Evensong is a church service traditionally held near twilight focused on singing psalms and other biblical canticles. It is loosely based on the canonical hours of vespers and compline. Old …

Jun 5, 2025 · Evensong is a musical form of evening prayer, most familiar in the Anglican and Episcopal traditions. It’s typically held in cathedrals, collegiate chapels, and parish churches, …

Although in 1552 he replaced it with “Evening Prayer,” the common name remains “evensong.” In many Anglican cathedrals and other large churches, especially in England, evensong is sung …

Common practice today is to refer to the choral or sung version of the service as Evensong and the spoken version as Evening Prayer. The term Choral Evensong refers to a service in which …

Dec 13, 2021 · The modern Evensong service is based on a pattern laid out by The Book of Common Prayer in the Anglican Church, and it features choral music, readings and prayers, …

One of the treasures of the Anglican tradition, Evensong is a service of sung evening prayer that combines music with readings from scripture and ancient prayers.

In addition to their monthly offering of Choral Evensong in the English Cathedral tradition, they also sing occasional special liturgies, including The Pageant of the Nativity, the 7:30 p.m. …

The service was a choral evensong and, like many of the church’s services, would be live-streamed on YouTube (there’s something truly Warholian about watching a thirty-minute video …

Jul 17, 2025 · What is Evensong? In this talk, Epiphany's Director of Music, Zach Hemenway, walks us through the history and significance Choral Evensong.

Evensong is a combination of the final two of the eight daily services: Vespers and Compline. Evensong’s roots in Vespers and Compline are most evident in the Magnificat and Nunc …