Notes for Sunday, April 1
Sunday is Palm-Passion Sunday.
SCRIPTURE: The Gospel Reading: Luke 19:28-40.
SERMON: Competing Parades.
ANTHEMS:
Kyrie, K. Sato
Ride On! Ride On!, G. George
Sato’s Kyrie is the first movement of his Missa pro Pace (Mass for Peace). The work is lush and warm, and offers a texture rich with suspensions and resolutions. Although all of the parts divide, the voicing of the piece somehow creates the perception that a single instrument is speaking. Perhaps this is what we must do in the name of peace – speak as one, with all of our separate and distinct voices.
Sato says, “I think for me music is hope or beauty, beauty is another word for music for me.” This view is certainly reflected in his Kyrie.
I discovered the original tune for Ride On! Ride On! In a 1924 edition of the Musical Times. The verse was written by Henry Hart Milman, and the tune composed by John Bernard Sale. The original tune is a simple and pleasing one (though it did take me a bit to figure this out, as I did not initially notice that the score was printed upside down in the Times). We will sing the hymn to the more common and regal tune The King’s Majesty.
HYMNS:
#88, All Glory, Laud, and Honor
Who Would Ever Have Believed It
OTHER ITEMS:
Prelude: Hosanna! T. Dubois
Offertory: Duo Pastorale, A. Guilmant
In the February edition of Seconds, Mary Gene wrote of Palm/Passion Sunday: “This Sunday will begin with loud ‘Hosannas’...” Indeed it will, with the prelude by Dubois!
With the exception of a few works (The Seven Last Words of Christ and his Toccata in G), Dubois’ many organ compositions are heard far less often than those of his contemporaries, Franck and Saint-Saens. I have several of his pieces in my small collection of music, and I rather enjoy them. I’m not certain why his work is not more popular.
A number of Dubois’ scores (including Hosanna!) have been published in Braille, and can be found in the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped Music Section collection. (Yes, it is indeed a wonder what one can learn with Google.) I was not aware that the Braille system was used to notate music for reading by the visually impaired. There is a very interesting Wikipedia piece on the Braille music system.
Until Sunday, Bonnie
SCRIPTURE: The Gospel Reading: Luke 19:28-40.
SERMON: Competing Parades.
ANTHEMS:
Kyrie, K. Sato
Ride On! Ride On!, G. George
Sato’s Kyrie is the first movement of his Missa pro Pace (Mass for Peace). The work is lush and warm, and offers a texture rich with suspensions and resolutions. Although all of the parts divide, the voicing of the piece somehow creates the perception that a single instrument is speaking. Perhaps this is what we must do in the name of peace – speak as one, with all of our separate and distinct voices.
Sato says, “I think for me music is hope or beauty, beauty is another word for music for me.” This view is certainly reflected in his Kyrie.
I discovered the original tune for Ride On! Ride On! In a 1924 edition of the Musical Times. The verse was written by Henry Hart Milman, and the tune composed by John Bernard Sale. The original tune is a simple and pleasing one (though it did take me a bit to figure this out, as I did not initially notice that the score was printed upside down in the Times). We will sing the hymn to the more common and regal tune The King’s Majesty.
HYMNS:
#88, All Glory, Laud, and Honor
Who Would Ever Have Believed It
OTHER ITEMS:
Prelude: Hosanna! T. Dubois
Offertory: Duo Pastorale, A. Guilmant
In the February edition of Seconds, Mary Gene wrote of Palm/Passion Sunday: “This Sunday will begin with loud ‘Hosannas’...” Indeed it will, with the prelude by Dubois!
With the exception of a few works (The Seven Last Words of Christ and his Toccata in G), Dubois’ many organ compositions are heard far less often than those of his contemporaries, Franck and Saint-Saens. I have several of his pieces in my small collection of music, and I rather enjoy them. I’m not certain why his work is not more popular.
A number of Dubois’ scores (including Hosanna!) have been published in Braille, and can be found in the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped Music Section collection. (Yes, it is indeed a wonder what one can learn with Google.) I was not aware that the Braille system was used to notate music for reading by the visually impaired. There is a very interesting Wikipedia piece on the Braille music system.
Until Sunday, Bonnie
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