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Sing Unto the Lord: A Liturgical Hymnal. Anglican Music Publishing, 2023. 942 pp. $29.95 (hardcover).In my earlier article, I discussed the various criteria for picking an Anglican hymnal.[1] I did so as a starting point for writing a review of Sing Unto the Lord (SUL). As noted in the earlier article, this 2023 hymnal is offered as an alternative to the existing 20th century Episcopal (ECUSA) hymnals — The Hymnal (1940) and The Hymnal (1982) — as well as two 21st century Anglican hymnals: Book of Common Praise (2017) and Hymnal of the Heart (2023).[2] With the 2017 Book of Common Praise, the Reformed Episcopal Church (REC) sought to update Hymnal 1940 (H40) for REC or other Anglican parishes using traditional language — whether the 1928 prayer book, Rite I of the 1979 prayer book, or the “Traditional Language” edition of the ACNA prayer book. The BCP17 is published by Anglican House Publishers, which also publishes the ACNA prayer book. Since 2019, the publisher has also offered Magnify the Lord (MTL) intended for non-REC parishes; except for the name, it is identical to BCP17.Meanwhile, SUL is more of a successor to Hymnal 1982 (H82), but with the 2019 ACNA modern liturgy replacing Rite II. For both MTL and SUL, key liturgical texts determine the words for most of the hymnal’s service music. As a successor to H82, SUL is best suited for contemporary language parishes, or perhaps parishes that use both.This is the first of a two-part review of Sing Unto the Lord, focusing on its service music. In both parts, my review considers what is similar to and different from these earlier hymnals, to help an ACNA parish evaluating SUL as an alternative to one or more of these hymnals.About Sing Unto the LordSing Unto the Lord is a

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Fixed and variable prayers of the Rite I Eucharist and Offices. ↑Matthew S.C. Olver, “New Rites: Expansive, Inclusive, or Stifling?” Covenant, November 14, 2018, ↑J.W. West, “And with your spirit,” August 1, 2008, ↑In January 1978, the New York Times reported the consecration of the four founding bishops of the “Anglican Church of North America.” However, the group soon broke apart, forming the three earliest jurisdictions of the (perennially fractured) “Continuing” Anglican movement. See J.W. West, “Celebrating 30 years of schism,” January 28, 2008, ↑The publication is labelled The Book of Common Prayer (2019) Traditional Language Edition 2022, but for simplicity’s sake, here I refer to it as the “2022” or “TLE” prayer book. ↑The setting shared by these four hymnals dates to 1927 and The Choral Service (New York: H.W. Gray, 1927) In it, Winfred Douglas shifted from the Sarum setting to a more ancient Roman setting, and this pattern has been followed ever since. See “S 112 Lift up your hearts Sursum corda,” Hymnal 1982 Companion, vol. 2 (New York: Church Hymnal Corporation, 1994), 91-94. ↑H82 and SUtL share exactly one setting of the Trisagion, the one by Russian composer Alexander Arkhangelsky (1846-1924). It is the only setting I’ve ever heard sung, when my family sang it seasonally at a Continuing church in Palo Alto. ↑The Benedictus qui venit was dropped in the 1552 Book of Common Prayer with its more Reformed emphasis. It was also omitted from the 1559, 1662 and subsequent prayer books, until the 1962 Canadian prayer book where (as in the 1979 America prayer book) it became an optional addition. ↑Consistent with the 1662 but inconsistent with 21st century worship, the Benedictus qui venit is omitted from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition. ↑Not shown are six Greek language Kyrie settings in

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Campbell “The Daily Prayer of the Church,” In Ruth A. Meyers, ed. A Prayer Book for the 21st Century. (New York: Church Publishing, Inc., 1996), 3-15 at 13. ↑“New Music Resources Now Available,” November 25, 2019, ↑“College of Bishops Meeting Communique,” January 19, 2021, ↑Outside the ACNA, the customary term in liturgical and sacred music studies is “mass setting”, which is preferred 40:1 in Google Scholar. But the evangelical-dominated ACNA seems to avoid this term at all costs, and so the ACNA announcements and SUtL refer to a “Communion Setting”. Like the earlier H40, MTL refs to each setting as a “Communion Service.” ↑“Update on Progress of the Future ACNA Hymnal,” March 8, 2022, ↑Engraving is to music as typesetting is to text: today, both are forms of computer photocomposition that retain earlier terms dating to the era of metal plates and movable type. ↑“Provincial Council and College of Bishops 2023 Recap,” June 28, 2023, ↑J.W. West, “ACNA plans new hymnal in 2030,” September 13, 2023, ↑J.W. West, “ACNA now plans 2029 music resources before hymnal,” November 21, 2023, ↑Dale Adelmann, The Contribution of Cambridge Ecclesiologists to the Revival of Anglican Choral Worship, 1839–62 (Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 1997). ↑. A Walk through the Prayer Book introduces the reader to one of the youngest members of the Anglican family of Prayer Books – the 2025 Book of Common Prayer of the Anglican Church in The Anglican Rosary: Prayer Book [Dr F Haas] on Amazon.com. FREE shipping on qualifying offers. The Anglican Rosary: Prayer Book

