Sunday, October 12th 2014

Rite II, Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Prelude: Fugue in G Minor, by: Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier

Processional Hymn: 665 All my hope on God is founded

Gloria: S280, Powell

First Reading: Exodus 32:1-14

Psalm: Psalm 106:1-6, 19-23

Second Reading: Philippians 4:1-9

Before the Gospel: 410 Praise, my soul, the King of heaven, stanzas 1 and 2

Gospel: Matthew 22:1-14

After the Gospel: 410 Praise, my soul, the King of heaven, stanzas 3 and 4

Offertory Anthem: Celebrate this happy, holy day, by: Henry Purcell, arr. Dolores Hruby

Come, all you children of God,

Come, come away,

Come, all you people of God,

Come, come to pray;

Praise with your voices, and instruments play,

to celebrate this happy, holy day.

Come, all you children of God…

Praise with your voices, and instruments play,

Pipe happily, dance gleefully, sing merrily today,

To celebrate this happy, holy day.

Doxology: Hymn 380, stanza 3

Holy: S125, Proulx

Communion Anthem: Rejoice in the Lord always, by: Henry Purcell, ed. Edward J. Dent

Rejoice in the Lord alway, and again I say rejoice. Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. Be careful for nothing, but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Jesus Christ our Lord.

-Philippians 4:4-7

Communion Hymn: 339 Deck thyself, my soul, with gladness

Communion Meditation: Lauda Anima (Praise, my soul, the King of heaven), Arranged by: Robert Edward Smith

Recessional Hymn: 432 O praise ye the Lord!

Postlude: Canzona dopo l’Espistola, by: Girolamo Fescobaldi

Music Notes

By: Ashley Sosis

This morning’s choral anthems are by Henry Purcell. It is difficult to find biographical information about Purcell without the superlatives “greatest”, “master” or “genius”. Buried adjacent to the organ in Westminster Abbey, his epitaph reads: "Here lyes Henry Purcell Esq., who left this life and is gone to that blessed place where only his harmony can be exceeded.”

No record of Purcell’s baptism has been found, but he was probably born in late 1658 or in 1659, as he described himself as aged 24 in 1683, and a memorial inscription in Westminster Abbey records that he was in his 37th year when he died in November 1695.

His compositional output was driven by his employment by the royal court, but he also wrote for the stage. His dramatic work, Dido and Aenaeus, is considered his most famous composition.

In a 2009 interview with BBC raidio, Pete Townshend of the Who said that incidental music written for the theatre by Henry Purcell (the piece in particular- “Chaconne” from The Gordian Knot Unty’d) inspired him to write multiple suspensions into the chord progressions in his music. Suspensions, or combinations of notes where one note is borrowed from the previous chord and then resolved, can be found throughout “Won’t Get Fooled Again” (1971), “I Can See for Miles” (1967) and the intro to “Pinball Wizard”. Can you imagine these songs played by a Purcellian chamber orchestra? Who knew!?