- Title
- Praises and Prayers
- Availability
- Available
- Category
- Vocal (Solo or Small Ensemble)
- Instrumentation
- voice-pft
- Duration
- 20'
- Publisher
- G. Schirmer Inc.
- First Publisher
- Unknown
- Premiere
- World: Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, October 24th, 1963 (Betty Allen, mezzo-soprano; Virgil Thomson, piano)
- Edition/Catalog #
- Hal Leonard 50483335
- Member Works
- From "The Canticle of the Sun" (1963)
- My Master Hath a Garden (1963)
- Sung by the Shepherds (1963)
- Before Sleeping (1963)
- Jerusalem, My Happy Home (1963)
- Copyright
- ©1965 G. Schirmer; ©1991 Virgil Thomson Estate
- Year Composed
- 1963
- Date Composed
- March 1963
- M.S. Location
- The Virgil Thomson Papers at Irving S. Gilmore Music Library at Yale University
- Cardell Number
- C20[A]
- Meckna Number
- W146
- Related Persons
- St. Francis of Assisi (Text Author)
- Matthew Arnold (English Translation)
- Richard Crashaw (Text Author)
- St. Augustine (Text Author)
- Disambiguation
Praises and Prayers - Disambiguation
Praises and Prayers for voice and piano, each originally published separately
1. From "The Canticle of the Sun," (St. Francis of Assisi; translated by Matthew Arnold)
2. My Master Hath a Garden, (anonymous), also arranged for mixed or women's chorus and piano (1963; W91)
3. Sung by the Shepherds (from "Hymn to the Nativity" by Richard Crashaw)
4. Before Sleeping, (anoynymous)
5. Jerusalem, My Happy Home (from The Meditations of St. Augustine, Chapter XXV)
Each member work also appears in "Collected Songs for High Voice" and "Collected Songs for Low Voice"
