Church Music

As I continue my survey of Catholic Worship Book II, I am mainly coming across traditional hymns.

I have already blogged elsewhere:

250 Prepare the Way another from Brian Boniwell in CWB II

251 Wait for the Lord a TAIZE chant.

This is a song often known as “Wake, Awake, for Night is Flying” in a translation by Catherine Winkworth, but there is more than one translation in use.

The text in CWB II is Harry Hagan’s paraphrase and translation of the Philipp Nicolai text, which is copyright.

It is set to Bach’s harmonisation of Nicolai’s arrangement of Hans Sachs’s WACHET AUF.

BIAB should not go near Bach.

This Christopher Idle text for Advent is based on Isaiah 35 and set to AVE VIRGO VIRGINUM(aka GAUDEAMUS PARITER)

The text is here.

This is the sheet music with a different text:

Stephen noted this in recent correspondence:

One year, when preparing the Easter music for an Anglican church, I discovered No 302 in The Australian Hymn Book – the tune and metre Vruechten 67.67 D – Melody from J Oudaen’s “Psalter’, Amsterdam 1685, words by George Ratcliffe Woodward (1848-1934): “This joyful Eastertide away with sin and sorrow…” How interesting and enchanting I thought it! What do people think of it? Is it ever sung?

I’m doing a lot of traditional hymns that are out of my comfort zone lately, but this is certainly a thrilling tune with a ferocious range, so I’ll let the choir sing it and groan along an octave down for the “arisen”s. All the details are as noted by Stephen and Hymnary puts it all together as usual. It shows up in Protestant Hymnals in the main there.

1 This joyful Eastertide,
away with sin and sorrow!
My Love, the Crucified,
has sprung to life this morrow:
Refrain:
Had Christ, who once was slain,
not burst His three-day prison,
our faith had been in vain;
but now has Christ arisen,
arisen, arisen;
but now has Christ arisen!
2 Death’s flood has lost its chill
since Jesus crossed the river;
Lover of souls, from ill
my passing soul deliver: [Refrain]
3 My flesh in hope shall rest
and for a season slumber
till trump from east to west
shall wake the dead in number: [Refrain]

Entrance: Hearts on Fire  (Mangan) AOV NG 62

Psalm 15 (McKenna)

Keep me safe, O God; you are my hope.

Keep me safe, O God; you are my hope.

Gifts: Will You Love Me?  (Boniwell) AOV 1/40

Communion: Come to the Table (Burland) AOV NG 33

Thanksgiving: All You Works of God (Haugen) AOV 1/19

Recessional: Lord the Light of Your Love (Kendrick) AOV 2/59

I’m slogging through the largely traditional Advent repertoire of CWB II and I’ve already done:

247 The Angel Gabriel 

I have actually done a version of this song too as “The Advent of Our King”. This is a different translation of Charles Coffin’s text – translated by Anthony G. Petti and based on Robert Campbell, except for the fourth verse, which is from the other version by John Chandler – is that quite clear.

Here it is set to FRANCONIA  by William Henry Havergal. I got the chords from the ever reliable Together in Song for more fake BIAB organ.

The text used here is from the New Catholic Hymnal and is the same used in CWB I if you have a dog eared copy of that. I can’t find the lyrics on the internet but two verses are used to light the Advent candle in this liturgy. I think CWB II picked the better text, but one that is adapted enough from its public domain sources to be copyright – well done Faber.

This is the other text set to FRANCONIA.

This is another hymn for Advent. The text is Martin Luther’s adaptation of St Ambrose’s text, Veni Redemptor gentium. The translation is by William Reynolds, but the text in CWB II has a different translation from halfway through verse 3 by Martin Seltz.

It is set to NUN KOMM DER HEIDEN HEILAND.

More fake BIAB organ:

This version from Hymnary has the text and tune as in CWB II.

I’ve blogged the next few in CWB II already:

242 O Come, O Come Emmanuel

243 Open the Heavens, Lord (Brian Boniwell gets a well deserved Advent slot!)

244 On Jordan’s Bank the Baptists’s Cry

“Prepare the Way, O Zion” is another fairly ancient Advent hymn from a text by Frans Mikael Franzén. CWB II uses the translation by Charles P. Price, which was itself an adaption of the translation by Augustus Nelson. The tune in BEREDEN VAG FOR HERRAN, a seventeenth century Swedish tune, which I have also seen called MESSIAH.

Hymnary have the Price text at their site.

I like this tune a lot for its invention and uplifting nature.

That didn’t stop me from cribbing the chords from the MIDI file on Hymnary and attacking it with fake BIAB organ.

This is the same music as CWB II with the original “Nelson” translation. (NB the first line of the melody is repeated – does that it make it the blues?)

Entrance: Gather Us In (Haugen) AOV 1/12

Psalm 145 (McKenna)

Praise the Lord, my soul!

Praise the Lord, my soul!

Gifts: The Cry of the Poor (Foley) AOV 1/83

Communion: A Place at the Table (Shirley Erena Murray – Lori True) AOV NG 1

Thanksgiving: You Are Mine (Haas)  AOV 2/2

Recessional: We Are Called (Haas) AOV 2/60

This is another late entry for completeness from when I was away.

Entrance: Gather As One (McKenna) AOV NG 48

Psalm 17 (McKenna)

I love you Lord, my strength.

Gifts: A New Commandment (Unknown)

Communion: I Have Loved You (Joncas) AOV 1/126

Thanksgiving: Without Seeing You (Haas) AOV 2/158

Recessional: Hearts on Fire  (Mangan) AOV NG 62

Since I use this blog myself to search for suggestions from three years ago, I’ll catch up with the local suggestions for liturgical music from when I was away, so that in three years time I’ll know what we used now. I think that makes sense.

Entrance: All Are Welcome (Haugen)

Psalm 125 (McKenna)

The Lord has done great things.

Gifts: Open My Eyes (Manibusan) AOV 1/166

Communion: We Remember (Haugen) AOV 1/81

Thanksgiving: Holy Darkness (Schutte) AOV 2/24

Recessional: All the Ends of the Earth (Dufford) AOV 1/76