Sunday, February 16, 2014

Epiphany 7 - February 23 2014

  • Organ Prelude  - Liturgical Prelude No. 2 - George Oldroyd (1887-1956)(played by Peter Dunphy)
  • Opening Hymn 7 “New every morning is the love” (Melcombe)
  • Service Music: Holy Trinity Service – Christopher Tambling
  • Psalm 119: 33-40
  • Gospel Alleluia
Choir: Alleluia. Alleluia. Alleluia.
All: Alleluia. Alleluia. Alleluia.
Cantor: In those who obey the word of Christ:
the love of God has reached perfection.
All: Alleluia. Alleluia. Alleluia.
  • Anthem: “My eyes for beauty pine” – Herbert Howells
    My eyes for beauty pine, My soul for Goddes grace :
    No other care nor hope is mine, To heaven I turn my face.
    One splendour thence is shed From all the stars above :
    'Tis named when God's name is said, 'Tis Love, 'tis heavenly Love.
    And every gentle heart, That burns with true desire,
    Is lit from eyes that mirror part Of that celestial fire.
  • Communion Hymn 77 “The Son of God proclaim” (Sunderland)
  • Concluding Hymn 330 “O praise ye the Lord” (Laudate dominum)
  • Organ: Liturgical Prelude No. 3 - George Oldroyd (1887-1956)
Music Notes

George Oldroyd (1887–1956) was an English organist and composer of Anglican church music. He was organist of St. Alban's Church, Holborn from 1919 to 1920, and then of St. Michael's Church, Croydon from 1920 until his death in 1956. Both are churches firmly rooted within the Anglo-Catholic tradition. During the 1930s the first British organ works appeared that quoted plainsong or plainsong-like themes. Among the more memorable are the Three Liturgical Preludes (1938) by George Oldroyd. This set of preludes is dedicated to the plainsong enthusiast Dykes Bower, organist of St. Paul’s Cathedral, and inspired by the vast reverberant qualities of St. Paul’s and Dykes Bower’s soft, deliberate improvisations, pervaded with rubato. They appear to be unique in British organ music of the period with respect to combining plainchant and a metrically loose style.

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