Matériel : Octavo
SKU: HP.921
UPC: 763628109219.
Inclu ded are 18 metrical canticles, all paraphrases from the pen of Carl P. Daw, Jr. These are set to both a traditional tune and a contemporary tune created specifically for each text.
SKU: MN.80-729
UPC: 688670807299. English. Daniel 3:57-74, 87.
A processional for a solemn or festive occasion, and winner of the 2016 Propers competition of the Conference of Roman Catholic Cathedral Musicians. The canticle of Daniel, which gives the piece wide usefulness, exhorts elements of creation to Praise the Lord, and the music encourages a strong assembly response. The second refrain text enables use at ordinations.
SKU: GI.G-008427
UPC: 641151084275.
SKU: HP.2841
UPC: 763628128418.
Tradi tional Thanksgiving tune Here is a buoyant setting of the traditional Thanksgiving hymn which incorporates the Welsh melody associated with the Fred Pratt Green text, For the Fruit of All Creation. The syncopated melody, colorful accompaniment, and optional Latin percussion all combine to depict joyful gratitude to God for all his blessings.
SKU: HP.2841D
UPC: 763628228415.
SKU: HP.1628
UPC: 763628116286.
Joy Patterson is a highly respected author and composer of both hymn texts and tunes. This is a collection of her best-known works as well as some new material published here for the first time. The Foreword is by Carl P. Daw, Jr.
SKU: HL.277282
UPC: 840126915006. 6.75x10.5 inches.
Program note:Looking Up is a piece for large chorus and orchestra, and is in three sections, played without pause. In the 16th century, a variety of psalters in meter were printed in England, with the idea of making psalm-singing something that could happen easily at home, with the rhyming meter being an aid to memorization. These translations are wonderful exercises in brevity and sometimes clumsy rhymemaking, and were usually prefaced by a lengthy explanation as to their merits; the title of one of the first such volumes in English is: The Psalter of Dauid newely translated into Englysh metre in such sort that it maye the more decently, and wyth more delyte of the mynde, be reade and songe of al men. I thought it would be appropriate to set one of these introductions, and the first section of Looking Up sets the preface to Thomas Ravenscroft's psalter (1621), in which he writes: “The singing of Psalmes (assay the Doctors) comforteth the sorrowfull, pacifieth the angry, strengtheneth the weake, humbleth the proud, gladdeth the humble, stirres up the slow, reconcileth enemies, lifteth up the heart to heavenly things, and uniteth the Creature to his Creator.”It begins meditatively, but eventually grows agitated and fervent, with a vision of the “quire of Angels and Saints” “redoubling anddescanting” - an ecstatic and terrifying vision of the skies opening up. Ravenscroft then encourages the use of instrumental musicfor worship, at which point, a long, acrobatic orchestral interlude with jagged edges antagonizes the choir, who sing a kind of private, anxious meditation on two pitches.One of the most delicious biblical texts is an Apocryphal prayer known as the Benedicite or the Prayer of the Three Children (the same who were rescued by an angel after King Nebuchadnezzar tried to have them burnt in an oven for not bowing to his image). The text is repetitive, obsessive, and a gift to composers - each line is an invocation of an element of the natural world, followed by the phrase, “blesse ye the Lord, praise him & magnify him for ever.” In Looking Up, the setting begins with three solo voices, and then grows to include the whole choir, itemizing the whole of creation. The idea that these boys are spared from the furnace and then five minutes later are saying, “O ye the fire and warming heate, blesse ye the Lord...” has always felt very loaded to me, and the orchestra plays with this conflict between joyful praise and a more terrible (in the 16th-century sense) awefor the divine.The text for the third, and shortest, section is taken from Christopher Smart's (1722-1771) A Song to David, purportedly written during his confinement in a mental asylum. This ode to King David points out how David, as the author of some of the Psalms, observes the whole world from the “clustering spheres” to the “nosegay in the vale.&rdquo.
SKU: CR.984361
ISBN 9780758669032. 7 X 10.25 inches.
This text by Lisa M. Clark is set to a memorable tune and two-part mixed setting by Jonathan Kohrs. The text highlights the story of salvation, while carrying themes of outreach, the new creation, and the end times. The choral texture builds from start to finish and blossoms with a descant in the final stanza.
In paradise, You shared Your bestWith us, Your children dear.Your bounty, presence, work, and rest:Secure from guilt or fear. But we brought shame upon the landAnd disobeyed Your clear command.Oh, we will never understandT he darkness we brought near.
In exile, driven from Your face, We hid and worked in vain.We lost the children's honored placeAnd earned Your just disdain.But Jesus came to take our blameAnd took away our horrid shameAnd gave to us His holy name,That we may life regain.
In restoration, we are freeAnd welcomed home anew.You smile on us abundantlyA nd bless us through and through.But as we wait for that great day,When all dishonor melts away,Let us, Your own beloved, say:'Our Lord, we honor You!'
Text copyright © 2020 Concordia Publishing House.