KING-FM (98.1 in Seattle) broadcasts the Compline Service live from St. Mark’s Cathedral every Sunday evening at 9:30 p.m., Pacific Time.
To find out more about Gregorian Chant and the Office of Compline:
- Links to orders for the Office of Compline, Church of England; one can view the office in traditional or modern language; Our Seattle office differs only from the "traditional" language version in the placement of the Confession and the Hymn.
- The version of Compline that we have done in Seattle since 1956 is published by The Plainsong and Medieval Music Society, copyright © 1949, but actually comes from the Proposed Book of Common Prayer (1928) for the Church of England. Follow the above link for a history of the prayer book, while you may compare what the choir uses with the version in the prayer book.
(NOTE: The Plainsong and Medieval Music Society now offers a new edition of the Order of Compline, copyright © 2005, where the confession of faith has been moved closer to the beginning of the service, among other changes. The choir does not intend to adopt the newer edition at this time.) - A gateway to many renditions of the Office of Compline in the Book of Common Prayer (1979) of the Episcopal Church U.S.A.
- View the on-line version of Compline for today's date from the Roman Catholic Breviary at Universalis.
- Check out the history of Compline in the Catholic Encyclopedia.
- The online, free encyclopedia Wikipedia has an interesting primer on the term and the history behind the service of Compline.
- The Gregorian Chant Home Page
- Una Voce (Gregorian Chant)
For learning more about the European Renaissance music (and composers) that are used in the service:
- Music Chronology and Timeline of European composers with historical context included, currently being constructed by Dr. Gordon J. Callon at Acadia University, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Choirs growing out of the Seattle Compline experience:
- Lutheran Church of Honolulu, Honolulu HI (founded 1973).
- Christ Church (Episcopal) New Haven, CT. Sundays during the university term with candles, incense, and fine polyphony, 10 p.m.
- Heinz Chapel, Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA, A Lutheran Compline, founded in 1989. Sundays at 8:30 p.m.
- Compline NYC, an ecumenical service that meets in many different resonant spaces in New York City, even pedestrian underpasses.
- The Minnesota Compline Choir, founded in 1992 at Central Lutheran Church, Minneapolis, MN; broadcast on WCAL.
- St. David's Episcopal Church, Austin, TX.
- Chapel of the Cross, Chapel Hill, NC
- Savannah Compline Choir: Christ Church, Savannah, Georgia
- St. John's Episcopal Church, Olympia WA. All-male choir, uses same office as Seattle. Sundays, 8 p.m.
- Trinity Episcopal Churh, Everett WA.
- St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Tacoma WA. A male choir does the Office at 9 p.m. on the first Sunday of the month.
- St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Longview, WA.
- St. Cecilia's Church (R.C.), Bainbridge Island, WA. First Sunday of each month.
- College of William and Mary, Williamsburg VA.
Other Compline Home Pages (non-monastic, North America):
- Grace Episcopal Church, Charleston, SC Sundays, 8:00 p.m.
- Parish of the Messiah, Auburndale, MA. Schola Nocturna, a mixed choir, does an evening service they call "Night Prayer" each Sunday at 8:30 p.m.
- Christ Church Episcopal, Little Rock, Arkansas. Weekly early evening Compline service after 6 p.m. Eucharist; uses Book of Common Prayer (1979).
- Christ Church Episcopal, Rochester, NY. An SATB choir of Eastman School of Music faculty and students sings the office at 9pm Sundays, Oct/May.
- Hope Chapel, Austin, TX.
- St. Dunstan's Episcopal College Ctr, Auburn, AL
- U. of Oklahoma Student Center
- Cathedral of St. Mark, Minneapolis, MN
- Cathedral of the Incarnation, Garden City, NJ. Third Sunday of the month, at 8:30 p.m. Begun in 2002.
- Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration, Dallas, TX
- Grace Episcopal Cathedral, San Francisco, CA
- St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, Atlanta, GA
- St. Paul's Chapel on the campus of Columbia University, New York City. A mixed choir that sings the Mediaeval English Sarum rite of Compline at 9:30 p.m. Sundays, as well as Vespers.
- Church of the Holy Family, Chapel Hill, NC Not conducted in the summer.
- Saint Joseph of Arimathea Anglican Theological College, in Berkeley, California
- Chapel Singers, U. of Redlands, CA
Directories for Monasteries and Convents in the U.S.:
- CAROA - Conference of Anglican Religious Orders in the Americas
- The Order of Saint Benedict
- Cistercian Order of the Strict Observance (Trappists)
Links to other Seattle music sites of interest:
- Links to regional choral groups
- Choral Arts
- The Tudor Choir
- Opus 7 Vocal Ensemble
- Early Music Guild
- Seattle Area Pipe Organ Scene