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The Brotherhood Prayer Book: New Music for Advent 3 and Ember Days

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We are pleased to make newly composed and newly recorded music available for Advent 3 and Ember Days. Using Reformation-era resources, Mr. Matthew Carver composed antiphons for the Benedictus of each week of Advent. Rev. Sean Daenzer then sang and recorded the antiphons and other propers. We thank them for their contribution to the music of the BPB!

*Please refer back to the first post for recordings of the Invitatory of the Venite, the Venite, and Responsory for Advent.

Antiphon for the Benedictus (p. 393), pdf:

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Antiphon for the Magnificat (p. 394):

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Listen to a sample of how to move between the parts of the Canticle – from the Antiphon to the first verse of the Magnificat to the Gloria Patri, back to the Antiphon (Advent 3):

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A pdf of the Benedictus for Ember Wednesday (p. 394), Ember Friday (p. 395), and Ember Saturday (p. 396). At the end of each antiphon, the last part of the canticle tone (see p. 106) is printed above the letters “Oioeae,” which are the vowels in “world without end. Amen.”

Antiphon for the Benedictus of Ember Wednesday (p. 394):

Antiphon for the Magnificat of Ember Wednesday (p. 394):

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Listen to the entire Magnificat with Antiphon for Ember Wednesday (p. 394):

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Antiphon for the Magnificat of Ember Friday (p. 395):

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Listen to a sample of how to move between the parts of the Canticle – from the Antiphon to the first verse of the Magnificat to the Gloria Patri, back to the Antiphon (Ember Friday):

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The Brotherhood Prayer Book: New Music for Advent 2

BPB-new pictureLast week, we introduced new music for The Brotherhood Prayer Book for Advent 1. Now, we are pleased to make this newly composed and newly recorded music available for Advent 2. Using Reformation-era resources, Mr. Matthew Carver composed antiphons for the Benedictus of each week of Advent. Rev. Sean Daenzer then sang and recorded the antiphons and other propers. We thank them for their contribution to the music of the BPB!

*Please refer back to the first post for recordings of the Invitatory of the Venite, the Venite, and Responsory for Advent.

Advent 2:

Antiphon for Benedictus (p. 393); pdf of newly-composed music:

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Antiphon for the Magnificat (p. 393):

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Magnificat sung to Canticle Tone VIII:

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Listen to a sample of how to move between the parts of the Canticle – from the Antiphon to the first verse of the Magnificat to the Gloria Patri, back to the Antiphon:

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The Brotherhood Prayer Book: New Music for Advent 1

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While there are more than 450 mp3 files available on The Brotherhood Prayer Book CD, there still remain propers without musical composition and yet to be recorded. Now, we are pleased to make available newly composed and newly recorded propers for Advent. Using Reformation-era resources, Mr. Matthew Carver composed antiphons for the Benedictus of each week of Advent. Rev. Sean Daenzer then sang and recorded the antiphons and other propers. We thank them for their contribution to the music of the BPB!

Advent 1:

Invitatory for the Venite (p. 389):

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The Venite (p. 31):

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Responsory for Advent (p. 390):

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Hymn at Morning Prayer (p. 391):

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Antiphon for Benedictus (p. 391), pdf of newly-composed music:

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Hymn at Evening Prayer (p. 392):

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Antiphon for the Magnificat (p. 392):

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Listen to a sample of how to move between the parts of the Canticle – from the Antiphon to the first verse of the Magnificat to the Gloria Patri, back to the Antiphon:

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God With Us: How we developed the lectionary

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If you’ve taken a look at the Table of Contents link for God With Us, you may be curious to know how we chose texts for the daily sermons in Advent. At Redeemer Lutheran Church, we follow the historic one-year series, and it is our custom to preach on the Gospel text for Sunday’s Divine Service. We have simply carried the theme from Sunday’s propers to the rest of the week, with the week’s Introit, Old Testament, or Epistle text forming the basis of the weekday sermon. There is also a series on the Lucan canticles: the Benedictus, the Magnificat, and the Nunc Dimittis. The remaining days of Advent are comprised of the unique Epistles and Gospels for the Wednesdays and Fridays in Advent and also the saints’ days that fall in December. Thereafter come sermons for the twelve days of Christmas, Sundays in Epiphany up to the Transfiguration, and other saints’ days that fall in January and February. 

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