Rorate Coeli

Particularly interesting in this regard was Thea Musgrave's colorfully layered "Rorate Coeli," the program's most contemporary work.

Haydn's "Rorate Coeli desuper" and Victoria's "Ave Maria"; Virgin Consort; Kyler Brown, director.

In the Anglican Communion, the Rorate Coeli is included in the music for Advent (735 in the English Hymnal and 501 in the New English Hymnal) and is translated as:

They in turn lend these incipits to some Sundays of the liturgical year: e.g. the fourth Sunday of Advent is named Sunday Rorate after the introitus psalm of the day, Rorate Coeli.