Plainsong Lullabies!

Fr. Daniel is starting his offspring out young. He reports that Plainsong settings of Evening Canticles and/or Hymns from The Hymnal, 1940 work very well as lullabies for his one-and-a-half-year-old son. He says the features of Plainsong that make it suitable for this purpose are the regular, speech-like rhythm, the gently repetitive melody and, of course, its crystal-clear Trinitarian Theology. Some favorites so far, he reports:

- 162, Nun Sancte,
- 164, Te lucis,
- 746, Magnificat, and
- 673, Nunc dimittis.

You will likely not read about this in his 6-part series on The Hymnal for the bi-monthly magazine of the Prayer Book Society, The Mandate, but you have it here!