Posted on 08/19/2013 10:32:53 AM PDT by matthewrobertolson
Here are 8 great Christian songs. (The links lead to the corresponding audio via YouTube.)
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O Store Gud (Oh Mighty God)
O Store Gud (Oh Mighty God)
Some personal favorites:
Sicut Cervus - Palestrina
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsw1kdLqfec
Tu Es Petrus - Palestrina
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mSLVoOKzBM
Maria Magdalene - Andrea Gabrieli (hard to find because of everything else that comes up in a ‘Maria Magdalene’ search)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlTtU6k9jCY
Exultate Justi in Domino - Viadana
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ok8evP2S70
Biebl’s Ave Maria
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rby62ZghBWg
Thanks for this thread!
Beautiful! Thanks for posting those!
Our choir sings the Viadana "Exultate Justi" and the Palestrina "Sicut Cervus". The middle section of the Viadana is a real tongue twister - first 'in psalterio decem chordarum' and then 'in vociferatione' . . .
Another great one is the Palestrina Magnificat Primi Toni (Liber Primus). We sang this for Archbishop Donoghue's vigil/vespers the night before his funeral.
"Cowper" (168) and "Delight" (216)
This (Sacred Harp or Original Sacred Harp/OSH) is the source of gospel music. It derives from the New England Singing School, transmitted down the Southern mountains. That in its turn derived from the West Gallery choir music of rural England, that grew out of the old Tate & Brady psalmody.
Great film about the tradition is "Awake My Soul" - here's the trailer. Best line: "They asked, 'do you want to sound like a bunch of uneducated Southerners?' We all said . . . 'Yeah!'"
It's pretty raw in performance, but it is actually very sophisticated music. The classic signature "fuging tune" (when you hear the parts in imitation of each other a few measures or beats apart) originates even further back - in early Renaissance polyphony. Everything new is old.
Cantate Domino (Hans Leo Hassler)
Cantate Domino canticum novum, cantate Domino omnis terra.
Sing unto the Lord a new song, sing unto the Lord all the earth.
Cantate Domino, et benedicite nomini ejus.
Sing unto the Lord, and bless his name.
Annuntiate de die in diem salutare ejus.
Proclaim from day to day his salvation.
Annuntiate inter gentes gloriam ejus, in omnibus populis mirabilia ejus.
Proclaim among the nation his glory,among all peoples his wonders.
That’s a beautiful tune.
You need a REALLY good soprano - fortunately we have one (wish we had more - I'm just a workhorse alto).
Our choir also sings his Dixit Maria, suitable for the Annunciation, Advent or Christmas. "Then said Mary to the angel (in some versions, "Gabriel"): Behold the handmaid of the Lord; let it be done to me according to thy word."
The fun thing about following the score is that you can see the imitation happening across the parts . . . I really like YouTube . . . sometimes.
Miserere is almost impossibly beautiful. I have several versions of my iPod and cherish them all.
I believe that Maetin Luther approved of the first half of the ‘Hail Mary’ (”Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.”)
We did, indeed, have an excellent soprano to perform “Laudate Dominum” at my father’s memorial service. She was the wife of a former pastor. My father directed the choir for many years and was a talented baritone singer.
I thought it was gonna be songs like Church In The Wildwood or Standing On the Promises.
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