A Mountain Psalm
Alice Parker (b. 1925)
Text source: Ps. 35 adapted by Alice Parker
Reflects on the day’s overall theme.
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SATB
Accompaniment: organ
Language: English
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Season after Pentecost
All Souls' Day (Nov. 2)
16 recommended works by women composers for All Souls' Day (Nov. 2).
Year A
Do not stand at my grave and weep
Shruthi Rajasekar (b. 1996)
Words by Mary Elizabeth Frye
Reflects on the day’s overall theme.
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SATB
Accompaniment: a cappella
Duration: 4:50
Language: English
Light eternal
Cecilia McDowall (b. 1951)
Words by Denise Levertov, from Lux eterna
Reflects on the day’s overall theme.
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SSATB
Accompaniment: organ, opt. tubular bell/handbell
Duration: 4:00
Language: English, Latin
Long Fare You Well
Undine Smith Moore (1904–1989)
Text source: Spiritual
Reflects on the day’s overall theme.
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SATBdiv · Solos: S,T
Accompaniment: a cappella
Duration: 3:00
Language: English
Of general use to wish Godspeed on departing a place.
Requiem
Kerensa Briggs (b. 1991)
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SATB
Accompaniment: organ
We will remember them
Joanna Forbes L'Estrange (b. 1971)
Reflects on the day’s overall theme.
Anthem · Young Trebles
Voicing: SSA
Accompaniment: piano, opt. flugelhorn
Duration: 5:00
Language: English
Year B
Kein Stundlein geht dahin (Do thou my guide and comfort be)
Ethel Smyth (1858–1944)
Text source: Schemelli Gesangbuch 1736
Reflects on Collect
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SATB
Accompaniment: a cappella
Duration: 1:30
Language: German
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Pax Vobis
Alison Willis (b. 1971)
Text source: War Poets
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SATBdiv · Solos: SATB soli
Accompaniment: a cappella
Language: French, German, English, Latin
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Pie Jesu
Lili Boulanger (1893–1918)
Anthem · Soloist
Voicing: S
Accompaniment: organ
ModeratePublic Domain
Requiem
Eleanor Daley (b. 1955)
Words by Carolyn Smart, from Missa pro defunctis; 1662 BCP
Reflects on the day’s overall theme.
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SATB
Accompaniment: a cappella
Language: English
They Shall Not Grow Old
June Nixon (b. 1942)
Words by Laurence Binyon
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SATB
Accompaniment: organ
We Will Remember Them
Hilary Campbell (b. 1983)
Words by Laurence Binyon
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SATB
Accompaniment: opt. organ
Year C
Cantique / Lux aeterna
Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979)
Words by Maurice Maeterlinck, from Cantique
Reflects on the day’s overall theme.
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: S
Accompaniment: piano / later arrangement by Nadia Boulanger for violin, viola, cello, harp, organ
Duration: 2:07
Language: French or Latin
Original text is Cantique accompanied by piano. Later sacred text of Lux aeterna arranged by Nadia Boulanger with accompaniment by violin, viola, cello, harp, organ. Instrumental parts: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/cantique-lux-aeterna-pour-voix-moyenne-violon-violoncelle-harpe-et-o-sheet-music/20750748
Dona nobis pacem
Olivia Sparkhall (b. 1976)
Text source: Agnus Dei of the Roman Catholic Mass
Reflects on the day’s overall theme.
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SATB
Accompaniment: a cappella
Duration: 3:15
Language: Latin
MOV, Volume 1
Lux aeterna
Olivia Sparkhall (b. 1976)
Text source: Requiem Mass
Reflects on the day’s overall theme.
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SSAA · Solos: SA
Accompaniment: harp
Duration: 5:21
Language: Latin
MOV, Volume 2
Sanctum
Sarah Quartel (b. 1982)
Text source: Missa pro defunctis
Reflects on the day’s overall theme.
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SSSAA
Accompaniment: a cappella
Duration: 9:45
Language: Latin
4 Movements