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Anglican Reading ListBooks:Graham Cole, ‘The Reformed Anglican Tradition: Theology and Priorities’ in Adam, P. & Denholm, D. (eds.), Proclaiming Christ: Ridley College Melbourne 1910-2010 (Melbourne: Ridley Melbourne, 2010)Gerald Bray, ‘Reformation training for ministry’ in Adam, P. & Denholm, D. (eds.), Proclaiming Christ: Ridley College Melbourne 1910-2010 (Melbourne: Ridley Melbourne, 2010)Hughes, P. E., Theology of the English Reformers, New Edition (Grand Rapids: 1965)Bray, G., The Faith we Confess: An Exposition Of The Thirty-Nine Articles (London: The Latimer Trust, 2009)Griffith Thomas, W.H., The Principles of Theology: An Introduction to the Thirty-Nine Articles (Church Book Room Press, London: 1963)Cummings, B. (ed.), The Book Of Common Prayer: The Texts of 1549, 1559 and 1662 (OUP: 2011)Turnbull, R., Anglican and Evangelical (London: Continuum, 2007)Hopkins, H. E., Charles Simeon Of Cambridge (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1977)Packer, J.I., Faithfulness And Holiness: The Witness Of J. C. Ryle (Wheaton: Crossway, 2002)Packer, J.I., Knowing God (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1973)Ryle, J. C., Knots Untied (Kindle edition)* Stott, JRW, The Cross of Christ (London: IVP, 1986)Articles: Packer, J. I., The Gospel in the Prayer Book, the Bible Today’, Paul W. Barnett, series editor – includes recent commentaries – Paul Barnett, Galatians: Defending the Truth; John Mason, Luke: An Unexpected God(available on Amazon)The Bible Speaks Today’, John Stott, series editor – includes commentaries on Romans and many books of the Bible.

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Settings for the ACNA’s 2019 Book of Common Prayer, as well as a balance of modern settings for Morning and Evening Prayer.For the Traditional Language Edition, the story is somewhat disappointing, with a small choice of Mass settings, and no Morning Prayer canticles. Still, it is adequate for a mixed-use parish. Alternately, the TLE service could be supported by a booklet or mass handout rather than the hymnal when a third Mass setting or Morning Prayer canticles are needed. However, I suspect that for most parishes, the main factor in choosing a new hymnal will be its portfolio of hymns for the entire church year. Please stay tuned for the final review installment.NotesJoel W. West, “Anglican Hymnals in the 21st Century,” North American Anglican, July 19, 2024, ↑The first three are comprehensive hymnals, while Hymnal of the Heart is intentionally simplified. ↑The Book of Common Praise 2017 was a hymnal officially sponsored and developed by a committee of the Reformed Episcopal Church, as a replacement for the 1943 REC hymnal of the same name; neither should be confused with a 1938 Canadian hymnal entitled The Book of Common Praise, Being the Hymn Book of the Church of England in Canada. The BCP17 and MTL editions of the hymnal have been adopted by some but not all REC parishes, as well as a few ACNA and even Continuing parishes. Here I use “MTL” to refer to both editions, to reduce confusion between the BCP 2017 hymnal and the 2019 BCP liturgy. ↑The Hymnal (1916) has a 56-page section labelled “The Morning and Evening Canticles and Occasional Anthems.” However, unlike its 1940 replacement, it does not include any Mass settings. ↑Elizabeth Morris Downey, “A Survey of Service Music in The Hymnal 1982,” Hymnal 1982 Companion, vol. 1 (New York: Church Hymnal Corporation,

