Copyright status (in USA) of New Westminster Hymnal 1939?
Can anyone shed some light on this question?
View ArticleWake Awake: Verse three macaronic version
Below is a version of Verse three of Wachet Auf (Wake Awake) that I put together, based on Catherine Winkworth's translation: My goal in this was to preserve the macaronic text: Nicolai's original,...
View ArticleSongs of Thankfulness and Praise
Hello, everyone, I thought I would post an old essay of mine about Songs of Thankfulness and Praise. ********** There is a hymn that captures very well the sentiments of the Magnificat antiphon for the...
View ArticleQuæ Stella Sole Pulchrior
Any information regarding this hymn would be appreciated.According to this blog, Quæ Stella Sole Pulchrior was used for Vespers I for Epiphany in the Paris Breviary...
View ArticleFinita Jam Sunt Proelia
Does anyone know of sheet music available for the 4-part hymn The Strife is O'er with the Latin words of the poem Finita Jam Sunt Proelia rather than the English words? I am unable to find such an...
View ArticleHeretical "Hymns"
Hi,I'm curious about two Hymn-related items.The first is more theorical: What makes a hymn, a hymn, and not just a song or a tune?Also, I've been told that "Amazing Grace" is heretical. The...
View ArticleHymn for a Bishop
Are there any hymns suitable for celebrating ordained ministry, particularly the Episcopate? We want to honor a retired bishop on his anniversary but he wants just a simple Mass. That sort of excludes...
View ArticleFavorite collections of hymn-tune harmonizations?
I'm looking a fresh collection of hymn-tune harmonizations. Any suggestions or favorites?
View ArticleHymn for the Feast of the Presentation-Candlemas
I thought I would post my translation of an Office Hymn for the upcoming Feast of the Presentation, Adorna, Sion, Thalamum. A few comments: The Latin text I worked with is pre-Urbanite. I don't know...
View ArticleHymn to St. Peter Julian Eymard
Does anyone reading these pages, who might possess a collection of hymnals even more vast than mine (I literally trip over them sometimes!), have any memory of coming across an old-style devotional...
View ArticleSource of "God, Thou art clothed with light"
Can someone help me find a literal translation of a text from the Eastern church? John Brownlie paraphrased it as a hymn (Hymns of the Russian Church, #95), the first stanza of which is:God, Thou art...
View ArticleThe St Andrew Hymnal
If anyone can tell me where I can obtain a copy of this excellent out of print hymnal could they please let me know.
View ArticleFun with the Post-communion
Did anyone else notice that the first three lines of today's post-communion prayer were in meter? I expanded that, keeping the same sense of the text. The tune is GOTT DER VATER, WOHN UNS BEI. Could be...
View ArticleDiscendi, Amor Santo - Literal English Translation Wanted
Does anyone know of a literal English translation of "Descendi, amor santo" by Bianco da Siena? I'm familiar with R. F. Littledale's "Come down, O Love divine", which is a metrical translation of about...
View ArticleAre There Hymns for Sts. Peter and Paul Together
Does anyone know of in English honoring both St. Peter and St. Paul in the same hymn? Aside from translations of the office hymns "Aurea luce", Felix per omnes", "Apostolorum passio" and "O Roma...
View ArticleA new hymnal
I have long been engraving a collection of traditional English hymn scores with the idea of eventually turning it into a physical hymnal. Coronavirus may be giving me the free time to finally complete...
View ArticleTHAXTED harmonization request(s)
1. Is there a "standard" SATB/hymnal arrangement of Holst's THAXTED?2. Would anybody want to write an acapella TTBar arrangement (three verses) that I could use for a recording of my Ascension Hymn?
View ArticleThaxted - four part choral harmony
Any one have a four part choral copy of verse 2 of Thaxted - O God, Beyond All Praising? Verse 2 of the 3 verse version begin as follow: The flow'r of earthly splendor in time must surely die...
View ArticleSt. Francis of Sales on psalms
I have a vague memory from years ago of reading a book written by St. Francis of Sales, which was a critique of protestantism (not one of his better known books of spiritual direction). In it, he...
View ArticleHappy Feast of St. Dunstan
https://societyofstbede.wordpress.com/2019/05/19/feast-of-st-dunstan/also here,https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/15707/choir-books/p1and another Hymn, will have to choose a Sarum melody...
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