Appendix 3: For Further Listening
This book will continue to grow and expand, another advantage of its digital-first format. Yet even so, not every work that could theoretically be included will be. Encyclopedic works provide brief information about many more works than a textbook can. For those who wish to explore further, here are some of the works that are not included in this book—at least not yet. Listing them here may not be especially useful, but it should, if nothing else, convey a sense of just how much music is related to the Bible and encourage you to not end your exploration of it with this book but rather treat this book as an invitation into a world whose surface you’ve barely scratched. Since other sources provide lists that are either alphabetical or chronological, this one seeks to place side by side works with similar textual or thematic content or that conversely provide interesting contrasts. Any arrangement—alphabetical, chronological, by religious background of composer, by text(s) set—offers an organizational system optimal to some needs while being inconvenient for others. Eventually, it would be wonderful to have an interactive database of music related to the Bible, where all the information can be rearranged with a click or two. Perhaps some reader of this book will be inspired to create that. Perhaps one day I will find the time to do it. Until then, hopefully what is provided here will still be useful, if only in leading to the discovery of new music.
In short, if you are looking for music by a particular composer or from a particular era, other resources already exist that will connect you with what you are looking for, and in this digital format, you can search and find names and words easily. The aim here is to provide a gateway to what the book you have been reading has hopefully led you to seek—namely, a journey of discovery that will keep bringing new and unexpected things your way.
Genesis (Including but Not Limited to Creation)
Jean-Francois Laseur, La mort d’Adam
Franz Baur, Genesis—Die Schöpfung; Amartema—Der Sündenfall
Thomas Adès, In Seven Days
Vicente Barrientos Yepez, Creationem
Charles Wuorinen, Genesis
Larry Alan Smith, Symphony no. 2, “Genesis/Antietam”
Genesis, “In the Beginning”
Gabriel Fauré, “La chanson d’Ève,” op. 95
Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, The Apple Tree, Act I: The Diary of Adam and Eve
Xavier Montsalvatge, El Arca de Noé
Oscar Navarro, El Arca de Noe
Ludolf Nielsen, Babelstårnet (Tower of Babel), op. 35
Elinor Remick Warren, Abram in Egypt
Igor Stravinsky, The Flood; Abraham and Isaac
Franz Schubert, Hagar’s Lament
Jesús Guridi, Lamento e imprecación de Agar
Darius Milhaud, Reves de Jacob, op. 294
Krzysztof Penderecki, The Dream of Jacob
Robert Starer, Joseph and His Brothers; Va’ahavta
Richard Strauss, Josephslegende, op. 63
The prologue to the Gospel of John draws on language from Genesis and has been set to music:
Anne Dudley, The Testimony of John
Alexander Campkin, True Light (also Miserere Mei)
Gabriel Jackson, In the Beginning Was the Word
Knut Nystedt, The Word Became Flesh, op. 162
Enjott Schneider, In Principio Erat Verbum
Psalms
Giacomo Meyerbeer, Psalm 86, Psalm 124
Louis Lewandowski, Psalms 16, 21, 23, 25, 36, 37, 39, 42–43, 46, 51, 62, 67, 84, 85, 90, 100, 103 (Enosh, vv. 15–17), 121, 130, 134, 150
Julius Chajes, Psalm 134; The 142nd Psalm
Isadore Freed, Psalm 8
Salomon Sulzer, Psalm 133
Bonia Shur, Psalm 23
Herbert Fromm, Psalm 23; Grant Us Peace; also Song of Miriam (and many other works)
Ben-Zion Orgad, Mizmorim; Hallel
Yehezkel Braun, Hallel Service
Srul Irving Glick, Psalm Trilogy
Darius Milhaud, 3 Psalms of David, op. 339
Karl Weigl, Psalm 71; also Symphony no. 5, “Apocalyptic”
Hans Schanderl, Psalm 90
Nicola LeFanu, Verses from Psalm 90
Alfred Rose, Psalm 92
Eric Zeisl, Requiem Ebraico
Leo Rosenbluth, Psalm 93
Miriam Gideon, Adonai Malakh (Psalm 93); Psalm 128
Yehudi Wyner, Shiru Ladonai (Psalm 96)
Leonard Bernstein, Chichester Psalms
Herman David Koppel, 3 Psalms, op. 48; Two Psalms, op. 55; Two Biblical Psalms, op. 59; also Five Biblical Songs, op. 46; Four Old Testament Songs, op. 49; Three Songs on Psalm 142, the Song of Songs and Psalm 100
Abraham Kaplan, Psalms of Abraham
Betty Olivero, Lo Ira Ra; Bakashot; Tehilim
Aharon Harlap, Psalm 120; Psalm 122; Three Psalms; Shiru L’Adonai
Jean Berger, Psalm 23, “The Lord to Me a Shepherd Is”
