Showing posts with label tune names. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tune names. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
St. Magnus, American Oxford Hymnal No. 277
The American Oxford Hymnal ([AOH], pub. OUP, 1930) gives as hymn number 277 C. Wesley's "Let saints on earth in concert sing", set to two tunes. Odd thing is, both tunes (completely dissimilar aside from both being being C.M. and both being in G and starting on D) are identified as "St. Magnus" by Jeremiah Clark. The second tune is the usual St. Magnus, similar to the MIDI at The Cyber Hymnal ™, which TCH says was arranged by Monk. (TCH also spells the composer's name "Clarke".) Can any of my millions of hymnically informed readers identify the first tune? Here is a link to a MIDI version, for those whose hymnals at hand don't include the 1930 AOH: AOH277A.mid.
Sunday, July 29, 2007
My Jesus I Love Thee / Boundless Salvation
This coming Sunday Mrs Haruo and I will probably be doing the special music at church. It will be Communion Sunday, and we have no time to practice (she's out of town), so what Verne the Organist and I have tentatively settled on is two numbers:
I hashed much of this over several years ago in a thread at the Mudcat Café, so I hereby incorporate all this verbiage.
What I still need to know is to whom to attribute this tune (MIDI) and what to call it.
Leland = Haruo
- first we will sing three verses of "When Love Is Found" (which was sung at our wedding, and Verne keeps wanting us to reprise), but whereas at our wedding we (the congregation: it was the processional hymn, trilingually in English, Esperanto and Japanese) sang vv. 1-3 per Wren and then Marilyn Hillyer's emendation of v. 5, ending "Lift up your hearts! Let love be fed / Through each deed done, through each word said", this time we will sing straight Wren, but omit vv. 3 & 4. It will, after all, be Communion Sunday.
- then we will sing the following text:
My Jesus, I love Thee, I know Thou art mine;
For Thee all the follies of sin I resign.
My gracious Redeemer, my Savior art Thou;
If ever I loved Thee, if ever I loved Thee,
If ever I loved Thee, my Jesus, ’tis now.
I love Thee because Thou has first loved me,
And purchased my pardon on Calvary’s tree.
I love Thee for wearing the thorns on Thy brow;
If ever I loved Thee, if ever I loved Thee,
If ever I loved Thee, my Jesus, ’tis now.
Oh, who’s like my Savior? He’s Salem’s bright King;
He smiles and He loves me and helps me to sing:
I’ll praise him, I’ll praise Him with notes loud and clear,
While rivers of pleasure, while rivers of pleasure,
While rivers of pleasure my spirit shall cheer.
And now, hallelujah! the rest of my days
Shall gladly be spent in promoting His praise
Who opened His bosom to pour out this sea
Of boundless salvation, of boundless salvation,
Of boundless salvation for you and for me.
I hashed much of this over several years ago in a thread at the Mudcat Café, so I hereby incorporate all this verbiage.
What I still need to know is to whom to attribute this tune (MIDI) and what to call it.
Leland = Haruo
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