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The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, from Latin third person singular of magnificare (see magnificence), from first words of the Virgin's hymn (Luke i:46, in Vulgate Magnificat anima mea dominum "My soul doth magnify the Lord") used as a canticle.
Wikipedia
The Magnificat ( Latin: ), also known as the Song of Mary, the Canticle of Mary, and, in the Byzantine tradition, the Ode of the Theotokos , is a canticle frequently sung or spoken liturgically in Christian church services. It is one of the eight most ancient Christian hymns and perhaps the earliest Marian hymn. Its name comes from the incipit of the Latin version of the canticle's text.
The text of the canticle is taken directly from the Gospel of Luke where it is spoken by Mary upon the occasion of her Visitation to her cousin Elizabeth. In the narrative, after Mary greets Elizabeth, who is pregnant with John the Baptist, the latter moves within Elizabeth's womb. Elizabeth praises Mary for her faith using words from the Hail Mary, and Mary responds with what is now known as the Magnificat.
Within the whole of Christianity, the Magnificat is most frequently recited within the Liturgy of the Hours. In Western Christianity, the Magnificat is most often sung or recited during the main evening prayer service: Vespers in the Catholic and Lutheran churches, and Evening Prayer (or Evensong) in Anglicanism. In Eastern Christianity, the Magnificat is usually sung at Sunday Matins. Among Protestant groups, the Magnificat may also be sung during worship services, especially in the Advent season during which these verses are traditionally read.
Johann Sebastian Bach's is a musical setting of the biblical canticle Magnificat. It is scored for five vocal parts (two sopranos, alto, tenor and bass), and a Baroque orchestra including trumpets and timpani. It is the first major liturgical composition on a Latin text by Bach.
In 1723, after taking up his post as Thomaskantor in Leipzig, Bach set the text of the Magnificat in a twelve movement composition in the key of E-flat major. For a performance at Christmas he inserted four hymns ( laudes) related to that feast. This version, including the Christmas interpolations, was given the number BWV 243a in the catalogue of Bach's works.
For the feast of Visitation of 1733, Bach produced a new version of his Latin Magnificat, without the Christmas hymns: instrumentation of some movements was altered or expanded, and the key changed from E-flat major to D major, for performance reasons of the trumpet parts. This version of Bach's Magnificat is known as BWV 243.
After publication of both versions in the 19th century, the second became the standard for performance. It is one of Bach's most popular vocal works.
The Magnificat is a Christian canticle found in the Gospel of Luke.
Magnificat may also refer to:
Settings of the canticle:
- Magnificat in E-flat major, BWV 243a, a 1723 choral work by Johann Sebastian Bach
- Magnificat in D major, BWV 243, a 1733 choral work by J.S. Bach, based on the former
- Magnificat (C. P. E. Bach), a choral work by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- Magnificat (Bruckner), a choral work by Anton Bruckner
- Magnificat (Pärt), a choral work by Arvo Pärt
- Magnificat (Rutter), a choral work by John Rutter
- Magnificat (Schütz), compositions by Heinrich Schütz, four extant, two lost
- Magnificat (Schubert), a choral work by Franz Schubert
- Magnificat (Vaughan Williams) (1932), for contralto, women's chorus and orchestra by Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Magnificat (Vivaldi), RV 610, 610a, 610b, 611, a work by Vivaldi
In music:
- Magnificat Baroque Ensemble, an American early-music ensemble
- Magnificat, an album by David and the Giants
In other media:
- Magnificat (film), a 1993 Italian drama
- Magnificat (novel), a novel in the Galactic Milieu Series by Julian May
- Magnificat, a Catholic magazine published monthly
In schools:
- Magnificat Academy, a Catholic middle school and high school in Warren, Massachusetts, U.S.
- Magnificat High School, an all-girls high school in Rocky River, Ohio, U.S.
Magnificat was composed in 1989 by Arvo Pärt. A setting of the Latin Magnificat text, it is in tintinnabuli style, which was invented by Pärt in the mid-1970s. It is scored a cappella for mixed choir: soprano solo, sopranos I and II, alto, and tenor and bass divisi. It lasts approximately seven minutes.
Magnificat is a 1993 Italian drama film directed by Pupi Avati. It was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.
The Magnificat in C major, 486, is a musical setting of the hymn composed by Franz Schubert in 1816. It is scored for SATB soloists, mixed choir, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 trumpets, violin I and II, viola, timpani and basso continuo ( cello, double bass and organ).
The autograph score is dated September 25, 1816, and was likely to have been composed for Vespers at the Lichtental Church. This composition is Schubert's only setting of the .
The work is divided into three distinct movements, forming a musical triptych. This is a typical format found in Schubert's sacred music. Performances require approximately 10 minutes.
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Schubert used a shortened version of the hymn, omitting the lines to . He also changed the line ("For behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed") to ("For behold, from henceforth all nations shall call me blessed").
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 2 soprano soloists, alto and tenor soloists, SATB choir, violin I and II, viola, and ( cello and organ).
Heinrich Schütz composed four extant settings of the Magnificat or Song of Mary, one of the three New Testament canticles. He set one in Latin and three in German. In the Schütz-Werke-Verzeichnis (SWV), the compositions have the numbers 344, 426, 468 (in Latin) and 494. The settings on the German text are all part of larger groups of works. They are settings of Martin Luther's German Magnificat, Meine Seele erhebt den Herren (My soul magnifies the Lord). Schütz wrote the compositions for different forces and occasions.
The by John Rutter is a musical setting of the biblical canticle Magnificat, completed in 1990. The extended composition in seven movements "for soprano or mezzo-soprano solo, mixed choir, and orchestra (or chamber ensemble)" is based on the Latin text, interspersed with "Of a Rose, a lovely Rose", an anonymous English poem on Marian themes, the beginning of the and a prayer to Mary. The music includes elements of Latin American music.
The composer conducted the first performance in Carnegie Hall on 26 May 1990, and the first recording with the Cambridge Singers and the City of London Sinfonia. Oxford University Press published in 1991 and Of a Rose, a lovely Rose separately in 1998.
While the canticle was often set to music, being a regular part of Catholic vespers and Anglican evensong, Rutter's work is one of few extended settings, along with Bach's composition. Critical reception has been mixed, appreciating that the "orchestration is brilliant and very colourful" and "the music weaves a magical spell of balm and peace", but also experiencing a "virtual encyclopedia of musical cliches, a … predictable exercise in glitzy populism".
The , Wq 215, H.772, by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach is a musical setting of the biblical canticle Magnificat as an extended composition for voices and orchestra in nine movements, composed in Berlin in 1749. It is the composer's first extant major choral composition.
Ralph Vaughan Williams composed his setting of the Magnificat or Song of Mary, one of the three New Testament canticles, in 1932. It is scored for contralto soloist, women's chorus, and an orchestra consisting of two flutes (the first player has a very prominent solo part; the second player doubles on piccolo), two oboes, cor anglais, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, timpani, triangle, cymbals, bass drum, tambourine, Indian drum, glockenspiel, celesta, harp, organ, and strings.
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).