Sunday, February 22, 2015

LENT 2 - 1 March 2015

  • Organ: Voluntary in F minor (first movement) – Maurice Greene
  • Opening Hymn 546 “God moves in a mysterious way”
  • Service Music: A New Plainsong – David Hurd
  • Psalm 22: 22-26 - Praise the Lord you that fear him
  • Gospel Acclamation
  • Offertory Hymn 375 “At the Name of Jesus”
  • Anthem: Lord, let me know mine end – Maurice Greene
  • During Communion: The Lenten Prose
  • Concluding Hymn 347 “The God of Abraham praise”
  • Organ: Voluntary in F minor (second movement) – Maurice Greene

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Music Notes

Born in London, the son of a clergyman, Maurice Greene was a choirboy at St Paul's Cathedral, and later became organist there. Greene went on to the position of organist at the Chapel Royal; in 1730 he became Professor of Music at Cambridge University, and in 1735 he was appointed Master of the King's Musick.

His compositions are largely in the Georgian style, particularly the longer anthems such as his acknowledged masterpiece which we'll hear this morning, “Lord, Let Me Know Mine End”. In this anthem. Greene sets a text full of pathos with a moving duet in the middle of the work. For the text of his work, Greene chose parts of the 39th Psalm, in which David meditates on man's frailty, and applies for pardon and deliverance by considering that there is really no solid satisfaction to be had in this world. That if it offers nothing but vanity, may God deliver us from seeking our part of it, and that we are comforted by the fact that we have a God we can go to, who welcomes us, and in whom we can trust.



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