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Cross-referenced to specific hymn paraphrases of the text that are printed in the main body of the hymnal. ↑In the 1549-1662 English BCP, before the variable Psalm, MP began with all 11 verses of Psalm 95, a psalm whose Latin incipit is Venite, exultemus Domino. The American-invented “Venite” (published in the 1789-1979 BCP) is a composite of Psalm 95:1-7 and Psalm 96:9,13 — although both 1928 and 1979 offer a choice between this composite or the full Psalm 95. The 2019 BCP compromise is to recite Psalm 95:1-7, but to make verses 8-11 (unfamiliar to many American ears) optional outside of Lent. ↑H82 has six settings of the Venite and three of Psalm 95 — none carried over from H40. ↑For example, for the 2019 Jubilate, only 4 words are different between the modern and traditional language: “you lands” (vs. “ye”), “has made us (vs. “hath”). ↑Prayers We Have in Common, p. 20. ↑Phos Hilaron is a 3rd or 4th century Greek Orthodox hymn, and the 2019 prayer book has reinstated the opening phrase used in Victorian England (“O gladsome light”) in place of the idiosyncratic 1979 one (“O gracious light”). ↑Here I am not counting Preces, Responses and Suffrages, both because hymnals group them differently, and because some hymnals do a better job than others of writing down was already common practice. ↑The Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis of H40 are updates of settings published in Charles Winfred Douglas, The Canticles at Evensong (New York: H.W. Gray, 1915), 39-41 and 50-51. URL: ↑For an enthusiastic endorsement of the practice, see Justin Clemente, “Beauty You Can Afford: Singing the Psalms to Simplified Anglican Chant,” North American Anglican, March 3, 2023, ↑“Requiescat in pace: The Rev’d Jerome Webster Meachen,” Journal of the Association of Anglican Musicians, 24, no. 5 (May/June 2015):22, ↑Jean

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1943),[6] as well as the second (1961) and third (1981) revised editions; the latter has been the only one available for purchase for more than a half-century. (Table 1 contains a summary of the contents of these four hymnals.)Table 1: Hymns and Service Music in U.S. Anglican hymnals, 1940-2023Hymnal 1940Hymnal 1940 (1961)Hymnal 1940 (1981)Hymnal 1982Book of Common Praise 2017Sing Unto the LordHymns[7]725725751720639741Service music141160175288[8]161140Total musical pieces8668859261008800881Complete Mass settings4885510The first three pages of SUL’s service music section lists its major subsections: Introduction, Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer, Supplemental Canticles, Communion Settings, Gloria, music from the Altar Book, and Miscellaneous.After service music became commonly sung in local parishes — beginning roughly in the mid-19th century — there have been two competing goals: variety vs. consistency. With a professional cathedral or elite choirs such as those in the English college chapels, the emphasis was on variety, often meaning a new Mass or Office setting every week (perhaps in a rotation of several dozen settings). Conversely, for congregational singing (or with a small choir), the goal is to master a small number of settings through repeated use. For congregation members without formal music training, learning through repetition is the only way they can participate in singing the Mass.Since the publication of H40, the typical pattern for Episcopal (and now Anglican) churches seems to be to rotate two or three settings during the liturgical year, for penitential, festal and ordinary seasons. Even with such a rotation, many parishes will use the same arrangement year-round for the more difficult pieces, typically the Creed and the Lord’s Prayer. The American hymnals — H40, H82, MTL and now SUL — thus include enough Mass settings for such rotation. These are not enough settings for the English practice of having the choir perform a rotation of 10 or more Mass settings. A Walk through the Prayer Book introduces the reader to one of the youngest members of the Anglican family of Prayer Books – the 2025 Book of Common Prayer of the Anglican Church in The Anglican Rosary: Prayer Book [Dr F Haas] on Amazon.com. FREE shipping on qualifying offers. The Anglican Rosary: Prayer Book

