-2023); final refrain harm. The Baptist Hymnal, 1975 PSALM 16 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN: We walk by faith, and not by sight (Tune: SAINT BOTOLPH) – Gordon Slater (1896-1979); […]
The Sunday of the Resurrection: Easter Day PROCESSIONAL: Easter Canticle – Peter R. Hallock (1924–2014) CANTICLE: The Song of Moses – Plainsong, Tone I and Tonus peregrinus; arr. Gregory W. Bloch (b. 1977) HYMN: Ad cenam Agni providi – Plainsong, Mode VIII; harm. Guillaume Dufay (c. 1397-1474); ed. Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, […]
The Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday ORISON: Shame and rebuke have broken my heart – Plainsong, Mode VIII; adapt. Bruce E. Ford (1947-2025) PSALM 88 – Plainsong, Tone I RESPOND: In manus tuas – John Sheppard (c. 1515-1558) HYMN: Today, he who hung the earth upon the waters is hung upon the tree – […]
The Fifth Sunday in Lent ORISON: When the Lord saw the sisters of Lazarus – Plainsong, Mode I; adapt. Bruce E. Ford (1947-2025) PSALM 130 – Plainsong, Tone IV.5 HYMN: Drop, drop, slow tears (Tune: SONG 46) – Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2 ANTHEM: Lamentations of Jeremiah – Thomas Tallis […]
The Fourth Sunday in Lent ORISON: Jerusalem is built as a city – Plainsong, Mode IV; adapt. Bruce E. Ford (1947-2025) PSALM 23 – Plainsong, Tone VII.3 HYMN: Lord, we are blind (Tune: GODMANSTONE) – Cyril V. Taylor (1907-1991) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2 ANTHEM: Lamentations – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) Jason Anderson, director […]
The Third Sunday in Lent ORISON: To one who drinks the water – Plainsong, Mode VII; adapt. Bruce E. Ford (1947-2025) PSALM 95 – Plainsong, Tone IV.4 HYMN: Lord Jesus, think on me (Tune: SOUTHWELL) – from Daman’s Psalter, 1579; adapt. Hymnal 1940; fauxbourdon harm. by Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, […]
The Second Sunday in Lent ORISON: If anyone would come after me – Plainsong, Mode I; adapt. Bruce E. Ford (1947-2025) PSALM 121 – Plainsong, Tone V.1 HYMN: Christe, qui lux es et dies – Plainsong, Mode II; arr. Kevin Siegfried (b. 1969) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2 ANTHEM: Lamentations of Jeremiah (a5) […]
The First Sunday in Lent ORISON: I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God – Plainsong, Mode V; adapt. Bruce E. Ford (1947-2025) PSALM 32 – Plainsong, Tone III.4 HYMN: The Truth from Above – Herefordshire Carol, arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2 ANTHEM: Immutemur habitu […]
The Last Sunday after the Epiphany PROCESSION: Processional Psalm for Lucernarium – Carl C. Crosier (1945-2014) PSALM 2 – Plainsong, Tone VIII.3 HYMN: Songs of thankfulness and praise (Tune: SALZBURG) – mel. Jakob Hintze (1622-1702); harm. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) NUNC DIMITTIS – Elway Bevin (c. 1555-1638) ANTHEM: Resplenduit facies ejus – Tomás Luis de […]
The Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: Jesus said, “You are the light of the world” – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) PSALM 112 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014); adapt. Gregory W. Bloch (b. 1977) HYMN: Eternal light, shine in my heart (Tune: JACOB) – Jane Manton Marshall (1924-2019) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone V; harm. […]
The Eve of the Presentation of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Temple PROCESSION: The Lord comes to his temple – Plainsong, adapt. Peter. R. Hallock (1924-2014) PSALM 122 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) ANTIPHON: Behold, our Lord will come with power – Plainsong, Mode III [American Gradual] HYMN: Virgin-born, we bow before thee – Claude Goudimel […]
The Third Sunday after the Ephiphany ORISON: The people who in darkness walked (Tune: DUNDEE) – mel. The CL Psalmes of David, 1615; harm. Thomas Ravenscroft (c. 1592-c. 1635) PSALM 27:1,5-13 – Plainsong, Tone VIII.1 HYMN: Jesus calls us; o’er the tumult (Tune: RESTORATION) – mel. The Southern Harmony, 1835; arr. Greg Bloch (b. 1977) […]
The Confession of St. Peter ORISON: You are the Christ, O Lord (Tune: WYNGATE CANON) – Richard Wayne Dirksen (1921-2003) PSALM 118:14-29 – Plainsong, Tone VIII.1 HYMN: Jesus, priceless treasure (Tune: JESU, MEINE FREUDE) – Johann Cruger (1598-1662), alt.; and J. S. Bach (1685-1750) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone III; harm. Carolus Andreae (1550-1627) ANTHEM: Quem […]
The First Sunday after the Epiphany: The Baptism of Jesus ORISON: ‘I come,’ the great Redeemer cries (Tune: THIS ENDRIS NYGHT) – English melody; harm. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) and Martin Fallas Shaw (1875-1958) PSALM 89:1-2, 20-29 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: When Christ’s appearing was made known (Tune: ERHALT UNS, HERR) – mel. from […]
The Second Sunday after Christmas PROCESSIONAL: Glory to God in the highest – Plainsong, adapt. Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) PSALM 96 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN: Away in a manger – Normandy melody, harm. Reginald Jacques (1894-1969); arr. Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) NUNC DIMITTIS (Tune: MARILYN) – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) ANTHEM: […]
The First Sunday after Christmas Day PROCESSIONAL: Glory to God in the highest – Plainsong, adapt. Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) PSALM 147 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Of the Father’s love begotten (Tune: DIVINUM MYSTERIUM) – Sanctus trope, 11th cent.; adapt. Piae Cantiones, 1582; arr. Richard T. Proulx (1937-2010) [see Tintinnabulum] NUNC DIMITTIS (Tune: […]
The Fourth Sunday of Advent PROCESSIONAL: Veni, veni, Emmanuel – Plainsong, Mode I; composite arr. Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976); including harm. Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014), Alice Parker (1925-2023), and Philip Lawson (b. 1967) PSALM 80:1-7,16-18 – Plainsong, Tone IV.4 HYMN 264: The Word whom earth and sea and sky adore (Tune: SONG 34) – […]
The Third Sunday of Advent ORISON: Comfort, comfort ye my people (Tune: PSAUME 42) – mel. Claude Goudimel (1514-1572); adapt. Louis Bourgeois, 1551 PSALM 146:4-9 – Plainsong, Tone IV.2 HYMN: Love divine, all loves excelling (Tune: HYFRYDOL) – Rowland Hugh Prichard (1811-1887) NUNC DIMITTIS – Richard Proulx (1937-2010) ANTHEM: O day of peace that dimly […]
The Second Sunday of Advent ORISON: Redeemer of the nations, come (Tune: VENI REDEMPTOR GENTIUM) – Plainsong, Mode I, Einsiedeln MS., 12th cent. PSALM 72:1-7,18-19 – Plainsong, Tone I. HYMN: Hail to the Lord’s Anointed (Tune: ES FLOG EIN KLEINS WALDVÖGELIEN) – German folk song; adapt. and harm. Henry Walford Davies (1869-1941), Gregory Bloch, and […]
The First Sunday of Advent ORISON: Matin Responsory – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) PSALM 122 – Plainchant, Tone I.2 HYMN: “Sleepers,wake!” A voice astounds us (Tune: WACHET AUF) – mel. Frewdenspiegel dess ewigen Lebens, 1599; harm. Neu Leipziger Gesanbuch, 1682, and Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) NUNC DIMITTIS – Richard Proulx (1937-2010) ANTHEM: E’en so, Lord […]
Compline for The Last Sunday after Pentecost: The Reign of Christ ORISON: O Jesus, crowned with all renown (Tune: KINGSFOLD) – English melody; harm. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958); arr. Gregory Bloch PSALM 46 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Now thank we all our God (Tune: NUN DANKET ALLE GOTT) – mel. Johann Crüger (1598-1662); […]
The Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: New songs of celebration render (Tune: RENDEZ A DIEU) – mel. attr. Loys Bourgeois (c. 1510-c. 1561); harm. Claude Goudimel (c. 1514-1572) PSALMS 98 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Disposer supreme, and judge of the earth (Tune: OLD 104TH) – mel. Thomas Ravenscroft (c. 1590-1633); harm. Ralph Vaughan […]
The Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Dedication – Joshua Haberman (b. 1982) PSALM 17:1-14 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN: I know that my Redeemer lives (Tune: SHOUT ON) – Anon. 19th cent. American; arr. Alice Parker (1925-2023) NUNC DIMITTIS – Arthur Wills (1926-2020) ANTHEM: Steal away to Jesus – African-American Spiritual; arr. Dale […]
All Saints’ Sunday ORISON: Holy is the true light – William H. Harris (1883-1973) PSALM 149 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Hark! I hear the harps eternal (Tune: INVITATION NEW) – arr. William Hauser (1812-1880); adapt. Gregory W. Bloch (b. 1977) NUNC DIMITTIS for double choir – Charles Wood (1866-1926) ANTHEM: Gaudent in caelis […]
The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: ‘Psalm 122’ from Six Hymns to Doctor Watts – Alice Parker (1925-2023) PSALM 84 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: God is love (Tune: UBI CARITAS [MURRAY]) – Dom Gregory Murray OSB (1905-1992) NUNC DIMITTIS – Dana Marsh (b. 1965) ANTHEM: Love Never Ends – Alice Parker (1925-2023) Jason […]
The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Be present, O merciful God – Roupen Shakarian (b. 1950) PSALM 15 (Setting I) – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) OFFICE HYMN: Te lucis ante terminum (Before the ending of the day) – Roupen Shakarian NUNC DIMITTIS – Roupen Shakarian ANTHEM: Levavi oculos meos – Orlando di Lasso (c. 1532-1594) […]
The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: ‘Now the day is over,’ from Ten Orisons – M. Searle Wright (1918-2004) PSALM 145 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: I’ll praise my Maker while I’ve breath (Tune: OLD 113TH) – Melody from Strassburger Kirchenamt, 1525; harm. Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tonus peregrinus; […]
The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Maker of all things – Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585) PSALM 57 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) OFFICE HYMN: Te lucis ante terminum (Before the ending of the day) – Plainsong, Mode VIII; harm. Orlande de Lassus (1532-1594) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone VIII; harm. Lodovico Grossi da Viadana […]
Eve of Saint Michael and All Angels ORISON: Christ, the fair glory of the holy angels (Tune: CHRISTE SANCTORUM) – Sarum plainsong, Mode I PSALM 148 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Angel-voices ever singing (Tune: ANGEL VOICES) – Edwin George Monk (1819-1900); arr. Gregory W. Bloch (b. 1977) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone […]
Saint Matthew ORISON: Come, pure hearts, in joyful measure (Tune: ALLES IST AN GOTTES SEGEN) – mel. attr. Johann Balthasar König (1691-1758), alt; harm. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) PSALM 111 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: O Christ, the Word Incarnate (Tune: MUNICH) – harm. Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone VI […]
Holy Cross Day ORISON: Hope of the world, thou Christ of great compassion (Tune: DONNE SECOURS) – mel. from Trente quatre pseaumes de David, 1551; harm. Claude Goudimel (c. 1514-1572) PSALM 98 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: We sing the praise of him who died (Tune: BRESLAU) – mel. from Lochamer Gesangbuch, ca. 1450; […]
The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Now cheer our hearts this eventide (Tune: ACH BLEIB BEI UNS) – Geistliche Lieder, Leipzig, 1589; harm. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) PSALM 115 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: For the beauty of the earth (Tune: LUCERNA LAUDONIAE) – David Evans (1874-1948) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone III; […]
The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: The shadows of the evening hours – Joshua Haberman (b. 1982) PSALM 33:12-22 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Abide with me (Tune: EVENTIDE) – William Henry Monk (1823-1889) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone VII; harm. Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (c. 1560-1627) ANTHEM: Salva nos, Domine, vigilantes – […]
The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost August 24, 2025 • The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 16C) Women’s Compline Choir ORISON: Angels of Peace – Song from the Shaker Community of Enfield, CT (c. 1844); arr. Kevin Siegfried (b. 1969) PSALM 103:1-8 – Sheila Bristow (b. 1969) [premiere] HYMN: Now the day is over (Tune: MERRIAL) […]
The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: ‘The Call,’ from Five Mystical Songs – Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) PSALM 66:1-11 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: O Christ, You Are Both Light and Day – plainsong, Mode 2, Mailander Hymnen, 15th cent. NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone VI; harm. Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (c. 1560-1627) ANTHEM: […]
The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost August 10, 2025 • The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 14C) ORISON: Now the day is over – M. Searle Wright (1918-2004)PSALM 4 – Plainsong, Tone IV.1 HYMN: My song is love unknown (Tune: LOVE UNKNOWN) – John Ireland (1879-1962) NUNC DIMITTIS in G – Charles Wood (1866-1926) ANTHEM: Deus […]
The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost August 3, 2025 • The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 13C) .ORISON: The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended (Tune: LES COMMANDEMENTS) – mel. Louis Bourgeois (c. 1510-c. 1559); harm. Claude Goudimel (c. 1514–1572) PSALM 130 – Peter R. Hallock (1924–2014), adapt. OFFICE HYMN: Te lucis ante terminum (Before the […]
The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Savior, breathe an evening blessing (Tune: VESPER HYMN) – attr. Dimitri Bortniansky (1751-1825); arr. The Academic Hymnal, 1899 PSALM 70 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: “Thy kingdom come!” on bended knee (Tune: SAINT FLAVIAN) – mel. from Day’s Psalter, 1562; adapt. and harm. Richard Redhead (1820-1901) NUNC DIMITTIS […]
The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: God be in my head – Doug Fullington (b. 1969) PSALM 91 – Plainsong, Tone IV.4 OFFICE HYMN: Te lucis ante terminum (Before the ending of the day) – Plainsong; harm. Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone III.6 ANTHEM: Let us now laud – William Mundy […]
The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: ‘Beloved, let us love one another’ from In Praise of Singing – Alice Parker (1925-2023) PSALM 32 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: O God of earth and altar (Tune: KING’S LYNN) – English folk melody; harm. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) and Gregory W. Bloch (b. 1977) NUNC DIMITTIS […]
The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: ‘Phos hilaron,’ from The Evening Service – Stephen Sturk (b. 1950) PSALM 13 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Amazing grace! (Tune: NEW BRITAIN) – arr. Richard T. Proulx (1937-2010) NUNC DIMITTIS from The Evening Service – Stephen Sturk ANTHEM: Sometimes I feel like a motherless child – Negro […]
The Third Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Let my prayer arise like incense (Да исправится молитва моя) – Dmitry Bortniansky (1751-1825); arr. Kevin Siegfried (b. 1969) PSALM 16:5, 8-11 – Doug Fullington (b. 1969) HYMN: Jesus calls us; o’er the tumult (Tune: RESTORATION) – mel. The Sacred Harp, 1835; arr. Greg Bloch (b. 1977) NUNC DIMITTIS […]
The Second Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: ‘Phos hilaron’ from Music for Compline – Kevin Siegfried (b. 1969) PSALM 22:22-30 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) OFFICE HYMN: ‘Te lucis ante terminum’ from Music for Compline – Kevin Siegfried NUNC DIMITTIS – Roger Sherman ANTHEM: There is a balm in Gilead – African-American Spiritual; arr. Jeff Junkinsmith […]
The First Sunday after Pentecost: Trinity Sunday ORISON: O Trinity of blessed Light – Jeff Junkinsmith (b. 1956) PSALM 8 – Plainsong, Tone V.2 with fauxbourdons by Gerre Hancock (1934-2012); adapt. Greg Bloch HYMN: Holy God, we praise thy Name (Tune: GROSSER GOTT) – mel. from Katholisches Gesangbuch, 1686; harm. Charles Winfred Douglas (1867-1944), after Conrad […]
The Day of Pentecost: Whitsunday ORISON: Veni Sancte Spiritus – Plainsong, Mode I PSALM 104:25-32,35-37 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: O thou who camest from above (Tune: HEREFORD) – Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-1876) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone II; harm. Matteo Palotta (1680-1758) ANTHEM: Come, Holy Spirit – Peter R. Hallock Jason Anderson, director • Bill Turnipseed, reader • […]
The Seventh Sunday of Easter: The Sunday after Ascension Day PROCESSION: O clap your hands – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) PSALM 57 – Peter R. Hallock HYMN: The head that once was crowned with thorns (Tune: SAINT MAGNUS) – mel. attr. Jeremiah Clarke (1674-1707); harm. William Henry Monk (1823-1889) and Geoffrey Shaw (1879-1943), alt. NUNC DIMITTIS […]
The Sixth Sunday of Easter ORISON: Alleluia! sing to Jesus! (Tune: HYFRYDOL) – Rowland Hugh Prichard (1811-1887) PSALM 65 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Hark! I hear the harps eternal (Tune: INVITATION NEW) – arr. William Hauser (1812-1880); adapt. Gregory W. Bloch (b. 1977) NUNC DIMITTIS (Tone VI) – Tyler Morse (b. 1990) ANTHEM: […]