Heinrich Schalit, Psalm 23: The 23rd Psalm
Maurice Jacobson, The Lord Is My Shepherd
Martin Kalmanoff, The Lord Is My Shepherd (Psalm 23)
Avner Dorman, Psalm 67
Robert Strassburg, Psalm 117
Greg Knauf, Psalm 117 “Laudate Dominum omnes gentes”
Ioseb Bardanashvili, Psalm 121
Leon Algazi, 3 Chants Hebraiques Traditionnels (No. 3 “Versets du Psaume 144”)
Jack Gottlieb, Shout for Joy; Psalmistry
Gershon Kingsley, Jazz Psalms
Aaron Copland, Four Motets
J. Klein, Psalm 150 (from Hear O Israel)
Samuel Adler, Psalm 23; A Psalm Trilogy
Robert Starer, Psalms of Woe and Joy; Two Sacred Songs; A Psalm of David (13th Psalm); others
Abraham Kaplan, Glorious
Artemy Vedel, By the Rivers of Babylon
Sergei Taneyev, On the Reading of a Psalm (based on Psalm 50)
Viktor Kalinnikov, Blazhen Muzh
Anatoly Lyadov, Perelozheniya iz obikhoda—no. 9, “Khvalite Gospoda s nebes”
Alexander Zemlinsky, Psalm 13, op. 24
Mary Montgomery Koppel, Psalm 13
Alexander Arkhangelsky, Psalm 141
Alexander Grechaninov, “Kvalite Boga” (Praise the Lord), Cantata for mixed chorus and orchestra, op. 65
Vladimir Fainer, Accedite ad eum (Psalm 33:6)
Alan Hovhaness, Symphony no. 12, op. 188: Psalm 23 “The Lord Is My Shepherd”; Make Haste, op. 86; Out of the Depths, op. 142, no. 3; Psalm 130 “Cantate Domino,” op. 385; Psalm 143, “Hear My Prayer, O Lord,” op. 149; and others
Carmen Petra-Basacopol, Din Psalmii lui David
Sofia Gubaidulina, Jauchzt vor Gott; De Profundis
John Tavener, Psalm 121
Dinos Constantinides, Concerto of Psalms (inspired by Psalms 19, 130, and 150)
Daniel Selichius, Opus novum
William Byrd, Laudibus in sanctis (Psalm 150); Hear My Prayer O Lord; O Lord Rebuke Me Not; Haver Mercy Upon Me O God; Teach Me O Lord; I Will Give Laud
Orlando di Lassus, Psalmi Davidis poenitentiales
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Genevan Psalter (Psalms 1, 2, 6, 7, 24, 25, 27, 36, 47, 77, 90, 96, 98, 112, 135, 137, 141, and 150)
Kaspar Förster, Benedicam Dominum
Peter Philips, Ascendit Deus
Alberik Mazak, Psalms 109–12, 116
W. A. Mozart, Laudate Dominum K. 339
Nicolas Bernier, Laudate Dominum quoniam; Miserere Mei Deus
Franz Schubert, Psalm 23, op. 132, D. 706
Joseph Gabriel Rheinberger, 3 Psalmen op. 40
Franz Liszt, Psalms 13, 18, 125, 129, and 137
George Palmer, 3 Psalms
Théodore Dubois, Cantate Domino
Imant Raminsh, Cantate Domino
Joseph Vella, Salm 89, op. 43
Marty Haugen, Psalms 16, 23, 66, and 136
Jean Martinon, Psaume CXXXVI (Chant des captifs), op. 33
Ali Ufki (Wojciech Bobowski), Genevan Psalter: Psalms 2 and 6
Philipp Dulichius, Motets
Andrzej Hakenberger, Pelplin Tablature
Louis Bourgeois, Ainsi qu’on oit le cerf bruire, “Psalm 42” (from Pseaumes Octantetrois de David, mis en rime Françoise par Clément Marot et Théodore de Bèze)
Claude Goudimel, Psalms (40, 137)
Claude Le Jeune, O Dieu, je n’ay Dieu fors que toy, “Psalm 63”; Du fons de ma pensee, “Psalm 130”
Paschal de l’Estocart, Reveillez vous chacun fidele, “Psalm 33”; Estans assis aux rives aqua-tiques, “Psalm 137”
Nicolas Vallet, Psalm 8
Melchior Franck, Laetatus sum (Psalm 121)
Crato Bütner, Psalm 113 (Laudate Pueri Dominum); Psalm 147
Leonhard Paminger, Domine, ne in furore tuo (Psalm 38); In exitu Israel de Aegypto (Psalm 114/115); Psalm 110
Johann Gottlieb Naumann, Psalms 96 and 103
Michael Praetorius, Das ist mir lieb, “Psalm 116”
Heinrich Schütz, Psalmen Davids samt etlichen Moteten und Concerten, op. 2, SWV 22–47; Der 100. Psalm, SWV 36
Henry Lawes, Psalm VIII
Orlando Gibbons, “O Clap Your Hands” (Psalm XLVII); “O Lord in Thy Wrath” (Psalm 6:1–4); “Lift Up Your Heads” (Psalm 24); Psalm 47
John Mundy, Sing Joyfully
Constantijn Huygens, Pathodia Sacra et Profana
David Moritz Michael, Der 103te Psalm
Humfrey Pelham, O Give Thanks unto the Lord; O Lord My God; By the Waters of Babylon; also Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis
George Frideric Handel, Coronation Anthems (Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened; The King Shall Rejoice)
Hermann Goetz, Psalm 137
Noel Edison, Psalm 121; Psalm 137
Kurt Thomas, Psalm 137, op. 4
Philip James, By the Waters of Babylon
Havergal Brian, By the Waters of Babylon
Robert Ross, Song of Exile
Healey Willan, O Praise the Lord (various psalms plus verses from Habakkuk)
Adrian Batten, O Praise the Lord (Psalm 117:1–2)
Charles Hylton Stewart, Psalm 23; Psalm 80
David Willcocks, Psalm 131
John Henry Maunder, “Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem”
