The Lord said, Go and Kill a Turkey?

11 Replies to “The Lord said, Go and Kill a Turkey?”

1. I dunno. I'd have to hear it first.

2. LOL!

3. I suspect that there are two possible origins for this chant: A.) From a manuscript of a draft of Bugnini's inculturated Graduale Romanum for the United States and Canada, or B.) A facsimile of the golden plate containing musical settings given to Joseph Smith by the Angel Moroni.

4. Adam: I doubt (B) is it. I have never heard the Mormon Tabernacle Choir do chant.

5. I second the LOL. I have got to send this to the Latin teachers I know.

6. Hilarious! To nitpick the chant notation, surely those should be B-flats? (Plus there's a typo in the alleluia – the eighth note from the end should be an F rather than a D (or a Fa rather than a Re if you prefer).

7. (Actually it should just be deleted. There are enough Fs without it.)

8. Surely Peter's vision of "Kill and eat", with its vision of all the animals on Earth being let down in a tablecloth, is a perfect enough prophecy of Thanksgiving? 🙂

   Acts 10:11-13 —
   "Et vidit cælum apertum, et descendens vas quoddam, velut linteum magnum, quatuor initiis submitti de cælo in terram, in quo erant omnia quadrupedia, et serpentia terræ, et volatilia cæli. Et facta est vox ad eum: Surge, Petre: occide, et manduca."

   "Occide et manduca" sounds like a lovely motet for hunting season. 🙂

9. "Surge, Petre" is a motet text, but they all seem to be about getting up and putting on your clothes and getting the heck out of prison, not the other. 🙂

10. It's a protestant chant for a protestant holiday.

11. My diligent study tells me that this is actually a text of Southwell with composition by Byrd.

    Catholics also give thanks, you know.

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