Miserere mei, Deus
Raffaella Aleotti (1570–1646)
Text source: Psalm 57: 1
Reflects on the day’s overall theme.
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SSATB
Accompaniment: a cappella
Duration: 4:41
Language: Latin
Lent
Ash Wednesday
11 recommended works by women composers for Ash Wednesday.
Year A
ReadingsTake my life, and let it be
Marty Wheeler Burnett (b. 1961)
Words by Frances Ridley Havergal
Reflects on the day’s overall theme.
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: U
Accompaniment: organ or piano
Language: English
EasyScore: Contact the composer at mburnett@vts.eduMarty Wheeler Burnett
adapted from a Scottish folk song: "Take my life and let it be consecrated, Lord, to thee: take my moments and my days, let them flow in ceaseless praise..."
Year B
ReadingsAsh Wednesday
Cecilia McDowall (b. 1951)
Words by Christina Rossetti
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SATB
Accompaniment: organ
Duration: 5:53
Language: English
Come, renew us
Eleanor Daley (b. 1955)
Words by David Adam
Reflects on the day’s overall theme.
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SATBdiv · Solos: S
Accompaniment: a cappella
Duration: 3:25
Language: English
Hymn to God
Eleanor Daley (b. 1955)
Words by John Donne
Reflects on the day’s overall theme.
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SATB
Accompaniment: a cappella
Duration: 4:15
Language: English
I bless you, with all that is within me
Patricia Van Ness (b. 1951)
Text source: Psalm 103
Reflects on Psalm 103
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SSATB
Accompaniment: a cappella
Duration: 3:19
Language: English
Miserere (Psalm 51)
Katherine Burk Webb (b. 1990)
Text source: Psalm 51
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SATBdiv
Accompaniment: a cappella
Language: Latin
Miserere mei, Deus
Raffaella Aleotti (1570–1646)
Text source: Psalm 57: 1
Reflects on the day’s overall theme.
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SSATB
Accompaniment: a cappella
Duration: 4:41
Language: Latin
Miserere mei, Deus
Sarah MacDonald (b. 1968)
Text source: Psalm 51: 1-3
Reflects on the day’s overall theme.
Anthem · Young Trebles
Voicing: SSS
Accompaniment: a cappella
Duration: 3:30
Language: Latin
Year C
ReadingsA new heart
Melissa Dunphy (b. 1980)
Text source: Ezekiel 36:26
Reflects on the day’s overall theme.
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SAB
Accompaniment: piano
Duration: 2:42
Language: English
Tantum ergo
Jessica French (b. 1984)
Reflects on Matthew
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SA or SATB
Accompaniment: a cappella
Duration: 3:03
Language: Latin
Two Pentatonic Hymns
Caroline Arnold (1931–2014)
Reflects on Matthew 6
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SATB · Solos: S
Accompaniment: a cappella
Language: English