Tag Archives: Laetare

The Office of Compline for March 19, 2023

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 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)
– Page Smith, violoncello

Jason Anderson, director • Bill Turnipseed, reader • Derek Tilton, cantor

The Office of Compline for March 14, 2021

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)

Jason Anderson, director • Jeffrey Ricco , reader • Thomas Adams, cantor

The Office of Compline for March 22, 2020

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 (c. 1575-1628)

Jason Anderson, director • Tyler Morse, reader •  Derek Curtis-Tilton, cantor

The Office of Compline for March 31, 2019

March 31, 2019

The Fourth Sunday in Lent: Laetare

ORISON: Drop, drop, slow tears (Tune: Song 46) – Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)

HYMN: A Hymne to God the Father – Thomas Joyce

PSALM 32 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)

NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tone III.6

ANTHEM: Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah – Peter R. Hallock
Tyler Morse, alto soloist •Arvind Narayanan, tenor soloist

Jason Anderson, director • William Turnipseed, reader • Tyler Morse, cantor • Page Smith, cellist

The Office of Compline for March 6, 2016

March 6, 2016

The Fourth Sunday in Lent: Laetare

ORISON: Drop, drop, slow tears (Tune: Song 46) – Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)

PSALM 32 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)

HYMN: Amazing grace! how sweet the sound (Tune: New Britain) mel. from Virginia Harmony, 1831; harm. Richard T. Proulx (1937-2010) and Peter R. Hallock

NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tone III.4

ANTHEM: Lamentations of Jeremiah – Osbert Parsley (c. 1511-1585)

Jason Anderson, director • Tyler Morse, reader • Thomas Adams, cantor

The Office of Compline for March 15, 2015

The Fourth Sunday in Lent: Laetare

ORISON: Purge me, O Lord, from all my sin – Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585)

PSALM 107:1-3, 17-22 – Plainsong, Tone V.1

HYMN: Lord, who throughout these forty days (Tune: St. Flavian) – melody from Day’s Psalter, 1562; adapt. and harm. Richard Redhead (1820-1901)

NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tone III.4

ANTHEM: Ne reminiscaris, Domine Jacobus Vaet (ca. 1529 – 1567)

 

Jason Anderson, director • Joel Matter, reader • Alan Wheaton, cantor