Monthly Archives: April 2020

To finish up Catholic Worship Book II, as all the chanted psalms are beyond me, are three settings of the Nunc dimitis. The first version of the Canticle of Simeon has the text from The Grail and is set by … Continue reading →

This is a translation of Te lucis ante terminum and is a Night Office Hymn. This version is here. Background and other translations are available here. Here it is set to TALLIS’ CANON.

I’ve skipped a lot of worthy chanted psalmody and arrived at Owen Alstott‘s pleasant setting of the Magnificat. The text is here. OCP sell the sheet music. I would prefer a female only choir here, but this is lovely nonetheless:

This is yet another version of Phos hilaron in CWB II so you not lacking for choice for evening prayer here. This is Stanbrook Abbey’s translation. The tune is by Alan Rees and called PHOS HILARON. The text is here. … Continue reading →

Many thanks for all the suggestions on streaming masses and I’ve since found there are many more out there. The Redemptorists prerecord an informal mass in England, that I think will be a backstop for me. What I went with … Continue reading →

Our music team is not selecting songs as we have no liturgies to facilitate, but I picked some suggestions that I would have put forward based on past liturgies and the the fact that I like the Haugen song. We … Continue reading →

This is another version of Phos hilaron for evening prayer, this time translated by Francis Bland Tucker and set to JESU DULCIS MEMORIA. The text is here. This lousy backing explains why I am not doing more chant backings. I’m … Continue reading →

I am up to evening hymns for the Divine Office now. This is a translation of a c4 Greek text Phos hilaron, by Christopher Idle. Jubilate, who own the copyright have graciously put the lyrics up here. It is set … Continue reading →

This is another setting for the Benedictus with a text by Owen Alstott set to a tune by Malcolm Archer. I can’t find anything about it on the internet so for those with CWB II who want to sing along, … Continue reading →

I’m just dipping in and out of the songs for the Divine Office. 187a is chant: … so I have skipped to James Quinn’s paraphrase of the Benedictus (the Canticle of Zechariah). The text is here (page 3). CWB II … Continue reading →