The Fifth Sunday of Easter ORISON: ‘O Light, O Way, O Truth, O Life’, from Ten Orisons – M. Searle Wright (1918-2004) PSALM 148 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: O what their joy and their glory must be (Tune: O QUANTA QUALIA) – mel. from Antiphoner, 1681; harm. John Bacchus Dykes (1823-1876) NUNC DIMITTIS […]
The Fourth Sunday of Easter ORISON: All people that on earth do dwell (Tune: OLD 100TH) – mel. From Pseaumes octante trois de David, 1551, alt.; harm. after Louis Bourgeois (c. 1510-c. 1561); final fauxbourdon by John Dowland (1563-1626) PSALM 23 (Setting II) – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: The God of love my Shepherd […]
The Third Sunday of Easter ORISON: Christians to the Paschal victim (Tune: VICTIMAE PASCHALI LAUDES) – Plainsong, Mode I; melody att. Wigbert (d. 1050?) and Christ the Lord is risen again (Tune: CHRIST IST ERSTANDEN) – mel. from Geistliche Lieder, 1533; harm. Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612) PSALM 33:1-11 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Lift […]
The Second Sunday of Easter ORISON: We walk by faith, and not by sight (Tune: ST. BOTOLPH) – Gordon Slater (1896-1979) PSALM 118:14-24 – Plainsong, Tone VIII.1 HYMN 42: Now the day is over (Tune: MERRIAL) – Joseph Barnby (1838-1896) NUNC DIMITTIS from First Fauxbourdon Service – Philip Moore (b. 1943) ANTHEM: Peace – Peter R. […]
Easter Day PROCESSIONAL: Easter Canticle – Peter R. Hallock (1924–2014) PSALM 114 – Plainsong, Tonus Peregrinus (Ninth psalm tone) HYMN: Come, ye faithful, raise the strain (Tune: GAUDEAMUS PARITER) – Medieval Bohemian Carol Melody, 1544; vs. 2 harm. Hymnal 1940; vs. 3 harm. Harvey Grace (1874-1944) NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tonus peregrinus; harm. William Byrd (c. 1540-1623) ANTHEM: […]
The Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday ORISON: We glory in your cross, O Lord – Plainsong, Mode IV; adapt. Bruce E. Ford (1947-2025) PSALM 31:9-16 – Plainsong, Tone III.5 RESPOND: In manus tuas – John Sheppard (c. 1515-1558) HYMN: O sacred head, sore wounded (Tune: HERZLICH TUT MICH VERLANGEN) – Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612); […]
The Fifth Sunday in Lent ORISON: Give judgment for me, O God – Plainsong, Mode IV; adapt. Bruce E. Ford (1947-2025) PSALM 126 – Plainsong, Tone I.9 HYMN: Drop, drop, slow tears (Tune: SONG 46) – Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone VIII.1 ANTHEM: Lamentations of Jeremiah – William Byrd (c. 1540-1623) […]
The Fourth Sunday in Lent ORISON: Rejoice with Jerusalem– Plainsong, Mode V; adapt. Bruce E. Ford (1947-2025) PSALM 32 – Plainsong, Tone III.4 HYMN: Kind Maker of the world (Tune: A LA VENUE DE NOËL) – mel. from Fleurs des noels, 1535 NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone VIII.1 ANTHEM: Media vita in morte sumus […]
The Third Sunday in Lent ORISON: My eyes are ever looking to the Lord – Plainsong, Mode VII; adapt. Bruce E. Ford (1947-2025) PSALM 63:1-8 – Plainsong, Tone II.1 HYMN: Lord Jesus, think on me (Tune: SOUTHWELL) – from Daman’s Psalter, 1579; adapt. Hymnal 1940; fauxbourdon harm. by Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) NUNC DIMITTIS – […]
The Second Sunday in Lent ORISON: You speak within my heart – Plainsong, Tone III; adapt. Bruce E. Ford (1947-2025) PSALM 27:10-18 – Plainsong, Tone VIII.1 HYMN: Eternal light, shine in my heart (Tune: JACOB) – Jane Manton Marshall (1924-2019) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone VIII.1 ANTHEM: Lamentations of Jeremiah – Juan de Lienas […]
The First Sunday in Lent ORISON: He shall call upon me – Plainsong, Mode VIII; adapt. Bruce E. Ford (1947-2025) PSALM 91:1-2,9-16 – Plainsong, Tone IV.4 HYMN: Forty days and forty nights (Tune: AUS DER TIEFE RUFE ICH) – mel. att. Martin Herbst (1654-1681), alt.; harm. William Henry Monk (1823-1889) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, […]
The Last Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: ’Tis good, Lord, to be here! (Tune: CARLISLE) – Charles Lockhart (1745-1815) [St Paul’s Hymn] PSALMS 99 & 150 – Plainsong, Tone VII.7 and C. V. Stanford (1852-1924) HYMN: Christ upon the mountain peak (Tune: IBIS) – melody Thomas Kuras (1950-1997); harm. Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) NUNC DIMITTIS […]
The Seventh Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: In your mercy, Lord, you called me (Tune: HALTON HOLGATE) – William Boyce (1711-1779); verse 3 harm. Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-1876) PSALM 37:1-12,41-42 HYMN: Father all loving, who rulest in majesty (Tune: WAS LEBET) – mel. from Choral-Buch, 1754; harm. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) NUNC DIMITTIS – Elway […]
The Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: ‘Blest are the pure in heart,’ from Ten Orisons – M. Searle Wright (1918-2004) PSALM 1 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) OFFICE HYMN: Before the ending of the day – Sarum plainsong, Mode VIII; harm. Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585) NUNC DIMITTIS – Anonymous setting from The Lumley […]
The Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: Dear Lord and Father of mankind (Tune: REST) – Frederick Charles Maker (1844-1927) PSALM 138 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN: Jesus calls us; o’er the tumult (Tune: RESTORATION) – mel. The Sacred Harp, 1835; arr. Greg Bloch NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone VIII; harm. John Holmes […]
The Presentation of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the TempleCandlemas Procession at Compline ANTIPHON: Behold, our Lord will come with power – Plainsong, Mode III [American Gradual] PROCESSIONAL PSALM 48 PSALM 84 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Virgin-born, we bow before thee – Claude Goudimel (c. 1514-1572) Nunc Dimittis with Candlemas Antiphon ANTHEM: Almighty […]
The Third Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: Blessed Jesus, at thy word we are gathered (Tune: LIEBSTER JESU) – mel. Johann Ahle (1625-1673); harm. George Palmer (1846-1926)\ PSALM 19 – Plainsong, Tone III.4 HYMN: O Christ, the Word Incarnate (Tune: MUNICH) – harm. Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone II; harm. John Holmes […]
The Second Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: Songs of thankfulness and praise (Tune: SALZBURG) – mel. Jakob Hintze (1622-1702); harm. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) PSALM 36:5-10 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN: All praise to you, O Lord (Tune: CARLISLE) – Charles Lockhart (1745-1815) NUNC DIMITTIS – Jeff Junkinsmith (b. 1956) ANTHEM: Tribus miraculis […]
The First Sunday after the Epiphany: The Baptism of Jesus ORISON: ‘I come,’ the great Redeemer cries (Tune: THIS ENDRIS NYGHT) – English mel.; harm. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) and Martin Fallas Shaw (1875-1958) PSALM 29 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Christ, when for us you were baptized (Tune: CAITHNESS) – melody from The Psalmes […]
The Eve of the Epiphany ORISON: Brightest and best of the stars of the morning (Tune: MORNING STAR) – James Proctor Harding (1850–1911) PSALM 96 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN 112: In the bleak mid-winter (Tune: CRANHAM) – Gustav Holst (1874-1934 NUNC DIMITTIS (Tune: MARILYN) – Peter R. Hallock ANTHEMS:The Three Kings – […]
The First Sunday after Christmas Day PROCESSIONAL: Once in royal David’s city (Tune: IRBY) – mel. Henry John Gauntlett (1805-1876); harm. Arthur Henry Mann (1850-1929) PSALM 147 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Of the Father’s love begotten (Tune: DIVINUM MYSTERIUM) – Sanctus trope, 11th cent.; adapt. Piae Cantiones, 1582; arr. Richard T. Proulx (1937-2010) […]
The Fourth Sunday of Advent PROCESSIONAL: O come, O Wisdom from above (Tune: VENI EMMANUEL) – New trans. of the O Antiphons by Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976), sung to Plainsong, Mode I, from Processionale, 15th cent.; arr. and harm. Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) CANTICLE: Magnificat – Plainsong, Tone II.1 with O Rex gentium (antiphon for […]
The Third Sunday of Advent ORISON: Rejoice in the Lord always – Plainsong, Mode I CANTICLE 9: The First Song of Isaiah – Plainsong, Tone VII.3 and Peter R. Hallock (1923-2014) HYMN: The King shall come when morning dawns (Tune: SAINT STEPHEN) – William Jones (1726-1800); verse 2 harm. The American Vocalist, 1849; verse 4 […]
The Second Sunday of Advent ORISON: People of Zion, look up – Plainsong, Mode VII CANTICLE 16: The Song of Zechariah – Plainsong, Tone VIII.1 HYMN: Prepare the way, O Zion (Tune: BEREDEN VÄG FÖR HERRAN) – mel. from Then Swenska Psalmboken, 1697; harm. Koralbok för Svenska Kyrkan, 1939, alt.; adapt. Jason A. Anderson (b. […]
The First Sunday of Advent ORISON: Matin Responsory – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) PSALM 25:1-9 – Plainsong, Tone IV.2 HYMN: Creator of the stars of night (Tune: CONDITOR ALME SIDERUM) – Plainsong, Mode IV NUNC DIMITTIS – Richard Proulx (1937-2010) ANTHEM: Rorate caeli desuper– Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) Jason Anderson, director • Tyler Morse, reader • Joel Bevington, cantor
The Last Sunday after Pentecost: The Reign of Christ ORISON: ‘Psalm 95’ from Six Hymns to Doctor Watts – Alice Parker (1925-2023) PSALMS 93 & 150 – Plainsong, Tone VIII.3 & C. V. Stanford (1852-1924) HYMN 419: Lord of all being, throned afar (Tune: MENDON) – mel. from Methodist Harmonist, 1821; adapt. Lowell Mason (1792-1872) NUNC […]
The Twenty-sixth Sunday after Pentecost; 100th Birthday of Peter R. Hallock ORISON: Bring us, O Lord God – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) PSALMS 134 & 4 – Peter R. Hallock HYMN: I’ll praise my Maker while I’ve breath (Tune: OLD 113TH) – Melody from Strassburger Kirchenamt, 1525; harm. Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) NUNC DIMITTIS (2-part […]
The Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: In all our grief and fear, we turn to you (Tune: FREDERICKTOWN) – Charles R. Anders (1929-2020) PSALM 146 – Plainsong, Tone IV.2 HYMN: All who love and serve your city (Tune: CHARLESTOWN) – mel. from The Southern Harmony, 1865; harm. Alastair Cassels-Brown (1927-2001), alt.; vs. 3 reharm. Jason […]
All Souls: All the Faithful Departed (transferred) ORISON: ‘I heard a voice from heaven,’ from Burial Sentences – Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656); adapt. Gregory W. Bloch (b. 1977) PSALM 130 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Jerusalem, my happy home (Tune: LAND OF REST) – American folk hymn; collected by Annabel Morris Buchanan (1889-1983); arr. Richard […]
The Twenty-Third Sunday of Pentecost ORISON: Help me, O Lord, thy way to keep – Shaker tune, arr. Kevin Seigfried (b. 1969) PSALM 126 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Lord, we are blind (Tune: GODMANSTONE) – Cyril V. Taylor (1907-1991) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone III.4 ANTHEM: A Colloquy with God – Richard Rodney […]
The Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Be present, O merciful God – Roupen Shakarian (b. 1950) PSALM 91:9-16 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) OFFICE HYMN: Te lucis ante terminum (Before the ending of the day) – Roupen Shakarian NUNC DIMITTIS – Roupen Shakarian ANTHEM: The Road Home (Tune: PROSPECT) – adapt. Stephen Paulus (1949-2014) Jason […]
The Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Now the day is over – M. Searle Wright (1918-2004) PSALM 90:12-17 – Plainsong, Tone VIII.1 HYMN: My God, how wonderful thou art (Tune: WINDSOR) – mel. William Damon (c. 1540-c. 1591), alt.; harm. Henchman & Hancock, 1754; Booke of Musicke, 1591; and The Academic Hymnal, 1899 NUNC DIMITTIS […]
The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: ‘Beloved, let us love one another’ from In Praise of Singing – Alice Parker (1925-2023) PSALM 139 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: God himself is with us (Tune: TYSK) – from Psalm und Choralbuch, 1719; arr. Gregory Bloch NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tonus peregrinus; harm. William Byrd […]
Saint Michael and All Angels ORISON: The Soul-Leading – Ina Boyle (1889-1967) PSALM 103 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: How shall I sing that majesty? (Tune: COE FEN) – Kenneth Naylor (1931-1991) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone VI; harm. Anon. 16th cent. composer ANTHEM: Tibi Christe, splendor Patris – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c. […]
The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Maker of all things – Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585) PSALM 54 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) OFFICE HYMN: Te lucis ante terminum (Before the ending of the day) – Plainsong, Mode VIII; harm. Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone IV; harm. Anon., adapt. Bernarr Rainbow […]
Holy Cross Day (transferred) ORISON: Hope of the world, thou Christ of great compassion (Tune: DONNE SECOURS) – mel. from Trente quatre pseaumes de David, 1551; harm. Claude Goudimel (c. 1514-1572) PSALM 46 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Cross of Jesus, cross of sorrow (Tune: CROSS OF JESUS) – John Stainer (1840-1901) NUNC DIMITTIS – […]
The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Now cheer our hearts this eventide (Tune: ACH BLEIB BEI UNS) – Geistliche Lieder, Leipzig, 1589; harm. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) PSALM 115 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: O worship the King, all glorious above (Tune: HANOVER) – att. William Croft (1678-1727) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone I; […]
The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Round me falls the night – mel. A. Drese (1620-1701); harm. S.S. Wesley (1824-1899), Henry Ley (1887-1962), and J. S. Bach (1685-1750) PSALM 15 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Lamp of our feet (Tune: NUN DANKET ALL UND BRINGET EHR) – mel. att. Johann Cruger (1598-1662), alt. NUNC DIMITTIS […]
The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: The shadows of the evening hours – Joshua Haberman (b. 1982) PSALM 34:15-22 – Plainsong, Tone V.2 HYMN: Abide with me (Tune: EVENTIDE) – William Henry Monk (1823-1889) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone VII; harm. Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (c. 1560-1627) ANTHEM: Salva nos, Domine, vigilantes – Jacob […]
The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Calm the Tempests of my Heart – Elizabeth Alexander (b.1962), Text: Sören Kierkegaard, adapted PSALM 84 – Sheila Bristow HYMN: O Christ, you are both light and day – David Hurd (b. 1950) NUNC DIMITTIS: Jeff Junkinsmith (b. 1956) ANTHEM: Adoremus in Aeternum – Ērik Ešenvalds (b. 1977) The […]
The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Let my prayer arise – Dimitri Bortniansky (1751-1825), arr. Kevin Siegfried PSALM 34: 1-9 [St. Helena Psalter] – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014), adapt. & ed. Gregory Bloch HYMN: Jesus Christ the Apple Tree – Alice Parker (1925-2023) arr. Gregory Bloch NUNC DIMITTIS: Harmonized plainchant, Tone V ANTHEM: I am Wisdom – Peter R. Hallock Rebekah […]
The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Grace to you and peace – Alice Parker (1924-2023), arr. Gregory Bloch PSALM 33: 1-11 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014), arr. Jeff Reynolds HYMN: Christe qui lux es et dies – Stephanie Martin (b. 1962) NUNC DIMITTIS: William Byrd (c. 1540-1623), arr. Bill Bertolas and Jeff Reynolds ANTHEM: Ave Generosa – Ola Gjeilo (b. […]
Tenth Sunday after PentecostBon Voyage Compline ORISON: ‘III. Sanctus,’ from Messe ‘Cum jubilo,’ Op. 11 – Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986) PSALMS 97 and 98 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) and Patricia Van Ness (b. 1951) HYMN: King of glory, King of peace (Tune: GWALCHMAI) – John David Jones (1827-1870) NUNC DIMITTIS from Saint Mark’s Service – […]
The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: ‘V. Agnus Dei,’ from Messe ‘Cum jubilo,’ Op. 11 – Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986) PSALM 78:1-13 – Margaret Burk (b. 1990) HYMN: God is Love: let heaven adore him (Tune: BLAENWERN) – from Sacred Melodies, 1815; arr. William Gardiner (1770-1853) NUNC DIMITTIS from Magdalen Service – Grayston Ives (b. 1948) […]
The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Immortal, invisible, God only wise (Tune: SAINT DENIO) – Welsh hymn, from Caniadau y Cyssegr, 1839; adapt. John Robert (1822-1877) PSALM 91:1-12 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: How shall I sing that majesty? (Tune: COE FEN) – Kenneth Naylor (1931-1991) NUNC DIMITTIS from The Evening Service – Stephen […]
The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: O gladsome Light (Tune: NUNC DIMITTIS) – mel. Loÿs Bourgeois (c. 1510-1559); harm. Claude Goudimel (c. 1514/1520-1572) PSALMS 69:1-6 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN: God of grace and God of glory (Tune: WEBBE’S SAINT THOMAS) – Samuel Webbe the Elder (1740-1816) NUNC DIMITTIS – Erin Aas (b. 1974) […]
The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Bring us, O Lord God – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) PSALM 72:1-13 –John Fenstermaker (b. 1942) HYMN: City of God, how broad and far (Tune: RICHMOND) – mel. Thomas Haweis (1733-1820); harm. Samuel Webbe (1740-1816) NUNC DIMITTIS from The Evening Service – Stephen Sturk (b. 1950) ANTHEM: ‘Agnus Dei,’ […]
