![]() ![]() The organ descants publicly available here are free for liturgical and noncommercial use under Creative Commons License BY-NC-ND 4.0, except where other licensing arrangements are required due to copyrights belonging to others, but generously made available on this site. (Consider buying us a cup of coffee, too.)Īl-le-lu-ia! Al-le-lu-ia! Copyright and permitted usesĭescants, harmonizations, and instrumental arrangements © David Maurand, except where noted. Need an alternate text? Use the Contact Us feature, and paste your verse in 'syllabized' form, as in the example in italics below. The studio reference monitors are flat-response Sony MDR-7506 headphones the specifications of your listening equipment may sound different. Michael Hawn notes that the hymn's arc is that "God will lead us from the war and pestilence of our earlier captivity to the freedom and light of peace." The most common alteration (for inclusive language) is to translate 'our fathers' into 'the ages,' but this is unsatisfying - 'creation' would be more in keeping with the cosmological impulse of the first stanza.Īudio clips are produced from a Finale notation file with linked VST audio samples, and output as AIF or WAV files for mulitrack audio engineering in Cubase. In the second stanza, a form of American exceptionalism is explicit, 'Thy word our law', voicing an expectation that an America now spanning the continent was emerging to a future place as a leader of nations, hinting at a manifest purpose to facilitate God's millennial peace, a project more difficult than imagined. ![]() The Creator who is before and above all creation, of time itself, is the first consideration. Even at this date in modernity, these 'shining worlds' were thought to be the entire observable universe, wonders observed from the beginning by our biblical fathers. Thomas Church in New York wrote the setting NATIONAL HYMN for this text, and it was used at the Constitutional observance, and published in the Hymnal 1892 this has been an inseparable pair ever since.īut who are these 'fathers?' Despite the patriotic character of the music and the poet's teleological shading ('Thy word our law'), the hymn preempts secular considerations by first venerating the God of creation - the 'starry band' is a cosmological reference to the Milky Way. With the observance of another centennial pending - that of the US Constitution - it would simply not do that this text be sung to another country's national anthem. To his surprise and delight, it was selected. Some years later, with the Episcopal Church preparing a new hymnal, Roberts submitted the work, anonymously, to the commission overseeing the project. Thomas Episcopal Church in Brandon, Vermont, wrote this hymn (ie, the text) for his town's US Centennial celebration - sung to the tune (irony alert) RUSSIAN HYMN, which at the time was in use as the national anthem of czarist Russia. The author of the text "God of our fathers," Daniel Crane Roberts, rector of St. ![]()
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