(No entrance hymn due to the Great Litany in procession)
Now let us all with one accord (Bourbon)
Forty days and forty nights (Aus der Tiefe rufe ich)
O love, how deep, how broad, how high (Deus tuorum militum)
Choral:
William Walton: Missa brevis (1966)
B.E. Boykin: Ave Maria (2021)
Kathryn Rose: Angelis suis (2018)
It can be sung to Deo Gracias, otherwise known as the Agincourt Song. Personally, I'd want to sing it to Puer Nobis Nascitur, but possibly not during Lent!
Immortal, invisible - St Denio Christ, whose glory fills the skies - Ratisbon From heav'n you came, helpless babe - The Servant King Be still, for the presence of the Lord - Be Still To God be the glory - To God be the Glory*
* That's almost the only thing I've ever been paid to sing: we did it for a BBC Songs of Praise in Orkney in 1980 and I was asked to sing the middle verse as a solo. As I recall, I was paid £10 for my efforts, and then got a further £20 when it was repeated on Thora Hird's Favourite Hymns (or whatever it was called).
All People That on Earth Do Dwell / Old Hundredth
Dear Lord and Father of Mankind / Repton
The Church's One Foundation / Aurelia
There is a hope that burns within my heart / There is a hope (Townend & Edwards)
Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven / Lauda Anima
Inter alia we sang two Bernadette Farrell hymns
O Lord you search me and you know me at communion, and
Christ be our light at the end.
As the gospel was the Transfiguration I feared we might have had Shine, Jesus shine, but we were spared.
“Guide me, O thou great Jehovah” (Cwm Rhondda). I said: Yes, this is cheesy. I’ve chosen it because it’s a good hymn which fits our theme, because we all know it, because it was St David’s Day last Wednesday - and because the Welsh rugby team need all the support they can get!"
We had:
There's a wideness in God's mercy (CROSS OF JESUS)
I to the hills will lift mine eyes (FRENCH)
The bright wind is blowing (THE BARD OF ARMAGH, because the tune written for the words had weird rhythms and there are limits to what I'll put myself and the congregation through)
O God you search me and you know me
Ye that know the Lord is gracious (ABBOT'S LEIGH)
I'm not sure whether the "bright wind" is a maladroit description or a clever allusion to the Spirit as both breath and tongues of fire.
“Guide me, O thou great Jehovah” (Cwm Rhondda). I said: Yes, this is cheesy. I’ve chosen it because it’s a good hymn which fits our theme, because we all know it, because it was St David’s Day last Wednesday - and because the Welsh rugby team need all the support they can get!"
You sang a version of the Gloria in LENT??
Is Outrage!
*swoons*
(Mind you, I like that setting, though Our Place has never AFAIK used it.
Too much clapping involved, I suspect).
Not only did we include a Gloria (which in fact we rarely do), but we had Flowers in church (which we always do, except perhaps on Good Friday). And yes, it was the one with the clapping.
We used to include one or two hymns from the Bernadette Farrell & Co stable, but they're not in our books and the amount they now charge for copyright is ridiculous!
To be honest, I’ve never particularly cared for “Dear Lord and Father of Mankind.” And I’m talking about the text, not the tune(s). I know lots of folks love it, but it’s never really done anything for me. Just another aspect of my weirdness, I guess.
You probably don't like it because when they turned the original poem,The Brewing of Soma, into a hymn, they left some of the best verses out. Try singing the following to the tune and see how it sounds:
Some fever of the blood and brain,
Some self-exalting spell,
The scourger's keen delight of pain,
the Dervish dance, the Orphic strain,
The wild-haired Bacchant's yell, -
The desert's hair-grown hermit sunk
The saner brute below;
The naked Santon, haschish-drunk,
The cloister madness of the monk,
The fakir's torture show!
And yet the past comes round again,
And new doth old fulfill;
In sensual transports wild as vain
We brew in many a Christian fane
The heathen Soma still!
It's a Quaker poem that critiques the use of stimulants and rituals to achieve spiritual ecstasy.
Yes, I’m familiar with the history of the hymn. But whether the original complete text or just the verses we have as the hymn, it’s not one that does much for me, I’m afraid.