The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: ‘Phos hilaron,’ from Music for Compline – Kevin Siegfried (b. 1969) PSALM 88:1-10 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Jesus shall reign where’er the sun (Tune: TRURO) – Psalmodia Evangelica, 1789 NUNC DIMITTIS from Second Fauxbourdon Service – Philip Moore (b. 1943) ANTHEM: Abendgebet – Jacob Beranek (b. 1998) Jason […]
The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Sometimes a light surprises (Tune: OFFERTORIUM) – mel. Johann Michael Haydn (1737-1806); harm. Ancient & Modern, 2013 PSALM 89:1-9 – David Hurd (b. 1950) OFFICE HYMN: ‘Te lucis ante terminum,’ from Music for Compline – Sarum plainsong, Mode VIII; arr. Kevin Siegfried (b. 1969) NUNC DIMITTIS from First Fauxbourdon Service […]
The Third Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: God is here! (Tune: EVERTON) – Henry Thomas Smart (1813-1879) PSALM 65 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Lord, it belongs not to my care (Tune: SAINT HUGH) – Edward John Hopkins (1818-1901) NUNC DIMITTIS – Erin Aas (b. 1972) ANTHEM: ‘Gloria,’ from Mass for Four Voices – Thomas Tallis […]
The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (transferred) ORISON: Beata progenies – Leonel Power (c. 1375/1385-1445) PSALMS 134 and 4 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Virgin born, we bow before thee (Tune: MON DIEU, PRÊTE-MOI L’OREILLE) – mel. Loys Bourgeois (c. 1510-1559); harm. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) NUNC DIMITTIS from Second Fauxbourdon Service – […]
The First Sunday after Pentecost: Trinity Sunday ORISON: O Trinity of blessed Light – Jeff Junkinsmith (b. 1956) PSALM 99 – Patricia Van Ness (b. 1951) HYMN: Round the Lord in glory seated (Tune: RUSTINGTON) – Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918) NUNC DIMITTIS – Dana Marsh (b. 1965) ANTHEM: ‘Sanctus,’ from Mass for Four Voices […]
Whitsunday: The Day of Pentecost ORISON: O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit – Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585) PSALM 104:24-35 – David Hurd (b. 1950) HYMN: Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire (Tune: VENI CREATOR SPIRITUS)– Plainsong, Mode VII NUNC DIMITTIS – John Munday (c. 1555-1630) ANTHEM: Come down, O Love divine – Jeff Junkinsmith (b. 1956) […]
The Seventh Sunday of Easter; Sunday after Ascension Day PROCESSION: O clap your hands – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) PSALM 92 – John Fenstermaker (b. 1942) HYMN: God is ascended (Tune: GEN HIMMEL AUFGEFAHREN IST) – German, 16th cent.; adapt. Peter R. Hallock NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone VII; harm. Thomas Morley (1557-1602) ANTHEM: ‘Õnnis on […]
The Sixth Sunday of Easter ORISON: ‘Beloved, let us love one another’ from In Praise of Singing – Alice Parker (1925-2023) PSALM 67 – Patricia Van Ness (b. 1951) HYMN: For the beauty of the earth (Tune: LUCERNA LAUDONIAE) – David Evans (1874-1948) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone V.1 ANTHEM: i thank You God […]
The Fifth Sunday of EasterThe 10th Anniversary of Peter R. Hallock’s Death PROCESSIONAL: Kontakion for the Departed – Kievan chant; adapt. Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) PSALM 84 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: We walk by faith, and not by sight (Tune: SAINT BOTOLPH) – Gordon Slater (1896-1979) NUNC DIMITTIS (Tune: MARILYN) – Peter […]
The Fourth Sunday of Easter ORISON: The Lord is my Shepherd – Bobby McFerrin (b. 1950) PSALM 23 (Setting I) – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Victimae Paschali laudes – Plainsong, Mode I; melody att. Wigbert (d. 1050?) and Christ the Lord is risen again (Tune: CHRIST IST ERSTANDEN) – harm. Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612) […]
The Third Sunday of Easter ORISON: This joyful Eastertide (Tune: VRUECHTEN) – mel. from Psalmen, 1685; harm. Charles Wood (1866-1926) PSALMS 134 & 4 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Lift your voice rejoicing, Mary (Tune: FISK OF GLOUCESTER) – Thomas Foster (1938-2024) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone I; harm. Thomas Morley (1557-1602) ANTHEM: Regina caeli […]
The Second Sunday of Easter ORISON: Alleluia! O sons and daughters, let us sing! (Tune: O FILII ET FILIAE) – mel. from Airs sur les hymnes sacrez, odes et noëls, 1623) PSALM 133 – Anglican Chant setting based on a theme from Chichester Psalms by Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990); adapt. Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN: […]
Easter Day PROCESSIONAL: Easter Canticle – Peter R. Hallock (1924–2014) PSALM 114 – Plainsong, Tonus Peregrinus (Ninth psalm tone) HYMN: Ad cenam Agni providi – Plainsong, Mode VIII; harm. Guillaume Dufay (c. 1397-1474); NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tonus peregrinus; harm. William Byrd (c. 1540-1623) Cпасение coдeлaл (Salvation is created) – Pavel Chesnokov (1877-1944); arr. for men’s voices […]
The Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday ORISON: We glory in your cross, O Lord – Plainsong, Mode IV PSALM 22:1-11 – Plainsong, Tone IV.1 RESPOND: In manus tuas – John Sheppard (c. 1515-1558) HYMN: O cross, whose wood is all our race’s boast (Tune: TENTH AVENUE) – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong […]
The Fifth Sunday in Lent ORISON: Give judgment for me, O God – Plainsong, Mode IV PSALM 119:9-16 – Plainsong, Tone II.1 HYMN: Drop, drop, slow tears (Tune: SONG 46) – Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2 ANTHEM: Lamentations of Jeremiah (a5) – Alfonso Ferrabosco the Younger (c. 1575-1628) Jason Anderson, director […]
The Fourth Sunday in Lent ORISON: Rejoice with Jerusalem– Plainsong, Mode V PSALM 107:1-3, 17-22 – Plainsong, Tone V.1 HYMN: Lord, keep us steadfast in your Word (Tune: JESU DULCEDO CORDIUM) – Plainsong, Mode II; ed. Carl C. Crosier (1945-2014); harm. Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014 NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2 ANTHEM: Of the […]
The Third Sunday in Lent ORISON: He shall call upon me – Plainsong, Mode VIII PSALM 19 – Plainsong, Tone III.4 OFFICE HYMN: ‘Christe, qui lux es et dies,’ from Music for Compline – Plainsong, Mode II; arr. Kevin Siegfried (b. 1969) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2 ANTHEM: Lamentations (Setting I) – Thomas […]
The Second Sunday in Lent ORISON: My eyes are ever looking to the Lord – Plainsong, Mode VI PSALM 22:22-30 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Lord Jesus, think on me (Tune: SOUTHWELL) – from Daman’s Psalter, 1579; adapt. Hymnal 1940; fauxbourdon harm. by Peter R. Hallock NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2 ANTHEM: […]
The First Sunday in Lent ORISON: Remember, O Lord – Plainsong, Tone IV [American Gradual] PSALM 25:1-9 – Plainsong, Tone IV.2 HYMN: The glory of these forty days (Tune: ERHALT UNS, HERR) – mel. from Geistliche Lieder, 1535; harm. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2 ANTHEM: Lamentations of Jeremiah (a7) […]
The Last Sunday after the Epiphany PROCESSIONAL: Jesus said, “You are the light of the world” – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) PSALM 50:1-6 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN: Christ upon the mountain peak (Tune: IBIS) – melody Thomas Kuras (1950-1997); harm. Peter R. Hallock NUNC DIMITTIS (Setting II) – Tyler Morse – (b. […]
The Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: ‘Praise ye the Lord’ from Six Hymns to Doctor Watts – Alice Parker (1925-2023) PSALM 147 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Eternal light, shine in my heart (Tune: JACOB) – Jane Manton Marshall (1924-2019) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone VIII; harm. John Holmes (d. 1629) ANTHEM: Tu […]
The Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: All praise to thee, my God, this night (Tune: TALLIS’ CANON) – Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585) PSALM 111 – Plainsong, Tone VIII.5 HYMN: Jesus, Lover of my soul (Tune: ABERYSTWYTH) – Joseph Palmer (1841-1903) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone III.6 ANTHEM: Domine non sum dignus – Tomás […]
The Third Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: Dear Lord and Father of mankind (Tune: REST) – Frederick Charles Maker (1844-1927) PSALM 62 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN: Jesus calls us; o’er the tumult (Tune: RESTORATION) – The Sacred Harp, 1835; arr. Gregory W. Bloch (b. 1977) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone II; harm. […]
The Second Sunday after Epiphany The Compline Choir is joined this week by the Senior Choristers of the St. Mark’s Cathedral Choir School, directed by Rebekah Gilmore ORISON: Here, O Lord, your servants gather (Tune: TOKYO) – Based on Japanese Gagaku mode; setting by Isao Koizumi (1907-1992) PSALM 139 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: […]
The First Sunday after the Epiphany: The Baptism of Jesus ORISON: How bright appears the Morning Star (Tune: WIE SCHÖN LEUCHTET) – mel. att. Philipp Nicolai (1556-1608); arr. and harm. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) PSALM 89:1-2, 20-29 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: When Christ’s appearing was made known (Tune: ERHALT UNS, HERR) – mel. from […]
Eve of the Holy Name PROCESSIONAL: Puer nobis nascitur – from Moosburg Gradual, c. 1355-1360; arr. Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) PSALM 147 – Peter R. Hallock HYMN: Of the Father’s love begotten (Tune: DIVINUM MYSTERIUM) – Sanctus trope, 11th cent.; adapt. Piae Cantiones, 1582; arr. Richard T. Proulx (1937-2010) NUNC DIMITTIS (Tune: MARILYN) – Peter R. […]
The Third Sunday of Advent ORISON: Angelus emittitur – Piae Cantiones, 1582 and Richard Runciman Terry (1865-1938); arr. Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) PSALM 126 – Plainsong, Tone I.9 HYMN: The angel Gabriel from heaven came (Tune: GABRIEL’S MESSAGE) – Basque carol; arr. Edgar Pettman (1865-1943) NUNC DIMITTIS (Tune: MARILYN) – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) ANTHEM: […]
The Second Sunday of Advent ORISON: Comfort, comfort ye my people (Tune: PSALM 42) – melody by Claude Goudimel (1514-1572) PSALM 85:1-2, 8-13 – Plainsong, Tone III.5 HYMN: Hark! a thrilling voice is sounding (Tune: MERTON) – William Monk (1823-1889) NUNC DIMITTIS (Tune: MARILYN) – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) ANTHEM: Rorate caeli desuper– Peter R. […]
The First Sunday of Advent ORISON: Matin Responsory – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) PSALM 80:1-7, 16-18 – Plainsong, Tone IV.4 HYMN 66: Come, thou long-expected Jesus (Tune: STUTTGART) – mel. from Psalmodia Sacra, 1715; harm. William Henry Havergal (1793-1870) NUNC DIMITTIS (Tune: MARILYN) – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) ANTHEM: Ecce advenit dominator Dominus – William […]
The Last Sunday after Pentecost: The Reign of Christ ORISON: ‘Psalm 95’ from Six Hymns to Doctor Watts – Alice Parker (b. 1925) PSALM 95 – Plainsong, Tone IV.4 HYMN: Now thank we all our God (Tune: NUN DANKET ALLE GOTT) – mel. Johann Crüger (1598-1662); harm. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), The Academic Hymnal, 1899, and […]
The Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Bring us, O Lord God – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) PSALMS 134 & 4 – Peter R. Hallock HYMN: I’ll praise my Maker while I’ve breath (Tune: OLD 113TH) – Melody from Strassburger Kirchenamt, 1525; harm. Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) NUNC DIMITTIS (2-part with bells) – Peter R. Hallock […]
The Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: O day of God, draw nigh (Tune: SAINT MICHAEL) – Louis Bourgeois (c. 1510-c. 1561); harm. William Henry Monk (1823-1889) PSALM 70 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Rejoice, rejoice, believers and let your lights appear (Tune: LLANGLOFFAN) – mel. from Hymnau a Thonau er Gwasanaeth yr Eglwys yng Nghymru, […]
All Saints’ Sunday ORISON: Let saints on earth in concert sing (Tune: DUNDEE) – melody from The CL Psalmes of David, 1615; harm. Thomas Ravenscroft (c. 1592-c. 1635) PSALM 149 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Who are these like stars appearing? (Tune: ZUECH MICH, ZEUCH MICH) – mel. from Geistreiches Gesang-buch, 1698; harm. William Henry […]
The Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Slowly the rays of daylight fade – M. Searle Wright (1918-2004) PSALM 1 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN: The eternal gifts of Christ the King (Tune: AETERNA CHRISTI MUNERA) – Plainsong, Mode VII NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone III.4 ANTHEM: ‘Õnnis on inimene’ from Taaveti laul – Cyrillus […]
The Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Dear Lord and Father of mankind – M. Searle Wright (1918-2004) PSALM 96 – Plainsong, Tone V.1 HYMN: I heard the voice of Jesus say, “Come unto me and rest” (Tune: THE THIRD TUNE) – Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585) NUNC DIMITTIS – Elway Bevin (c. 1555-1638) ANTHEM: The Road […]
The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Maker of all things, God most high – Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585) PSALM 23 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: The King of love my Shepherd is (Tune: SAINT COLUMBA) – Irish melody; stzs. 1-5 harm. Hymnal 1940; stz. 6 harm. Peter R. Hallock NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone VI; […]
The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Dedication – Joshua Haberman (b. 1982) PSALM 80:7-14 – Plainsong, Tone IV.4 HYMN: As those of old their first fruits brought (Tune: FOREST GREEN) – English mel.; adapt. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) NUNC DIMITTIS – Arthur Wills (1926-2020) ANTHEM: Descendi in hortum nucum – Giovannia Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594) Jason […]
SAINT MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS ORISON: The Guardian Angel – Ina Boyle (1889-1967) PSALM 91 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Ye holy angels bright (Tune: DARWALL’S 148TH) – mel. John Darwall (1731-1789); harm. William Henry Monk (1823-1889) and Martin Fallas Shaw (1875-1958) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone I; harm. Carolus Andreas (d. 1627) ANTHEM: Salvator […]
The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Now cheer our hearts this eventide – Nathan Jensen (b. 1968) PSALM 145 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Now the day is over – M. Searle Wright (1918-2004) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone III; harm. Carolus Andreas (d. 1627) ANTHEM: Nisi Dominus – Giovanni Matteo Asola (c. 1532-1609) […]
The Sixteenth Sunday after PentecostHildegard of Bingen, Mystic and Scholar, 1179 ORISON: O Pastor animarum, Mode I – Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) PSALM 103 – Plainsong, Tone VIII.5 HYMN O ignee Spiritus, Mode I – Hildegard von Bingen NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone III.4 ANTHEM: O speculum columbe – Frank Ferko (b. 1950) Jason Anderson, director • Joel […]
The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Now cheer our hearts this eventide (Tune: ACH BLEIB BEI UNS) – Geistliche Lieder, Leipzig, 1589; harm. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) PSALM 119:33-48 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Book of books, our people’s strength (Tune: LEIBSTER JESU) – melody by Johann Rudolph Ahle (1625-1673); harm. George Herbert Palmer (1846-1926) […]
The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Now as the troubled day departs – M. Searle Wright (1918-2004) PSALM 26:1-3, 6-9, 11-12 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN 42: Now the day is over (Tune: MERRIAL) – Joseph Barnby (1838-1896) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone V; harm. Vincente Ripollès (1867-1943) ANTHEM: Sicut cervus – Charles […]
The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: The shadows of the evening hours – Joshua Haberman (b. 1982) PSALM 138 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN 662: Abide with me (Tune: EVENTIDE) – William Henry Monk (1823-1889) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone VII; harm. Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (c. 1560-1627) ANTHEM: Salva nos, Domine, vigilantes […]
The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Christ, mighty Savior (Tune: Christe, Lux mundi) – Plainsong, Mode VII, Freiburg MS., 14th cent. PSALM 67 – Plainsong, Tone VIII.1PSALM 67 – Plainsong, Tone VIII.1 OFFICE HYMN: To you before the close of day (Tune: Te lucis ante terminum) – Plainsong, Mode VIII, Antiphonale Sarisburiense, Vol. II NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone III.4 ANTHEM: I will call upon God […]
The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Dear Lord and father of mankind – John F. Kriebel (b. 1946) PSALM 85:7-13 – Plainsong, Tone III.5 OFFICE HYMN: Before the ending of the day – mel. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976); arr. Kenneth V. Peterson (b. 1946) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone III.4 ANTHEM: Si iniquitates observaveris – Samuel Wesley […]
The Feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord ORISON: Psalm 122 from Six Hymns to Dr. Watts – Alice Parker (b. 1925) PSALM 99 – Plainsong, Tone VIII.1, arr. Richard Proulx (1937-2010) & Gregory Bloch HYMN: Abide with Me – William Henry Monk (1823-1889); arr. Shawn Kirchner (b. 1970) NUNC DIMITTIS – Linda Kachelmeier (b. […]
