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Tavener, John: Two Hymns To The Mother Of God

Setting: Mixed Voices
Instrumentation: SAATBB
Genre: Choral Work
Language: English
Length: 12 pages
Weight: 0.034 kg
Published: 1992
Publisher: Chester Music
Item number: CH55776
ISMN: 9780711923928
Two hymns written for unaccompanied choir by Tavener. The first is for SAATBB/SAATBB double choir, and is a setting of a text from the Liturgy of St. Basil. The second is for SSATBBB choir and comes from the Vigil Service of theDormition (or falling asleep) of the Mother of God. She invites the apostles to gather together from the ends of the earth to bury her body in Gethsemane, and asks her son to receive the spirit. Two hymns to the Mother of God werefirst performed in December 1985 by the Choir of Winchester Cathedral conducted by Martin Neary.

Contents

1.
A Hymn For The Dormition Of The Mother Of God
2.
A Hymn To The Mother Of God
3.
A Pastoral Coronation Song
4.
A Pastoral Elegy On The Death Of Mr.John Playford
5.
A Thousand Sev'ral Ways
6.
Aaron Thus Propos'd To Moses
7.
Ah What Pains
8.
Ah! Cruel Nymph
9.
Amidst The Shades
10.
Amintas To My Grief I See
11.
Amintor, Heedless Of His Flocks
12.
An Elegy Upon The Death Of Mr.Thomas Farmer
13.
Anacreon's Defeat
14.
Ask Me To Love
15.
Bacchus Is A Pow'r Divine
16.
Bell Barr
17.
Beneath A Dark And Melancholy Grove
18.
Bess Of Bedlam
19.
Beware, Poor Shepherds
20.
Cease, O My Sad Soul
21.
Celia's Fond
22.
Corinna Is Divinely Fair
23.
Cupid, The Slyest Rogue Alive
24.
Draw Near, You Lovers, Farewell, All Joys
25.
Farewell, Ye Rocks
26.
Fly Swift, Ye Hours
27.
From Silent Shades
28.
Gentle Shepherds
29.
He Himself Courts
30.
Hears Not My Phillis
31.
High On A Throne
32.
Honours May Crown
33.
How Delightful's The Life
34.
How I Sigh
35.
How Peaceful The Days Are
36.
I Came, I Saw
37.
I Envy Not A Monarch's Fate
38.
I Fain Would Be Free
39.
I Lov'd Fair Celia
40.
I Love And I Must
41.
I Resolve Against Cringing
42.
I Saw That You Were Grown So High
43.
I Take No Pleasure
44.
If Grief Has Any Pow'r
45.
If Music Be The Food Of Love
46.
If Pray'rs And Tears
47.
In Cloris All Soft Charms Agree
48.
In Vain We Dissemble
49.
Incassum, Lesbia
50.
Leave These Useless Arts
51.
Let Each Gallant Heart
52.
Let Formal Lovers
53.
Let Us, Kind Lesbia
54.
Love Arms Himself
55.
Love Is Now Become A Trade
56.
Love, Thou Canst Hear
57.
Lovely Albina
58.
Love's Pow'r In My Heart
59.
More Love Or More Disdain
60.
Musing On Cares
61.
My Heart, Whenever You Appear
62.
No Watch, Dear Celia
63.
No, To What Purpose
64.
Not All My Torments
65.
O Solitude
66.
Ode On The Queen
67.
Oh Fair Cedaria
68.
Oh How Happy's He
69.
Olinda In The Shades Unseen
70.
On The Brow Of Richmond Hill
71.
On The Death Of His Worthy Friend
72.
Pastora's Beauties When Unblown
73.
Phillis, I Can Ne'er Forgive It
74.
Phillis, Talk No More
75.
Pious Celinda
76.
Rashly I Swore
77.
Sappho's Complaint
78.
Sawney Is A Bonny Lad
79.
Scarce Had The Rising Sun
80.
Scotch Song
81.
See How The Fading Glories
82.
She Loves And She Confesses Too
83.
She That Would Gain
84.
She, Who My Poor Heart Possesses
85.
Sighs For Our Late Sovereign King Charles The Second
86.
Silvia
87.
Since One Poor View
88.
Since Teh Pox
89.
Solitude
90.
Spite Of The God Head
91.
Stripp'd Of Their Green
92.
Sweet Tyraness
93.
Sweet, Be No Longer Sad
94.
Sylvia Now Your Scorn Give Over
95.
Sylvia Tis True You're Fair
96.
The Caution
97.
The Concealment
98.
The Fatal Hour
99.
The Knotting Song
100.
The Loyal Delights Of A Contented Mind
101.
The Queen's Epicedium
102.
The Rich Rival
103.
The Storm
104.
The Thraldom
105.
The Triumps Of A Conquering Lover
106.
They Say You're Angry
107.
This Poet Sings
108.
Through Mournful Shades
109.
Turn Then Thine Eyes
110.
Urge Me No More
111.
We Now My Thyrsis
112.
What A Sad Fate
113.
What Can We
114.
What Hope For Us Remains
115.
When First Amintas
116.
When First My Shepherdess And I
117.
When Her Languishing Eyes
118.
When I A Lover
119.
When My Aemelia Smiles
120.
When Strephon Found
121.
When Thirsis Did The Splendid Eye
122.
While Thirsis, Wrapp'd
123.
Whilst Cynthia Sang
124.
Who But A Slave
125.
Who Can Behold
126.
Why So Serious
127.
Ye Happy Swains
128.
Young Thirsis' Fate
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