Epiphany 5 February 8 2015

• Organ: Fantasia in C major BWV 570 - J.S. Bach (1685 - 1750) (played by Peter Dunphy) 
• Opening Hymn 40 “O Spirit of the living God” (Wareham) 
• Service Music: Trinity Service – Christopher Tambling 
• Psalm 147: 1-7 How good it is to sing praises to our God:
• Gospel Alleluia: Jesus says I am the light of the world: whoever follows me will have the light of life. 
• Offertory Hymn 384 “Praise to the Lord, the almighty” 
• Communion Hymn 64 “Author of life divine” 
• Communion Motet: Prayer to Jesus – George Oldroyd 
• Concluding Hymn 325 “Angel voices, ever singing” 
• Organ: Fugue in G minor "Little" BWV 578 - J.S. Bach (1685 - 1750) (played by Peter Dunphy) 

Music Notes

This morning’s prelude and postlude exemplify two baroque musical forms, the Fantasia and the Fugue. A Fantasia is a relatively free form in the 16th and 17th centuries, in which a composer exercises creative fancy, usually in contrapuntal form. The Fugue however is more structured and can be described as a texture rather than a form. The normal Fugue opens with a subject or theme in one voice or part. A second voice answers, with the same subject transposed and sometimes slightly altered, usually at the interval of a fifth, while the first voice continues with an accompaniment that may have the character of a countersubject that will be used again as the piece progresses.

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Candlemas - February 1 2015

• Organ: Three Liturgical Preludes – George Oldroyd
• Opening Hymn  "In his temple now behold Him" (Regent Square)
• Introit: When to the temple Mary went – Johannes Eccard
Service Music: A Community Mass – Richard Proulx
• Psalm 84 (a metrical paraphrase by Isaac Watts) (Tune: Westminster)
• Gospel Alleluia
   My eyes have seen your salvation: which you have prepared in the presence of all peoples. 
• Offertory Hymn 132 "Of eternal love begotten"
• Anthem: Nunc dimittis (from Evening Service in G) – Sir Charles Stanford
• Communion Hymn "Hail to the Lord who comes"
• Concluding Hymn 335 "How shall I sing that majesty"
• Organ: Te Deum Laudamus – Dietrich Buxtehude

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Conversion of Paul - January 25 2015

• Organ: Variations on 'Amazing Grace' – Denis Bedard
• Opening Hymn 432 "Jesus calls us! O’er the tumult"
• Service Music: A Community Mass – Richard Proulx
• Psalm 67
• Gospel Alleluia
  This Jesus God raised up: and of that all of us are witnesses. 
• Offertory Hymn: "And can it be"
• Anthem: “How lovely are the messengers” (from St. Paul) – Felix Mendelssohn
• Communion Hymn 446 "Word of God, come down on earth"
• Concluding Hymn 352 "Amazing grace"
• Organ: Fugue in G major – Felix Mendelssohn

Music Notes
Today we commemorate Paul’s conversion. With reference to that event the offertory hymn this morning is “And can it be”, a text by Charles Wesley. Originally titled “Free Grace,” this hymn is one of several hymns by Wesley that is still widely sung in the present day. Although we do not know exactly when “And Can It Be” was written, it is usually associated with a very early period linked with the Charles Wesley’s own conversion. Regardless of when it was written, the hymn clearly describes the experience of conversion and the wonder of one who is still amazed “That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me?”.

"Saint Paul," the first of Mendelssohn’s oratorios, was begun in Düsseldorf, Germany and finished in Leipzig in the winter of 1835, the composer being then in his twenty-sixth year. Its three principal themes are the martyrdom of Saint Stephen, the conversion of Saint Paul, and the apostle’s subsequent career. The work was first produced May 22, 1836 at Düsseldorf. “How lovely are the messengers” is from Part Two of the oratorio.

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