The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Blessed spirits, loving angels – Shaker song by Eldress Mary Ann Gillespie (1829-1887) PSALM 126 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014), arr. Jeff Reynolds HYMN: Mothering God – Janet Peachey (b. 1953), arr. Gregory Bloch NUNC DIMITTIS – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c. 1525-1594) ANTHEM: Grace Before Sleep – Susan LaBarr (b. 1981) The Women’s Compline […]
The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: ‘Phos hilaron,’ from Music for Compline – Kevin Siegfried (b. 1969) PSALM 65 – Plainsong, Tone VII.1 OFFICE HYMN: ‘Te lucis ante terminum,’ from Music for Compline – Siegfried NUNC DIMITTIS – Dana Marsh (b. 1965) ANTHEM: Sicut cervus desiderat – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594) William Turnipseed, director • Joel Matter, reader • Fred McIlroy, cantor
The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: O gladsome Light (Tune: LE CANTIQUE DE SIMÉON) – mel. Loys Bourgeois (c. 1510-c. 1561); harm. Claude Goudimel (1514-1572) PSALM 65 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Almighty God, your word is cast like seed (Tune: WALDEN) – Jane Manton Marshall (1925-2019); arr. Gregory Bloch (b. 1977) NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong, […]
The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Be present, O merciful God – Roupen Shakarian (b. 1950) PSALM 145 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) OFFICE HYMN: Te lucis ante terminum – Shakarian NUNC DIMITTIS – Shakarian ANTHEM: Steal away to Jesus – African-American Spiritual; arr. Dale Adelmann (b. 1961) Jason Anderson, director • J. Scott Kovacs, reader • James Wilcox, cantor
The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: ‘Phos hilaron,’ from The Evening Service – Stephen Sturk (b. 1950) PSALM 62 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN: Christ, mighty Savior, light of all creation (Tune: MIGHTY SAVIOR) – David Hurd (b. 1950) NUNC DIMITTIS from The Evening Service – Stephen Sturk ANTHEM: Weeping Pilgrim, from The Sacred […]
The Nativity of Saint John the Baptist ORISON: Comfort, comfort ye my people (Tune: GENEVAN 42) – Claude Goudimel (c. 1514-1572) PSALM 85:7-13 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN: The great forerunner of the morn (Tune: THE TRUTH FROM ABOVE – Herefordshire carol; arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tonus peregrinus; harm. […]
The Third Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Hope of the world, thou Christ of great compassion (Tune: Donne secours) – mel. from Trente quatre pseaumes de David, 1551; harm. Claude Goudimel (c. 1514-1572) PSALM 17:1-14 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) OFFICE HYMN: Te lucis ante terminum – Scandinavian melody; adapt. Derek Tilton (b. 1987) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone VIII; harm. […]
The Second Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: God be in my head – Doug Fullington (b. 1969) PSALM 4 – Plainsong, Tone IV.1 HYMN: ‘Christe qui lux es et dies,’ from Music for Compline – Kevin Siegfried (b. 1969) NUNC DIMITTIS in G – Charles Wood (1866-1926) ANTHEM: ‘In pace’ from Three Latin Motets – Grayston Ives (b. 1948) Ken Pendergrass, director • Josh Sandoz, reader • […]
First Sunday after Pentecost: Trinity Sunday ORISON: O lux beata Trinitas – Ronald Arnatt (1930-2018) PSALM 17:1-14 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) OFFICE HYMN: Te lucis ante terminum – Scandinavian melody; adapt. Derek Tilton (b. 1987) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone VIII; harm. Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (ca. 1560 – 1627) ANTHEM: O lux beata […]
Whitsunday; The Day of Pentecost ORISON: O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit – Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585) PSALM 104:25-32, 35-37 – Peter R. Hallock (1924–2014) HYMN: O Holy Spirit (Tune: DRUMCORDA) – David Frederick Ruddell Wilson (1871-1957); arr. Gregory Bloch (b. 1977) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone VI; harm. Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (ca. 1560 – […]
The Seventh Sunday of Easter; Sunday after Ascension PROCESSIONAL: O clap your hands – Peter R. Hallock (1924–2014) PSALM 47 – Plainsong, Tone V.2 HYMN: God is ascended (Tune: GEN HIMMEL AUFGEFAHREN IST) – German, 16th cent.; adapt. Peter R. Hallock (1924–2014) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone IV; harm. Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (ca. 1560 – […]
The Sixth Sunday of Easter ORISON: This joyful Eastertide (Tune: VRUECHTEN) – mel. from Psalmen, 1685; harm. Charles Wood (1866-1926) PSALM 66:1-11 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Christ is alive! Let Christians sing (Tune: TRURO) – Psalmodia Evangelica, 1790; vs. 5 harm. Harvey Grace (1874-1944) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone III; harm. Lodovico Grossi […]
The Fifth Sunday of Easter ORISON: ‘The Call’ from Five Mystical Songs – Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) PSALMS 31:1-5, 15-16 – Plainsong, Tone IV.2 HYMN: Good Christians all, rejoice and sing! (Tune: GELOBT SEI GOTT) – Melchior Vulpius (c. 1560-1616) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone I; harm. Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (ca. 1560 – 1627) ANTHEM: […]
The Fourth Sunday of Easter ORISON: The Lord is my shepherd – Bobby McFerrin (b.1950) PSALM 23 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: All people that on earth do dwell (Tune: OLD 100TH) – mel. from Pseaumes octante trois de David, 1551, alt.; harm. after Louis Bourgeois (c. 1510-c. 1561); final fauxbourdon by John Dowland […]
The Third Sunday of Easter ORISON: God himself is with us (Tune: TYSK) – from Psalm und Choralbuch, 1719; arr. Gregory Bloch PSALM 116 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Lift your voice rejoicing, Mary (Tune: FISK OF GLOUCESTER) – Thomas Foster (b. 1938) NUNC DIMITTIS – Christopher Tye (c. 1505-1573) ANTHEM: Regina caeli – Robert […]
The Second Sunday of Easter ORISON: That Easter Day with joy was bright (Tune: PUER NOBIS) – mel. from Trier MS., 15th cent.; adapt. Michael Praetorius (1571-1621); harm. George R. Woodward (1848-1934 PSALM 16 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN: We walk by faith, and not by sight (Tune: SAINT BOTOLPH) – Gordon Slater […]
Easter Day PROCESSIONAL: Easter Canticle – Peter R. Hallock (1924–2014) PSALM 118:14-24 – Plainsong, Tone VIII.1 HYMN: Ad cenam Agni providi – Plainsong, Mode VIII; harm. Guillaume Dufay (c. 1397-1474); ed. Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tonus peregrinus; harm. William Byrd (c. 1540-1623) ANTHEM: Christus surrexit – Jacob Handl (1550-1591) Jason Anderson, director • Joel […]
The Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday ORISON: Christus factus est – Plainsong, Mode V PSALM 88 – Plainsong, Tone I.7 RESPOND: In manus tuas – John Sheppard (c. 1515-1558) HYMN: Today, he who hung the earth upon the waters is hung upon the tree – Byzantine chant, Tone VI; trans. John Muehleisen (b. 1955) […]
The Fifth Sunday in Lent ORISON: Judica me Deus – Plainsong, Mode IV PSALM 130 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Out of the depths I call (Tune: SAINT BRIDE) – Samuel Howard (1710-1782) and Geoffrey Shaw (1879-1943) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2 ANTHEM: Lamentations of Jeremiah (a7) – Costanzo Festa (c. 1485/1490-1545) […]
The Fourth Sunday in Lent: LAETARE Office for the Dead — 3 Years of COVID PROCESSIONAL: Requiem aeternam – Plainsong, Mode VI PSALM 91 – Plainsong, Tone IV.4 HYMN: O Holy Spirit, by whose breath, life rises (Tune: VENI CREATOR SPIRITUS) – Plainsong, Mode VIII NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2 ANTHEM: Lamentations – […]
The Third Sunday in Lent ORISON: Oculi mei – Plainsong, Mode VII PSALM 95 – Plainsong, Tone IV.4 HYMN: Lord Jesus, think on me (Tune: SOUTHWELL) – from Daman’s Psalter, 1579; adapt. Hymnal 1940; fauxbourdon harm. by Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2 ANTHEM: Lamentations of Jeremiah (a5) – Osbert Parsley […]
The Second Sunday in Lent ORISON: Reminiscere miserationum tuarum – Plainsong, Mode IV PSALM 121 – H. Walford Davies (1869-1941) HYMN: Our Father, while our hearts unlearn the creeds that wrong thy name (Tune: BALFOUR) – Scottish hymn; harm. Geoffrey Shaw (1879-1943) and Gregory Bloch (b. 1977) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2 ANTHEM: […]
The First Sunday in Lent ORISON: Exaudi Domine – Plainsong Introit, Mode IV PSALM 32 – Plainsong, Tone III.4 HYMN: The Truth from Above – Herefordshire Carol, arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2 ANTHEM: Lamentations of Jeremiah – Claudin de Sermisy (c. 1490-1562) Jason Anderson, director • J. Scott Kovacs, reader • Jeremy […]
The Last Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: Processional Psalm for Lucernarium – Carl C. Crosier (1945-2014) PSALM 115 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN 135: Songs of thankfulness and praise (Tune: SALZBURG) – mel. Jakob Hintze (1622-1702); harm. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone II; harm. Matteo Palotta (1680-1758) ANTHEM: Resplenduit facies ejus […]
The Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: ‘Thy mercies fill the earth, O Lord’ from Six Hymns to Doctor Watts – Alice Parker (b. 1925) PSALM 119:1-16 – Plainsong, Tone II.1 HYMN: Book of books, our people’s strength (Tune: LIEBSTER JESU) – mel. Johann Rudolph Ahle (1625-1673); harm. George Herbert Palmer (1846-1926) and J. S. […]
The Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: God moves in a mysterious way (Tune: LONDON NEW) – mel. from The Psalmes of David in Prose and Meeter, 1635; harm. John Playford (1623-1686) and Martin Shaw (1875-1958) PSALM 112:1-9 – Plainsong, Tone I.7 HYMN: Help us, O Lord, to learn (Tune: SAINT ETHELWALD) – William Henry Monk […]
The Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: Blest are the pure in heart – M. Searle Wright (1918-2004) PSALM 15 (Setting II) – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round (Tune: SONG 1) – Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625); harm. Ralph Vaughan William (1872-1958) NUNC DIMITTIS [Tone II setting] – Tyler Morse (b. 1990) […]
The Third Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: The people who in darkness walked (Tune: DUNDEE) – mel. The CL Psalmes of David, 1615; harm. Thomas Ravenscroft (c. 1592-c. 1635) PSALM 27:1-13 – Plainsong, Tone VIII.1 HYMN: Eternal light, shine in my heart (Tune: JACOB) – Jane Manton Marshall (1924-2019) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone VII; harm. […]
The Second Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: God of mercy, God of grace (Tune: LUCERNA LAUDONIAE) – David Evans (1874-1948) PSALM 40:1-12 – Plainsong, Tone II HYMN: Jesus, priceless treasure (Tune: JESU, MEINE FREUDE) – Johann Cruger (1598-1662), alt., and Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) NUNC DIMITTIS – Anonymous setting [No. 29] from the Lumley Choir Books […]
The First Sunday after the Epiphany; The Baptism of Our Lord ORISON: ‘I come,’ the great Redeemer cries (Tune: THIS ENDRIS NYGHT) – English melody; harm. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) and Martin Fallas Shaw (1875-1958) PSALM 29 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Christ, when for us you were baptized (Tune: CAITHNESS) – melody from The […]
The Holy Name PROCESSIONAL: Gloria in excelsis Deo – Plainchant, adapt. Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) PSALM 8 – Plainsong, Tone V.2 HYMN: Ring out, wild bells (Tune: DEUS TUORUM MILITUM) – from Grenoble Antiphoner, 1753; arr. Gregory Bloch NUNC DIMITTIS (Tune: MARILYN) – Peter R. Hallock ANTHEM: The Shepherd’s Carol – Bob Chilcott (b. 1955); trans. […]
Christmas Day PROCESSIONAL: Hodie Christus natus est – Plainsong, Mode I PSALM 98 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: What child is this? (Tune: GREENSLEEVES) – English mel.; harm. Christmas Carols New and Old, 1871, alt. NUNC DIMITTIS (Tune: MARILYN) – Peter R. Hallock ANTHEMS: Away in a manger – Normandy mel. with CRADLE SONG […]
The Third Sunday of Advent ORISON: Love divine, all loves excelling (Tune: HYFRYDOL) – Rowland Hugh Prichard (1811-1887) PSALM 146:4-9 –Plainsong, Tone IV.2 HYMN: On Jordan’s bank, the Baptist’s cry (Tune: WINCHESTER NEW) – Bartholomäus Crasselius (1667-1724); with additional harm. by Harvey Grace (1874-1944) and William Henry Monk (1823-1889) NUNC DIMITTIS – Richard Proulx (1937-2010) ANTHEM: […]
The Second Sunday of Advent ORISON: Blessed be the Lord God – Erin Aas (b. 1972) PSALM 72:1-8, 18-19 – Plainsong, Tone I.1 HYMN: Hail to the Lord’s Anointed (Tune: ES FLOG EIN KLEINS WALDVÖGELIEN) – German folk song; adapt. and harm. Henry Walford Davies (1869-1941), Gregory Bloch, and Hymnal 1982 NUNC DIMITTIS – Richard Proulx […]
The First Sunday of Advent ORISON: Matin Responsory – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) PSALM 122 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Prepare the way, O Zion (Tune: BEREDEN VÄG FÖR HERRAN) – mel. from Then Swenska Psalmboken, 1697; harm. Koralbok för Svenska Kyrkan, 1939, alt. NUNC DIMITTIS – Richard Proulx (1937-2010) ANTHEM: Canite tuba – […]
The Last Sunday after Pentecost: Christ the King ORISON: O worship the King, all glorious above (Tune: HANOVER) – attr. William Croft (1678-1727) with additional harm. by C.D. Hackett in The Boston Collection, 1841, and Harvey Grace (1874-1944) PSALM 46 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Now thank we all our God (Tune: NUN DANKET ALLE […]
The Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: New songs of celebration render (Tune: RENDEZ A DIEU) – mel. attr. Loys Bourgeois (c. 1510-c. 1561); harm. Claude Goudimel (c. 1514-1572) PSALM 98 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Disposer supreme, and judge of the earth (Tune: OLD 104TH) – mel. Thomas Ravenscroft (c. 1590-1633); harm. Ralph Vaughan Williams […]
All Saints Sunday ORISON: Bring us, O Lord God – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) PSALM 149 – Peter R. Hallock HYMN: Who are these like stars appearing? (Tune: ZUECH MICH, ZEUCH MICH) – mel. from Geistreiches Gesang-buch, 1698; harm. William Henry Monk (1823-1889), alt. NUNC DIMITTIS – James Bassi (b. 1961) ANTHEM: Gaudent in coelis – […]
The Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: ‘Beloved, let us love one another,’ from In Praise of Singing – Alice Parker (b. 1925) PSALM 32 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: O love that casts out fear (Tune: MOSELEY – Henry Thomas Smart (1813-1879) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone III.6 ANTHEM: Love Never Ends – Alice Parker […]
The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: ‘Peace be within this sacred place’ from Six Hymns to Doctor Watts – Alice Parker (b. 1925) PSALM 84 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: All praise to thee, my God, this night (Tune: TALLIS’ CANON) – Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585 NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone VIII; harm. John Holmes […]
The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Maker of all things, God most high – Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585) PSALM 121 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: I to the hills will lift mine eyes (Tune: BURFORD) – From A Book of Psalmody, 171 NUNC DIMITTIS from First Fauxbourdon Service – Philip Moore (b. 1943) ANTHEM: I […]
The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Now cheer our hearts this eventide (Tune: ACH BLEIB BEI UNS) – Geistliche Lieder, Leipzig, 1589; harm. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) PSALM 111 – Plainsong, Tone VIII.5 HYMN: I’ll praise my Maker while I’ve breath (Tune: OLD 113TH) – Melody from Strassburger Kirchenamt, 1525; harm. Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) NUNC […]
SAINTS FRANCIS & CLARE observed ORISON: Most High, omnipotent, good Lord (Tune: ASSISI) – Alfred Morton Smith (1879-1971) PSALM 63:1-8 – Plainsong, Tone II.1 HYMN: For the beauty of the earth (Tune: LUCERNA LAUDONIAE) – David Evans (1874-1948) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone III.6 ANTHEM: ‘Salut, Dame Sainte,’ from Quatre petites prières de Saint François d’Assise– […]
SAINT MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS transferred ORISON: Christ, the fair glory of the holy angels (Tune: CHRISTE SANCTORUM) – Sarum plainsong, Mode I PSALM 91 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Jesus came, adored by angels (Tune: LOWRY) – Gerald Near (b. 1942); arr. Gregory Bloch (b. 1977) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone I; harm. Anon. […]
The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: O come, ye servants of the Lord – Christopher Tye (c. 1505-1572/73) PSALM 113 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN: All who love and serve your city (Tune: CHARLESTOWN) – mel. from The Southern Harmony, 1865; harm. Alistair Cassels-Brown (1927-2001), alt., and Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) NUNC […]
In memory of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022) ORISON: Holy is the true light – William H. Harris (1883-1973) PSALM 121 – H. Walford Davies (1869-1941) HYMN: I vow to thee my country (Tune: Thaxted) – Gustav Holst (1874-1934) NUNC DIMITTIS (ATB/ATB) – Charles Wood (1866-1926) ANTHEM: Beati quorum via – Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924); arr. Richard Barnes Jason […]
