Music Divine is an a cappella group of 8 to 16 singers based in NYC. We sing sacred music centered around the year MD (1500), plus or minus 500 years, from plainchant to Pärt, with a healthy dose of the secular. Many of us also sing in some of the best professional choirs and early music groups in the metropolitan area and elsewhere.
Music Divine is named after a 6-voice madrigal of the same name by Thomas Tomkins, published in 1622 as part of a marvellous collection of his works, "Songs of 3, 4, 5 and 6 parts, by Thamas Tomkins: organist of his Majesty's Chapel Royal".
Music divine, proceeding from above,
Whose sacred subject oftentimes is love,
In this appears her heavenly harmony,
Where tuneful concords sweetly do agree.
And yet in this her slander is unjust,
To call that love which is indeed but lust.