The Magnificat was written in 1982 in response to a commission from Christ Church College; Oxford; whose choir first performed it under their conductor Francis Grier in July of that year. At that time the composer was influenced by his belated discovery of African music. During a period of research in Senegal and The Gambia he recorded a working-song in a small village called Badem Karantaba; about thirty miles south-east of Ziguinchor in the Casamance region of southern Senegal. Swayne used the opening call of this song to begin the Magnificat; it returns as a refrain towards the end.

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	Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in D (SATB) : SATB with Organ : # NOV291907
	Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in D (SATB) : Alec Rowley : SATB : # NOV441275
	Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (ALTO; TENOR; BASS) : ATB : # NOV380143
	Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in G (SATB) : SATB : # NOV441397
	Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in B Minor (SATB) : Hugh Blair/ed. Ivor Atkins : SATB : # NOV290552
	Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in D (SATB) : SATB : # NOV441131
	Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (TTBB) : TTBB : # NOV280113
	Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Unison) : Unison : # NOV441234
	Magnificat and Nunc Dimitis No. 6 (SATB) : SATB : # NOV440897
	Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (SATB) : Herbert Howells : SATB with Organ : # NOV290409
	Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (New College) (SATB) : SATB with Organ : # NOV441288
	Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in F (SATB) : SATB : # NOV441071
	Magnificat and Nunc Dimitis in A; Op. 57 (SATB) : SATB : # NOV950416
	Magnificat (SATB) : SATB : # NOV070404
	Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis : Short Service No. 4 (SATB) : ed. Watkins Shaw : SATB : # NOV880021
	Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis : Variations for Choir (SATB) : SATB with soprano sax or cello : # NOV200310
	Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Latin American) (SATB) : Bryan Kelly : SATB : # NOV290300
	Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis : (St. Augustine's) (SATB) : SATB : # NOV290528
	Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in B Flat (SATB) : Charles Villiers Stanford : SATB : # NOV290333
	Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Magdalen Service) (SATB) : Kenneth Leighton : SATB : # NOV290416
	Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Collegium Regale) (SATB) : Herbert Howells : SATB : # NOV290289
	Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Gloucester) (SATB) : Herbert Howells : SATB : # NOV290489
	Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis : (Hereford) (SATB) : Francis Jackson : SATB : # NOV290541
	Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in A (SATB) : Stanford : SATB : # NOV290332
	Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in D (SATB; Organ) : SATB; organ : # NOV291830
	Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in D minor (SATB; Organ) : Thomas Attwood Walmisley : SATB with Organ : # NOV291995
	Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in F (SATB) : SATB : # NOV290354
	Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Collegium Sancti Johannis Cantabrigiense) (SATB) : Herbert Howells : SATB : # NOV294833
	Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis : (York) (SATB) : # NOV290450
	Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis (SATB) : SATB : # NOV290551
	Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in E (SATB) : SATB : # NOV953491
	Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in D (3-Part Treble) : SSS/SSA with organ : # NOV330105
	Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in A (SATB; Organ) : Charles Villiers Stanford : SATB and Organ : # NOV291940
	Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in B Minor (SATB; Organ) : Hugh Blair : SATB and Organ : # NOV292292
	Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in G : SATB (SATB) : SATB : # NOV441359
	Magnificat And Nunc Dimittis : Gloucester - for SATB Chorus and Organ (SATB; Organ) : # NOV294866
	Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis - St. Paul's : for SATB Chorus and Organ (SATB) : Herbert Howells : SATB Chorus and Organ : # NOV294855
	Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis (from the All-Night Vigil) : SATB a cappella (SATB a cappella) : Sergei Rachmaninoff : SATB a cappella : # NOV296406