NUNC DIMITTIS

nŭngk dĭmĭtˈĭs [Lat.,=now you are dismissing], the opening words of Simeon's song of praise on the occasion of the presentation of the infant Jesus in the Temple. After seeing Jesus, Simeon joyfully proclaims that he has seen God's salvation. The hymn is used traditionally in evening liturgical services.

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books on: Nunc Dimittis  - 516 results

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William Byrd
Book by Edmund H. Fellowes; Oxford University Press, 1948
Subjects: Byrd, William--1542 Or 3-1623
...No. 2. Sanctus. Magnificat. Nunc Dimittis. Barnard; B.M. Add. 17784...Second Service. Magnificat. Nunc Dimittis. Barnard; St. Johns Coll...Third Service. Magnificat. Nunc Dimittis. Barnard; Ch. Ch. 1001; St...
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The Reader's Encyclopedia: An Encyclopedia of World Literature and the Arts
Book by William Rose Benét; Thomas Y. Crowell, 1948
Subjects: Art--Dictionaries, Literature--Dictionaries, Music--Dictionaries
...their way to the Promised Land. Nunc Dimittis. The Song of Simeon Luke ii...opening words of the Latin version, Nunc dimittis servum tuum, Domine . Hence, to receive ones Nunc dimittis , to be given permission to go...
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The Chester Mystery Cycle: Essays and Documents
Book by R. M. Lumiansky, David Mills; University of North Carolina Press, 1983
...this point. Simeons singing of Nunc dimittis focuses the problem slightly differently...The direction "Tunc cantabit Nunc dimittis servum tuum, domine, etc...74) are a close paraphrase of Nunc dimittis, so there is a small possibility...
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Anglican Chant and Chanting in England, Scotland, and America, 1660-1820
Book by Ruth M. Wilson; Oxford University, 1996
Subjects: Anglican Chants--History And Criticism, Church Music--Anglican Communion, Church Music--Church Of England
...Te deum in Morning Prayer, and Nunc dimittis in Evening Prayer are, according...Benedicite. Chethams chant for the Nunc dimittis by itself may indicate an early...beginning to the custom of singing the Nunc dimittis as a dismissal hymn, although...
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Music in the Renaissance
Book by Gustave Reese; Norton, 1959
Subjects: Music--15th Century--History And Criticism, Music--16th Century--History And Criticism, Renaissance
...since the Gloria Patri in its Nunc dimittis is identical with that of the...Sanctus, 186 Magnificat, and Nunc dimittis . Except for the Sanctus, these...includes only the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis , as does the "Third" Service...
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journal articles on: Nunc Dimittis  - 32 results

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Reinventing the Gospel: Aelfric and the Liturgy
Journal article by M. Bradford Bedingfield; Medium Aevum, Vol. 68, 1999
Subjects: Anglo-Saxon literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Christian drama--Translations and translating, Liturgics--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Middle Ages--Fairs, festivals, etc.
...throughout the liturgy as the `Nunc dimittis. Luke is the only evangelist...giving thanks and praying the `Nunc dimittis. Again, in AElfrics explication...suas et benedixit deum dicens Nunc dimittis domine seruum tuum in pace...
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A Fifteenth-Century Middle English Sermon on the Decline of the World and the Age of Stone
Journal article by Alastair Bennett; Medium Aevum, Vol. 80, 2011
Subjects: English literature, Literary styles--Analysis, Literary techniques--Analysis, Literature, Medieval, Medieval literature, Preaching--History, Regression (Civilization)--Portrayals, Sermons--Criticism and interpretation, Structure (Literature)--Analysis, Style, Literary--Analysis
...18 of Crist seyng thus to hym: Nunc dimittis Domine servum tuum inpace; Nowe...sey veryly with Symeon ??us: Nunc dimittis servum tuum in pace. Also I seyd...reproduce this text. (100f.) Nunc dimittis Domine servum tuum in pace. Now...
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Clares in Procession: The Processional and Hours of the Franciscan Minoresses at Aldgate
Journal article by Anne Bagnall Yardley; Women & Music, Vol. 13, 2009
Subjects: Cranston 2322 (Musical work)--Design and construction, Monasteries--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Monastic and religious life--Management, Monastic life--Management, Music manuscripts--Design and construction, Music--Design and construction, Music--Manuscripts
...quod post quemlibet versum psalmi Nunc dimittis et post Gloria patri et Sicut erat...revelacionem gencium (antiphon to Nunc Dimittis) <br/ 77v Exurge domine adiuva...163r No <br/ variation Dicant nunc <br/ Regina caeli laetare Easter...
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Appendix 1: Printed Text for Student of Greek, 1471-1529
Journal article by Paul Botley; Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 100, 2010
Subjects: Grammar, Libraries, Printers
...Patrum. .... Magnificat. .... Nunc dimittis. .... Salve regina...in some particulars: "Est ergo nunc annus ab incarnatone salvatone af...Greek numbers we find "Est ergo nunc annus ah incarnatione salvatoris...
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Learned Reading, Vernacular Seeing: Jacques Daret's Presentation in the Temple
Journal article by Penny Howell Jolly; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 82, 2000
Subjects: Art, Art criticism, Daret, Jacques (1404-70), Middle Ages, Visual artists
...glory to thy people Israel." Following his famous Nunc dimittis canticle ("Lord, now let thy servant depart in peace...Mary. When Simeon delivers his version of his famous "Nunc dimittis" speech, Joseph immediately follows with "Mary...
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Nunc Dimittis
Magazine article by Michael Batcho; Pastoral Music, Vol. 33, August 2009
Nunc Dimittis by Michael Batcho Nunc Dimittis. Richard J. Siegel. SSATB choir a cappella. 005284, $1.15. If your choral library does not include a setting of this canticle, you would do well to consider this piece. It is not lengthy...
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Alfred Schnittke: Symphony No. 9/nunc Dimittis (Reconstruction and Fourth Movement by Alexander Raskatov)
Magazine article by Edith Eisler; Strings, Vol. 23, June 2009
...Schnittke: Symphony No. 9/nunc Dimittis (Reconstruction and Fourth Movement...Schnittke: Symphony No. 9/Nunc dimittis (reconstruction and fourth movement...dissonant chords. Raskatovs "Nunc dimittis" movement, a memorial to Schnittke...
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David Hurd: Choral and Organ Works
Magazine article by John Karl Hirten; The American Organist, Vol. 44, April 2010
...optimal performance. Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (2008) These two pieces, which...Updated December 2009) CHORAL Nunc dimittis (for mixed voices, soloists...Lucernarium for Candlemas - Nunc dimittis (for mixed voices, organ, and...
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Conventions of Prayer in Some 19th-century Operas
Magazine article by Rodney Stenning Edgecombe; Musical Times, Vol. 146, Winter 2005
Subjects: Christianity, Musicology, Opera, Paganism & animism, Prayer
...conceived the cabaletta-finale as a Nunc dimittis. To explain that reference to...theprecatio can be likened to the Nunc Dimittis because it pleads for death...boundary between the cletic and the Nunc Dimittis quite often seems blurred. GERMAN...
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Pipings
Magazine article; The American Organist, Vol. 42, April 2008
...mysterium," "O esca viatorum," and the "Magnificat and Nunc dimittis." St. Jamess Church in Richmond, Va. (Mark Whitmire...music) premiered Mr. Websters new "Magnificat and Nunc dimittis" for choir and organ in memory of Paul and Mary Stewart...
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newspaper articles on: Nunc Dimittis  - 26 results

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Theme for the Day
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), January 29, 2000
...Psalm 118, Tippet St Johns Service (Mag) Morago (Nunc) Nunc Dimittis - Holst, Hymns. Hereford: 8am Holy Communion...6.30pm Congregational Service: Murrill in E (Nunc Dimittis), Stanford - The Lord is my Shepherd. FROM THE...
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Sacred Release Captures Rich Sound of Choir; Classical Music
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), August 6, 2009
...REGCD316) elegantly sandwiches the various Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis evening canticles Howells composed for each of the Three...and tailed with the Te Deum Jubilate and Magnificat Nunc Dimittis written for Kings College, Cambridge. Hereford Cathedral...
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The Presentation in the Temple; Luke 2:22-35
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, December 29, 2005
...Gloria of the angelic choir. It is popularly known as Nunc Dimittis, from the opening lines in Latin. Like them, it is...the speaker himself. Like the other canticles, the Nunc Dimittis does not refer specifically to the conception and birth...
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Hours Earlier I'd Rocked My Warm, Milky Son in My Arms. Now He Was Cold as a Statue but I Couldn't Let Go; It's 20 Years since Anne Diamond Lost Her Baby Son to Cot Death. Here, with Heart-Wrenching Power, She Relives That Awful Day - and the Raw Emotion That Still Hits Her like a Hammer Blow
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 16, 2011
Subjects: McLean, Anne
...a boy living nearby who was the runner-up to Chorister Of The Year. She got him to turn up and sing a beautiful Nunc Dimittis, and he even brought a fellow trumpeter with him. Wonderful, sad, inspirational letters flooded in from the famous...
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Glastonbury with God; Banners, Pilgrim Picnics, Singing and Dancing. as 80,000 Flock to Hyde Park Where So Many English Martyrs, Catholic and Protestant, Met Their End
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), September 19, 2010
...jubilant priests mingled with banner-waving teenagers, and the boy soloist came back and sang an arrangement of Nunc dimittis from the Book of Common Prayer (1662) - better known to many as the closing music for the BBC adaptation of John...
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encyclopedia articles on: Nunc Dimittis  - 3 results

 
 
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Nunc Dimittis
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
NUNC DIMITTIS nungk dimit is Lat.,=now you are dismissing, the opening words of Simeons song of praise on the occasion of the presentation...
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Simeon
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...are seldom mentioned individually. 2 Devout man who blessed Jesus when He was presented in the Temple. He uttered Nunc dimittis . 3 Simeon Niger, early Christian, prominent in Antioch. In chapter 15 of the Acts of the Apostles, Simeon appears...
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Hymn
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...religious character (see also cantata ). Early Christian hymnody consisted mainly of the Psalms and the great canticles Nunc dimittis, Magnificat, and Benedictus from the Bible and of the Sanctus, Gloria in excelsis, and Te Deum. These were chanted...


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