Compositions: Festival Hymn Settings
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All Glory, Laud, and Honor
"All glory, laud, and honor to you, Redeemer, King!"
Text: Theodulph of Orleans, tr. John Mason Neale
Tune: St. Theodulph, Melchior Teschner
Festive Processional on "All Glory, Laud, and Honor"
Congregation, SATB Choir (optional Children's Choir), Trumpet, and Organ
The introduction and interlude for trumpet and organ, as well as the choral setting of two stanzas of text not found in American hymnals, help make this hymn concertato a fresh and unique beginning of the services of Holy Week.
"This is a processional anthem of tremendous proportions, in high festive mode…Variety resides in every verse, and the whole is neatly packaged so that transitions work well and will not confuse the congregation." — Choral Journal
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At the Lamb's High Feast We Sing
Tune: Salzburg
Genre: Festival Hymns
Congregation, Brass Quintet, Timpani and Organ
Kessler Park Press
KPP 0826 (In process)
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Christ Is Alive!
Tune: Truro
Genre: Festival Hymns
Congregation, Soprano Descant, Brass Quintet, Timpani and Organ
Kessler Park Press
KPP 0714
Christ Is Arisen
Text: English translations of Victimae Paschali Laudes and Christ ist erstanden
Genre: Festival Hymn, Liturgical, Choral
Tunes: Victimae Paschali Laudes and Christ ist erstanden
SATB Choir, Congregation, Brass Quintet, Timpani and Organ (or Two Organs and Timpani)
Kessler Park Press
KPP 0906
Concertato on the Tune Hoff
Oh, Sing Jubilee to the Lord
Text: English and Norwegian, Ulrik V. Koren, trans. Lutheran Book of Worship 1978
Tune: Hoff, Erik C. Hoff
Genres: Festival Hymn, Choral
SATB Choir, Brass Quartet, Timpani, and Organ
Available from the composer
Concertato on the Tune Rushford
I Know that My Redeemer Lives
Text: Samuel Medley
This Day at Thy Creating Word
Text: William Walsham How
Tune: Rushford, Henry G. Ley
Genres: Festival Hymn, Choral
SATB Choir, Brass Quintet, Timpani, and Organ
Selah Publishing Co.
Full score and parts: 425-832
Choral score: 425-831
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Festive Processional on "All Glory, Laud, and Honor"
Text: Theodulph of Orleans, tr. John Mason Neale
Tune: St. Theodulph, Melchior Teschner
Genre: Festival Hymn
Congregation, SATB Choir, Trumpet, and Organ
Oxford University Press
ISBN 0-19-386066-X
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I Know that My Redeemer Lives
Text: Samuel Medley
This Day at Thy Creating Word
Text: William Walsham How
Tune: Rushford, Henry G. Ley
Concertato on the tune Rushford
Genres: Festival Hymn, Choral
SATB Choir, Brass Quintet, Timpani, and Organ
Selah Publishing Co.
Full score and parts: 425-832
Choral score: 425-831
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Kirkwood
We Celebrate the Legacy
Text: Cathy Yost (Text commissioned for this project)
Genres: Festival Hymn, Choral
Congregation, SATB Choir, Brass Quintet, Timpani, and Organ
Available from the composer
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Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending
Text: Charles Wesley
Tune: Helmsley, Thomas Augustus Arne
Genre: Festival Hymn
Congregation, SATB Choir, Brass Quintet, Timpani, and Organ
Oxford University Press
Choral score: ISBN 0-19-386414-2
Full score and parts: rental from the publisher
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Now Thank We All Our God
Text: Martin Rinkhart, trans. Catherine Winkworth
Tune: Nun danket alle Gott, Johann Crüger
Genre: Festival Hymn
Congregation, opt, SATB Choir, Brass Quintet, Timpani, and Organ
Available from the composer
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O Praise Ye the Lord!
Text: based on Psalms 148 and 150, Henry Williams Baker
Tune: Laudate Dominum, C. Hubert H. Parry
Genre: Festival Hymn
Congregation, SATB Choir, Brass Quintet, Timpani, and Organ
Oxford University Press
Choral score: ISBN 0-19-386416-9
Full score and parts: rental from the publisher
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Pervasive, Never-absent One
Text: Delores Dufner, OSB
Original Tune: Laurel
Genre: Festival Hymn
SATB Choir, opt. Oboe, opt. Congregation, and Organ
Paraclete Press
PPM00208
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This Day at Thy Creating Word
Text: William Walsham How
I Know that My Redeemer Lives
Text: Samuel Medley
Concertato on the tune Rushford
Tune: Rushford, Henry G. Ley
Genres: Festival Hymn, Choral
SATB Choir, Brass Quintet, Timpani, and Organ
Selah Publishing Co.
Full score and parts: 425-832
Choral score: 425-831
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Unbounded God
Text: Carl P. Daw, Jr.
Original Tune: Saint James' New
Genres: Festival Hymn, Choral
Congregation, SATB Choir, Brass Quintet, Timpani, and Organ
Available from the composer
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We Celebrate the Legacy
Text: Cathy Yost (Text commissioned for this project)
Original Tune: Kirkwood
Genres: Festival Hymn, Choral
Congregation, SATB Choir, Brass Quintet, Timpani, and Organ
Available from the composer
When Music Wakes My Sleeping Heart
A Hymn Concertato on an Original Tune Appleton
Text: Delores Dufner, OSB
Congregation, SATB Choir, Brass Quintet, Timpani, and Organ. (May also be performed with one Trumpet and Organ.)
This hymn and setting make a great alternative to Pratt Green's When In Our Music God Is Glorified (Engleberg). Though the tune looks tricky, it's actually very easy to sing!
"Martinson's new hymn, When Music Wakes My Sleeping Heart, commissioned for the convention, was a particular highlight—full of majestic sweep and innovative harmonies." — The American Organist
