The Office of Tenebrae for Holy Week 28th March 2018

[DracoM]

The Office of Tenebrae for Holy Week 28th March 2018 [L]
Westminster Cathedral

Fr Andrew Gallagher (Celebrant)

Order of Service:

1st Nocturn
Psalm 69 (Plainsong)
Lamentation: Incipit lamentatio Ieremiæ prophetæ (Plainsong)
Responsory: In monte Oliveti (Malcolm)
Lamentation: Vau. Et egressus est (Plainsong)
Responsory: Tristis est anima mea (Malcolm)
Lamentation: Jod. Manum suam misit (Plainsong)
Responsory: Ecce vidimus eum (Malcolm)

2nd Nocturn
Psalm 71 (Plainsong)
Reading: Dissertation on the Psalms (i) (St Augustine)
Responsory: Amicus meus (Victoria)
Reading: Dissertation on the Psalms (ii) (St Augustine)
Responsory: Iudas mercator (Victoria)
Reading: Dissertation on the Psalms (iii) (St Augustine)
Responsory: Unus ex discipulis (Victoria)

3rd Nocturn
Psalm 76 (Plainsong)
Reading: 1 Corinthians 11: 23-27
Responsory: Eram quasi agnus (Victoria)
Reading: 1 Corinthians 11: 28-32
Responsory: Una hora (Victoria)

Meditation

Responsory: Seniores populi (Victoria)
Motet: Christus factus est (Anerio)


Jonathan Allsopp (Organ Scholar)
Peter Stevens (Assistant Master of Music)

Martin Baker (Master of Music)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09wvswj

[ardcarp]

I always dust off my old George Malcolm/Victoria Tenebrae LP around this time of year. Good to be able to hear some of the responsories done by the current choir, plus
some by GM himself.

I always confuse the medical terms strepitus and crepitus. The first is any noise heard through a stethoscope during auscultation, the second the grinding together of the ends of broken bones. I trust we shall have neither next Wednesday.....

[jean]

There are wonderful settings of both the Responsories and the Lessons from the Lamentations of Jeremiah (see BAL this morning!) but we rarely (if ever) get both in the same liturgical context.

Conflicting musical styles too close together, perhaps? Or just that it would all be too long?

Certainly the plainsong settings of the Lamentations are particularly beautiful and deserve to be heard.

[BBMmk2]

This should be worth a listen

[greenilex]

Not sure I can cope with further notes from the dark side...

[DracoM]

But the Holy Week narrative in almost any age has elicited some of the most richly evocative settings of this truly dramatic story.
As singer and listener, this period has always captured me.

Thx to others for heads-up notices of more broadcasts.

[ardcarp]

There are wonderful settings of both the Responsories and the Lessons from the Lamentations of Jeremiah (see BAL this morning!) but we rarely (if ever) get both in the same liturgical context.

Conflicting musical styles too close together, perhaps? Or just that it would all be too long?

Certainly the plainsong settings of the Lamentations are particularly beautiful and deserve to be heard.

There's a very fine setting of The Lamentations by Robert White. Rarely heard cf Tallis.

[jean]

Yes indeed - and there's a setting by Byrd, though it's usually entitled De Lamentatione. None of them ever heard (in my experience) in a liturgical context.

All of these perhaps belong with Byrd's Ne irascaris/Civitas sancti tui among those wourks that (as discussed elsewhere) may be thought of as laments for the loss of the old religion.

[DracoM]

Excellent thread.

[Miles Coverdale]

There's a very fine setting of The Lamentations by Robert White. Rarely heard cf Tallis.

There are actually two sets by White, one in five parts, the other in six, though the latter needs some reconstruction to make it performable. And let's not forget the set by the wonderfully-named Osbert Parsley.

[ardcarp]

I have the TECM copies, ed. Kalmus. 5-part...Triplex Medius, Altus, Tenor, Bassus (SATTB) I like it 'because it's in (what I call) original notation, i.e. 2 breves per bar. I do love this piece and have performed it a few times. Due for another outing I think.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

And let's not forget the set by the wonderfully-named Osbert Parsley.

Never herb of him.

[Dafydd y G.W.]

I like it 'because it's in (what I call) original notation, i.e. 2 breves per bar.

Hear! Hear! Am I the only person to find white notes easier to read? I've never understood the mania for halving note values; and when combined with scrupulousity about preserving other things it makes no sense.

And as for modernised spelling ....

(Or shulde that bee "spelynge"?)

[Triforium]

Never herb of him.

I think I know his brother, Elvis.

[Miles Coverdale]

And as for modernised spelling ....

(Or shulde that bee "spelynge"?)

Does that mean you think an edition should preserve the spelling found in each individual partbook, even when that spelling is different in each voice (as can be the case)? That way madness lies...