Category:Compline
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Compline (Night prayer) is a part of the Divine Office or Liturgy of the Hours in the Roman Rite that is (traditionally) said or sung before going to bed, especially in monasteries. Sometimes it is celebrated after Vespers (Evening prayer). Indeed, in the Anglican Rite, Vespers and Compline have been combined in a single service which, when sung, is known as Choral Evensong.
Choral celebrations of Compline (sometimes with slight modifications) have grown in recent years, especially in the United States, where there are numerous "Compline choirs" spread throughout the country.
Music for Compline typically includes:
- An Orison which serves with the Bidding prayer to introduce the service.
- Psalmody with accompanying antiphons. The appointed Psalms for Compline are Psalm 4 (Cum invocarem), Psalm 31: 1 - 6 (In te, Domine, speravi), Psalm 91 (Qui habitat), and Psalm 134 (Ecce nunc).
- Responsory, usually chanted.
- Hymn, often the appointed hymn Te lucis ante terminum.
- Canticle, the Nunc dimittis.
- Creed
- Kyrie
- The Lord's prayer
- Collects (chanted).
- Versicles and responses
- An Anthem may be sung
- Marian antiphon, normally one of:
Pages in this category
The following 91 pages are in this category, out of 91 total.
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- Canticum Simeonis (František Tůma)
- Christe qui lux es et dies (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
- Christe qui lux es et dies (Ivo de Vento)
- Christe qui lux es et dies (Michael Praetorius)
- Christe qui lux es et dies (Thomas Stoltzer)
- Christe qui lux es et dies a 4 (William Byrd)
- Christe qui lux es et dies I (Robert White)
- Christe qui lux es et dies II (Robert White)
- Christe qui lux es et dies IV (Robert White)
- Compieta (Giovanni Battista Chinelli)
- Compiete, opera VII (Giovanni Legrenzi)
- Compline (Anonymous)
- Cum invocarem (Sebastiano Cherici)
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- In manus tuas (1st setting) (John Sheppard)
- In manus tuas (Anonymous)
- In manus tuas (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
- In manus tuas (Ivo de Vento)
- In manus tuas (Samuel Webbe)
- In manus tuas (Tomás Luis de Victoria)
- In manus tuas (William Byrd)
- In manus tuas Domine (Gregorian chant)
- In manus tuas Domine (Sebastiano Cherici)
- In manus tuas Domine (Thomas Tallis)
- In manus tuas, Domine (Charles H. Giffen)
- In pace (Christopher Tye)
- In pace (John Blitheman)
- In pace (John Sheppard)
- In pace (John Taverner)
- In pace in idipsum (Thomas Tallis)
- In thee, O Lord (John Weldon)
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- Nunc dimittis (Charles H. Giffen)
- Nunc dimittis (Gradualia) (William Byrd)
- Nunc dimittis (Hans Leo Hassler)
- Nunc dimittis (Jacobus Haffner)
- Nunc dimittis (John Alcock Jr.)
- Nunc dimittis (Josquin des Prez)
- Nunc dimittis (Sebastiano Cherici)
- Nunc Dimittis (Song of Simeon) (Thomas Ravenscroft)
- Nunc Dimittis (Tim Risher)
- Nunc dimittis (Tomás Luis de Victoria)
- Nunc Dimittis (William Mundy)
- Nunc dimittis a 12 (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
- Nunc dimittis a 4-5 (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
- Nunc dimittis a 8 (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
- Nunc dimittis servum tuum (Michael Praetorius)
- Nyne otpushchayesi (Gavriil Lomakin)
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- I sacri e santi salmi (Adrian Willaert)
- Salva nos and Nunc dimittis (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
- Salva nos, Domine (Jean Mouton)
- Salvator mundi Domine (Thomas Tallis)
- Salvator mundi, Domine (John Sheppard)
- Salve, Regina (Jean Roger-Ducasse)
- Save us, O Lord (Edward Bairstow)
- Simeon's hymn (Nunc dimittis) (Peter Bird)
- Simeon's Song (Claude Buchanan)
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- Te lucis (Ambrosian chant)
- Te lucis ante terminum (Caroline Lesemann-Elliott)
- Te lucis ante terminum (Cosmas Alder)
- Te lucis ante terminum (Diego Ortiz)
- Te lucis ante terminum (festal tone) (Thomas Tallis)
- Te lucis ante terminum (Francisco Valls)
- Te lucis ante terminum (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
- Te lucis ante terminum (Gregorian chant)
- Te lucis ante terminum (Sebastiano Cherici)
- Te lucis ante terminum (Severus Gastorius)
- Te lucis ante terminum (Thomas Tallis)
- Te lucis ante terminum I (André Vierendeels)