Ruth by Antonio Cortina Farinós
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Ruth 1:16-17

16 And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:

17 Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.

Song of Ruth, composed by David Childs (b. 1969) and first performed January 2004

Stetson University Women's Chorale 2012: "Song of Ruth"

Performed by The Stetson University Women’s Chorale
Conductor Andrew Larson

 

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Composed by David N. Childs. Concert, General. Octavo. Published by Santa Barbara Music Publishing (SB.SBMP-539)

Andreas Hammerschmidt
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Psalm 24:7-9 [German]

Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.

Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle.

Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.

Machet die Tore weit, composed by Andreas Hammerschmidt (1611-1675)

Hammerschmidt - Machet die Tore weit (UniversitätsChor München)

Performed by UniversitätsChor München

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Machet Die Tore Weit composed by Andreas Hammerschmidt. Arranged by Jim Leininger. For SSATBB choir, a cappella. Octavo. Published by Alliance Music Publications

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Hosea the prophet, Russian icon from first qua...
Hosea the prophet, Russian icon from first quarter of 18th cen. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Hosea 11:8 [German]

How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.

Was soll ich aus dir machen, Ephraim? Cantata BWV 89 (first performed on 24 October 1723), composed by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Was soll ich aus dir machen, Ephraim, BWV 89: Aria. Was soll ich aus dir machen, Ephraim? (Bass)

Performed by English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Conductor John Eliot Gardiner

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Cantata No.89 Was soll ich aus dir machen, Ephraim? BWV89 : I Aria – “Was soll ich aus dir machen, Ephraim?” [Bass]

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O how can I surrender Ephraim (Cantata for the 22nd Sunday after Trinity). Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). Edited by Reinhold Kubik. Arranged by Paul Horn. For SAB vocal soli, SATB choir, horn, 2 oboes, [horn], 2 violins, viola, basso continuo. This edition: Paperbound. German title: Was soll ich aus dir machen, Ephraim. Cantatas. Level 3. Vocal score. Language: German/English. Composed 1723. BWV 89. 24 pages. Duration 14 minutes. Published by Carus Verlag

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A page from Leviticus, in the Samaritan bible
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Leviticus 25:9 

Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.

Lord, we give thanks to thee, composed in 1971 by Undine Smith Moore (1904-1989)

Lord, We Give Thanks To Thee by Undine Smith Moore

Performed by The Clayton White Singers

 

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Lord, We Give Thanks to Thee composed by Undine Smith Moore. For SATB choir, piano reduction. Thanksgiving Day. African American Church Music Series. Sacred. Text language: English. 16 pages. Published by GIA Publications (GI.G-6232).

 

Hieronymus Francken III Jephthah meets his dau...
Hieronymus Francken III Jephthah meets his daughter (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Judges 11:28-40 [Latin, adaptation]

28 Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.

29 Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon.

30 And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,

31 Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the Lord‘s, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.

32 So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the Lord delivered them into his hands.

33 And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.

34 And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.

35 And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the Lord, and I cannot go back.

36 And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the Lord, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the Lord hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon.

37 And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.

38 And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.

39 And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel,

40 That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

Jephte oratorio (before 1649), composed by Giacomo Carissimi (1605-1674)

Göteborg Baroque: Plorate / Jephte/ Carissimi

Göteborg Baroque, a Swedish ensemble, performs the final choir “Plorate” from Jephte by Carissimi


Complete oratorio performed by Il Giardino Armonico

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Jephte:Plorate Filii (Chorus) Version 2

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Plorate filii Israel (Lament, ye children of Israel) (Lament, ye children of Israel – from “Jephtha”). Composed by Giacomo Carissimi (1605-1674). Arranged by Henry Clough-Leighter. For SSATTB choir, keyboard (organ or piano). General, Lament/Grief/Sorrow. Octavo. Scripture: Judges 11:38-40. 8 pages. Published by E.C. Schirmer Publishing

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Deutsch: Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Deutsch: Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Psalm 100:1-5 [German]

Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands.

Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing.

Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.

For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.

Jauchzet dem Herrn alle Welt (1844), composed by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847)

Mendelssohn: Jauchzet dem Herrn alle Welt - Europäischer Kammerchor Köln, Leitung: Michael Reif

Performed by European Chamber Choir Cologne
Conducted by Michael Reif

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Psalm 100, “Jauchzet dem Herrn, all Welt”

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100. Psalm Jauchzet dem Herrn (choral score). Composed by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn (1809-1847). For mixed choir. Chor-Bibliothek (Choral Library). Choral score. 4 pages. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel

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Picture of the day (1)

Psalm 118:24 [Latin]

24 This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

Haec dies setting composed by Herbert Howells (1892-1983), and first heard on Easter Day in 1918


Performed by Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir

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Haec Dies

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Haec dies composed by Herbert Howells (1892-1983). Edited by Patrick Russill. For SSATB choir, a cappella. Mixed Voices. Church Music Society publications. Sacred, Choral Leaflet. Level C (moderately difficult). Vocal score. Duration 4′. Published by Oxford University Press

 

Jesus represented as telling Mary not to touch him, by Hans Holbein the Younger.

John 20:17; 15:26; 16:22; 14:16 [Latin]

17 Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.

26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

22 And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.

16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

Ascendo ad Patrem (published in Motettorum liber secundus, 5, 6, 8vv, Venice in 1572), composed by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594)

Motets for 5-8 Voices, Book 2 for 5, 6 and 8 Voices*: Ascendo ad Patrem

Performed by The Cambridge Singers
Conducted by John Rutter

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John 20:13-15 [Latin]

13 And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him.

14 And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus.

15 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away.

Alleluia, tulerunt Dominum (published 1569, Liber primus motettorum, 5–7vv, Rome), composed by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594)

Alleluia tulerunt Dominum - G. P. da Palestrina - Cappella Musicale della Cattedrale di Fiesole

Performed by Choir of the Cathedral of Fiesole
Director, Michele Manganelli

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Matthew 27:45-47; John 19:30; Luke 23:46

45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.

46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

47 Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias.

30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.

46 And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.

Tenebrae factae sunt (1772) by Johann Michael Haydn (1737-1806)

Michael Haydn: Tenebrae factae sunt

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Tenebrae factae sunt (Darkness was over the earth) composed by Michael Haydn (1737-1806). Edited by Thomas. For SATB choir, Organ/Piano ad lib. Choral. Octavo. Text Language: English/Latin. Published by Edition Peters 

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