Lent 2
Love Divine, Hyfrydol
Love will be our Lenten calling, Picardy
O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder, O Store Gud
Be thou my vision, Slane
Choral
Introit: Spirit of God Unseen as the Wind, arr. David Iliff
Anthem: God So Loved the World, by John Stainer
Communion: We Will Still Remember, by Tim Brace
The God of Abraham praise (Leoni)
When Christ was lifted from the earth (St. Botolph)
My faith looks up to thee (Christopher)
Lift high the cross, the love of Christ proclaim (Crucifer)
Choral:
Byrd: Mass for four voices
B.E. Boykin: John 3:16 (2014)
Lent 2
New every morning is the love ( Melcombe)
Be thou my vision (Slane)
Will you come and follow me? ( Kelvin Grove)
To God be the glory
Mass of St Thomas, with the Kyries not the Gloria
Litany for Lent Mode V
This afternoon I was privileged to attend a concert of music for Lent, including such delights as
O nata lux- Tallis
Vigilate - Byrd
Drop drop slow tears- Gibbons
Crucifixus - Lotti
Sung by eight voices.
As part of our Communion we sang a version of the Sanctus (a first for us I think, to sing it) which was set to the tune of The Ash Grove ... just that we weren't given any clues that this was to be the tune, and the organist's introduction was a bit vague, so it took us a while to realise what tune we were supposed to be singing... https://youtu.be/1wPCcONkLCo?t=2848
Lent 2
Love Divine, Hyfrydol
Love will be our Lenten calling, Picardy
O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder, O Store Gud
Be thou my vision, Slane
Choral
Introit: Spirit of God Unseen as the Wind, arr. David Iliff
Anthem: God So Loved the World, by John Stainer
Communion: We Will Still Remember, by Tim Brace
I’ve never sung Love Divine to Hyfrodol, but I can se it would work.
Did not sing but attended Mass @ St-Pat’s-in-the-west yesterday:
Processional: the God of Abram praise ( Leoni) Lenten prose ( chant) Byrd 4 ( Kyrie and Agnus Dei) motet Christus Jesu splendor ( Marenzio), it being Transfiguration & all; Communion Tis good Lord to be here ( Franconia). Very fine singing by mixed choir; hymns sung a capella. Cathedral packed (500 seated) and well worth the 25 km schlep.
I’ve never sung Love Divine to Hyfrodol, but I can se it would work.
That’s the standard tune for “Love Divine” in my tribe, and, I think, in a number of American denominations. BEECHER would be the other tune typically encountered in the States.
I’ve never sung Love Divine to Hyfrodol, but I can se it would work.
That’s the standard tune for “Love Divine” in my tribe, and, I think, in a number of American denominations. BEECHER would be the other tune typically encountered in the States.
"Blaenwern" would, I think, be most common in Britain, with "Hyfrydol" used for "Alleluia, sing to Jesus" (among others).
I’ve never sung Love Divine to Hyfrodol, but I can se it would work.
That’s the standard tune for “Love Divine” in my tribe, and, I think, in a number of American denominations. BEECHER would be the other tune typically encountered in the States.
"Blaenwern" would, I think, be most common in Britain, with "Hyfrydol" used for "Alleluia, sing to Jesus" (among others).
As far as I can tell, BLAENWERN is unknown here; I haven’t been able to find it in an American hymnal, and I think watching the wedding of the (now) Prince and Princess of Wales was the first time I’d ever heard it. (I was in my early 50s at the time.)
In my tribe, HYFRYDOL is used for “Love Divine,” “Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus” and “Alleluia! Sing to Jesus.”
Yes! I almost linked to a Sacred Harp version (though I was going to link to this one.)
The Sacred Harp tunes—whether in their original form or “smoothed out” a little, like the version of JEFFERSON I linked to earlier—are hard to beat. I find it interesting that shape note singing seems to have such a following in Ireland. At least judging from YouTube, that seems to be the case.
I am so envious of those of you who are getting to sing (or even just listen to) the Byrd 4-part Mass. Even without the Gloria (as is right and proper at the moment), it's absolutely sublime.
Learned it 20-odd years ago as a (barely competent) alto at St Frank’s under the direction of Madame la Directrice. Still in in brain to my surprise. If you have 2 competent sightreaders per part it is doable. Good luck!
I am so envious of those of you who are getting to sing (or even just listen to) the Byrd 4-part Mass. Even without the Gloria (as is right and proper at the moment), it's absolutely sublime.
