Music for Candlemas (Presentation)
  • henry
    Posts: 244
    These are the hymns I selected for Feb 2, but I'm not entirely happy with my choices. Anyone have suggestions?

    Entrance: Praise to the Lord (Entrance Ant: "Your merciful love O Lord we have received in the midst of Your temple...")
    Offertory: Of the Father's Love Begotten (Divinum Mysterium)
    Communion: Canticle of Simeon (Hommerding/WLP) Communion Ant: "Mine eyes have seen Your salvation..."
    Recessional: Joy to the World (end of Christmas)

  • Andrew Motyka
    Posts: 946
    Remember that in the Ordinary Form (which I am perhaps falsely assuming this is), Presentation is not in the Christmas season, though it does certainly have some of the same theme.
  • canadashcanadash
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    I like to go here for inspiration: http://www.canticanova.com/planning/year-a/plnpl_m.htm

    After some searching I found this Nunc Dimittis which I thought my choir could learn:
    http://www0.cpdl.org/wiki/images/d/d8/Walmisley_Mag_Nunc_Dmin.pdf
    Thanked by 2JulieColl expeditus1
  • JulieCollJulieColl
    Posts: 2,465
    Wow! The Cantica Nova website is a great resource. Thanks, Canadash!
  • expeditus1
    Posts: 483
    Here are two hymns that I will be using:

    "Hail to the Lord Who Comes":
    http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/EH1982/page/478

    "O Zion, Open Wide Thy Gates":
    http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/EH1982/257
  • CHGiffenCHGiffen
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    My setting of the Nunc dimittis is appropriate for Candlemas as well as Compine. The link is to the CPDL page hosting the ATBarB and SATB editions. Here is an MP3 of the SATB version. The SATB score with a keyboard reduction is attached (the CPDL site has the score without the keyboard reduction).
    Nunc dimittis-SATB-acc.pdf
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  • jpal
    Posts: 365
    Lift Up Your Heads, which fits many contexts from November to Advent to Christmas and beyond. It goes well with the idea of God entering his temple.
    We will also be singing Creator of the Stars of Night, which I believe to be appropriate even though it is technically an Advent hymn.
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