Choral Responses Set 2

Massah Miksch Warner (1836-1900) was a Philadelphia Moravian organist, composer, and hymnal editor. He is best known as the composer of a choral setting of the Lord’s Prayer, written for The Liturgy and Offices of Worship and Hymns of 1891. Also familiar from his pen is a hymn tune which bears his name and which is sung with the text "Softly the Night Is Sleeping". These responses were edited from manuscript copies in the Bethlehem Congregation music collection. They are part of a set of 21 such responses. In this edition, all dynamics and metronome markings are not found in the manuscript but are the editor’s suggestions.

The funding for this publication was provided in memory of Kenneth Brenneman, music educator, choir director, and community arts organizer for his many years of teaching music theory and music history, directing high school choirs and musicals, and his leadership in the Hilliard (Ohio) Arts Council.