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Music and the Choir

Westminster Abbey has resounded to music every day for over one thousand years. Singing has played a hugely important role, from the plainsong Offices sung by the monks of the tenth-century monastic foundation to the daily choral services sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey today. Over the intervening centuries some of the most illustrious British organists, singers and composers have been closely associated with the Abbey, which continues to play a leading part in the musical and cultural life of the nation today.

Music at Evensong

14 March 2010

10:00am Matins
Introit: Tallis In manus tuas, Domine, commendo spiritum meum
Responses: Morley
Canticles: Dyson Benedicite in F
Gibbons Benedictus (Short Service)
11:15am Sung Eucharist
Setting: Schubert Mass in G
Motet: Elgar Ave verum Corpus
3:00pm Evensong
Introit: Tallis In manus tuas, Domine, commendo spiritum meum
Responses: Morley
Canticles: Gray in F minor
Anthem: Gibbons See, the Word is incarnate