The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: The shadows of the evening hours – Joshua Haberman (b. 1982) PSALM 1 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN: Abide with me (Tune: Eventide) – William Henry Monk (1823-1889) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone VII; harm. Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (c. 1560-1627) ANTHEM: Salva nos, Domine, vigilantes – Jacob Handl (1551-1591) Jason Anderson, director, cantor • Gregory Bloch, reader
The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: O Christ, you are both light and day – Tune: COMPLINE by David Hurd (b. 1950) PSALM 112 – plainsong, Tone I.7 HYMN: Thy kingdom come on bended knee – Tune: ST. FLAVIAN, melody from Day’s Psalter, 1562; adapt. and harm. Richard Redhead (1820-1901) NUNC DIMITTIS – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) ANTHEM: Visita quaesumus Domine – William […]
The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Christe qui lux es et dies (Compline Hymn, Mode 2) – arr. Kevin Siegfried PSALM 103:1-8 – Plainsong, Tone VIII.5 OFFICE HYMN: To you before the close of day (Plainsong, Mode 2) NUNC DIMITTIS – Richard Proulx (1937-2010) ANTHEM: O bone Jesu – Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) Jeremy Matheis, Director […]
The Eve of Saint Mary the Virgin ORISON: Virgin-born, we bow before thee – Claude Goudimel (c. 1514-1572) PSALM 34:1-9 – Plainsong, Tone V.2 HYMN: Sing we of the blessed Mother (Tune: RUSTINGTON) – Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone III.6 ANTHEM: Ave Maria – Franz Biebl (1906-2001) Jason Anderson, director • WIlliam Turnipseed, reader • […]
The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Phos hilaron : O Gracious Light PSALM: 91 Tone II.IV HYMN: Te lucis ante terminum: To You Before the Close of Day NUNC DIMITTIS: Tone II.IV ANTHEM: Ubi Caritas: Where true Charity and Love Dwell Scott Kovacs, Director • Josh Sandoz, Reader • Fred McIlroy, Cantor
The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Round me falls the night – melody by A. Drese (1620-1701); verse 1 harm. S.S. Wesley (1824-1899); verse 2 harm. Henry Ley (1887-1962); verse 3 harm. J. S. Bach (1685-1750) PSALM 134 & 4 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN 617: Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round (Tune: Song 1) – Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) NUNC […]
The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Lumen – Abbie Betinis (b. 1980) PSALM 122 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014), ed. by Jason Anderson HYMN: Now the day is over – Joseph Barnby, adapt. Gregory Bloch; Text: Sabine Baring-Gould NUNC DIMITTIS – Harmonized plainchant, Mode V ANTHEM: Ubi Caritas – Kim André Arnesen (b. 1980) Sung by the Women’s […]
The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Portum in ultimo – Codex Calixtinus, [f. 217v (188v)] Text: Idem Ato PSALM 116 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Through all this world below (Tune: CAPTAIN KIDD) – arr. Kevin Siegfried (for the Seattle Women’s Compline Choir *Premiere) Tune: The Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion, Text: Mercer’s Cluster p. […]
The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: God be in my head – Doug Fullington (b. 1969) PSALM 25:1-8, 10-11, 13-14, 21 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: O God of earth and altar (Tune: KING’S LYNN) – English folk melody; harm. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) and Gregory W. Bloch (b. 1977) NUNC DIMITTIS in G – […]
The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: ‘Phos hilaron,’ from The Evening Service – Stephen Sturk (b. 1950) PSALM 66:1-11 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: All through the night (Tune: AR HYD Y NOS) – Welsh melody; arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) NUNC DIMITTIS from The Evening Service – Stephen Sturk ANTHEM: ‘In pace’ from Three […]
The Third Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: O gladsome Light (Tune: LE CANTIQUE DE SIMÉON) – mel. Loys Bourgeois (c. 1510-1559); harm. Claude Goudimel (1514-1572) PSALM 16 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN: The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended (Tune: COMMANDMENTS) – Loys Bourgeois (c. 1510-1559) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone III.6 ANTHEM: Sometimes I […]
The Second Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: ‘Phos hilaron’ from Music for Compline – Kevin Siegfried (b. 1969) PSALM 22:22-30 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) OFFICE HYMN: ‘Te lucis ante terminum’ from Music for Compline – Kevin Siegfried NUNC DIMITTIS – Dana Marsh (b. 1965) ANTHEM: There is a balm in Gilead – African-American Spiritual; arr. Jeff […]
The First Sunday after Pentecost: Trinity Sunday ORISON: O Trinity of blessed Light – Jeff Junkinsmith (b. 1956) PSALM 113 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN: Holy God, we praise thy Name (Tune: GROSSER GOTT) – mel. from Katholisches Gesangbuch, 1686; harm. Charles Winfred Douglas (1867-1944), after Conrad Kocher (1786-1872); vs. 4 harm. Rejoice in […]
Day of Pentecost: Whitsunday ORISON: Veni Sancte Spiritus – Plainsong, Mode I PSALM 104:25-32, 35-37 – Peter R. Hallock (1924–2014) HYMN: O thou who camest from above (Tune: HEREFORD) – Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-1876) NUNC DIMITTIS – Christopher Tye (c. 1505-c. 1573) ANTHEM: O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit – Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585) Jason Anderson, director […]
The Seventh Sunday of Easter: The Sunday after Ascension Day Special Liturgy: Lament for Uvalde, Texas PROCESSIONAL: O clap your hands – Peter R. Hallock (1924–2014) PSALM 68:1-20 – Peter R. Hallock HYMN: O Lord Most High, eternal King (Tune: AETERNE REX ALTISSIME) – Plainsong, Mode I NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tone VI; harm. Thomas […]
The Sixth Sunday of Easter ORISON: God himself is with us (Tune: TYSK) – from Psalm und Choralbuch, 1719; arr. Gregory Bloch PSALM 97 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Lift your voice rejoicing, Mary (Tune: FISK OF GLOUCESTER) – Thomas Foster (b. 1938) NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tone VII; harm. Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585) ANTHEM: […]
The Fifth Sunday of Easter ORISON: ‘O Light, O Way, O Truth, O Life’, from Ten Orisons – M. Searle Wright (1918-2004) PSALMS 148 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: O what their joy and their glory must be (Tune: O QUANTA QUALIA) – mel. from Antiphoner, 1681; harm. John Bacchus Dykes (1823-1876) NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong […]
The Fourth Sunday of Easter: Good Shepherd Sunday ORISON: Christians to the Paschal victim (Tune: VICTIMAE PASCHALI LAUDES) – Plainsong, Mode I; melody att. Wigbert (d. 1050?) PSALM 23 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Who are these like stars appearing (Tune: ZEUCH MICH, ZEUCH MICH) – mel. from Geistreiches Gesang-buch, 1698; harm. William Monk […]
The Third Sunday of Easter ORISON: This joyful Eastertide (Tune: VRUECHTEN) – mel. from Psalmen, 1685; harm. Charles Wood (1866-1926) PSALM 33:1-11 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Christ is alive! Let Christians sing (Tune: TRURO) – Psalmodia Evangelica, 1790; vs. 5 harm. Harvey Grace (1874-1944) NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tone II; harm. Matteo Palotta […]
The Second Sunday of Easter ORISON: That Easter Day with joy was bright (Tune: PUER NOBIS) – mel. from Trier MS., 15th cent.; adapt. Michael Praetorius (1571-1621); harm. George R. Woodward (1848-1934) PSALM 118:14-24, 28-29 – Plainsong, Tone VIII.1 HYMN: We walk by faith, and not by sight (Tune: SAINT BOTOLPH) – Gordon Slater (1896-1979) NUNC […]
The Feast of the Resurrection: Easter Day PROCESSIONAL: Easter Canticle – Peter R. Hallock (1924–2014) PSALM 114 – Plainsong, Tonus peregrinus HYMN: Come, ye faithful, raise the strain (Tune: Gaudeamus pariter) – Medieval Bohemian Carol Melody,1544; vs. 2 harm. Hymnal 1940; vs. 3 harm. Harvey Grace (1874-1944) NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tonus peregrinus; harm. William Byrd (c. 1540-1623) ANTHEM: Haec est dies – Jacob Handl (1550-1591) […]
The Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday ORISON: Domine, ne longe facias – Plainsong, Mode VII PSALM 22:1-11 – Plainsong, Tone IV.1 RESPOND: In manus tuas – John Sheppard (c. 1515-1558) HYMN: O sacred head, sore wounded (Tune: HERZLICH TUT MICH VERLANGEN) – Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612); adapt. and harm. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) NUNC DIMITTIS […]
The Fifth Sunday in Lent ORISON: Judica me Deus – Plainsong, Mode IV PSALM 126 – Plainsong, Tone I.9 HYMN: Drop, drop, slow tears (Tune: SONG 46) – Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2 ANTHEM: Lamentations of Jeremiah – Osbert Parsley (c. 1511-1585) Jason Anderson, director • William Turnipseed , reader • James Wilcox, cantor
The Fourth Sunday in Lent ORISON: Laetare Jerusalem – Plainsong, Mode V PSALM 32 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Kind Maker of the world (Tune: A LA VENUE DE NOËL) – mel. from Fleurs des noels, 1535 NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2 ANTHEM: Media vita in morte sumus – Pierre de Manchicourt […]
The Third Sunday in Lent ORISON: Oculi mei – Plainsong, Mode VII PSALM 63:1-8 – Plainsong, Tone II.1 HYMN: Lord Jesus, think on me (Tune: SOUTHWELL) – from Daman’s Psalter, 1579; adapt. Hymnal 1940; fauxbourdon harm. by Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2 ANTHEM: Lamentations of Jeremiah (Setting I) – […]
The Second Sunday in Lent ORISON: Reminiscere miserationum tuarum – Plainsong, Mode IV PSALM 27:10-18 – Plainsong, Tone VIII.1 HYMN: Eternal light, shine in my heart (Tune: ACH BLEIB BEI UNS) – mel. Samuel Scheidt (1587-1654); harm. Seth Calvisius (1556-1615) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2 ANTHEM: Lamentations of Jeremiah – Jacob Handl (1550-1591) […]
The First Sunday in Lent ORISON: Invocabit me – Plainsong, Mode VIII PSALM 91 – Plainsong, Tone IV.4 HYMN: Lord, who throughout these forty days (Tune: SAINT FLAVIAN) – mel. from Day’s Psalter, 1562; harm. Richard Redhead (1820-1901) and Giles Farnaby (c. 1563-1640), adapt. NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2 ANTHEM: In jejunio et fletu […]
The Eighth Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: How bright appears the Morning Star (Tune: WIE SCHÖN LEUCHTET) – composite; arr. Gregory Bloch PSALM 99 – Plainsong, Tone VII.7 HYMN: Christ upon the mountain peak (Tune: IBIS) – mel. Thomas Kuras (1950-1997); harm. Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone I; harm. Thomas Morley (1557-1602) […]
The Seventh Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: ‘Beloved, let us love one another,’ from In Praise of Singing – Alice Parker (b. 1925) PSALM 33:12-22 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: God is love (Tune: UBI CARITAS [MURRAY]) – A. Gregory Murray (1905-1992) NUNC DIMITTIS – Dana Marsh (b. 1965) ANTHEM: Ubi caritas – Maurice Duruflé […]
The Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: If ye love me – Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585) PSALM 1 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN: Blest are the pure in heart (Tune: FRANCONIA) – Johann Balthasar König (1691-1758); adapt. and harm. William Henry Havergal (1793-1870) NUNC DIMITTIS – Anonymous [No. 26], from The Lumley Books, c. […]
The Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: Dear Lord and Father of mankind (Tune: REST) – Frederick Charles Maker (1844-1927) PSALM 138 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN: Jesus calls us; o’er the tumult (Tune: RESTORATION) – mel. The Sacred Harp, 1835; arr. Gregory W. Bloch NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong – Tone V.1 ANTHEM: […]
The Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: Now as the troubled day departs – M. Searle Wright (1918-2004) PSALM 70 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: God, that madest earth and heaven (Tune: AR HYD Y NOS) – Welsh melody; arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) and Ernest Bullock (1890-1979) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone VIII; […]
The Third Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: Blessed Jesus, at thy word we are gathered (Tune: LIEBSTER JESU) – mel. Johann Ahle (1625-1673); harm. George Palmer (1846-1926) PSALM 19 – Plainsong, Tone III.4 HYMN: O Christ, the Word Incarnate (Tune: MUNICH) – harm. Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847 NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong, Tone II; harm. John Holmes (d. […]
The Second Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: Songs of thankfulness and praise (Tune: SALZBURG) – mel. Jakob Hintze (1622-1702); harm. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) PSALM 36:5-10 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN: All praise to you, O Lord (Tune: CARLISLE) – Charles Lockhart (1745-1815) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone VI; harm. Orlando Gibbons (c. 1583-1625) […]
The First Sunday after the Epiphany: The Baptism of Jesus ORISON: ‘I come,’ the great Redeemer cries (Tune: THIS ENDRIS NYGHT) – English melody; harm. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) and Martin Fallas Shaw (1875-1958) PSALM 89:1-2, 20-29 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: When Christ’s appearing was made known (Tune: ERHALT UNS, HERR) – melody from […]
The Second Sunday after Christmas Day PROCESSIONAL: Puer nobis nascitur – Moosburg Gradual, c. 1355-1360; arr. Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) PSALM 84 – Peter R. Hallock (1924 – 2014) HYMN: It came upon the midnight clear (Tune: NOEL) – English melody; arr. Arthur Seymour Sullivan (1842-1900) NUNC DIMITTIS (Tune: MARILYN) – Peter R. Hallock ANTHEM: In […]
The First Sunday after Christmas Day PROCESSIONAL: Gloria in excelsis Deo – Plainchant, adapt. Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) PSALM 147 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Of the Father’s love begotten (Tune: DIVINUM MYSTERIUM) – Sanctus trope, 11th cent.; adapt. Piae Cantiones, 1582 NUNC DIMITTIS (Tune: MARILYN) – Peter R. Hallock ANTHEMS: There is no […]
The Fourth Sunday of Advent ORISON: O heavenly Word, eternal Light (Tune: Verbum supernum prodiens) – Plainsong, Mode 2, Nevers MS., 13th cent. CANTICLE 3 – The Song of Mary – Plainsong, Tone VIII.1 (Solemn) HYMN: The angel Gabriel from heaven came (Tune: Gabriel’s Message) – Basque carol; arr. Edgar Pettman (1865-1943) NUNC DIMITTIS – Richard Proulx (1937-2010) ANTHEM: Maria durch ein Dornwald ging […]
The Third Sunday of Advent ORISON: Redeemer of the nations, come (Tune: VENI REDEMPTOR GENTIUM) – Plainsong, Mode I, Einsiedeln MS., 12th cent. CANTICLE 9 – The First Song of Isaiah – Plainsong, Tone VII.3 and Peter R. Hallock (1924–2014) HYMN: On Jordan’s bank the baptist’s cry (Tune: WINCHESTER NEW) – Bartholomäus Crasselius (1667-1724), Harvey […]
The Second Sunday of Advent ORISON: Creator of the stars of night (Tune: CONDITOR ALME SIDERUM) – Plainsong, Mode IV CANTICLE 16 – The Song of Zechariah – Plainsong, Tone VIII.1 HYMN: Hark! a thrilling voice is sounding (Tune: MERTON) – William Monk (1823-1889) NUNC DIMITTIS – Richard Proulx (1937-2010) ANTHEM: E’en so, Lord Jesus, […]
The First Sunday of Advent ORISON: Matin Responsory – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) PSALM 25:1-9 – Plainsong, Tone IV.2 HYMN 68: Rejoice! rejoice, believers (Tune: LLANGLOFFAN) – mel. from Hymnau a Thonau er Gwasanaeth yr englwys yng Nghymru, 1865 NUNC DIMITTIS – Richard Proulx (1937-2010) ANTHEM: Audivi vocem de caelo – Plainsong, Mode I; […]
The Last Sunday after Pentecost: Christ the King ORISON: ‘Psalm 95’ from Six Hymns to Doctor Watts – Alice Parker (b. 1925) PSALMS 93 and 150 – Plainsong, Tone VIII.3 and Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) HYMN: Now thank we all our God (Tune: NUN DANKET ALLE GOTT) – mel. Johann Crüger (1598-1662); harm. Johann Sebastian […]
The 25th Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Let saints on earth in concert sing (Tune: DUNDEE) – mel. from The CL Psalmes of David, 1615; harm. Thomas Ravenscroft (c. 1592-c. 1635), alt PSALM 16 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN: For thy dear saints, O Lord (Tune: SAINT GEORGE) – Henry John Gauntlett (1805-1876); vs. […]
All Saints’ Sunday ORISON: Holy is the true light – William H. Harris (1883-1973) PSALM 24 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Who are these like stars appearing? (Tune: ZUECH MICH, ZEUCH MICH) – mel. from Geistreiches Gesang-buch, 1698; harm. William Henry Monk (1823-1889), alt. NUNC DIMITTIS – James Bassi (b. 1961) ANTHEM: Blow ye […]
All Hallows’ Eve ORISON: Kontakion for the Departed – Kievan Chant; adapt. Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) PSALM 13 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) OFFICE HYMN: Before the ending of the day (Tune: TE LUCIS ANTE TERMINUM) – Sarum Plainsong, Mode VIII; harm. Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tonus peregrinus; harm. Lodovico […]
The Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Help me, O Lord, thy way to keep – Shaker tune, arr. Kevin Siegfried (b. 1969) PSALM 126 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: By gracious powers so wonderfully sheltered (Tune: INTERCESSOR) – Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone III.6 ANTHEM: Lord, it is night – Donald Skirvin (b. […]
Compline Choir 65th Anniversary Celebration ORISON: Bring us, O Lord God – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) PSALM 91 – Peter R. Hallock HYMN: I’ll praise my Maker while I’ve breath (Tune: OLD 113TH) – Melody from Strassburger Kirchenamt, 1525; harm. Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) NUNC DIMITTIS (2-part setting with bells) – Peter R. Hallock ANTHEM: […]
The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: God be in my head – Doug Fullington (b. 1969) PSALM 90: 12-17 – Plainsong, Tone VIII.1 HYMN: My God, how wonderful thou art (Tune: WINDSOR) – mel. William Damon (c. 1540-c. 1591), alt;. harm. Henchman & Hancock, 1754; Booke of Musicke, 1591; and The Academic Hymnal, 1899 NUNC […]
The Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels (transferred) ORISON: Christ, the fair glory of the holy angels (Tune: CHRISTE SANCTORUM) – Sarum plainsong, Mode I PSALM 103: Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Hark! hark, my soul! (Tune: VOX ANGELICA) – John Bacchus Dykes (1823-1876); adapt. Gregory Bloch NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong, Tone IV; harm. Lodovico […]
––This service originally recorded September 29, 2019* The Feast of Saint Michael & All Angels ORISON: Christ, the fair glory of the holy angels (Tune: Christe sanctorum) – Sarum plainsong, Mode I PSALM 91: Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Ye holy angels bright (Tune: Darwall’s 148th) – mel. John Darwall (1731-1789); harm. William Henry Monk (1823-1889) and Martin Fallas Shaw (1875-1958) […]
The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Now cheer our hearts this eventide (Tune: Ach bleib bei uns) – Geistliche Lieder, Leipzig, 1589; harm. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) PSALM 54 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN: Lord, whose love through humble service (Tune: Saint Helena) – Calvin Hampton (1938-1984) NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong, Tone III; harm. Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (c. 1560-1627) […]
The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Hope of the world, thou Christ of great compassion (Tune: Donne secours) – mel. from Trente quatre pseaumes de David, 1551; harm. Claude Goudimel (c. 1514-1572) PSALM 116 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Cross of Jesus, cross of sorrow (Tune: Cross of Jesus) – John Stainer (1840-1901) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone I; harm. Lodovico Grossi […]
The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Maker of all things, God most high – Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585) PSALM 146 – Plainsong, Tone IV.2 HYMN: Abide with me (Tune: Eventide) – William Henry Monk (1823-1889) NUNC DIMITTIS: from The First Service – Plainsong, Tone IV; harm. Philip Moore (b. 1943) ANTHEM: Look down, O Lord – William Byrd (c. 1540-1623) Jason Anderson, director • J. Scott […]
The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Now cheer our hearts this eventide – Nathan Jensen (b. 1968) PSALM 15 (Setting I) – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Now the day is over (Tune: Merrial) – Joseph Barnby (1838-1896) NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong, Tone VI; harm. Lodovico da Viadana (ca. 1560-1627) ANTHEM: Salva nos, Domine, vigilantes – Jean Mouton (ca. 1459-1522) Jason Anderson, director • Joel Matter, reader • […]
The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: The shadows of the evening hours – Erin Aas (b. 1974) PSALM 34:15-22 – Plainsong, Tone V.2 HYMN: God, that madest earth and heaven (Tune: Ar hyd y nos) – Welsh melody; arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) and Ernest Bullock (1890-1979) NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong, Tone VIII; harm. John Holmes (d. 1629) ANTHEM: Salva nos, Domine, […]
Saint Mary the Virgin ORISON: Blest are the pure in heart – M. Searle Wright (1918-2004) PSALM: Psalm 34:1-9 – Plainsong, Tone V.2 HYMN: Jerusalem, my happy home (Tune: Land of Rest) – American folk hymn; adapt. Annabel Morris Buchanan (1889-1983); arr. Richard T. Proulx (1937-2010) NUNC DIMITTIS: John Munday (c. 1555-1630) ANTHEM: Ave Maria […]
The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Round me falls the night – melody by A. Drese (1620-1701); verse 1 harm. S.S. Wesley (1824-1899); verse 2 harm. Henry Ley (1887-1962); verse 3 harm. J. S. Bach (1685-1750) PSALM: Psalm 70 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) OFFICE HYMN: Te lucis ante terminum (Before the ending of the day) – Plainsong, Mode […]
The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: The shadows of the evening hours – Joshua Haberman (b. 1982) PSALM: Psalm 46 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: The duteous day now closeth (Tune: O Welt, ich muss dich lassen) – mel. att. Heinrich Isaac (c. 1450-1517); harm. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong, Tone II; harm. John Holmes (d. 1629) […]
Compline this Sunday is sung the Women’s Compline Choir, directed by Rebekah Gilmore* The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Alleluia – Stephanie Martin (b. 1962) PSALM: Psalm 14 – Plainchant, Tone III.4 HYMN: Te lucis ante terminum – Jeff Junkinsmith (b. 1956) [World Premiere] NUNC DIMITTIS: Jeff Junkinsmith (b. 1956) [-dedicated to the Women’s Compline Choir (World Premiere)] ANTHEM: Of […]
Saint Mark’s Cathedral and The Compline Choir were honored to be invited by the Royal School of Church Music – America, to contribute a pre-recorded office of Compline to be premiered during their 2021 online Summer Training Course. The service was filmed over two days in April 2021, following pandemic safety protocols and with a […]
Compline this Sunday is sung the Women’s Compline Choir, directed by Rebekah Gilmore The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Holy Manna – Southern Harmony, arranged by Kevin Siegfried (1969-) PSALM: Psalm 23 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) arranged by Jeff Reynolds HYMN: Tantum Ergo – Stephanie Martin (b. 1962) NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tone V 1; harm. Thomas Morley […]
The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 10B) ORISON: The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended (Tune: Les Commandements) – mel. Louis Bourgeois (c. 1510-c. 1559); harm. Claude Goudimel (c. 1514-1572) PSALM 85:7-13 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN: O holy Splendor of eternal Light (Tune: Coolinge) – Cyril Vincent Tayler (1907-1991); adapt. Gregory Bloch NUNC DIMITTIS – Jeff Junkinsmith (b. […]
The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 9B) ORISON: God be in my head – Doug Fullington (b. 1969) PSALM 91 (Setting I) – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: All who love and serve your city (Tune: Charlestown) – mel. from The Southern Harmony, 1865; harm. Alastair Cassels-Brown (1927-2001); stz. 3 harm. Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) NUNC DIMITTIS from The Evening Service – Stephen […]
The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 8B) ORISON: ‘Phos hilaron’ from Music for Compline – Kevin Siegfried (b. 1969) PSALM 30 – Plainsong, Tone I.9 OFFICE HYMN: ‘Te lucis ante terminum’ from Music for Compline – Kevin Siegfried NUNC DIMITTIS – Dana Marsh (b. 1965) ANTHEM: Of the Lord’s mercies – Erin Aas (b. 1974) Jason Anderson, director • Joel Matter, reader • Derek Tilton, cantor
The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 7B) ORISON: Dear Lord and Father of mankind – M. Searle Wright (1918-2004) PSALM 107:1-3, 23-32 – Plainsong, Tone V.1 HYMN 579: Almighty Father, strong to save (Tune: Melita) – John Bacchus Dykes (1823-1876) NUNC DIMITTIS – Richard T. Proulx (1937-2010) ANTHEM: Domine salva nos – William Byrd (c. 1540-1623) Jason Anderson, director • J. Scott Kovacs, reader • Michael Bennett, cantor
The Third Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: O gladsome Light (Tune: Le Cantique de Siméon) – mel. Loys Bourgeois (c. 1510-1559); harm. Claude Goudimel (1514-1572) PSALM 91 (Setting II) – Peter R. Hallock (1925-2014) HYMN: Almighty God, your word is cast like seed (Tune: Walden) – Jane Marshall (1924-2019) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone VI; harm. Anonymous 16th cent. composer ANTHEM: Iustus germinabit sicut lilium – Jacob Gallus (1550-1591) Jason Anderson, director • Jeremy Matheis, reader • Ken […]
The Second Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Slowly the rays of daylight fade – M. Searle Wright (1918-2004) PSALM 130 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Out of the depths I call (Tune: Saint Bride) – Samuel Howard (1710-1782) and Geoffrey Shaw (1879-1943) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone IV; harm. Anonymous 16th cent. composer; adapt. Bernarr Rainbow (1914-1998) ANTHEM: Sometimes I feel […]
The First Sunday after Pentecost: Trinity Sunday ORISON: O Trinity of blessed light – Jeff Junkinsmith (b. 1956) PSALMS 93 & 150 – Plainsong, Tone VIII.3 & Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924); arr. for men’s voices by Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Holy Father, cheer our way (Tune: Ton-Mân) – David Evans (1874-1948) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone VII; harm. Lodovico […]
Whitsunday: The Day of Pentecost ORISON: ‘Come, thou Holy Spirit, come!’, from Ten Orisons – M. Searle Wright (1918-2004) PSALM 104:25-32, 35-37 – Peter R. Hallock (1924–2014) HYMN 504: Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire (Tune: Veni Creator Spiritus)– Plainsong, Mode VIII NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tone II; harm. John Holmes (d. 1629) ANTHEM: O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit – Thomas […]
The Seventh Sunday of Easter: The Sunday after Ascension Day ORISON: God is ascended (Tune: Gen Himmel aufgefahren ist) – German, 16th cent.; arr. Peter R. Hallock (1924–2014) PSALM 68:1-20 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN 220: O Lord Most High, eternal King (Tune: Aeterne Rex altissime) – Plainsong, Mode I NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tone IV; harm. anonymous 16th cent. […]
The Sixth Sunday of Easter ORISON: ‘Beloved, let us love one another’ from In Praise of Singing – Alice Parker (b. 1925) PSALM 98 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Christ is alive! Let Christians sing (Tune: Truro) – Psalmodia Evangelica, 1790; vs. 5 harm. Harvey Grace (1874-1944) NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tone V.1 ANTHEM: Ubi caritas – Ola Gjeilo (b. 1978) Jason Anderson, director […]
The Fifth Sunday of Easter ORISON: ‘O Light, O Way, O Truth, O Life’, from Ten Orisons – M. Searle Wright (1918-2004) PSALMS 22:22-30 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Good Christians all, rejoice and sing! (Tune: Gelobt sei Gott) – Melchior Vulpius (c. 1560-1616); harm. Pilgrim Hymnal, 1958 NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tone III; harm. Carolus Andreas (d. 1627) ANTHEM: Christ rising again – John […]
The Fourth Sunday of Easter ORISON: The Lord is my Shepherd – Bobby McFerrin (b. 1950) PSALM 23 (Setting I) – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: The God of love my Shepherd is (Tune: University) – mel. attr. Charles Collignon (1725-1785); vs. 5 harm. Martin Shaw (1875-1958) NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tone I; harm. Carolus Andreas (d. 1627) ANTHEM: Christus resurgens […]
The Third Sunday of Easter ORISON: Come, ye faithful, raise the strain (Tune: Gaudeamus pariter) – Bohemian carol; composite arr. Gregory Bloch PSALMS 134 & 4 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Lift your voice rejoicing, Mary (Tune: Fisk of Gloucester) – Thomas Foster (b. 1938) NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tone V.1 ANTHEM: Regina caeli – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c. 1525-1594) Jeremy […]
Easter Day ORISON: This joyful Eastertide (Tune: Vreuchten) – mel. from Psalmen, 1685; harm. Charles Wood (1866-1926) PSALM 114 – Plainsong, Tonus peregrinus HYMN: Christians to the Paschal victim (Tune: Victimae Paschali laudes) – Plainsong, Mode I; melody att. Wigbert (d. 1050?) and Christ the Lord is risen again (Tune: Christ ist erstanden) – mel. from Geistliche Lieder, 1533; harm. Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612) NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tonus peregrinus; […]
ORISON: Drop, drop, slow tears (Tune: Song 46) – Orlando Gibbons (c. 1583-1625) PSALM 22:1-11 – Plainsong, Tone IV.1 HARMONIZED RESPOND: In manus tuas (setting I) – John Sheppard (c. 1515-1558) OFFICE HYMN: O Christ, you are both light and day (Tune: Christe, qui Lux es et dies) – Plainsong, Mode II; Mailander Hymnem, 15th cent. NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2 ANTHEM: Absalon fili mi – attr. […]
The Fifth Sunday in Lent ORISON: ‘Psalm 51’ from Six Hymns to Doctor Watts – Alice Parker (b. 1925) PSALM 51 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) [Psalter, p. 68] * OFFICE HYMN: O Christ, you are both light and day (Tune: Christe, qui Lux es et dies) – Plainsong, Mode II; Mailander Hymnem, 15th cent. * NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2 ANTHEM: Peccavimus cum […]
The Fourth Sunday in Lent: Laetare ORISON: Laetare Jerusalem – Plainsong, Mode V PSALM 107:1-3, 17-22 – Plainsong, Tone V.1 * OFFICE HYMN: O Christ, you are both light and day (Tune: Christe, qui Lux es et dies) – Plainsong, Mode II; Mailander Hymnem, 15th cent. * NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2 ANTHEM: Media vita in morte sumus – Pierre de Manchicourt (c. 1510–1564) […]
The Third Sunday in Lent ORISON: Lord Jesus, think on me (Tune: Southwell) – from Daman’s Psalter, 1579; adapt. Hymnal 1940; fauxbourdon harm. Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) PSALM 19 – Plainsong, Tone III.4 OFFICE HYMN: O Christ, you are both light and day (Tune: Christe, qui Lux es et dies) – Plainsong, Mode II; Mailander Hymnem, 15th cent. NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2 ANTHEM: Emendemus in melius – Jean […]
The Second Sunday in Lent ORISON: What wondrous love is this (Tune: Wondrous Love) – mel. from The Southern Harmony, 1835; harm. Richard T. Proulx (1937-2010) PSALM 22:22-30 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) OFFICE HYMN: O Christ, you are both light and day (Tune: Christe, qui Lux es et dies) – Plainsong, Mode II; Mailander Hymnem, 15th cent. NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2 ANTHEM: Spem in […]
The First Sunday in Lent ORISON: Remember, O thou man – Thomas Ravenscroft (c. 1582-c. 1635) PSALM 25:1-8, 10-11, 13-14, 21 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) OFFICE HYMN: O Christ, you are both light and day (Tune: Christe, qui Lux es et dies) – Plainsong, Mode II; Mailander Hymnem, 15th cent. NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2 ANTHEM: In pace, in idipsum – Christopher Tye (c. […]
This archived service of Compline was originally recorded February 11, 2018 The Last Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: Processional Psalm for Lucernarium – Carl C. Crosier (1945-2014) PSALM 50:1-6 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN: Christ upon the mountain peak (Tune: Ibis) – melody Thomas Kuras (1950-1997); harm. Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong, Tone VII; harm. Thomas Morley […]
This archived service of Compline was originally recorded February 16, 2020 The Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: ‘Thy mercies fill the earth, O Lord’ from Six Hymns to Doctor Watts – Alice Parker (b. 1925) PSALM 119:1-8 – Plainsong, Tone II.1 HYMN: Book of books, our people’s strength (Tune: Liebster Jesu) – mel. Johann Rudolph Ahle (1625-1673); harm. George […]
This archived service of Compline was originally recorded January 28, 2018 The Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: Blessed Jesus, at thy word we are gathered (Tune: Liebster Jesu) – mel. by Johann Rudolph Ahle (1625-1673); harm. George Herbert Palmer (1846-1926) and Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) PSALM 57 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Jesus, Lover of my soul (Tune: Aberystwyth) […]
This archived service of Compline was originally recorded January 21, 2018 The Third Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: Dear Lord and Father of mankind (Tune: Rest) – Frederick Charles Maker (1844-1927) PSALM 62 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN: Jesus calls us; o’er the tumult (Tune: Restoration) – melody from The Southern Harmony, 1835; harm. The Hymnal, 1982 NUNC DIMITTIS – Jeff Junkinsmith (b. 1956) ANTHEM: Ambulans Jesus – […]
This archived service of Compline was originally recorded January 14, 2018 The Second Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: Jesus came, adored by angels (Tune: Lowry) – Gerald Near (b. 1942) PSALM 139 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Lord, thou hast searched me out (Tune: Tender Thought) – Kentucky Harmony, 1815 NUNC DIMITTIS – Dana T. Marsh (b. 1965) ANTHEM: Domine, probasti – Jason A. […]
This archived service of Compline was originally recorded January 12, 2020[Originally posted with last week’s audio. Now fixed] The First Sunday after the Epiphany: The Baptism of Jesus ORISON: ‘I come,’ the great Redeemer cries (Tune: This Endris Nyght) – English melody; harm. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) and Martin Fallas Shaw (1875-1958) PSALM 29: Peter R. Hallock (1924–2014) HYMN: When […]
