The prayer of Manasseh

( O Lord and Ruler of the hosts of heaven )

Composer(s): Routley, Erik (1917-1982) [ USA ; England ]

Edition

Published by Hinshaw Music, Inc. [USA] , 1977

Ref. : HMC-241 (11 p.) , "Canticles for this new day"

Type of material: Full score

Description

Text in: English

Epoque: 20th century

Genre-Style-Form: Sacred ; Canticle ; Hymn (sacred)

Mood of the piece: pleading ; prayerful

Type of Choir: unspecified voicing (2 unspecified + congregation voices )

Instrumentation: Keyboard (1 instrumental part(s))

Instruments: Organ (1)

Difficulty choir (incr.from 1 to 5): 1

Difficulty conductor (incr.from A to E): A

Tonality: G major ; D minor ; G minor ; B minor ; D mixolydian

Duration: 5.0 min.

Liturgical Use: Lent ; Penitence ; Matins ; Evensong

Musicological Sources: from the Proposed Book of Common Prayer for the Episcopal Church

Source of text: a song of penitence, from the Prayer of Manasseh in the Apocrypha ; Canticle 14 ; Kyrie Pantokrator

Data about the life of the work: may be sung in place of hymns and/or following the Old and New Testament readings in the Eucharist

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