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Season after Pentecost

Trinity Sunday

13 recommended works by women composers for Trinity Sunday.

Year A

Readings

O beata Trinitas

Sarah MacDonald (b. 1968)

Text source: Athanasian Creed

Reflects on the day’s overall theme.

Anthem · Young Trebles

Voicing: SSS

Accompaniment: organ

Duration: 3:00

Language: Latin

EasyScore: Multitude of VoycesMultitude of Voyces C.I.C.

digital download available from louisestewart@multitudeofvoyces.co.uk

Year B

Readings

Alleluia, I heard a voice

Janet Wheeler (b. 1957)

Text source: Revelation 19:1&6

Reflects on Isaiah

Anthem · Choir

Voicing: SATB

Accompaniment: a cappella

Duration: 4:04

Language: English

ModerateScore: Multitude of Voyces RecordingMultitude of Voyces C.I.C.

Also available as octavo from Mazemusic.co.uk; suitable for Trinity Sunday

Antiphon and Psalm: Laudate Dominum

Elizabeth Poston (1905–1987)

Text source: II Chronicles 5:13-14

Reflects on Isaiah, Psalm 29

Anthem · Choir

Voicing: SATB

Accompaniment: organ

Language: Latin

ModerateScore Boosey & Hawkes

The trumpeters and singers joined together to praise and thank the LORD with one voice. They lifted up their voices, accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and musical instruments, in praise to the LORD: “For He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.” And the temple, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloud

O beata Trinitas

Sarah MacDonald (b. 1968)

Text source: Athanasian Creed

Reflects on the day’s overall theme.

Anthem · Young Trebles

Voicing: SSS

Accompaniment: organ

Duration: 3:00

Language: Latin

EasyScore: Multitude of VoycesMultitude of Voyces C.I.C.

digital download available from louisestewart@multitudeofvoyces.co.uk

O virtus sapientiae

Words and music by Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179)

Reflects on Canticle 13

Anthem · Soloist

Voicing: S

Accompaniment: a cappella

Duration: 1:00

Language: Latin

ModerateScore: Multitude of VoycesMultitude of Voyces C.I.C.

digital download available from louisestewart@multitudeofvoyces.co.uk

Te Deum

Faustina Hasse Hodges (1822–1895)

Text source: Latin hymn

Reflects on Canticle 2

Anthem · Choir

Voicing: SATB

Accompaniment: organ

Language: English

EasyScore Public Domain

Faustina Hodges worked at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Chestnut Hill (Philadelphia) for 14 yrs. A plaque in the vestibule honors her work as organist.

Year C

Readings