This archived service of Compline was originally recorded January 6, 2019 The Second Sunday after Christmas ORISON: What child is this (Tune: Greensleeves) – English melody; harm. Christmas Carols New and Old, 1871, alt. PSALM 96 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN: In the bleak mid-winter (Tune: Cranham) – Gustav Holst (1874-1934) NUNC DIMITTIS (Tune: Marilyn) – Peter R. Hallock ANTHEM: Reges Tharsis et […]
This archived service of Compline was originally recorded December 30, 2018 The First Sunday after Christmas Day PROCESSIONAL: Once in royal David’s city (Tune: Irby) – melody Henry John Gauntlett (1805-1876); harm. Arthur Henry Mann (1850-1929) PSALM 147 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: It came upon the midnight clear (Tune: Noel) – English melody; adapt. Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) NUNC DIMITTIS […]
This archived service of Compline was originally recorded December 17, 2017 The Fourth Sunday of Advent PROCESSION: O come, O come, Emmanuel (Tune: Veni, veni, Emmanuel) – Plainsong, Mode I, Processionale, 15th cent.; adapt. Thomas Helmore (1811-1890); arr. Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) ORISON: Lo, how a Rose e’er blooming – Michael Praetorius (1571-1621) and Carl Orff (1895-1982) PSALM 126 – Peter R. Hallock […]
This archived service of Compline was originally recorded December 15, 2019 The Third Sunday of Advent ORISON: Redeemer of the nations, come (Tune:Veni Redemptor gentium) – Plainsong, Mode I, Einsiedeln MS., 12th cent. PSALM 146:4-9 – Plainsong, Tone IV.2 HYMN: Love divine, all loves excelling (Tune: Hyfrydol) – Rowland Hugh Prichard (1811-1887); harm. Hymnal 1982 NUNC DIMITTIS: Richard Proulx (1937-2010) ANTHEM: Veni, Domine, […]
This archived service of Compline was originally recorded December 10, 2017 The Second Sunday of Advent ORISON: Comfort, comfort ye my people (Tune: Psalm 42) – melody by Claude Goudimel (1514-1572) PSALM 85:7-13 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN: Te lucis ante terminum (Before the ending of the day) – Plainsong, Mode II NUNC DIMITTIS – Roger Sherman ANTHEM: Ecce Dominus […]
This archived service of Compline was originally recorded December 2, 2018 The First Sunday of Advent ORISON: Matin Responsory – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) PSALM 25:1-9 – Plainsong, Tone IV.2 HYMN: Come, thou long-expected Jesus (Tune: Stuttgart) – mel. From Psalmodia Sacra, 1715; adapt. and harm. William Havergal (1793-1870), alt. NUNC DIMITTIS – Richard Proulx (1937-2010) ANTHEM: Sive vigilem – William Mundy (c. […]
The Last Sunday after Pentecost: Christ the King ORISON: The head that once was crowned with thorns (Tune: Saint Magnus) –Melody from Divine Companion, 1707; harm. William Henry Monk (1823-1889) PSALM 95 – Plainsong, Tone IV.4 HYMN: Judge eternal, throned in splendor (Tune: Komm, o komm, du Geist) – Melody from Neu-vermehrtes und zu Ubung Christl. Gottseligkeit Meiningisches Gesangbuch, 1693 NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone […]
November 15, 2020 – The 24th Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Maker of all things, God most high – Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585) PSALM 90:1-12 – Plainsong, Tone IV.4 HYMN: O God, our help in ages past (Tune: Saint Anne) – mel. att. William Croft (1678-1727); harm. William Henry Monk (1823-1889) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone VII.1 ANTHEM: Submit yourselves – John Shepherd […]
November 8, 2020 – The 23rd Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Let saints on earth in concert sing (Tune: Dundee) – melody from The CL Psalmes of David, 1615; harm. Thomas Ravenscroft (c. 1592-c. 1635) PSALM 4 – Plainsong, Tone IV.1 HYMN: For thy dear saints, O Lord (Tune: Saint George) – Henry John Gauntlett (1805-1876) and Christopher à Becket-Williams (1890-1956) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong […]
All Saints’ Day ORISON: Holy is the true light – William H. Harris (1883-1973) PSALM 34:1-10, 22 – Plainsong, Tone V.2 HYMN: Who are these like stars appearing? (Tune: Zeuch mich, zeuch mich) – melody from Geistreiches Gesang-buch, 1698;harm. William Henry Monk (1823-1889), alt. NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone VII.1 ANTHEM: O quam gloriosum – Tomás Luis de Victoria (c. 1548-1611) Jason Anderson, director, […]
The 21st Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Slowly the rays of daylight fade – M. Searle Wright (1918-2004) PSALM 1 – Plainsong, Tone I.1 HYMN: Book of books, our people’s strength (Tune: Leibster Jesu) – melody by Johann Ahle (1625-1673); harm. George Palmer (1846-1926) and J. S. Bach (1685-1750) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone VII.1 ANTHEM: Christe, filii Dei – Josquin des Prez […]
The 20th Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Dear Lord and Father of mankind – M. Searle Wright (1918-2004) PSALM 96:1-9 – Plainsong, Tone V.1 HYMN: I heard the voice of Jesus say, “Come unto me and rest” (Tune: The Third Tune) – Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone VII.1 ANTHEM: Visita quaesumus, Domine – William Byrd (1540-1623) Jason Anderson, director • Tyler […]
The 19th Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 23A) ORISON: Blest are the pure in heart – M. Searle Wright (1918-2004) PSALM 23 – Plainsong, Tone VII.3 HYMN: The King of love my Shepherd is (Tune: Saint Columba) – Irish melody; stzs. 1-5 harm. Hymnal 1940; stz. 6 harm. Peter R. Hallock NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone VII.1 ANTHEM: O bone Jesu – […]
Saint Francis of Assisi ORISON: Lord, make us servants of your peace (Tune: Dickinson College)— Lee Hastings Bristol, Jr. (1923-1979) PSALM 8 – Plainsong, Tone V.2 HYMN: Most High, omnipotent, good Lord (Tune: Assisi) – Alfred Morton Smith (1879-1971) NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tone VII.1 ANTHEM: ‘Agnus Dei’ from Missa Sancti Francisi – George Oldroyd (1887-1956) Jeremy Matheis, director • Josh Sandoz, reader • Joel Bevington, cantor
Saint Michael & All Angels (transferred) ORISON: Now the day is over – M. Searle Wright (1918-2004) PSALM 91 – Plainsong, Tone IV.4 OFFICE HYMN: To you before the close of day (Tune: Te lucis ante terminum) – Plainsong, Mode VIII NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone VII.1 ANTHEM: Tibi Christe, splendor Patris – Plainsong, Mode II; harm. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c. 1525-1594) […]
The 16th Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 20A) ORISON: The shadows of the evening hours – Josh Haberman (b. 1982) PSALM 31:1-5, 15-16 – Plainsong, Tone IV.2 HYMN: Where cross the crowded ways of life (Tune: Gardiner) – from Sacred Melodies, 1815; harm. William Gardiner (1770-1853) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone VII.1 ANTHEM: Tu solus, qui facis mirabilia – Josquin des Prez (c.?1450/1455-1521) Jason […]
The 15th Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Now cheer our hearts this eventide (Tune: Ach bleib bei uns) – Geistliche Lieder, Leipzig, 1589; harm. J. S. Bach (1685-1750) PSALM 103 – Plainsong, Tone VIII.5 HYMN: In your mercy, Lord, you called me (Tune: Halton Holgate) – William Boyce (1711-1779) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong, Tone III.6 ANTHEM: Be unto me, O Lord, a tower — William Byrd […]
September 6, 2020 • The 14th Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 18A) ORISON: O lux beata Trinitas – Ronald Arnatt (1930-2018) PSALM 119:33-(40)48 (Setting I) – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Jesus, thou joy of loving hearts (Tune: Christe Redemptor) – Sarum Plainsong, Mode I NUNC DIMITTIS from Evening Service in G – Charles Wood (1866-1926) ANTHEM: Out of the deep – Thomas Tomkins […]
The 13th Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 17A) ORISON: The duteous day now closeth (Tune: O Welt, ich muss dich lassen) – mel. att. Heinrich Isaac (c. 1450-1517); harm. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) PSALM 4 – Plainsong, Tone IV.1 HYMN: Now the day is over (Tune: Merrial) – Joseph Barnby (1838-1896) NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tone III.6 ANTHEM: In manus tuas – John Sheppard […]
August 23, 2020 • The Eve of Saint Bartholomew, Apostle ORISON: The eternal gifts of Christ the King (Tune: Aeterna Christi munera) – Plainsong, Mode VII PSALM 91 (Setting I) – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Disposer supreme, and Judge of the earth (Tune: Old 104th) – mel. Thomas Ravenscroft (c. 1590-1633); harm. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tone […]
August 16, 2020 • The 11th Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 15A) ORISON: God be in my head – Doug Fullington (b. 1969) PSALM 67 – Plainsong, Tone VIII.1 HYMN: God, that madest earth and heaven (Tune: Ar hyd y nos) – Welsh melody; arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) and Ernest Bullock (1890-1979) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone III.6 ANTHEM: O […]
The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 14A) ORISON: Dear Lord and Father of mankind (Tune: Rest) – Frederick Charles Maker (1844-1927) PSALM 85:8-13 – Plainsong, Tone III.5 HYMN: Jesus, Lover of my soul (Tune: Aberystwyth) – Joseph Parry (1841-1903) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone III.6 ANTHEM: Jesu, dulcis memoria – Iain Quinn (b. 1973) Jeremy Matheis, director • Tyler Morse, reader • Derek Curtis-Tilton, cantor
8th Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 12AORISON: V – PSALM 122 C.M. “Peace be within this sacred place” by Alice Parker (1925 – )PSALM: 128, Plainchant, Tone III.5HYMN: Te lucis ante terminum – Kevin Siegfried (1969 – )NUNC: Harmonized Plainchant, Tone VANTHEM: Northern Lights by Ola Gjeilo (1978 – ) Compline this Sunday is sung by a quartet drawn from the Women’s […]
7th Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 11A ORISON: Holy Manna – Southern Harmony, arranged by Kevin Siegfried (1969-)PSALM: Psalm 4 – Plainsong, Tone IIHYMN: Now the day is over (Tune: Merrial) by Joseph Barnby, arranged by Jeffrey ReynoldsNUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong, Tone IIIANTHEM: In pace by John Sheppard (1515-1558) Compline this Sunday is sung by a quartet drawn from the Women’s Compline Choir, directed by […]
The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 10A) ORISON: The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended (Tune: Les Commandements) – mel. Louis Bourgeois (c. 1510-c. 1559); harm. Claude Goudimel (c. 1514-1572) PSALM 65 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Almighty God, your word is cast like seed (Tune: Walden) – Jane M. Marshall (1924-2019) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone III.6 ANTHEM: Hear […]
The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: ‘Phos hilaron’ from The Evening Service – Stephen Sturk (b. 1950) PSALM 113 – Plainsong, Tone IV.5 HYMN: All who love and serve your city (Tune: Charlestown) – mel. from The Southern Harmony, 1865; harm. Alastair Cassels-Brown (1927-2001); stz. 3 harm. Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) NUNC DIMITTIS from The Evening Service – Stephen Sturk ANTHEM: ‘In pace’ […]
The Eve of St. Peter & St. Paul, Apostles ORISON: Peter, Keybearer, Paul, the Teacher of mankind (Tune: Decora lux aeternitatis) — Plainsong, Mode I PSALM 97 – Plainsong, Tone VII.7 OFFICE HYMN: Before the ending of the day – Plainsong, Mode VIII; harm. Orlande de Lassus (1532-1594) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone I; harm. Carolus Andreas (d. 1627) ANTHEM: There […]
The Third Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 7A) ORISON: Maker of all things, God most high – Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585) PSALM 46 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) OFFICE HYMN: Te lucis ante terminum – Scandinavian melody, arr. Derek Curtis-Tilton NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone III.6 ANTHEM: Exultate justi in Domino – Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (ca. 1560 – 1627) Jeremy […]
June 14, 2020 • The Second Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 6A) ORISON: O gladsome Light (Tune: Le Cantique de Siméon) – melody Louis Bourgeois (c. 1510- c. 1559); harm. Claude Goudimel (1514-1572) PSALM 91 – Plainsong, Tone IV.4 HYMN: In your mercy, Lord, you called me (Tune: Halton Holgate) – William Boyce (1711-1779); stz. 3 harm. Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-1876) NUNC […]
The First Sunday after Pentecost: Trinity Sunday ORISON: O Trinity of blessed light – Jeff Junkinsmith (b. 1956) PSALM 111 – Plainsong, Tone VIII.5 HYMN: Savior, breathe an evening blessing (Tune: Vesper Hymn) – attr. Dimitri Stepanovitch Bortniansky (1751-1825) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone III.6 ANTHEM: Let us now laud and magnify with music – William Mundy (c. 1529-c. 1591) Jason […]
Whitsunday: The Day of Pentecost ORISON: Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire (Tune: Veni Creator Spiritus)– Plainsong, Mode VIII PSALM 104:25-32, 35-37 – Peter R. Hallock (1924–2014) HYMN: Spirit divine, attend our prayers (Tune: Nun danket all und bringet Ehr) — mel. att. Johann Cruger (1598-1662) NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tone V.1 ANTHEM: O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit – Thomas Tallis (c. […]
The Seventh Sunday of Easter: The Sunday after Ascension Day ORISON: God is ascended (Tune: Gen Himmel aufgefahren ist) – German, 16th cent.;arr. Peter R. Hallock (1924–2014) PSALM 47 – Plainsong, Tone V.2 HYMN 220: O Lord Most High, eternal King (Tune: Aeterne Rex altissime) – Plainsong, Mode I NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tone V.1 ANTHEM: O Rex gloriae – Luca Marenzio (1560-1599) […]
The Sixth Sunday of Easter ORISON: Come, ye faithful, raise the strain (Tune: Gaudeamus pariter) – Medieval Bohemian Carol Melody,1544; harm. Hymnal 1940 and Harvey Grace (1874-1944) PSALM 66:1-11 – Plainsong, Gallican Tone; adapt. Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) OFFICE HYMN: The Lamb’s high banquet called to share (Tune: Ad cenam Agni providi) – Plainsong, Mode VIII NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tone V.1 ANTHEMS: In dieser österlichen Zeit […]
The Fifth Sunday of Easter ORISON: ‘The Call,’ from Five Mystical Songs – Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) PSALMS 31:1-5, 15-16 – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2 OFFICE HYMN: The Lamb’s high banquet called to share (Tune: Ad cenam Agni providi) – Plainsong, Mode VIII NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tone V.1 ANTHEM: Regina caeli – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c. 1525-1594) Jason Anderson, director • Jeffrey […]
The Fourth Sunday of Easter ORISON: The King of love my shepherd is (Tune: Saint Columba)– Irish melody; harm. The Hymnal 1940 and Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) PSALM 23 – Plainsong setting, Tone VII.3 OFFICE HYMN: The Lamb’s high banquet called to share (Tune: Ad cenam Agni providi) – Plainsong, Mode VIII NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tone V.1 ANTHEM: Ad cenam Agni providi – Plainsong, Mode VIII; harm. Guillaume Dufay (c. […]
The Third Sunday of Easter ORISON: That Easter Day with joy was bright (Tune: Puer nobis) – mel. from Trier MS., 15th cent.; adapt. Michael Praetorius (1571-1621); harm. George R. Woodward (1848-1934) PSALM 116:1-3, 10-17 – Plainsong setting, Tone VIII.3 OFFICE HYMN: The Lamb’s high banquet called to share (Tune: Ad cenam Agni providi) – Plainsong, Mode VIII NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tone V.1 ANTHEM: Christ rising again – John Sheppard (c. […]
The Second Sunday of Easter ORISON (H 209): We walk by faith, and not by sight (Tune: Saint Botolph) – Gordon Slater (1896-1979)PSALM 16– Plainsong, Tone II.2 HYMN 206: Alleluia. O sons and daughters, let us sing (Tune: O filii et filiae) – mel. from Airs sur les hymnes sacrez, odes et noels, 1623 NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tone V.1 ANTHEM: Sermone blando angelus – Thomas Tallis (c. […]
April 12, 2020 The Sunday of the Resurrection: Easter Day PROCESSIONAL: Easter Canticle – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) PSALM 118:14-24, 28-29 – Plainsong, Tone VIII.1 HYMN: Christians, to the Paschal victim (Tune: Victimae Paschali laudes) – Plainsong, Mode I; att. Wipo of Burgundy (d. ca. 1050) NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tone V.1 ANTHEM: C??????? co?e?a? (Salvation is created) – Pavel Chesnokov (1877-1944); arr. for men’s voices by Vladimir Morosan Jeremy Matheis, director […]
The Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday ORISON: Vexilla Regis prodeunt – Plainsong, Mode I; harm. Guillaume Du Fay (c. 1397-1474); ed. Peter R. Hallock & Jason A. Anderson PSALM 22:1-11 – Plainsong, Tone IV.1 OFFICE HYMN: To you before the close of day – Plainsong, Mode II NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong, Tone V.1 ANTHEM: Absalon fili mi – attr. Josquin des Prez (c. 1450-1521) or Pierre […]
The Fifth Sunday in Lent ORISON: By gracious powers so wonderfully sheltered (Tune: Intercessor) – Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918) PSALM 130 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Out of the depths I call (Tune: Saint Bride) – Samuel Howard (1710-1782) NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tone V.1 ANTHEM: Lamentations of Jeremiah – Jacob Arcadelt (c. 1507-1568) Jason Anderson, director • Josh Sandoz, reader • Thomas Adams, cantor
