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Song of Songs (Cantique des Cantiques) by Gustave Moreau, 1893 The Song of Songs (Biblical Hebrew: שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים , romanized: Šīr hašŠīrīm), also called the Canticle of Canticles or the Song of Solomon, is a biblical poem, one of the five megillot ("scrolls") in the Ketuvim ('writings'), the last section of the Tanakh.
Canticle Six — The Prayer of Jonah (Jonah 2:2–9) Canticle Seven — The Prayer of the Three Holy Children (Daniel 3:26-56) [5] Canticle Eight — The Song of the Three Holy Children (Daniel 3:57-88) [5] Canticle Nine — The Song of the Theotokos (the Magnificat: Luke 1:46–55); the Song of Zacharias (the Benedictus Luke 1:68–79)
The Magnificat (Latin for "[My soul] magnifies [the Lord]") is a canticle, also known as the Song of Mary or Canticle of Mary, and in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Ode of the Theotokos (Greek: Ἡ ᾨδὴ τῆς Θεοτόκου). Its Western name derives from the incipit of its Latin text.
The text for Canticle I was taken from A Divine Rapture by Quarles, a paraphrase of sections from the Song of Songs from the Old Testament. It arrives several times at the refrain line "I my best beloved’s am – so he is mine". [4] As already the original biblical poetry, it is "full of beautiful, sensuous imagery". [4]
The Benedicite (also Benedicite, omnia opera Domini or A Song of Creation) is a canticle that is used in the Catholic Liturgy of the Hours, and is also used in Anglican and Lutheran worship. The text is either verses 35–65 or verses 35–66 of The Song of the Three Children. [1]
Canticle I: My beloved is mine and I am his, Op. 40. was written in 1947 for the memorial concert for Dick Sheppard, former vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields. The lyrics are from "A Divine Rapture" by Francis Quarles, based on the Song of Solomon in the Bible. [3] It is scored for high voice and piano. Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac.
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Song of Songs 1 (abbreviated [where?] as Song 1) is the first chapter of the "Song of Songs" or "Song of Solomon", a book of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This book is one of the Five Megillot , a group of short books, together with Ruth , Lamentations , Ecclesiastes and Esther , within the Ketuvim , the ...