Cecilia McDowall
A Prayer to St. John the Baptist
- Composer
- Cecilia McDowall (b. 1951)
- Words by
- Thomas Merton, Guido d'Arezzo
- Category
- Anthem
- Forces
- Choir
- Scoring
- Voicing: SATB
- Accompaniment
- organ
- Language
- English
- Duration
- 4:00
- Difficulty
- Moderate
- Publisher
- OUP
Guido d'Arezzo's Ut queant laxis (itself a Hymn to John the Baptist, as well as a medieval music-teaching mnemonic) with Thomas Merton's poem on the same subject.
Suggested for
- Advent 3 · Year A — reflects on Matthew 11:2-11
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