The Fourth Sunday in Lent: Laetare ORISON: Now as the troubled day departs – M. Searle Wright (1918-2004) PSALM 23 (Setting I) – Peter R. Hallock OFFICE HYMN 44: To you before the close of day (Tune: Te lucis ante terminum) – Plainsong, Mode VIII, Antiphonale Sarisburiense, vol. II. NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tone V.1 ANTHEM: Lamentations of Jeremiah – Alfonso Ferrabosco the Younger […]
The Third Sunday in Lent ORISON: O Holy Spirit, by whose breath, life rises (Tune: Veni Creator Spiritus)– Plainsong, Mode VIII PSALM 91 – Plainsong, Tone IV.4 HYMN: All who love and serve your city (Tune: Charlestown) – mel. from The Southern Harmony, 1835; harm. Alastair Cassels-Brown (1927-2001), alt., and Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tone V.1 ANTHEM: Lamentations of […]
The Second Sunday in Lent ORISON: Reminiscere miserationum tuarum – Plainsong, Mode IV PSALM 121 – H. Walford Davies (1869-1941) HYMN: What wondrous love is this (Tune: Wondrous Love) – mel. from The Southern Harmony, 1835; harm. Richard T. Proulx (1937-2010) NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tone V.1 ANTHEM: Lamentations of Jeremiah – Juan de Lienas (c. 1617-1654) Jason Anderson, director • Jeffrey Ricco, reader • Joel Bevington, cantor Tyler […]
The First Sunday in Lent ORISON: Invocabit me – Plainsong, Mode VIII PSALM 32 – Plainsong, Tone III.4 HYMN: Remember, O thou man – Thomas Ravenscroft (c. 1582-c. 1635) NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong, Tone V.1 ANTHEM: In jejunio et fletu – Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585) Jason Anderson, director • Gregory Bloch, reader • Thomas Adams, cantor
The Last Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: O wondrous type! O vision fair (Tune: Aeterne Rex altissime) – Plainsong, Mode I, Zisterzienser Hymnar, 14th cent. PSALMS 2 & 150 – Plainsong, Tone VIII.3 and Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924); adapt. Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Songs of thankfulness and praise (Tune: Salzburg) – mel. Jakob Hintze (1622-1702); harm. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) NUNC DIMITTIS: […]
The Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: ‘Thy mercies fill the earth, O Lord’ from Six Hymns to Doctor Watts – Alice Parker (b. 1925) PSALM 119:1-8 – Plainsong, Tone II.1 HYMN: Book of books, our people’s strength (Tune: Liebster Jesu) – mel. Johann Rudolph Ahle (1625-1673); harm. George Herbert Palmer (1846-1926) and J. S. Bach (1685-1750) NUNC DIMITTIS: Dana […]
The Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: Help us, O Lord, to learn (Tune: Saint Ethelwald) – William Henry Monk (1823-1889) PSALM 112:1-9 – Plainsong, Tone I.7 HYMN: Eternal light, shine in my heart (Tune: Jacob) – Jane Manton Marshall (1924-2019), alt. NUNC DIMITTIS: Anonymous setting from the Lumley Choir Books (c. 1547-1552) ANTHEM: He that hath my commandments – William Mundy (c. […]
The Presentation of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Temple PROCESSION: The Presentation of the Lord – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) PSALM 24 – Peter R. Hallock HYMN: Virgin-born, we bow before thee (Tune: Psaume 86) – Claude Goudimel (1514-1572), alt. NUNC DIMITTIS (Tune: Marilyn): Peter R. Hallock ANTHEM: Senex puerum portabat – Tomás Luis de Victoria (c. 1548-1611) Jason Anderson, director • Josh Sandoz, reader • […]
The Third Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: The people who in darkness walked (Tune: Dundee) – mel. The CL Psalmes of David, 1615; harm. Thomas Ravenscroft (c. 1592-c. 1635) PSALM 27:1-13 [first performance] – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN: I heard the voice of Jesus say (Tune: The Third Tune) – Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585) NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tone III.6 ANTHEM: Surge, […]
The Second Sunday after the Epiphany ORISON: God of mercy, God of grace (Tune: Lucerna Laudoniae) – David Evans (1874-1948) PSALM 40:1-12: Plainsong, Tone II.1 HYMN: Jesus, priceless treasure (Tune: Jesu, meine Freude) – Johann Cruger (1598-1662), alt., and Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tone VIII; harm. John Holmes (d. 1629) ANTHEM: ‘Agnus Dei’ from Mass for Four Voices […]
The First Sunday after the Epiphany: The Baptism of Jesus ORISON: ‘I come,’ the great Redeemer cries (Tune: This Endris Nyght) – English melody; harm. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) and Martin Fallas Shaw (1875-1958) PSALM 29: Peter R. Hallock (1924–2014) HYMN: When Christ’s appearing was made known (Tune: Erhalt uns, Herr) – melody from Geistliche Lieder, 1543; harm. Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612), alt. NUNC […]
The Eve of the Epiphany PROCESSION: How bright appears the Morning Star (Tune: Wie schön leuchtet) – mel. att. Philipp Nicolai (1556-1608); arr. and harm. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) PSALM 96 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN: Brightest and best of the stars of the morning (Tune: Morning Star) – James Proctor Harding (1850–1911) NUNC DIMITTIS (Tune: Marilyn): Peter R. Hallock […]
The First Sunday after Christmas Day PROCESSIONAL: Once in royal David’s city (Tune: Irby) – mel. Henry John Gauntlett (1805-1876); harm. Arthur Henry Mann (1850-1929) PSALM 147: Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Of the Father’s love begotten (Tune: Divinum mysterium) – Sanctus trope, 11th cent.; adapt. Piae Cantiones, 1582, adapt. Richard T. Proulx (1937-2010) NUNC DIMITTIS (Tune: Marilyn): Peter R. Hallock ANTHEMS: O beatum et […]
The Third Sunday of Advent ORISON: Redeemer of the nations, come (Tune:Veni Redemptor gentium) – Plainsong, Mode I, Einsiedeln MS., 12th cent. PSALM 146:4-9: Plainsong, Tone IV.2 HYMN: Love divine, all loves excelling (Tune: Hyfrydol) – Rowland Hugh Prichard (1811-1887); harm. Hymnal 1982 NUNC DIMITTIS: Richard Proulx (1937-2010) ANTHEM: Veni, Domine, noli tardare – William Byrd (c. 1539/1540-1623) Jason Anderson, director • Josh Sandoz, reader • James Wilcox, cantor
The Second Sunday of Advent ORISON: O heavenly Word, eternal Light (Tune: Verbum supernum prodiens) – Plainsong, Mode 2, Nevers MS., 13th cent. PSALM 72:1-8, 18-19: Plainsong, Tone I.1 HYMN: Hail to the Lord’s Anointed (Tune: Es flog ein kleins Waldvögelien) – German folk song; adapt. and harm. Henry Walford Davies (1869-1941), Gregory Bloch, and Hymnal 1982 [GB] NUNC DIMITTIS: Richard Proulx (1937-2010) ANTHEM: Ecce […]
The First Sunday of Advent ORISON: Matin Responsory – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) PSALM 122: Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: “Sleepers,wake!” A voice astounds us (Tune: Wachet auf) – mel. Frewdenspiegel dess ewigen Lebens, 1599; harm. Neu Leipziger Gesanbuch, 1682, and Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) NUNC DIMITTIS: Richard Proulx (1937-2010) ANTHEM: Audivi vocem de coelo – Plainsong, Mode I; harm. Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585) Jason Anderson, director […]
The Last Sunday after Pentecost: Christ the King ORISON: O Jesus, crowned with all renown (Tune: Kingsfold) – English melody; harm. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958); arr. Gregory Bloch PSALMS 46: Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Now thank we all our God (Tune: Nun danket alle Gott) – mel. Johann Crüger (1598-1662); harm. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), and Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) NUNC […]
The 23rd Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 28C) ORISON: Bring us, O Lord God – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) PSALM 98 – Peter R. Hallock HYMN: Lord, keep us steadfast in your Word – Plainsong, Mode II; harm. Peter R. Hallock NUNC DIMITTIS – Peter R. Hallock (2-part setting with handbells) ANTHEM: Christus est Stella – Peter R. Hallock Jason Anderson, director • Joel […]
The 22nd Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 27C) ORISON: Let saints on earth in concert sing (Tune: Dundee) – melody from The CL Psalmes of David, 1615; harm. Thomas Ravenscroft (c. 1592-c. 1635) PSALM 17:1-14: Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) [premiere] HYMN: For thy dear saints, O Lord (Tune: Saint George) – Henry John Gauntlett (1805-1876) and Christopher à Becket-Williams (1890-1956) NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong, […]
The Sunday after All Saints’ Day ORISON: Holy is the true light – William H. Harris (1883-1973) PSALM 149: Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Who are these like stars appearing? (Tune: Zeuch mich, zeuch mich) – melody from Geistreiches Gesang-buch, 1698; harm. William Henry Monk (1823-1889), alt. NUNC DIMITTIS: Melchior Franck (c. 1579-1639); ed. and arr. Robert Preston & Gregory Bloch ANTHEM: In […]
The 20th Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 25C) ORISON: ‘Beloved, let us love one another’ from In Praise of Singing – Alice Parker (b. 1925) PSALM 138: Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN: God is love (Tune: Ubi caritas [Murray]) – A. Gregory Murray (1905-1982) NUNC DIMITTIS: Jeff Junkinsmith (b. 1956) ANTHEM: Love One Another – Alice Parker [world premiere]* commissioned by member […]
The 19th Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 24C) ORISON: Maker of all things, God most high – Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585) PSALM 121: Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: I to the hills will lift mine eyes (Tune: Burford) – From A Book of Psalmody, 1718 NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong, Tone I; harm. William Byrd (c. 1539/1540-1623) ANTHEM: I will lift up mine eyes – Ernest […]
The 18th Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 23C) ORISON: O Lord, I lift my heart to thee – Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) PSALM 111: Plainsong setting, Tone VIII.5 HYMN: Praise to the Holiest in the height (Tune: Newman) – Richard Runciman Terry (1865-1938) NUNC DIMITTIS: James Bassi (b. 1961) ANTHEM: A Colloquy with God – Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012) Jason Anderson, director • Jeffrey Ricco, reader • Jeremy […]
Saint Francis of Assisi (transferred) ORISON: ‘Seigneur, je vousen prie’ from Quatre petites prières de Saint-François d’Assise – Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) PSALM 148: Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Lord, make us servants of your peace (Tune: Dickinson College) – Lee Hastings Bristol, Jr. (1923-1979) NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tone III.6 ANTHEMS: ‘Tout puissant, trés saint, trés haut’ and ‘O mes très […]
The Feast of Saint Michael & All Angels ORISON: Christ, the fair glory of the holy angels (Tune: Christe sanctorum) – Sarum plainsong, Mode I PSALM 91: Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Ye holy angels bright (Tune: Darwall’s 148th) – mel. John Darwall (1731-1789); harm. William Henry Monk (1823-1889) and Martin Fallas Shaw (1875-1958) NUNC DIMITTIS: Erin Aas (b. 1974) ANTHEM: Salvator […]
The 15th Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 20C) ORISON: O come, ye servants of the Lord – Christopher Tye (c. 1505-1572/73) PSALM 113 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN: Father all loving, who rulest in majesty (Tune: Was lebet) – mel. from Choral-Buch vor Johann Heinrich Reinhardt, 1754; harm. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tone VI; harm. Anonymous 16th […]
The 14th Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: ‘O God of mercy, hear my call’ from Six Hymns to Doctor Watts – Alice Parker (b. 1925) PSALM 51 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: I sought the Lord (Tune: Faith) – J. Harold Moyer (1927-2012) NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong, Tone I; harm. Carolus Andreas (d. 1627) ANTHEM: Peccantem me quotidie – Orlande de Lassus (1532-1594) Jason Anderson, director […]
The 13th Sunday after Pentecost ORISON:Now cheer our hearts this eventide (Tune: Ach bleib bei uns) – Geistliche Lieder, Leipzig, 1589; harm. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) PSALM 1 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN: Blessed Jesus, at thy word we are gathered (Tune: Liebster Jesu wir sind hier) – mel. Johann Ahle (1625-1673); stz. 1-2 harm. George Herbert Palmer (1846-1926) and […]
The 12th Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: The shadows of the evening hours – Joshua Haberman (b. 1982) PSALM 26:1-3, 6-9, 11-12 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN: Abide with me (Tune: Eventide) – William Henry Monk (1823-1889) NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tone VII; harm. Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (c. 1560-1627) ANTHEM: Salva nos, Domine, vigilantes – Jacob Handl (1551-1591) Jason Anderson, director […]
COMPLINE CHOIR on ENGLAND PILGRIMAGE WOMEN’S SCHOLA IN RESIDENCE Rebekah Gilmore, director August 25, 2019 • Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Sweet Angels – Shaker tune, arr. Kevin Siegfried PSALM: Psalm 23 – Peter R. Hallock, arranged by Jeff Reynolds HYMN: Poland: God of my life – Isaac Watts: Psalm 21 paraphrase, Timothy Swan: […]
As we begin to wrap up our second week of pilgrimage to Canterbury and Salisbury Cathedrals, we’d like to share some audio selections from Canterbury Cathedral during evensong services sung last week, including the Office of Compline as performed in the crypt: Lamentations of Jeremiah by Peter Hallock; Page Smith, Cello The Good Shepherd by […]
COMPLINE CHOIR on ENGLAND PILGRIMAGEWOMEN’S SCHOLA IN RESIDENCERebekah Gilmore, director August 18, 2019 • St. Mary the Virgin (transferred) ORISON: O viridissima virga – Hildegard von Bingen PSALM: Psalm 134 and 4 – Peter R. Hallock, arranged by Jeff Reynolds HYMN: Te lucis ante terminum – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina NUNC DIMITTIS: Giovanni Pierluigi […]
COMPLINE CHOIR on ENGLAND PILGRIMAGE WOMEN’S SCHOLA IN RESIDENCE Rebekah Gilmore, director August 11, 2019 • The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 14C) ORISON: Down in the river to pray – Jason Cole, arr. PSALM: Psalm 33: 1-11 – Peter R. Hallock – Jeff Reynolds, arr. HYMN: Christe qui lux es et dies – […]
The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 13C) Bon Voyage Compline Service ORISON: Bring us, O Lord God – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) PSALMS 119:17-24 – Ned Rorem (b. 1923) HYMN: Ye that know the Lord is gracious (Tune: Hyfrydol) – Rowland Huw Prichard (1811-1887) NUNC DIMITTIS from Magdalen Service – Grayston Ives (b. 1948) ANTHEM: Their sound is gone out – Arthur Wills (b. […]
July 28, 2019 • The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 12C) ORISON: Glory to thee, my God, this night (Tune: Tallis’s Canon) – Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585) PSALM 101 (Coverdale) – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Jesus, where’er thy people meet (Tune: Wareham) – William Knapp (1698-1768); harm. Hymns Ancient & Modern, 1875 NUNC DIMITTIS from Evening Service in E – Charles Wood (1866-1926) […]
The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 11C) ORISON: Christ is the world’s true light (Tune: Nun danket) – mel. Johann Crüger; harm. Felix MendelssohnPSALM 78:1-13 – Plainchant, Tone I.1 HYMN: The kingdom of God is justice and joy (Tune: Paderborn) – German folk melody, Gesangbuch, 1765; arr. Sydney Hugo Nicholson (1875-1947) NUNC DIMITTIS from The Evening Service – Stephen Sturk ANTHEM: ‘Magnificat’ from The […]
July 14, 2019 • The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 10C) ORISON: O thou who camest from above (Tune: Hereford) – Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-1876) PSALM 106:1-12 – John Fenstermaker (b. 1942) HYMN: Disposer supreme, and Judge of the earth (Tune: Old 104th) – mel. Thomas Ravenscroft (c. 1590-1633); harm. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) NUNC DIMITTIS from The First Fauxbourdon Service – Philip Moore […]
The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 9C) ORISON: The Lord will come and not be slow (Tune: Saint Stephen [Newington]) – William Jones (1726-1800) PSALM 89:1-9 (Coverdale) – David Hurd (b. 1950) HYMN: Through all the changing scenes of life (Tune: Wiltshire) – George Thomas Smart (1776-1867) NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tone III.6 ANTHEM: ‘Gloria’ from Mass for Four Voices – Thomas Tallis (c. […]
The Third Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 8C) ORISON: The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended (Tune: Commandments) – Loys Bourgeois (c. 1510-1559) PSALM 91 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: God of mercy, God of grace (Tune: Heathlands) – Henry Smart (1813-1879) NUNC DIMITTIS: Fauxbourdon setting, Tone I – William Byrd (c. 1539/1540-1623) ANTHEM: ‘Sanctus’ from Mass for Four Voices – Thomas Tallis (c. […]
The First Sunday after Pentecost: Trinity Sunday ORISON: O lux beata Trinitas – Ronald Arnatt (b. 1930) PSALM 104:1-10 – Anglican Chant setting by David Hurd (b. 1950) HYMN: Holy God, we praise thy Name (Tune: Grosser Gott) – mel. from Katholisches Gesangbuch, 1686; harm. Charles Winfred Douglas (1867-1944), after Conrad Kocher (1786-1872); vs. 4 harm. Rejoice in the Lord, 1985 NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong […]