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magnificat

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Antonio Vivaldi composed several settings of the hymn. The original setting for single choir , RV 610, is generally indicated when Vivaldi's is performed and discussed. RV 610 was composed either before 1717 or in 1719. Set in G minor , it is scored for ...

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Magnificat \Mag*nif"i*cat\, n. [L., it magnifies.] The song of the Virgin Mary, --Luke i. 46; -- so called because it commences with this word in the Vulgate.

Usage examples of magnificat.

Matthew Passion, the John Passion, the Christmas Oratorio, the Magnificat, the Motets, and 25 of the Church Cantatas have been printed with English words.

The Magnificat was by far his favorite piece of music, rarely sung these days and never formally, because modern women did not have voices that encompassed the phenomenal range.

Lochevsky Magnificat immortalized by Hagar, a piece so demanding that most singers were forced to split its octaves between three voices.

I only had incense at high mass, and at the Magnificat, in my quality of foundress.

More to the point is the Magnificat, Collins, if I were making your specious argument.

I crowded out the Magnificat with a picture of Zaluski and Gertrude Morley.

Old Testament passages, and, from the New Testament, the Magnificat, the Benedictus and the Nunc dimittis, are admitted as psalms.

Among his greater works are ninety-three masses, a very large number of motettes, forty-five hymns for the whole year, sixty-eight offertories, and a large number of litanies, magnificats and madrigals.

They are known by their opening words in Latin: the Magnificat (1:46-54), the Benedictus (1:68-79), the Gloria in excelsis (2:14), and the Nunc dimittis (2:29-32).

In the Anglican Book of Common Prayer and the Roman Catholic Divine Office, the Benedictus appears in the morning service and the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in the evening service.

They are known by their opening words in Latin: the Magnificat (1:46- 54), the Benedictus (1:68-79), the Gloria in excelsis (2:14), and the Nunc dimittis (2:29-32).