Crux fidelis
Sarah MacDonald (b. 1968)
Words by Emily Dickinson, Emilia Lanier
Reflects on Luke 23:33-43
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SATB
Accompaniment: a cappella
Duration: 5:53
Language: Latin & English
Digital offprint
Holy Week
Good Friday
14 recommended works by women composers for Good Friday.
Year A
Readingsmemoria
Rhiannon Randle (b. 1993)
Text source: Ecce quomodo moritur justus' (see how the righteous man dies)
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SSAATTBB · Solos: S, Countertenor
Accompaniment: erhu
Duration: 6:53
Language: Latin
Nolo mortem peccatoris
Elizabeth J. Atkinson (b. 1951)
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SATB
Accompaniment: a cappella
Language: Latin and English
The Walk to Calvary
Text source: Matthew 26:36-66
Anthem · Young Trebles
Voicing: S
Accompaniment: piano
Year B
ReadingsCalvary
Betty Jackson King (1928–1994)
Reflects on the day’s overall theme.
Anthem · Soloist
Accompaniment: piano
Duration: 6:58
Language: English
Spiritual arrangement
Crux fidelis
Sarah MacDonald (b. 1968)
Words by Emily Dickinson, Emilia Lanier
Reflects on John Passion Gospel
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SATB
Accompaniment: a cappella
Duration: 5:53
Language: Latin & English
Digital offprint
Komm, süsser Tod
Ethel Smyth (1858–1944)
Text source: Anon c.1724
Reflects on The Passion Story
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SATB
Accompaniment: a cappella
Duration: 2:00
Language: German
EasyScore: Multitude of VoycesMultitude of Voyces C.I.C.
Digital offprint
Lord I just can't keep from cryin'
Margaret Bonds (1913–1972)
Text source: Spiritual
Reflects on the day’s overall theme.
Anthem · Soloist
Voicing: S
Accompaniment: piano
Duration: 3:23
Language: English
Stabat Mater
Sulpitia Cesis (b. 1577)
Reflects on Stabat Mater
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SATB
Accompaniment: a cappella
Duration: 3:00
Language: Latin
EasyScore: Multitude of VoycesMultitude of Voyces C.I.C.
Digital offprint
To Our Lady of Sorrows (Stabat Mater)
Morfydd Owen (1891–1918)
Words by Wilfred Hinton
Anthem · Soloist
Accompaniment: organ
Duration: 3:03
Language: Welsh and English
While Mary Slept
Helena Paish (b. 2002)
Words by Alice Archer Sewall
Reflects on The Collect
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SATB
Accompaniment: a cappella
Duration: 3:00
Language: (American) English
Year C
ReadingsAve verum corpus
Jessica French (b. 1984)
Reflects on the day’s overall theme.
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SSATBB · Solos: S
Accompaniment: a cappella
Language: Latin
Great is Your Faithfulness
Helen Williams (b. 1969)
Text source: Lamentations 2:17-19, 3:23-24
Reflects on the day’s overall theme.
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SATB · Solos: B
Accompaniment: organ
Language: English
ModerateScore: Multitude of VoycesMultitude of Voyces C.I.C.
O vos omnes
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SS/TT
Accompaniment: continuo
Language: Latin
O vos omnes
Sarah Rimkus (b. 1990)
Reflects on the day’s overall theme.
Anthem · Young Trebles
Voicing: SATB
Accompaniment: a cappella
Duration: 5:30
Language: Latin