ALLELUIA
People have been singing and shouting “Alleluia” for thousands of years. Can one express joy and thanksgiving in a minor key? This new work by Baker answers, “Yes, indeed!”.
LYRICS
Alleluia
The Hebrew word Alleluia – as an expression of praise to God was preserved, untranslated, by the Early Christians as a superlative expression of thanksgiving, joy, and triumph. Thus it appears in the ancient Greek Liturgy of St. James, which is still used to this day by the Patriarch of Jerusalem and, in its Syriac recension is the prototype of that used by the Maronites. In the Liturgy of St. Mark, apparently the most ancient of all, we find this rubric: “Then follow Let us attend, the Apostle, and the Prologue of the Alleluia.”—the “Apostle” is the usual ancient Eastern title for the Epistle reading, and the “Prologue of the Alleluia” would seem to be a prayer or verse before Alleluia was sung by the choir.
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