Secular, often dull, texts pointed for Anglican chant

Anna_Bendiksen

Grace and peace, everybody.

I'm starting this thread to encourage us to set secular texts to Anglican chant, a practice with a rich history. The classic weather-report piece has been discussed on these boards before. There is also the stellar work of this fellow:

https://youtu.be/qBJG-WgI-uE?si=LumeuniefKEzNd9y

https://youtu.be/ur9wa97PlL0?si=YALDVLOx9nwHNbKV

Recently I discovered that the annual parish appeal letter was an admirable subject. Found poetry! I do not have software that supports chant notation, more's the pity, but maybe you do.

ServiamScores

I find things of this sort positively delightful. I'd actually watch the news if this was the norm. Lol.

tandrews

I went to grad school with this fellow! This is not a surprise to me at all that he would do recordings like this.

(The treble voices would have been nice when he sang in our choir though...).

There's also video of ND MSM students singing the Anglican weather report with slight alterations to the text to make it appropriate to South Bend. It was a lot of fun rehearsing that!

Richard Mix

Not particularly dull, but apt for tonight.

Anna_Bendiksen

Ha!! Very good.

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