Edward Elgar, Give unto the Lord (Psalm XXIX), op. 74; Psalm 48, op. 67; Psalm 68
Charles Villiers Stanford, Psalms 147, 148, and 150
Hubert Parry, I Was Glad When They Said unto Me, op. 51; Psalm LXXXIV; Psalm 122
Howells, Behold, O God Our Defender; God Is Gone up with a Merry Noise; Like as the Hart; Requiem (incorporates Psalms 23 and 121)
Lennox Berkeley, The Lord Is My Shepherd, op. 91, no. 1
Philip Stopford, The Lord Is My Shepherd
Will Todd, Psalm 23, “The Lord Is My Shepherd” (4th movement of his Te Deum)
Howard Goodall, The Lord Is My Shepherd; O Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem / Rogate pacem (Psalm 122)
Richard Elfyn Jones, Psalm 46
Louise Talma, Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem (from Voices of Peace)
Leo Sowerby, Psalm 122; Psalm 130
Ina Boyle, Seven Psalms; Wilt Not Thou, O God, Go Forth with Our Hosts?; He That Hath Eternal Being; “Blessed Be the Lord, for He Hath Showed Me His Marvelous Kindness”
Howard Hanson, The 150th Psalm
Carson Cooman, Psalm 29, op. 643; Ps. 104, op. 659; Ps. 118, op. 658; Mercy and Truth, op. 938
Conrad Susa, The God of Love My Shepherd Is
Bruce Neswick, I Will Set His Dominion in the Sea; Hearken to My Voice, O Lord, When I Call
Carl Nielsen, Three Motets
Rihards Dubra, Domine Dominus noster
Jaakko Mantyjarvi, I Was Glad
Gottfrid Berg, Huru ljuvliga aro icke dina boningar (How amiable are thy tabernacles); Om de yttersta tingen: no. 2; Lar oss betanka huru fa vara dagar aro (So teach us to number our days)
Daniel Pinkham, Jubilee and Psalm; Miserere Mei Deus; Psalm Set, Psalm 24; others
Gwyneth Walker, Psalm 23
David Matthews, Psalm 23 (The Lord Is My Shepherd), op. 90
Richard Yardumian, Symphony no. 2, “Psalms”
César Franck, Psalm 150
Felix Mendelssohn, Psalms 2, 22, 42, 43, 114, and 115
Nicolai Otto, Psalm 31, “Herr, auf dich traue ich”; Psalm 97, “Der Herr ist Konig”
Anton Bruckner, Psalms 112, 114, and 150
Zoltan Kodaly, Geneva Psalms 50, 114, 121, and 150; Psalmus Hungaricus, op. 13
Dan Forrest, Jubilate Deo
Florent Schmitt, Psalm XLVII, op. 38
E. J. Moeran, “Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem”
Charles Martin Loeffler, By the Rivers of Babylon, op. 3
Emile Goué, Psalm XIII, Psalm CXXIII
Eric Delamarter, Psalms 46, 68, 80, and 104; also The Testimony of John
Arthur Honegger, Mimaamaquim
Joachim Raff, Psalm 130: De Profundis
Marcel Dupré, De Profundis, op. 18
Heinrich Kaminski, Psalm 130 (Aus der Tiefe rufe ich, Herr, zu dir)
Henry Wallford Davies, Psalm 130: De Profundis; also Lift Up Your Hearts, op. 20; The Temple; Blessed Are the Pure in Heart
Virgil Thomson, De Profundis
Marcin Tadeusz Łukaszewski, De Profundis
Łukasz Urbaniak, De Profundis
Raminta Serksnyte, De Profundis
Philippe Chamouard, De Profundis
Martin Bruce, De Profundis (also Magnificat, Nunc Dimittis)
Miłosz Bembinow, Beatus vir…
Romuald Twardowski, Chwalitie Imia Gospodnie; Chwali, dusze moja, Gospoda
Józef Świder, Laudate pueri; Deus in adiutorium; Laudate Dominum; Dixit Dominus; Beati omnes (Psalm 127)
Michał Zieliński, Laudate Dominum
Andrzej Bielerzewski, Cantate Domino canticum novum
Pawel Łukaszewski, Two Funeral Psalms
Philippe Hersant, Psalm 130, “Aus tiefer Not”
Ernest Bloch, Prelude and 2 Psalms (114 and 137)
Max Reger, Psalm 100, op. 106
Pauls Dambis, Psalm 19, Psalm 22, and Psalm 121
Kristina Arakelyan, You Know Me
Sven-David Sandström, Psalm 139, “Oh Lord, You Have Searched Me”
Evelyn Simpson-Currenton, My Soul Hath Refuge in Thee “Psalm 91”
Marga Richter, Psalm 91
Jacob Druckman, Psalm 93
Jean Langlais, Psalm 111, “Beatus vir”
Charles Ives, Psalms 14, 24, 25, 42, 54, 67, 90, 100, 135, and 150
Pavel Haas, Psalm 29, op. 12
Fartein Valen, Salme 121
Margaret Meachem, Lift Thine Eyes unto the Mountains
Bruce Babcock, Be Still
Arvo Pärt, Peace upon You, Jerusalem; Psalom
Virpi Leppänen, Kiittäkää Herran nimeä (Praise ye the name of the Lord)
Sisask Urmas, “Laudate Dominum” from Gloria Patris
Krzysztof Penderecki, Aus den Psalmen Davids
Philip Glass, Psalm 126; “Hymn” from Akhenaten (includes Psalm 104)
Benjamin Britten, Psalm 150
John Sanders, Psalm 150
Colin Mawby, Psalm 150
Virgil Thomson, 3 Antiphonal Psalms; also 5 Phrases from the Song of Solomon
George Rochberg, 3 Psalms
Robin Orr, Songs of Zion
Ēriks Ešenvalds, Psalm 67
Paul Creston, Psalm 23
Randall Thompson, The Lord Is My Shepherd
Allen Pote, The Lord Is My Shepherd
Bo Holten, Psalms 23 and 104
Daniel Asia, Psalm 30