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SUL explicitly labels the style for each of the Office settings and the extra pieces for the Mass; the ten complete Mass settings are mostly plainchant.Impact of 20th Century Liturgical ReformsIn developing (or choosing) a hymnal service music section, a key question is: which service(s)? As noted earlier, service music — whether Daily Office or Mass settings — means putting to music the English text of the liturgy. For Anglicans, that liturgy began with Cranmer’s 16th century English translations of the Sarum Rite, which was the medieval Latin liturgy of Salisbury Cathedral.[21]For liturgical music, the differences across the first 400 years of the prayer book are pretty minimal: the 1549/1552/1559 and 1662 English and the 1789, 1892 and 1928 American editions of the Book of Common Prayer are very similar in terms of sung texts, with one notable exception. Since our first prayer book, Americans have always said (or sang) “Our father who art in heaven”. But those who attend a Choral Evensong from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer will recognize that English choirs call to the father “which art in heaven” with a request to “forgive them who trespass” (rather than those).[22]For centuries, Cranmer’s texts were also widely incorporated in the liturgies of other English-speaking Protestant denominations, whether in England, the U.S. or elsewhere. However, since the 1970s, Anglican (and other) liturgical texts have been changing. Not all changes to the liturgy have hymnal implications. The hymnal is not affected by changes to order of prayers, or — in most cases — prayers said by the priest (such as the Prayer of Institution). The break from traditional language came begin in the 1960s. During the initial sessions of Vatican II, a group of English-speaking bishops formed the International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL) in 1963 to

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Develop common texts for English-speaking Catholics. In the 1970s they released officially approved texts for the Eucharist and the Liturgy of the Hours (which included the Offices).In response, English-speaking Protestants agreed to jointly develop ecumenical modern language texts to parallel the Roman Catholic efforts. In 1969, they created the International Consultation on English Texts (ICET) with Anglican, Baptist, Congregationalist, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian and Roman Catholic members, and representatives from Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, the United States and Wales.[23] The ICET issued three editions of Prayers We Have in Common, the final in 1975.[24] It standardized modern language versions for 13 texts, of which seven are texts from the Mass: the Lord’s Prayer, Kyrie, Gloria, Nicene Creed, Sursum Corda, Sanctus/Benedictus and Agnus Dei. The six remaining texts were from the Daily Office: Apostle’s Creed, Gloria Patri, Te Deum, Benedictus, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis. Not standardized were several common Daily Office canticles— Venite and Benedictus es, as well as seasonal canticles such as the Ecce Deus and Pascha Nostrum.The 1979 Book of Common Prayer of the Episcopal Church adopted these ICET ecumenical texts for its new Rite II. Meanwhile, Rite I provided a reordered version of the historic (mostly unchanged) liturgical texts: the most visible change was the banishment of the Holy Ghost, with Rite I using the same Spirit-filled Gloria Patri as Rite II.[25] In the final months of the 20th century, the Church of England released its own compromise between traditional and modern worship. Ironically titled Common Worship, this multivolume library of 2000 included a rewritten psalter, four Eucharistic services, (at least) seven sets of Eucharistic prayers and — for the Daily Offices — a selection of 87(!) canticles that can be said or sung during worship.Sacred Texts of the 21st CenturyIn this century, the texts once shared through. A Walk through the Prayer Book introduces the reader to one of the youngest members of the Anglican family of Prayer Books – the 2025 Book of Common Prayer of the Anglican Church in The Anglican Rosary: Prayer Book [Dr F Haas] on Amazon.com. FREE shipping on qualifying offers. The Anglican Rosary: Prayer Book

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The Three Young Men). While in 1979, the Te Deum matched the ICET, [44] in the 2019 the Te Deum has numerous small changes and restores (as optional) five verses missing from the 1979.Evening Prayer. The Phos Hilarion is an ancient Orthodox vespers hymn. It is the optional opening canticle for EP in 1979 and 2019; both modern and TLE editions of the ACNA prayer book keep the 1979 translation, except for the second word.[45] SUL includes four modern settings for this text. For the two (now fixed) canticles, the 2019 translations of the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis moved away from the 1979, to be lightly modernized updates of the traditional language. SUL provides two modern and one traditional setting for each. Beyond the texts, there is the question of the music. Since H40, the editors for each of the three subsequent hymnals felt much less need to provide continuity for Office settings than for Mass settings. H82 kept only ten Daily Office pieces; MTL made reuse of H40 pieces an explicit goal and retained 38 pieces.[46]Still, the continuity of SUL is considerably less than either of these. Only three of the Daily Office settings of SUL appeared in any of the three previous hymnals; all are Gregorian chant settings of traditional texts that first appeared in H40. Two are plainchant settings of Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis[47] that also appear in MTL. The third is a 1974 Te Deum setting by English (later Episcopalian) composer Alastair Cassels-Brown (1927-2001), which was first published in the third (1981) edition of H40. Of these three, the Magnificat and Te Deum also overlap with H82.One reason for this dramatic change is the almost complete elimination of Anglican Chant from the Office settings. H40 had 66 settings of AC, while MTL increased that to 87.