{"id":6680,"date":"2018-02-19T11:51:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T17:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/?p=6680"},"modified":"2018-02-20T07:27:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T13:27:20","slug":"mount-calvary-music-february-25-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/mount-calvary-music-february-25-2018-6680.htm","title":{"rendered":"Mount Calvary Music: February 25, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mount Calvary Church<\/span><\/p>\n

Eutaw Street and Madison Avenue<\/p>\n

Baltimore, Maryland<\/p>\n

A Parish of the Roman Catholic Personal Ordinariate of St. Peter<\/p>\n

Anglican Use<\/em><\/p>\n

Rev. Albert Scharbach, Pastor<\/p>\n

Lent II<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

February 25, 2018<\/p>\n

8:00 AM Said Mass<\/p>\n

10:00 AM Sung Mass<\/p>\n

____________________________<\/p>\n

Hymns<\/strong><\/p>\n

O vision blest of heavenly light<\/em><\/p>\n

Be Thou my vision<\/em><\/p>\n

Tis good, Lord, to be here<\/em><\/p>\n

Anthems<\/strong><\/p>\n

Christus Jesus Splendor<\/em>, Luca Marenzio (1556-1599)<\/p>\n

Ne irascaris, Domine<\/em>,\u00a0<\/span>William Byrd<\/p>\n

_______________________________<\/p>\n

Hymns<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

O vision blest of heavenly light<\/em><\/p>\n

This hymn is a translation by G. B. Timms of a 15th-century Latin hymn, Caelestis formam gloria<\/em>.<\/p>\n

O vision blest of heavenly light,
\nWhich meets the three disciples’ sight,
\nWhen on the holy mount they see
\nTheir Lord’s transfigured majesty.<\/p>\n

More bright than day his raiment shone;
\nThe Father’s voice proclaimed the Son
\nBelov’d before the worlds were made,
\nFor us in mortal flesh arrayed.<\/p>\n

And with him there on either hand
\nLo, Moses and Elijah stand,
\nTo show how Christ, to those who see,
\nFulfils both law and prophecy.<\/p>\n

O Light from light, by love inclined,
\nJesu, redeemer of mankind,
\nAccept thy people’s prayer and praise
\nWhich on the mount to thee they raise.<\/p>\n

Be with us, Lord, as we descend
\nTo walk with thee to journey’s end,
\nThat through thy cross we too may rise,
\nAnd share thy triumph in the skies.<\/p>\n

To thee, O Father; Christ, to thee,
\nLet praise and endless glory be,
\nWith whom the Spirit we adore,
\nOne Lord, one God, for evermore.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This hymn is used for Vespers I on the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord in the Sarum Breviary:<\/p>\n

C\u00e6lestis formam glori\u00e6,
\nQuam spes qu\u00e6rit Ecclesi\u00e6,
\nIn monte Christus indicat,
\nQuo supra solem emicat.<\/p>\n

Res memoranda s\u00e6culis;
\nHic cum tribus discipulis
\nCum Moyse et Helia
\nGrata promit eloquia.<\/p>\n

Assistunt testes grati\u00e6
\nLegis atque propheti\u00e6,
\nDe nube testimonium
\nSonat Patris ad Filium.<\/p>\n

Glorificata facie
\nChristus declarat hodie,
\nQuis sit honor credentium
\nDeo pie fruentium.<\/p>\n

Visionis mysterium
\nCorda levat fidelium,
\nUnde solemni gaudio
\nClamat nostra devotio.<\/p>\n

Pater cum Unigenito
\nEt Spiritu Paraclito
\nUnus nobis hanc gloriam
\nLargire per pr\u00e6sentiam. Amen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

George Boorne Timms ( 1910-1997) was into a Baptist family and was educated at Derby School and St Edmund Hall, Oxford (BA 1933, MA 1945). He joined the Community of the Resurrection, Mirfield, in 1933, and took Holy Orders (deacon 1935, priest 1936). He was curate of St Mary Magdalene, Coventry (1935-38) and of St Bartholomew, Earley, Reading (1938-49); sacrist, and later succentor, of Southwark Cathedral (1949-52); vicar of St Mary the Virgin, Primrose Hill (1952-65) and Rural Dean of Hampstead (1959-65); incumbent of St Andrew, Holborn (1965-81) and Archdeacon of Hackney (1971-81), during part of which time he was also Prebendary of St Paul\u2019s Cathedral (1964-71). In 1981 he retired to Ramsgate; he died in hospital at Margate.<\/p>\n

Timms was a well-known liturgist. He also chaired the committees for English Praise<\/em> (1975) and for the\u00a0New English Hymnal<\/em> (1986).<\/p>\n

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Be Thou my vision<\/em><\/p>\n

