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Vivaldi_-_Magnificat_01_Magnificat.oga (Ogg Vorbis sound file, length 1 min 6 s, 393 kbps, file size: 3.08 MB) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.
The Book of Common Prayer allows for an alternative to the Magnificat—the Cantate Domino, Psalm 98—and some Anglican rubrics allow for a wider selection of canticles, but the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis remain the most popular. In Anglican, Lutheran, and Catholic services, the Magnificat is generally followed by the Gloria Patri.
Vivaldi structured the Magnificat, RV 610, in nine movements, eight for the text of the canticle (Luke 1:46-55) and the conclusion for the doxology.Set in G minor, it is scored for two soprano soloists, alto and tenor soloists, SATB choir, two oboes, violin I and II, viola, and basso continuo, such as cello and a keyboard instrument.
The service has been recorded several times, [5] including a 1988 collection The Music of St. Paul's Cathedral, performed by the cathedral choir conducted by John Scott with organist Christopher Dearnley, [6] and a 1997 overview of ten settings of Magnificat and Nunc dimittis by English composers, performed by the Choir of York Minster conducted by Philip Moore and with organist John Scott ...
Harker in A flat . Harris in A . Harwood in A flat . Harwood in E minor . Hawes in D . Hemingway in E . Hemingway The King's Service . Howells in B minor . Howells in E major (Men's voices) ...
The Magnificat by John Rutter is a musical setting of the biblical canticle Magnificat, completed in 1990.The extended composition in seven movements "for soprano or mezzo-soprano solo, mixed choir, and orchestra (or chamber ensemble)" [1] is based on the Latin text, interspersed with "Of a Rose, a lovely Rose", an anonymous English poem on Marian themes, the beginning of the Sanctus and a ...
The Catholic personal ordinariates follow the practice for days from the 17th to the 23rd (Magnificat antiphon at Evensong [69] and Alleluia Verse at Mass, either in the traditional order as indicated in Divine Worship: The Missal or in the order indicated in the Lectionary, [70] but also use O Virgo virginum on the morning of 24 December, both ...
Magnificat, a regular part in Catholic vesper services, was also used in the Lutheran church, in vespers and for Marian feasts. Schütz set the Magnificat text once in Latin and five times in German, Meine Seele erhebt den Herren (My soul magnifies the Lord), also called German Magnificat. Schütz composed them at different times for different ...