It most certainly is. The avant-garde composer Peter Maxwell Davis picked as the one disc he would take to his Desert Island on the BBC radio 4 programme. The Agnus Dei is almost too beautiful.
Learned it 20-odd years ago as a (barely competent) alto at St Frank’s under the direction of Madame la Directrice. Still in in brain to my surprise. If you have 2 competent sightreaders per part it is doable. Good luck!
Learned it 20-odd years ago as a (barely competent) alto at St Frank’s under the direction of Madame la Directrice. Still in in brain to my surprise. If you have 2 competent sightreaders per part it is doable. Good luck!
I'm trying to think of anywhere I've been that could reliably post 2 competent sightreaders, nevermind 2 per part.
I don't know what was sung at Our Place, but Madam Sacristan will have insisted that the Mass at least begin with the mournful dirge of Forty Days And Forty Nights...
Sorry I'm late catching up with this, but at my last place we had a tradition of singing the last two verses of 40 days to a different tune. It made a big difference to the feel of it. I'm not an expert on hymn tunes but the first one was Aus Der Tiefe; I can't remember the other but it was much more cheerful.
Yes, AUS DER TIEFE (“Out of the depths”) is the standard tune for “Forty Days and Forty Nights.” As the name implies, it’s not meant up be a cheery tune.
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He said it was Unitarian rather than Christian. Leo didn’t like it either for the same reason.
(No entrance hymn due to the Great Litany in procession)
Now let us all with one accord (Bourbon)
Forty days and forty nights (Aus der Tiefe rufe ich)
O love, how deep, how broad, how high (Deus tuorum militum)
Choral:
William Walton: Missa brevis (1966)
B.E. Boykin: Ave Maria (2021)
Kathryn Rose: Angelis suis (2018)
Immortal, invisible - St Denio
Christ, whose glory fills the skies - Ratisbon
From heav'n you came, helpless babe - The Servant King
Be still, for the presence of the Lord - Be Still
To God be the glory - To God be the Glory*
* That's almost the only thing I've ever been paid to sing: we did it for a BBC Songs of Praise in Orkney in 1980 and I was asked to sing the middle verse as a solo. As I recall, I was paid £10 for my efforts, and then got a further £20 when it was repeated on Thora Hird's Favourite Hymns (or whatever it was called).
All People That on Earth Do Dwell / Old Hundredth
Dear Lord and Father of Mankind / Repton
The Church's One Foundation / Aurelia
There is a hope that burns within my heart / There is a hope (Townend & Edwards)
Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven / Lauda Anima
O Lord you search me and you know me at communion, and
Christ be our light at the end.
As the gospel was the Transfiguration I feared we might have had Shine, Jesus shine, but we were spared.
“The God of Abraham praise” (4 verses - Leoni).
“Gloria, gloria” (Mike Anderson/Kevin Mayhew).
“The journey of life” (Follow my leader).
“To Abraham and Sarah” (Mountain Christians).
“Be bold, be strong” (Morris Chapman).
“Guide me, O thou great Jehovah” (Cwm Rhondda). I said: Yes, this is cheesy. I’ve chosen it because it’s a good hymn which fits our theme, because we all know it, because it was St David’s Day last Wednesday - and because the Welsh rugby team need all the support they can get!"
There's a wideness in God's mercy (CROSS OF JESUS)
I to the hills will lift mine eyes (FRENCH)
The bright wind is blowing (THE BARD OF ARMAGH, because the tune written for the words had weird rhythms and there are limits to what I'll put myself and the congregation through)
O God you search me and you know me
Ye that know the Lord is gracious (ABBOT'S LEIGH)
I'm not sure whether the "bright wind" is a maladroit description or a clever allusion to the Spirit as both breath and tongues of fire.
You sang a version of the Gloria in LENT??
Is Outrage!
*swoons*
(Mind you, I like that setting, though Our Place has never AFAIK used it.
Too much clapping involved, I suspect).
We used to include one or two hymns from the Bernadette Farrell & Co stable, but they're not in our books and the amount they now charge for copyright is ridiculous!
We have a number of Farrell items in our default hymnbook, so copyright isn't a problem, fortunately.
She had a brain tumour removed. I have gently enquired through mutual friends, but privacy is being guarded. Understandable.