Be thou my vision.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>The Irish monk Eohaid Forgaill (530-598) was a Latin scholar and \u201cKing of the Poets.\u201d He was said to have spent so much time studying that he went blind, and was give the name Dall\u00e1n, \u201cLittle Blind One.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 He wrote the poem, \u201cRop t\u00fa mo Baile\u201d (Be Thou my Vision<\/em><\/strong>) asking God to be his vision. But \u201cvision\u201d here means more than physical sight. The original Irish word \u201cbaile\u201d mean \u201cvision\u201d or \u201crapture,\u201d in the sense used by the Old Testament prophets. The language of this hymn is drawn from traditional Irish culture: it uses heroic imagery to describe God. This was characteristic of medieval Irish poetry, which cast God as the \u2018chieftain\u2019 or \u2018High King\u2019 (Ard Ri) who provided protection to his people or clan.<\/p>\n

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Eohaid Forgaill <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The Irish monk Eohaid Forgaill (530-598) was a Latin scholar and \u201cKing of the Poets.\u201d He was said to have spent so much time studying that he went blind, and was give the name Dall\u00e1n, \u201cLittle Blind One.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 He wrote the poem, \u201cRop t\u00fa mo Baile\u201d (\u201cBe Thou my Vision\u201d) asking God to be his vision But \u201cvision\u201d here means more than physical sight. The original Irish word \u201cbaile\u201d mean \u201cvision\u201d or \u201crapture,\u201d\u00a0in the sense used by the Old Testament prophets.<\/p>\n

This was translated into literal prose by Irish scholar Mary Byrne (1880-1931), a Dublin native, and then published in\u00a0Eri\u00fa<\/em>, the journal of the School of Irish Learning, in 1905.<\/p>\n

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Eleanor Hull<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Eleanor Hull (1860-1935), born in Manchester, was the founder of the Irish Text Society and president of the Irish Literary Society of London. Hull versified the text and it was published in her\u00a0Poem Book of the Gael\u00a0<\/em>(1912).<\/p>\n

Irish liturgy and ritual scholar Helen Phelan, a lecturer at the University of Limerick, points out how the language of this hymn is drawn from traditional Irish culture: \u201cOne of the essential characteristics of the text is the use of \u2018heroic\u2019 imagery to describe God. This was very typical of medieval Irish poetry, which cast God as the \u2018chieftain\u2019 or \u2018High King\u2019 (Ard Ri<\/em>) who provided protection to his people or clan. The lorica (Latin: breastplate) is one of the most popular forms of this kind of protection prayer and is very prevalent in texts of this period.\u201d St. Patrick\u2019s Breastplate (1940\u00a0The Hymnal<\/em>, #268) is in this genre.<\/p>\n

Hull\u2019s verse version was paired with the Irish tune SLANE in\u00a0The Irish Church Hymnal<\/em>\u00a0in 1919. The folk melody was taken from a non-liturgical source, Patrick Weston Joyce\u2019s\u00a0Old Irish Folk Music and Songs: A Collection of 842 Airs and Songs hitherto unpublished<\/em>\u00a0(1909).<\/p>\n

\u201cMost \u2018traditional\u2019 Irish religious songs are non-liturgical,\u201d says Dr. Phelan. \u201cThere is a longstanding practice of \u2018editorial weddings\u2019 in Irish liturgical music, where traditional tunes were wedded to more liturgically appropriate texts. This is a very good example of this practice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Back in 433 AD, on the eve of Bealtine, a Druidic Holiday that lines up directly with Easter as well as the spring equinox, it was declared by the King, Leoghaire (Leary) Mac Neill, that no fires were to be lit until the fire atop of Tara Hill was lit. Going against the kings wishes, St. Patrick went out to Slane Hill and lit a candle to celebrate the resurrection of Christ. The king was so impressed by the courage that St. Patrick had shown, Leoghaire let him continue his missionary work throughout Ireland. The tune was given the name SLANE to commemorate this event.<\/p>\n

English translation by Mary Byrne, 1905:<\/p>\n

Be thou my vision O Lord of my heart
\nNone other is aught but the King of the seven heavens.<\/p>\n

Be thou my meditation by day and night.
\nMay it be thou that I behold even in my sleep.<\/p>\n

Be thou my speech, be thou my understanding.
\nBe thou with me, be I with thee<\/p>\n

Be thou my father, be I thy son.
\nMayst thou be mine, may I be thine.<\/p>\n

Be thou my battle-shield, be thou my sword.
\nBe thou my dignity, be thou my delight.<\/p>\n

Be thou my shelter, be thou my stronghold.
\nMayst thou raise me up to the company of the angels.<\/p>\n

Be thou every good to my body and soul.
\nBe thou my kingdom in heaven and on earth.<\/p>\n

