Similarity between our Mass and an Anglican Service

[ProVobis]

The Gloria they use too is like our new translation but IMO more elegantly worded.

Have to hand it to the Brits. No one masters the English language better than they do.

 

[liturgyluver]

Have to hand it to the Brits. No one masters the English language better than they do.

Though I did see a 1960s translation of the Gloria which referred to “peace to people who are God’s friends” !!

 

[anonymous1995]

Do High Church Anglicans sing plain chants during services? What music books do they use? Any liturgical rubrics regarding sacred music for High Church Anglicans like Catholics? What an irony when chants vanish from Catholic Masses while some Anglicans still continue with the tradition (from what I heard of)!

 

[Symphorian]

Do High Church Anglicans sing plain chants during services? What music books do they use? Any liturgical rubrics regarding sacred music for High Church Anglicans like Catholics? What an irony when chants vanish from Catholic Masses while some Anglicans still continue with the tradition (from what I heard of)!

Yes. The CofE Cathedral Church in my Diocese regularly sings Plain Chant. I try to attend Red Letter Saints Days there when I can as the Eucharist is solemnly celebrated. There’s usually a considerable amount of Plain Chant with parts of the Ordinary of the Mass often in Latin. I went to Evensong at the Cathedral last Sunday which was according to the 1662 BCP but they added Latin Plain Chant Antiphons to the Psalm, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis. The Psalm and Canticles themselves were in English and sung to Anglican Chant.

Much of this is down to the influence of the Rituailists who followed on from the Tractarians/Oxford Movement. Anglicans are much less squeamish about these type of practices than they once were but it is still generaly a High Church or Anglo-Catholic tradition.

The English Hymnal/New English Hymnal contains quite a bit of plain chant and I use a book called ‘Manual of Plainsong’ by Briggs, Frere & Stainer.

At my parish church we use John Merbecke’s mid 16th century quasi Plain Chant setting of the Ordinary. Here’s a recording of the Gloria on YouTube although it wasn’t originally intended to be accompanied:

youtube.com/watch?v=Pswx5dqaUxU

 

[liturgyluver]

Do High Church Anglicans sing plain chants during services? What music books do they use? Any liturgical rubrics regarding sacred music for High Church Anglicans like Catholics? What an irony when chants vanish from Catholic Masses while some Anglicans still continue with the tradition (from what I heard of)!

Well, put it this way the music is generally either a Polyphonic mass setting sung by a robed choir or beautifully chanted Plainsong. Our local Anglican church has a Lent Devotion to which we are invited and the sound of the congregation chanting the Lent Prose moved me to tears. The hymmody is traditional too - none of this modern stuff.