Music for the 11th Sunday after Pentecost: August 8, 2021

 

OPENING VOLUNTARY

Prelude and Chorale on “O Bread of Life from Heaven” (O Welt, ich muss dich lassen)
prelude, Johann Gottfried Walther, 1684-1748; chorale, Heinrich Isaac, 1450-1517, arr. J. S. Bach, 1685-1750

 

GATHERING HYMN What Is this Place (Komt nu met zang)

ELW 524

Text: Huub Oosterhuis, b. 1933; tr. David Smith, b. 1993                                                

Music: A. Valerius, Nederlandtsch Gedenckclanck, 1626

 

This traditional Dutch hymn may not be known to everyone at St. Mark’s, but everyone will find it easy to sing. It’s written in the popular Lutheran bar form. There is a short “A”section that is sung twice and leads into the final six bars. The tune feels like a folk song and is easy to sing.

If you’d like to get the tune in your head a little before Sunday, here is a wonderful recording of a solo singer accompanying himself on guitar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4F8qnmBew4

 

An illuminated manuscript from the early 1400s

PSALM Psalm 130

“Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord.”

The assembly sings a refrain that quotes the tune Yigdal (The God of Abraham Praise). A cantor sings the stanzas using an Anglican chant called “Cambridge Chant.”

 

HYMN OF THE DAY Soul, Adorn Yourself with Gladness (SchmÜcke dich) ELW 488

Text: Johann Franck, 1618-1677, tr. Lutheran Book of Worship                                            

Music: Johann Crüger, 1598-1662
The hymn is introduced with a chorale prelude on the same tune by Johann Gottfried Walther, 1684-1748.

 

MUSICAL OFFERING O Bread of Life from Heaven

David Ashley White

COMMUNION HYMN Bread of Life from Heaven

(Argentine Santo / Break Now the Bread) ELW 474

Text: Susan R. Briehl, b. 1952                                     

Music: Argentine traditional, refrain; Marty Haugen, b. 1950, stanzas

 

The refrain came comes out of the charismatic Christian tradition in Argentina. This refrain is so easily learned, that worshipers might even sing it as they approach the ministers to receive communion.

Susan Briehl and Marty Haugen collaborated on the stanzas that appear in this version.

SENDING HYMN My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less (The Solid Rock) ELW 596

Text: Edward Mote, 1797-1874                                                                                              

Music: William B. Bradbury, 1816-1868

Back in the late 70s I sang with a touring choir of high school students called the New Way Singers. This was through the Nebraska Christian College. We sang a downright danceable version of this hymn in a style not often seen in church music – DISCO!

CCM (Contemporary Christian Music) was just coming to be known as a genre. We were all huge fans of Amy Grant. (I'm still a fan!)

The New Way Singers summer of 1979. I'm on the left near the back, third row (sort of), with my hands on my right knee.

 

CLOSING VOLUNTARY Fanfare on “Let the Whole Creation Cry” (Salzburg)

setting, Stephanie Honz

sources: Wikipedia
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