Be thou solely chief love of my heart.
\nLet there be none other, O high King of Heaven.<\/p>\n

Till I am able to pass into thy hands,
\nMy treasure, my beloved through the greatness of thy love<\/p>\n

Be thou alone my noble and wondrous estate.
\nI seek not men nor lifeless wealth.<\/p>\n

Be thou the constant guardian of every possession and every life.
\nFor our corrupt desires are dead at the mere sight of thee.<\/p>\n

Thy love in my soul and in my heart \u2014
\nGrant this to me, O King of the seven heavens.<\/p>\n

O King of the seven heavens grant me this \u2014
\nThy love to be in my heart and in my soul.<\/p>\n

With the King of all, with him after victory won by piety,
\nMay I be in the kingdom of heaven O brightness of the son.<\/p>\n

Beloved Father, hear, hear my lamentations.
\nTimely is the cry of woe of this miserable wretch.<\/p>\n

O heart of my heart, whatever befall me,
\nO ruler of all, be thou my vision.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here is the hymnal version. Verse three is usually omitted.<\/p>\n

Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart;
\nNaught be all else to me, save that Thou art;
\nThou my best Thought, by day or by night,
\nWaking or sleeping, Thy presence my light.<\/p>\n

Be Thou my Wisdom, and Thou my true Word;
\nI ever with Thee and Thou with me, Lord;
\nThou my great Father, I Thy true son;
\nThou in me dwelling, and I with Thee one.<\/p>\n

Be Thou my battle Shield, Sword for the fight;
\nBe Thou my Dignity, Thou my Delight;
\nThou my soul\u2019s Shelter, Thou my high Tow\u2019r:
\nRaise Thou me heav\u2019nward, O Pow\u2019r of my pow\u2019r.<\/p>\n

Riches I heed not, nor man\u2019s empty praise,
\nThou mine Inheritance, now and always:
\nThou and Thou only, first in my heart,
\nHigh King of Heaven, my Treasure Thou art.<\/p>\n

High King of Heaven, my victory won,
\nMay I reach Heaven\u2019s joys, O bright Heav\u2019n\u2019s Sun!
\nHeart of my own heart, whate\u2019er befall,
\nStill be my Vision, O Ruler of all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Although there are hundreds of versions of Be Thou my vision on the Internet, all the vocals ones are not very satisfactory.<\/p>\n

Here is the\u00a0Mormon Tabernacle Choir<\/a>. Here is\u00a0King\u2019s College, Cambridge.<\/a>Here it is arranged as an\u00a0art song<\/a>. Here sung in Modern Irish. Here is a charming version for\u00a0violin and harp<\/a>. A good arrangement for\u00a0cello and piano<\/a>. Of course for\u00a0Celtic instruments<\/a>. For\u00a0string quartet<\/a>. For\u00a0brass quintet<\/a>! For\u00a0marching band<\/a>!!<\/p>\n

_________________________<\/p>\n

Tis good, Lord, to be here<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u2018Tis good Lord to be here<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0was written by Joseph Armitage Robinson (1858-1933), D.D., Dean of Westminster. Jesus, with Peter, James and John, had to come down from the mountain.\u00a0 The next story in Matthew 17 is of Jesus meeting the crowd and healing an epileptic boy; He predicts His death.\u00a0 In the Liturgy, we catch of glimpse of the Uncreated Light that shone through the humanity of Jesus. It is given to strengthen us in the realities and difficulties of everyday life, where God is to be found.<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2019Tis good, Lord, to be here\u2019, but, Lord, when we go, \u2018Come with us to the plain\u2019, be with us in the day to day realities of our life, in our relationships with others, in our family or health problems, in all the joys and sadnesses of everyday life.<\/p>\n

\u2018Tis good, Lord, to be here,
\nthy glory fills the night;
\nthy face and garments, like the sun,
\nshine with unborrowed light.<\/p>\n

\u2018Tis good, Lord, to be here,
\nthy beauty to behold,
\nwhere Moses and Elijah stand,
\nthy messengers of old.<\/p>\n

Fulfiller of the past,
\npromise of things to be,
\nwe hail thy body glorified,
\nand our redemption see.<\/p>\n

Before we taste of death,
\nwe see thy kingdom come;
\nwe fain would hold the vision bright,
\nand make this hill our home.<\/p>\n

\u2018Tis good, Lord, to be here,
\nyet we may not remain;
\nbut since thou bidst us leave the mount,
\ncome with us to the plain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here is a congregation<\/a>. Here is a most unusual version song perhaps by robots<\/a>. (For Silicon Valley?)<\/p>\n

