Plainsong for Glasgow Saint Mungo

Full details of the event on 12th January

Have you ever heard live plainsong?  Are you curious about Glasgow's patron saint, variously called St Kentigern or St Mungo?

For the first time since the Reformation, First Vespers will be sung on the Eve of the Feast of St Kentigern, or Mungo, in Glasgow Cathedral.

THURSDAY, 12 JANUARY 2017

• 5.00 p.m. DOORS OPEN for viewing Tom Allan’s sculpture and facsimiles of the Office for St Kentigern from the manuscript
• 5.30 p.m. INTRODUCTION AND FIRST VESPERS
• Ensemble: The Cantors of the Holy Rude, directed by Alan Henderson
• Admission Free (Retiring Collection)

Have you ever seen a mediaeval plainsong manuscript?

Even if you never look at a piece of plainsong again, these are fabulous images. Take a look, and wonder at the craftsmanship of the monks who copied this … (Sibelius software, eat your heart out!).

St Andrews Special Collections posted: "I didn’t intend to write about the gradual at all for this post, I just happened to be looking at it one day when it was out for Tom Wilkinson the chapel organist to see. He is going to conduct the chapel choir in singing one of the Kyrie settings for a c"  .  Read more ...

Makes me almost nostalgic for my days as a mediaevalist Masters student!!