A year ago, shortly after the parish I serve moved to recording services for webcast as the Covid-19 pandemic reached our city, I resumed an old practice of writing weekly music notes for the parish. At first these appeared within the body of the weekly email newsletter and so I limited myself to 200–250 words; later these notes moved to the parish website, and I dropped that discipline, quite possibly to the detriment of the writing and of the patience or understanding of the people (if any) reading it. These notes, written quickly and to a deadline, cover ground ranging from Church history, to liturgical context, to the immediate background of the texts and music themselves, to the theological or other spiritual content of the text, to formal analysis (and sometimes criticism) of text and/or music, and/or of their pairing. They necessarily draw upon the Hymnal 1982 Companion as well as other common resources, and in some cases upon earlier writing of my own, including some found on this site. Nevertheless I have decided to post them here, lightly edited so that they will make sense in this different context (but not generally expanded with musical or textual examples as I might have done with more time), as a record of some of the work that has been done in this extraordinary year. Hymn numbers refer to the Hymnal 1982 of the Episcopal Church.