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An Advent Responsory
Composer John Brooks
Text Ezekiel 38:9; Matthew 25:6, Luke 7:19; I Samuel 19:17, Psalms 49:2, 80:1
Voicing SATB
Topics Advent
Length Price $1.35 (U.S.) Released 8/00
Catalog no. 405-171 Difficulty Mod. Easy
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 Review
"John Brooks' 'An Advent Responsory' is a welcome alternative to the ubiquitous (if always lovely!) Palestrina/Willcocks setting. Although set in similar chant idiom, its cleaner harmonies and more direct lines set it apart, and it will also be cherished for its accessibility." --AAM Journal, September 2002
Description
This unaccompanied four-part chant setting of verses from both the Old and New Testaments is brief, haunting, and mystical: the ideal piece to open an Advent service or to sing between scripture readings.
Text
This is the hour of banquet and of song;
this is the heav'nly table spread for me;
here let me feast, and feasting, still prolong
the brief, bright hour of fellowship with thee.
Too soon we rise, we go our sev'ral ways;
the feast, though not the love, is past and gone,
the Bread and Wine consumed, yet all our days,
thou still art here with us, our shield and sun.
Feast after feast thus comes and passes by,
and passing, points to the glad feast above,
giving us foretaste of the festal joy,
the Lamb's great marriage feast of bliss and love.
--Horatio Bonar, 1855
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