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Our Father God Celestial (The Lords Prayer)

This piece is an anonymous Scottish metrical translation of the "Our Father", set to the music of a four-part French secular chanson, Je suis deshéritée (1538) by Pierre Cadéac. Sarah Pillow, soprano and Mary Anne Ballard, tenor viol (Galileo's Daughters) with guests Lynn Fergusson, treble viol, and Douglas Kelley and Webster Williams, bass viols.