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Hi Bosco. Would you know Who selected the verses from Isaiah 61 for the Surge illuminare in the Anglican liturgy?
Dear Bob, Surge illuminare is not from Isaiah 61; it is from Isaiah 60:1–3, 11, 14, 18–19. The Sarum Breviary in medieval England selected these verses for Epiphany Matins. Thomas Cranmer in his Book of Common Prayer (1549/1552) incorporated this as an optional canticle, as an alternative to the Benedictus, at Morning Prayer, preserving the medieval selection. Blessings.
Thanks Bosco — I realized my typo as soon as I pressed send! I have been looking at the music of the whole Tanach. I now have 18 volumes fully drafted — over 34,000 images for the 23,000 or so verses. Fortunately most of the many pages are typed from the database by my computer so it is as error free as my data (which isn’t error-free of course — but it has a 15 year history of pondering – an eclectic text started from the WLC with the te’amim corrected from the Aleppo codex.) I see in the Anglican Prayer book of Canada that Isaiah 60 was used for Epiphany and the Surge Illuminare was added in 1979 as an alternative canticle. What I am searching for is the thought process of the originator of this selection from Isaiah 60.