Service (music)

The parts of the liturgy available for musical setting are:

Morning Prayer

''Venite exultemus Domino'' ( Psalm 95 — rarely set after the Restoration )

'' Te Deum Laudamus '' or '' Benedicite Opera Omnia ''

'' Benedictus '' ( Luke I, 68) or ''Jubilate Deo'' (Psalm 100)

Holy Communion

''Responses to the Commandments ''

'' Nicene Creed ''

'' Sanctus ''

'' Gloria In Excelsis ''

(This follows the Book Of Common Prayer ; modern Anglican liturgy has largely reverted to the order of the Roman Catholic Mass ).

Evening Prayer

'' Magnificat '' or (rarely) ''Cantate Domino'' (Psalm 98)

'' Nunc Dimittis '' or (rarely) ''Deus misereatur'' (Psalm 67)

A "full service" includes all three of these groups; with the disappearance of daily " Matins " (choral morning prayer) from the Anglican liturgy and the reduction of the choral element in communion services composers are now more likely only to set the evening service. The Burial Service (see Requiem ) is sometimes set separately.

In the for Magdalen College, Oxford and the ''Gloucester Service'' of Herbert Howells for Gloucester Cathedral .

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