You probably don't like it because when they turned the original poem,The Brewing of Soma, into a hymn, they left some of the best verses out. Try singing the following to the tune and see how it sounds:
Some fever of the blood and brain,
Some self-exalting spell,
The scourger's keen delight of pain,
the Dervish dance, the Orphic strain,
The wild-haired Bacchant's yell, -
The desert's hair-grown hermit sunk
The saner brute below;
The naked Santon, haschish-drunk,
The cloister madness of the monk,
The fakir's torture show!
And yet the past comes round again,
And new doth old fulfill;
In sensual transports wild as vain
We brew in many a Christian fane
The heathen Soma still!
It's a Quaker poem that critiques the use of stimulants and rituals to achieve spiritual ecstasy.
http://www.qhpress.org/quakerpages/qwhp/soma.htm
Love Divine, Hyfrydol
Love will be our Lenten calling, Picardy
O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder, O Store Gud
Be thou my vision, Slane
Choral
Introit: Spirit of God Unseen as the Wind, arr. David Iliff
Anthem: God So Loved the World, by John Stainer
Communion: We Will Still Remember, by Tim Brace
The God of Abraham praise (Leoni)
When Christ was lifted from the earth (St. Botolph)
My faith looks up to thee (Christopher)
Lift high the cross, the love of Christ proclaim (Crucifer)
Choral:
Byrd: Mass for four voices
B.E. Boykin: John 3:16 (2014)
New every morning is the love ( Melcombe)
Be thou my vision (Slane)
Will you come and follow me? ( Kelvin Grove)
To God be the glory
Mass of St Thomas, with the Kyries not the Gloria
Litany for Lent Mode V
This afternoon I was privileged to attend a concert of music for Lent, including such delights as
O nata lux- Tallis
Vigilate - Byrd
Drop drop slow tears- Gibbons
Crucifixus - Lotti
Sung by eight voices.
I’ve never sung Love Divine to Hyfrodol, but I can se it would work.
I don't know that but I like it. Just don't choose "Sent forth with God's blessing" to conclude a service which includes it (same tune!)
Processional: the God of Abram praise ( Leoni) Lenten prose ( chant) Byrd 4 ( Kyrie and Agnus Dei) motet Christus Jesu splendor ( Marenzio), it being Transfiguration & all; Communion Tis good Lord to be here ( Franconia). Very fine singing by mixed choir; hymns sung a capella. Cathedral packed (500 seated) and well worth the 25 km schlep.
I can’t hear that hymn without thinking of Ken and imagining the look on his face. Still miss him.
In my tribe, HYFRYDOL is used for “Love Divine,” “Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus” and “Alleluia! Sing to Jesus.”
"Love divine" is sometimes sung to the tune of that name by Stainer ... a bit dreary IMO.
Yes. Stainer is awful. It is the standard tune for Love Divine in our hymnal.
The other tune I associate with “Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus” is JEFFERSON, which I like a lot.
It needs a bit of pace, I think, 120+.
Yes. Stainer is awful. It is the standard tune for Love Divine in our hymnal. [/quote]
I actually like Stainer's tune and dislike Hyfrydol and Blaenwern as they always sound seasick (I'm a hopeless sailor)
The Sacred Harp tunes—whether in their original form or “smoothed out” a little, like the version of JEFFERSON I linked to earlier—are hard to beat. I find it interesting that shape note singing seems to have such a following in Ireland. At least judging from YouTube, that seems to be the case.
Wow! This is a whole tradition I have not come across. Its moving to hear such full throated singing. Just going for it!
It most certainly is. The avant-garde composer Peter Maxwell Davis picked as the one disc he would take to his Desert Island on the BBC radio 4 programme. The Agnus Dei is almost too beautiful.
I'm trying to think of anywhere I've been that could reliably post 2 competent sightreaders, nevermind 2 per part.
That's the tune we're stuck with in The Hymnal 1982 (Episcopal USA), but in our parish, Blaenwern has made several appearances.
Sorry I'm late catching up with this, but at my last place we had a tradition of singing the last two verses of 40 days to a different tune. It made a big difference to the feel of it. I'm not an expert on hymn tunes but the first one was Aus Der Tiefe; I can't remember the other but it was much more cheerful.
Maybe.