Kenneth Leighton, Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates
Gregory Zduniak, Psalm 96: Today Is Born Our Savior
Pamela Decker, Psalm 102, Psalm 139
Karel Boleslav Jirák, Psalm 23 for Chorus and Orchestra
Imant Raminsh, Psalms 23 and 121
Daniel Manneke, Psalm 121
David Briggs, Psalm 121
Henry Cowell, Psalm 121; Psalm VIII; Psalm 34
Leevi Madetoja, Psalm 121
Einojuhani Rautavaara, Psalm 23, Psalm 130
Whitman Brown, Psalm 23
Bobby McFerrin, Psalm 23
David Goodenough, Psalm 133
Bruce Babcock, Be Still
Vytautas Miškinis, Dilexi, Laudate pueri Dominum, Exultate Deo, Thoughts of Psalms
Stanislaw Szczycinski, Missa de Angelis: Psalm 91, also Pater Noster
Pawel Łukaszewski, Psalmus 120, Psalmus 129
Wolfram Wagner, Ad te, Domine: Psalm 27 for Soli, Choir and Orchestra
Michael John Trotta, The Lord Is My Shepherd; Psalm 145; Psalm 150; also Set Me as a Seal
Paul Gibson, Lauda Anima Mea; Psalm 121 (My Help Comes from the Lord); also My Sister, My Bride
Jack Beeson, 3 Settings from the Bay Psalm Book
Ross Lee Finney, Pilgrim Psalms
Ned Rorem, 2 Psalms and a Proverb; Praise the Lord, O My Soul
Michael Ostrzyga, Deus in adjutorium (Psalm 70); Dixit Dominus (Psalm 109); Lauda Jerusalem (Psalm 147)
Enjott Schneider, Das ist mine Freude (Psalm 73:28)
Toivo Tulev, Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt; also Magnificat
Uroš Krek, Salmo LXII
Javier Busto, Laudate pueri (Psalm 112)
Sebastian Schwab, Nisi Dominus (Psalm 126)
David Dzubay, Cantate Domino (Psalm 98)
Mordecai Sandberg, Psalm 130
Robin Estrada, Cæli enarrant
Deborah Pritchard, I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes unto the Hills
Grace Mary Williams, Two Psalms; Psalm 150
George T. Walker, Psalm 96, Psalm 117
Bruce Mahin, Whitman Psalms
John Cage, Apartment House 1776
Iša Krejčí, Little Funeral Music for Alto, Viola, Violoncello, Double Bass, and Piano to Texts of the Psalms and František Halas’s Poem “Old Women” (1933; rewritten 1936); Trio for Violin, Violoncello, and Piano with a song for a female voice to the text of a psalm
Dubrovay László, A halál félelmei (Circumdederunt me)
Kurt Estermann, digression: memoria
Frank La Rocca, I Will Lift Mine Eyes
Goffredo Petrassi, Psalm IX
Vesa Erkkila, Minun sieluni halajaa sinua
Tomas Peire Serrate, Confitebor Tibi Domine
Robert Vuichard, Psaume Huictisme de Clement Marot
Michael Hurd, Praise Ye the Lord; O Come Let Us Sing unto the Lord
Don Walker, Psalms 8, 26, 96, 100, 121, 133, and 134; also Magnificat
Elsa Barraine, Deuxième Prélude et Fugue (based on a Jewish Psalm melody)
Ivan Moody, Evloghise (Psalm 134:3)
James Cohn, 5 Psalm Dances, op. 50; 4 Psalms for Women’s Chorus and Piano, op. 20
Ralph Vaughan Williams, O Clap Your Hands
John Rutter, O Clap Your Hands; Lord, Thou Hast Been Our Refuge; O Lord, Thou Hast Searched Me Out; Wells Jubilate; Psalmfest; Psalm 150
Delvyn Case, Psalms of Ascent; Psalm 150 for Unaccompanied Flute; Psalm 133 (all instrumental)
Judith Lang Zaimont, My Heart within Me Is Desolate (Psalm 143:4); Psalm 23; also Ashes Are the Bread I Eat (from Lamentations)
Joelle Wallach, Beside the Still Waters (Psalm 23); Psalm 126; Shir Hamaalot; V’Shamru; also V’erastich li l’olam (a Biblical Love Song from Hosea)
Josh Rodriguez, Sondea (Psalm 139)
Joseph Jones, Psalm 33
Bobby Ge, A Mere Breath (Psalm 39)
Michel Klein, Ura (Psalm 57)
Jee Seo, Deus Misereatur (Psalm 67:1–2)
Phil Keaggy, Psalm 121
Chris Tomlin, Psalm 100
Grace Semler Baldridge, Psalm 102
Louise B. Calixte, Psalm 69
Luc Van Hove, Psalm 22
Jonny Greenwood, Psalm 22 (from The Power of the Dog soundtrack)
Jessi Colter, The Psalms
Moses and the Exodus
C. P. E. Bach, Die Israeliten in der Wuste
Franz Schubert, Miriam’s Song of Triumph
Hubert Parry, Long Since in Egypt’s Plenteous Lands</p
Thomas Linley, The Song of Moses
Anton Rubinstein, Moses
Max Bruch, Moses, op. 67
Herman David Koppel, Moses, op. 76
Darius Milhaud, Moise, op. 219, “Opus americanum no. 2”
Stefan Wolpe, The Man from Midian Suite
Also related: Franz Waxman, Joshua
Song of Songs
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Song of Songs
Jacobus Clemens non Papa, Ego flos campi
Thomas Morley, O Amica Mea
Emmanuel Chabrier, La Sulamite
Paul von Klenau, Sulamith
Percy Grainger, Love Verses from the Song of Solomon, King Solomon’s Espousals
Jean Yves Daniel-Lesur, Le Cantique des Cantiques
Patrick Burgan, Cantique des Cantiques
Patrick Hawes, Song of Songs
Lazare Saminsky, Second Hebrew Song Cycle, op. 13: The Song of Songs
