Canticles

How To Use Canticles In A Sentence

• I also vividly remember attending the BBC Symphony Orchestra premieres of Stravinsky's Requiem canticles and Boulez's Eclat, in which she took a leading part.
• Sacred Text -- for the "citizen of the Holy City" (hagiopolites) cited in the oldest MSS. of catenae of the Psalms, and the Canticles, is none other than Hesychius of Jerusalem. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
• They are often based on the Bible but, unlike canticles such as the ‘Magnificat’ or ‘Nunc Dimittis’, they are not settings of biblical texts.
• The chants found in an antiphonal include the antiphons sung with the psalms and canticles
• A simple harmonized melody for singing the unmetrical texts, principally the psalms and the canticles, of Anglican services.
• The whole liturgy is sung, the characteristic deep Russian bass of the priest alternating with canticles by the choir.
• Prime refers to the Divine Office, the regimen of worship separated into daily ‘hours’ - those psalms, canticles, hymns, responsories, antiphons, and so on, distinct from the mass.
• Themes of emigration, pilgrimage, diaspora, exile and new homelands are woven into the psalms and canticles.
• While most of those who have accepted the theory of imitation-they cannot have reread the Idylls and the Song as wholes to persist in such a theory-have contended that Theocritus borrowed from Canticles, Graetz is convinced that the Hebrew poet must have known and imitated the Greek idyllist. The Book of Delight and Other Papers
• This was no Saint Francis with enough time to knock out a few canticles or to preach to the birds or do any of the other endearing things so close to Franny Glass's heart.