Recording the Hunt: Echoes of St. Hildegard

2000 Our First Recording, a new millennium 

We found many voices!  It was time to record and share.  With characteristic generosity the Diocese of Pennsylvania provided several empowering grants that funded  performances and a high quality professional recording  music by women.

Selections on this recording reflect the rich variety of musical and spiritual experience past and present that we had found.  Hildegard's ancient chants (12th Century)  come to life along with voices of the Las Heulgas Codex (13th Century)  and a cantata of Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre (17 th Century).  African American spirituals are included with arrangements by Marylou India Jackson and Henrietta Morgan as well as a song from the liturgy of South Ghana, Media Sida, arranged by the  Sr. Gertrude Denkabe, Society of the Holy Child Jesus in Ghana.  There are also hymns by Sharon Marion Hershey, Deborah Lutz, and Sr. Elise, Community of the Holy Spirit in New York. This recording, issued in 2000  by Church Publishing, is still available from Amazon.  Many of the scores are published  in the two supplements to the Hymnal 1982.

In Wonder, Love, and Praise

 "Kyrie" by Hildegard of Bingen is #841   A simpler congregational arrangement, "Lord have Mercy," is #842.

In Voices Found

Hildegard's antiphon "Laus Trinitati"  #105 

"Verbum bonum" from the Las Huelgas Codex  #3 

"Phos Hilaron," or "Light of the World," and "Nunc Dimittis" or, "Lord, you have now set your servant free," both  by Sr. Elise, CHS,    #153 and  #154.

"Media Sida," from the liturgy of South Ghana #103

"O Holy Spirit, root of life," by Sharon Marion Hershey #55

Wonder Love, and Praise, 1997, and Voices Found, 2003 are published by Church Publishing, Inc., New York, NY

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