Herman David Koppel, Four Love Songs from the Canticles of Solomon
Rued Langgaard, From the Song of Solomon, BVN 381
Sid Robinovich, Song of Songs
Jorge Liderman, The Song of Songs
Nicola LeFanu, Il Cantico dei Cantici II
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Flos Campi Suite
Benjamin Britten, My Beloved Is Mine
Stephen Paulus, Arise My Love
David Bednall, Rise Up, My Love
Peter Hope, Song of Solomon
Stephen Danker, Song of Solomon (Symphony no. 3)
Jonathan Leshnoff, Song of Songs
Zdeněk Lukáš, Písně Šalomounovy
Pablo Casals, Nigra Sum
Sebastian Schwab, Nigra Sum
Healey Willan, Rise Up, My Love
Carson Cooman, The Rose of Sharon; Rise Up, My Love
James Rolfe, Garden; O That You Would Kiss Me
William Walton, Set Me as a Seal upon Thy Heart
Max Helfman, Set Me as a Seal; The Voice of My Beloved
Nico Muhly, Set Me as a Seal
Rene Clausen, Set Me as a Seal
Naji Hakim, Set Me as a Seal upon Your Heart
Anatolijus Šenderovas, Simeni kahotam al libecha
Vytautas Miškinis, In lectulo meo
A. C. Kostić, Pesma nd Pesmama
Ella Milch-Sheriff, Dark Am I but Lovely
Sergei Slonimsky, Solomon’s Song of Songs; also David’s Psalms
Forrest Pierce, The Twelve Kisses
Granville Bantock, The Song of Songs
John La Montaine, Songs of the Rose of Sharon; Fragments from the Song of Songs
Wisdom Literature
Darius Milhaud, Cantate des proverbes
Wolfram Wagner, Proverbia
Leo Kraft, A Proverb of Solomon
James Rolfe, Four Anthems for Four Seasons; Under the Sun
John Rutter, To Every Thing There Is a Season
Steven Winteregg, Reflections on Quoheleth
Stefan Węgłowski, Kohelet
Paul Patterson, Ecclesiastes (from Requiem, op. 19)
Anatoly Korolev, Ecclesiast
Ernst Toch, Vanity of Vanities
Granville Bantock, Vanity of Vanities
Chris Thile, Ecclesiastes 2:24
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Hiob
C. Hubert Parry, Job
Philip Sawyers, Songs of Loss and Regret no. 7, from the Wisdom of Solomon
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Job—a Masque for Dancing
Petr Eben, Hiob
Luigi Dallapiccola, Job
Simon Khorolskiy, Искупитель мой жив (My Redeemer lives)
Salome
Alexander Glazunov, Introduction and Dance of Salome
Akira Ifukube, Salome (Ballet)
Florent Schmitt, La Tragedie de Salome; also Danse d’Abisag for Orchestra, op. 75
Jules Massenet, Hérodiade
Joseph Achron, Danse de Salome
Matthias Pintscher, Hérodiade-Fragmente
Mel Bonis, Salomé
Madame Edwarda, Salomé
Samuel, Saul, David, and Bathsheba
Lucio San Pedro, Samuel
G. F. Handel, Saul
Modest Mussorgsky, Tsar Saul
Egil Hovland, Job, Suite for Organ, op. 79
Ján Levoslav Bella, Saul und David, op. 7
Nicolas Gombert, Lugebat David Absalon
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Le danze del Re David
Arthur Honegger, Le Roi David
Aharon Harlap, David and Goliath
Ståle Kleiberg, David and Bathsheba
Kirmo Lintinen, David and Bathsheba
David Barlow, David and Bathsheba
Eyal Bitton, King David
Tim Rice, King David
Randall Thompson, Last Words of David
Stephen Melillo, David
William Billings, David’s Lamentation
Ottorino Respighi, Belkis Queen of Sheba
Prophets
Felix Mendelssohn, Elijah
Malcolm Lipkin, Naboth’s Vineyard
Rihards Dubra (and Jacobus Handl), Duo Seraphim
Edward Elgar, The Spirit of the Lord Is Upon Me
Michael Horvit, The Prophecy of Amos; God Is with Us; You Shall Love the Lord Your God
Jonathan Dove, Seek Him That Maketh the Seven Stars
Marga Richter, Seek Him
Johan Helmich Roman, Vid Begrafning (“De, som redeliga för sig vandrat hafva”)
John Stainer, I Saw the Lord
Matthew Martin, I Saw the Lord
Lori Laitman, And I Will Bring Them
Michael Scherperel, Et introibunt in speluncas petrarum
Johannes Sigl, Refugium II
Rudolf Tobias, Des Jona Sendung
Charles Villiers Stanford, For Lo, I Raise Up
Hugo Cole, Jonah
Max Stern, Behold, the Days Come: Cantatas on Biblical Prophecies
Bob Dylan, All along the Watchtower
Miloslav Kabeláč, Symphony no. 8, op. 54 “Antiphons” (Text from Daniel)
The Nativity
John La Montaine, Erode the Greate, a Pageant Opera in 2 Acts, op. 40
Paul Hindemith, Das Marienleben, op. 27
Gabriel Pierné, Les enfants à Bethléem
Duke Ellington, Three Black Kings
Mark Smythe, Alleluia
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis
Cristóbal de Morales, Magnificat (Octavi toni)
Orlando di Lassus, Magnificat tertii toni, Magnificat octavi toni
Michael Praetorius, Magnificat per omnes versus super ut re mi fa sol la
Jehan Titelouze, Magnificat (too many to list!)
