Wood - Hail Blessed Virgin Mary

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Hail! Blessed Virgin Mary – Charles Wood
Sung by ‘Viva la Musica’, East Midlands Chamber Choir

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[Recorded live in Trinity Methodist Church, Loughborough – January 2023]

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"Hail! Blessed Virgin Mary" by Charles Wood is a choral arrangement of a traditional Italian carol, which is built on a 1689 melody from the collection Corona di sacre Canzoni o Laude Spirituali. The arrangement is for unaccompanied four-part choir (SATB), with words provided by G.R. Woodward. The piece was published in one of several carol and hymn collections co-edited by Wood and Woodward.

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Text:

Hail! Blessed Virgin Mary!
For so, when he did meet thee
Spake mighty Gabriel,
and thus we greet thee.
Come weal, come woe, our
hymn shall never vary.
Hail! Blessed Virgin Mary!
Hail! Blessed Virgin Mary!

Ave! Ave Maria!
To gladden priest and people
The angelus shall ring
from every steeple,
To sound his virgin birth.
Alleluia!
Ave! Ave Maria!
Ave! Ave Maria!

Archangels chant, 'Hosanna!'
And, 'Holy! Holy! Holy!'
Before the Infant born
of thee, thou lowly,
Aye- maiden child of
Joachim and Anna.
Archangels chant Hosanna!
Archangels chant Hosanna!