\"Joseph<\/a><\/p>\n

Joseph Armitage Robinson<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Joseph Armitage Robinson (1858-1933), \u00a0D.D., Dean of Westminster and of Wells, of Christ College, Camb. (B.A. 1881, M.A. 1884, D.D. 1896), sometime Fellow of his College, Norrisian Professor of Div., Camb., Rector of St. Margaret\u2019s., Westminster, and Canon of Westminster. As Dean of Wells Robinson enjoyed close links with Downside Abbey.\u00a0He also critically explored the origins of the Glastonbury legends. Robinson was a participant in the bilateral Anglican-Roman Catholic Maline Conversations.\u00a0 His hymn, \u201c\u2018Tis good, Lord, to be here\u201d was written c. 1890. It was included in the 1904 edition of\u00a0Hymns Ancient & Modern<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The tune SWABIA was composed by Johann M. Spiess (? \u2013 1772).\u00a0Spiess taught music at the Gymnasium in Heidelberg, Germany, and played the organ at St. Peter\u2019s Church and (1746-72) at Berne Cathedral.<\/p>\n

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Anthems<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Luca Marenzio<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Christus Jesus Splendor<\/em>, Luca Marenzio (1556-1599)<\/p>\n

Christus Jesus splendor Patris, et figura substantiae ejus, portans omnia verbo virtutis suae purgationem peccatorum faciens, in monte excelso gloriosus apparere dignatus est. <\/em><\/p>\n

Jesus Christ, radiance of the Father, and the exact representation of his person, upholding all things by the Word of his power, as he was purging our sins, was pleased to manifest his glory upon a high mountain.<\/em><\/p>\n

Here is the Gregorian version<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Luca Marenzio, (1553\u20141599) was a composer whose madrigals are considered to be among the finest examples of Italian madrigals of the late 16th century.<\/p>\n

Marenzio published a large number of madrigals and villanelles and five books of motets. He developed an individual technique and was skilled in evoking moods and images suggested by the poetic texts of the madrigals. He exploited passages in a homophonic, or chordal, style in place of the polyphonic style characteristic of earlier madrigals. He was a daring harmonist: his chromaticism occasionally led to advanced enharmonic modulations, and he sometimes left dissonances unresolved for dramatic effect. He exerted a strong influence on Claudio Monteverdi, Don Carlo Gesualdo, and Hans Leo Hassler and was much-admired in England, where his works were printed in N. Yonge\u2019s Musica transalpina (1588), a collection that stimulated the composition of English madrigals.<\/p>\n

Marenzio was probably trained as a choirboy in Brescia, and he was in service with Cardinal Luigi d\u2019Este in Rome from 1578 to 1586. In 1588 he went to Florence, where he worked with the circle of musicians and poets associated with Count Giovanni Bardi. Later he was in the service of Cardinal Cinzio Aldobrandini in Rome. In 1594 he visited Sigismund III of Poland, returned to Rome in 1595, and went again to Poland in 1596. In 1598 he was in Venice and later was appointed musician at the papal court.<\/p>\n

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Ne irascaris, Domine<\/em>,\u00a0<\/span>William Byrd<\/p>\n

Ne irascaris Domine satis, et ne ultra memineris iniquitatis nostrae. Ecce respice populus tuus omnes nos. <\/em><\/p>\n

Be not angry, O Lord, and remember our iniquity no more. Behold, we are all your people.<\/em><\/p>\n

Here is Ely Cathedral<\/a>. Here is Stile antiquo.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Ne irascaris Domine<\/em> is a five-part Latin motet by the Catholic English composer, William Byrd (1543-1623). It is one of three works known as the ‘Jerusalem’ motets (along with Tribulations civitatum<\/em> and Vide Domine afflictionem nostram<\/em>). Byrd wrote these motets in the 1580s as an act of protest against the Elizabethan Catholic persecutions. As his text, Byrd cunningly chooses here an irreproachable passage of scripture from Isaiah, telling of the Babylonian captivity.<\/p>\n

Ne irascaris’<\/em> general atmosphere of quiet contemplation coupled with solid polyphonic writing make this a deservedly well known work. Departing from his usual tradition, Byrd sets the appeal to God of Ne irascaris Domine<\/em> polyphonically, continuing this writing throughout the work. Byrd uses minimal resources (in particular, the melody, which does not move out of the range of a fourth until the end of the work) to create a classic.<\/p>\n

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Mount Calvary Church Eutaw Street and Madison Avenue Baltimore, Maryland A Parish of the Roman Catholic Personal Ordinariate of St. Peter Anglican Use Rev. Albert Scharbach, Pastor Lent II February 25, 2018 8:00 AM Said Mass 10:00 AM Sung Mass ____________________________ Hymns O vision blest of heavenly light Be Thou my vision Tis good, Lord, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1229,1318,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hymns","category-mount-calvary-church","category-music","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6680"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6692,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6680\/revisions\/6692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}