Thomas Morley, Thomas Tomkins, Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (Fifth Service)
Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Fauxbourdons)
Nicolas Gombert, Magnificat primi toni
Claudio Merulo, Magnificat primi toni, Magnificat del secondo tono, Magnificat dell’ottavo tono
Marcin Mielczewski, Magnificat primi toni a 12
Marcin Józef Żebrowski, Magnificat; also Rorate Coeli
Christopher Tye, Magnificat, Nunc dimittis; also Peccavimus; Omnes Gentes; other works
Isfrid Kayser, Magnificat
Robert White, Magnificat
Francois Couperin, Magnificat
Antonio Vivaldi, Magnificat
C. P. E. Bach, Magnificat
J. S. Bach, Magnificat in D Major BWV 243
Ruth Watson Henderson, Magnificat
Sisask Urmas, Magnificat
Einojuhani Rautavaara, Magnificat
Vladimír Godár, Magnificat
Н Богодаєва, Величит душа моя Господа (My soul magnifies the Lord)
John Wood, Magnificat in G
Basil Harwood, Magnificat in A Flat
Wolfram Buchenberg, Magnificat
Joep Franssens, Magnificat
Peter Benoit, Magnificat
James Burton, Magnificat
Forrest Pierce, Magnificat
Michael Kurth, Magnificat
Damijan Mocnik, Magnificat
Goffredo Petrassi, Magnificat for Soprano, Chorus, and Orchestra
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, A Simple Magnificat
Paul Chihara, Magnificat
Giles Swayne, Magnificat I, op. 33
Francis Jackson, Magnificat in G
Kim André Arnesen, Magnificat
Sydney Watson, Service in E: Magnificat
Matthew Martin, A Rose Magnificat
Charles-Francois Gounod, An Evening Service
Orlando Gibbons, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Second Service; Short Service)
William Child, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis
Charles Wood, Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in F, “Collegium Regale”
John Henry Maunder, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in C, D, and G
John Ireland, Evening Service (Two: in C and F), Benedictus
Jeremy Filsell, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis from “Windsor Service”
Richard Pantcheff, Evening Service in D Major, “The Whitchurch Canticles”; St. Paul’s Service; Evening Canticles, “Aedes Christi”
Julian Anderson, Evening Canticles (Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis)
Ben Parry, Ely Canticles
Alastair Borthwick, Advent Canticles
Herbert Sumsion, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (in A, D, and Three in G)
Bernard Rose, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis
Elisabeth Lutyens, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis
Ruth Biggs, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis
Caleb Burhans, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis
Michael Tippett, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis “Collegium Sancti Johannis Cantabrigiense”
Ēriks Ešenvalds, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis
James Whitbourn, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, “Collegium Regale”; also Alleluia jubilate; There Is No Speech or Language
David Ashley White, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis
Wayne Marshall, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in C Major
Hugh Benham, Evening Service in G Major
John Tavener, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis “Collegium Regale”
Paul Patterson, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, op. 59
Robert J. Powell, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis
John Høybye, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis
Judith Bingham, Edington Service
Philip Wilby, The Knaresborough Service
Harold Thalange, Glasgow Fauxbourdons
Tim Knight, Unison Canticles; Evening Canticles; also Ave Maria; Rise Up, My Love; Beati Mortui; Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Naji Hakim, Magnificat, Nunc Dimittis
Adrienne Albert, Magnificat, Nunc Dimittis
James MacMillan, Magnificat, Nunc Dimittis
Peter Klatzow, Magnificat, Nunc Dimittis
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Cantique de Siméon
Josquin des Prez, Nunc Dimittis
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Nunc Dimittis
Gustav Holst, Nunc Dimittis
Herbert Howells, Nunc Dimittis
Pawel Łukaszewski, Nunc Dimittis
Peter Tiefenbach, Nunc Dimittis
Hreiðar Ingi, Nunc Dimittis
Sigurður Sævarsson, Nunc Dimittis
Arvo Pärt, Nunc Dimittis
John Ashton Thomas, Nunc Dimittis
Sarah MacDonald, Nunc Dimittis
Jane Marshall, Song of Simeon “Nunc Dimittis”
Christian Forshaw, Nunc Dimittis
Artemy Vedel, Lord Now Lettest Thou…
Our Father
Jacobus Gallus (Handl), Pater Noster
Robert Stone, The Lord’s Prayer (earliest setting in English)
Leonhard Paminger, Pater Noster
Gioseffo Zarlino, Pater Noster, Ave Maria
Tomás Luis de Victoria, Pater Noster
Cristóbal de Morales, Pater Noster
Josquin des Prez, Pater Noster
Guillaume de Machaut, Messe de Notre Dame: Pater Noster
Heinrich Schütz, Vater unser, der du bist im Himmel
Herwig Reiter, Vater unser
Nicolai Otto, Pater Noster, Op 33
Albert Hay Malotte, The Lord’s Prayer
John Caldwell, The Lord’s Prayer
Gabriel Jackson, The Lord’s Prayer
Bernard Rose, The Lord’s Prayer
Charles-Francois Gounod, Pater Noster
Joseph Bonnet, Pater Noster, op. 8, no. 1
Franz Liszt, Pater Noster; also Ave Maria; Via Crucis
Ferenc Farkas, Pater Noster
Albert de Klerk, Pater Noster
Giuseppi Verdi, Pater Noster
Maurice Durufle, Notre Pere
John Tavener, The Lord’s Prayer; Notre Pere
Ernst Krenek, 5 Prayers, op. 97
Felicia Donceanu, Rugăciunea Domnească
John Ireland, Communion Service in C Major: Pater Noster (in English)
Leonard Bernstein, Mass: The Lord’s Prayer
Thomas Bloch, Missa Cantate: Pater Noster
Alan Hovhaness, The Lord’s Prayer, Op 35
Andrejs Jurjāns, The Lord’s Prayer
Arvo Pärt, Vater unser
Günter Raphael, “Vater unser” Choralkantate op. 58; also Psalm 27 “Der Herr ist mein Licht”; Psalm 104 “Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele” op. 29; Psalm 126 op. 56 Nr. 1; Aus den Klageliedern Jeremias op. 56 Nr. 2; Kor, op. 63
Pekka Kostiainen, Pater Noster
Michael Bojesen, Pater Noster
Dan Locklair, Pater Noster
Arnold Strals (recorded by Sister Janet Mead), The Lord’s Prayer
Marcin Gumiela, Pater Noster
Naji Hakim, Pater Noster
Leoš Jánaček, Otce nas (The Lord’s Prayer), JW IV/29
Igor Stravinsky, Otche Nash
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Lord’s Prayer
Valentin Silvestrov, Otche Nash (from Diptych)
Apostol Nikolaev-Stroumsky, Отче на́шъ (Otche Nash)
Nicolai Kedrov, Отче на́шъ (Otche Nash)
Peter Dinev, Отче на́шъ (Otche Nash)
Dobri Khristov, Otche Nash no. 2
Alfred Schnittke, 3 Sacred Hymns, no. 3. Otche nash
D. Ljubojevic, Oče naš
Minta Aleksinački, Oče naš (Lord’s Prayer); also Psalm 139
Dimitri Tchesnokov, Pater Noster
Richard Einhorn, Voices of Light: Pater Noster (with film)
Einojuhani Rautavaara, Herran rukous (The Lord’s Prayer)
Peter Maxwell Davies, The Lord’s Prayer
Toby Young, The Lord’s Prayer
Michael G. Cunningham, The Lord’s Prayer, op. 6d
Hugh Benham, The Lord’s Prayer
Daron Hagen, “Our Father” (Second Movement of Little Prayers
Frode Fjellheim, Pater Noster
Rebecca Lundberg, Pater Noster
Anúna (Michael McGlynn), Pater Noster
The Life and Death of Jesus
Philip Stopford, Hosanna to the Son of David
C. P. E. Bach, 30 Geistliche Gesange mit Melodien, Book 2, Wq. 198, H. 752: no. 29; Jesus in Gethsemane
Michael Berkeley, Gethsemane Fragment (instrumental)
Hjalmar Borgström, Jesus in Gethsemane, op. 14 (instrumental)
Volker David Kirchner, Gethsemani; also Schibboleth
Teizo Matsumura, To the Night of Gethsemane (instrumental)
Bert Breit, Meditationen
Simon Vincent, Meditations on Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane; Stations of the Cross
Gottfried August Homilius, So gehst du nun (St. Mark Passion)
Charles Wood, St. Mark Passion
Reinhard Keiser, Markuspassion
Kurt Thomas, Passionmusik nach den Evangelisten Markus, op. 7
Adolf Brunner, Passionsgeschichte nach dem Evangelisten Markus
Lorenzo Perosi, La passione di Cristo secondo San Marco; Le 7 Parole di N.S. Gesu Cristo sulla Croce; also La Trasfigurazione di Nostro Signore Gesu Cristo; Tu es Petrus; O Padre nostro
Osvaldo Golijov, St. Mark Passion
Théodore Dubois, Seven Last Words of Christ
Patrick Burgan, Seven Last Words of Christ
Daniel Pinkham, Saint Mark Passion; The Last Seven Words of Christ
Paul Carr, Seven Last Words from the Cross
Knut Nystedt, Jesu sieben Worte, op. 171
Enjott Schneider, Sieben letzte Worte Jesu; also Organ Concerto no. 2: Hiob; Three Biblical Stories; Crucifixus; Salome; others
Johannes Heroldt, Historia Des Leidens Und Sterbens Unsers Herrn Und Heilands Jesu Christi aus dem H. Evangelisten Mattheo mit sechs Stimmen/p>
Johann Heinrich Rolle, St. Matthew Passion
Philip Wilby, An English Passion according to Saint Matthew
Norbert Rousseau, Mattheuspassie
Hans Peter Türk, Siebenbürgische Passionmusik
Georg Philipp Telemann, Lukas Passion 1728; Der Tod Jesu
Heinrich Schütz, Lukas-Passion, Seven Last Words of Our Savior on the Cross
Otto Malling, Der Tod und die Auferstehung Christi, op. 54; Die sieben Worte des Erlösers am Kreuze, op. 81; Aus dem Leben Christi, op. 63; Die Geburt Christi, op. 48; Die heilige Jungfrau, op. 70; Die heiligen drei Könige, op. 84; Paulus, op. 78; Nachklänge aus Davids Psalmen, op. 89
Rudolf Mauersberger, Passionsmusik nach dem Lukasevangelium
Calliope Tsoupaki, St. Luke’s Passion
Kjell-Mork Karlsen, St. Luke Passion; St. John Passion; Markuspasjon; Orthodox St. Matthew Passion
Teodoro Clinio, Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Secundum Joannem
Johann Friedrich Fasch, Passio Jesu Christi
Sofia Gubaidulina, Johannes-Passion and Johannes-Ostern
Guido Mancusi, Johannespassion
Frédéric Ledroit, La Passion du Christ selon Saint Jean
Carl Heinrich Graun, Der Tod Jesu
Hugo Distler, Choral-Passion, op. 7
Johann Wilhelm Hertel, Der Sterbende Heiland
Robert Kyr, The Passion according to 4 Evangelists
Peter Breiner, The Story (Oratorio)
Hermann Reutter, Die Passion in 9 Inventionen, op. 25
Bohuslav Martinu, Greek Passion
Tan Dun, Water Passion
Torbjorn Dyrud, Out of Darkness
Adolphus Hailstork, Crucifixion
Frank Martin, Golgotha; Polyptyque, Six images de la Passion du Christ
Richard Danielpour, The Passion of Yeshua
Anton Schweitzer, Die Auferstehung Christi
John Ireland, Greater Love Hath No Man
Francis Poulenc, Tenebrae factae sunt
Harrison Birtwistle, The Last Supper
Patrick Hadley, A Lenten Cantata
Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac, Страснa седмица (Strasna sedmica = Passion Week)
Franz Haydn, Seven Last Words of Our Redeemer on the Cross
Michael Finnissey, Dum transisset Sabbatum
Judith Bingham, Jesum quaeritis Nazarenum; also “Prelude and Voluntary” (inspired by the Emmaus Road story)
Carman Moore, Gethsemane Park
Arvo Pärt, The Woman with the Alabaster Box; Tribute to Caesar
Alessandro Stradella, San Giovanni Battista
Helge Burggrabe, Jehoschua (Rotes Oratorium)
Martin Emslie, Omega and Alpha
Thomas Tallis, If Ye Love Me
Paul Mealor, If Ye Love Me; also Ave Maria; De Profundis; Jubilate Deo; The Beatitudes; The Lord Bless You and Keep You; The Selwyn Service; All Wisdom Cometh from the Lord
Benjamin Britten, Cantata misericordium, op. 69
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus (as well the original folk song)
Hugo Alfvén, Den forlorade sonen (The Prodigal Son) Suite
Keith Green, Prodigal Son Suite, Road to Jericho, The Sheep and the Goats
Kurt Atterberg, De Favitska Jungfrurna, op. 17 “The Wise and Foolish Virgins”
Jazeps Vitols, Jezus pie akas (Jesus by the Well)
Bruce Springsteen, Jesus Was an Only Son
Christopher Wright, The Bread of Life; Hymn of Salvation; also Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis; Song of Praise
E. J. Moeran, Blessed Are Those Servants
Philip Stopford, In My Father’s House; also Ave Maria
Vladimir Ivanovich Martynov, The Beatitudes
Damijan Mocnik, Blagri (Beatitudes)
Zoltan Kodaly, Jezus es a Kufarok
John Stainer, God So Loved the World
Will Todd, God So Loved the World; Passion Music
Francis Pott, Christus
Arthur Bliss, Mary of Magdala
Patrick Burgan, Noli me tangere
Graham Ross, Ascendo ad Patrem meum
Mason Bates, “Sirens” (5th movement, from the Book of Matthew)
Omerror Dawson (Arr. Mervyn Warren), Come unto Me
James Lee III, Stones and Bread
Einojuhani Rautavaara, Kiusaukset
Alemdar Karamanov, Cycle of Symphonies 11–14 “Accomplished” (and many others)
Others
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Oratorium nach den Bildern der Bibel
Antonín Dvořák, Biblical Songs
David Monrad Johansen, Fem Bibelske Sanger, op. 25
Johan Kvandal, 3 Solokantater for sang og orgel
Charles Tournemire, Symphony no. 6, op. 48, “Bible”
Anthony Milner, The Water and the Fire
Margaret Allison Bonds, Scripture Reading
Einojuhani Rautavaara, Vigilia
James Lentini, Three Sacred Meditations
Johan Franco, Seven Biblical Sketches
Bruno Bjelinski, Drei biblische Legenden (for Trumpet and Piano)
Dave Brubeck, The Commandments; The Gates of Justice
Kåre Kolberg, Hakena´anit (The Canaanite Woman)
Robert White, Lamentations a 5
Edward Bairstow, The Lamentation
Ernst Krenek, Lamentatio Jeremiæ Prophetæ, op. 93
Peter-Anthony Togni, Lamentatio Jeremiæ Prophetæ
Pablo Casals, O vos omnes
Rene Clausen, O vos omnes
G. F. Handel, Belshazzar, HWV 61; Judas Maccabeus
Jean Sibelius, Belshazzar’s Feast (Belsazars gastabud), op. 5
William Walton, Belshazzar’s Feast
Giuseppi Verdi, Nabucco
John Knowles Paine, St. Peter, op. 20
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Paulus
George Dyson, St. Paul’s Voyage to Melita
Jan A. P. Kaczmarek, Paul, Apostle of Christ
Naji Hakim, Saul de Tarse (Oratorio)
Egil Hovland, Saul, op. 74
Sulo Salonen, 22 evankelimotettia; Ala pelkaa, Maria; Frukta icke, Maria
Jacobus Vaet, Pascha nostrum immolatus est Christus
Joseph Samson, Pascha nostrum immolatus est Christus
Paul Creston, Corinthians XIII
Vincent Persichetti, Love
Richard Rodney Bennett, These Three
Joni Mitchell, Love
Andreas Raselius, Stephanus
Harvey Schmidt, Philemon
Harold Thalange, All These Died in Faith
Kurt Weill, The Eternal Road
Jacob Druckman, Vox Humana
Antonio Caldara, Motets
Sylvie Bodorová, Juda Maccabeus
Patrick Gowers, Viri Galilaei
Gabriel Jackson, In All His Works
Ralph Vaughan Williams, “O Man Greatly Beloved” from Dona Nobis Pacem; Sancta Civitas; Benedicite
Anton Bruckner, Ecce Sacerdos Magnus
Edward Elgar, Ecce Sacerdos Magnus; The Apostles; The Kingdom
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men—versions by Edmund Rubbra, Roberta Bitgood, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gerald Finzi
Anthony Pitts, Seven Letters
Herbert Howells, Blessed Are the Dead
James Whitbourn, He Carried Me Away in the Spirit; Pure River of Water of Life
Daniel Pinkham, Revelation Motets
Pierre Henry, L’apocalypse de Jean
Marcin Gumiela, Apocalypse
Knut Nystedt, Apocalypsis Joannis, op. 155
Kjell-Mork Karlsen, Apenbarings-Meditasjoner (Meditations on Revelation), op. 155
Boris Arapov, Revelation of St. John the Theologian
Poul Ruders, Thus Saw Saint John
Edgar Bainton, And I Saw a New Heaven
Julian Wachner, Behold the Tabernacle of God
Patrick Hawes, Revelation
Cristian Bence-Muk, Apocalipsa
Reginald Haber, Holy, Holy, Holy
Paulin Michael Mills, Thou Art Worthy
Adrian Howard and Pat Turner, Salvation Belongs to Our God
Simon Khorolskiy, Знамение Сына (The Sign of the Son)
Marc-Antoine Charpentier, David et Jonathas H.490
Giedrius Kuprevicius, David’s Lamentation from Chamber Symphony “Star of David”
Philip W. J. Stopford, Magnificat in A Major
Klement Slavický: Psalmi
Frederic Ledroit, La Passion du Christ
Deborah Pritchard, New College Service; Light of the World; Gethsemane
Krzysztof Penderecki, Symphony No.7 “Seven Gates of Jerusalem”
Walter Braunfels, Offenbarung Johannis
Jaroslav Krček, Z kamení chléb (From Stones to Bread)
Martin Smolka, Laudate, angeli; The Name Emmanuel; Sacred Vessel; Psalmus 114
Stephen Dankner, Biblical Songs (1998) for soprano and piano
Staffan Storm, Qualities of Darkness
G. F. Handel, Dixit Dominus
The list could go on…
