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[quote name='missionseeker' post='1935343' date='Jul 30 2009, 06:42 AM']Lord of the Dance

Servant SOng[/quote]


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[quote name='missionseeker' post='1935343' date='Jul 29 2009, 11:42 PM']Lord of the Dance

Servant SOng[/quote]

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Wow, I got behind in this thread...
[quote name='missionseeker' post='1935343' date='Jul 30 2009, 12:42 AM']Lord of the Dance

Servant SOng[/quote]
Lawl... Those hippies stole the Shaker melody "Simple Gifts" for the first one.

[quote name='Resurrexi' post='1935463' date='Jul 30 2009, 06:36 AM']What is it, then?

I know that it isn't from the Ordinary or the Propers (though I guess the first half of is the offertory of feast of the Immaculate Conception).[/quote]
Just splitting hairs. It's a motet.

[quote name='Resurrexi' post='1935487' date='Jul 30 2009, 08:22 AM']The "Pater Noster" is a text of the Mass, however, unlike the "Ave Maria". Generally anything sung during the Mass that is not a text from the ordinary or proper for that Mass is called a "hymn", even though that may not me the most correct thing to call it.

If we wanted to be really picky about using the term "hymn" only for hymns strictly-so-called, we could not call "Salve Regina" a hymn either, since it is technically an antiphon.[/quote]
Yeah, I was being picky. Just seeing your reaction :P

[quote name='iheartjp2' post='1935644' date='Jul 30 2009, 01:49 PM']Two chants and a motet. [b]Not hymns[/b]. <_<

I'd have to say mine are "Be Still My Soul", "I Need Thee Every Hour", "Great Is Thy Faithfulness", "How Great Thou Art", "There is a Fountain", "At the Name of Jesus", "What Wondrous Love Is This", "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross", "Holy God We Praise Thy Name", "Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior", and of course "Amazing Grace". Yeah, I know most of my faves are generally regarded as protestant tunes, but for being protestants, they sure knew how to strike a chord emotionally, spiritually, and musically. :cool:[/quote]
The chants are hymns.

[quote name='Resurrexi' post='1935678' date='Jul 30 2009, 02:45 PM']Chants can be hymns. For example, every single hymn in the [i]Breviarium Romanum[/i] has a chant setting.

The "Te Deum", by the way is most certainly a hymn. In fact, its official name in the Breviary is "[i]Hymnus SS. Ambrosii et Augustini[/i]": The Hymn of Saints Ambrose and Augustine.[/quote]
Exactly. The hymn I picked is a chant for Sunday vespers.

[quote name='Noel's angel' post='1935754' date='Jul 30 2009, 03:53 PM']:lol_roll:[/quote]
Exactly. Cat told me to put the first one. I laughed.

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I'd just like to point out that I acknowledged my incorrect assessment. Is that just going to continue to be skipped over?

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[quote name='Sacred Music Man' post='1935880' date='Jul 30 2009, 05:27 PM']Just splitting hairs. It's a motet.[/quote]

What would one call a polyphonic setting of "Vexilla Regis prodeunt"?

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Daily, Daily, Sing to Mary :This lovely Marian hymn owes it's text to a 12th century poem of St Bernard. Mary is our eternal mother, drawing us closer to God through Jesus

Daily Daily Sing to Mary
Rev. F W Faber
Daily Daily Sing to Mary
Sing my soul her praises due
All her feasts her actions worship
With the heart's devotion true
Lost in wond'ring contemplation
Be her Majesty confess'd
Call her Mother, call her Virgin
Happy Mother Virgin Blest

She is mighty to deliver
Call her trust her lovingly
When the tempest rages round thee
She will calm the troubled sea
Gifts of heaven she has given
Noble Lady to our race
She the Queen who decks her subject
With the light of God's own grace.

We used to sing this every day at school:

Sub Tuum Praesidium
Hymn to The Blessed Mary
Sub tuum praesidium
Configimus confugimus
Sancta Dei Genitrix
Sancta Dei Genitrix
Nostras deprecationes
Ne despicias Ne despicias
In necessitatibus nostris
Sed a periculis cunctis
Libera nos semper
Virgo gloriosa et benedicta

Ye Who Own The Faith Of Jesus: written by an Anglican Vincent Stucky Stratton Coles

Ye who own the faith of Jesus,
sing the wonders that were done
when the love of God the Father
over sin the victory won,
when he made the Virgin Mary
mother of his only Son.
Hail Mary, hail Mary, hail Mary, full of grace.

Blessed were the chosen people
out of whom the Lord did come;
blessed was the land of promise
fashioned for his earthly home;
but more blessed far the mother,
she who bare him in her womb.
Hail Mary, hail Mary, hail Mary, full of grace.

Wherefore let all faithful people
tell the honor of her name;
let the Church, in her foreshadowed,
part in her thanksgiving claim;
what Christ's mother sang in gladness
let Christ's people sing the same.
Hail Mary, hail Mary, hail Mary, full of grace.

Let us weave our supplications,
she with us and we with her,
for the advancement of the faithful,
for each faithful worshiper,
for the doubting, for the sinful,
for each heedless wanderer.
Hail Mary, hail Mary, hail Mary, full of grace.

May the Mother's intercessions
on our homes a blessing win,
that the children all be prospered,
strong and fair and pure within,
following our Lord's own footsteps,
firm in faith and free from sin.
Hail Mary, hail Mary, hail Mary, full of grace.

For the sick and the aged,
for our dear ones far away,
for the hearts that mourn in secret,
all who need our prayers today,
for the faithful gone before us,
may the holy Virgin pray.
Hail Mary, hail Mary, hail Mary, full of grace.

Praise, O Mary, praise the Father,
praise thy Savior and thy Son,
praise the everlasting Spirit,
who hath made thee ark and throne
o'er all creatures high exalted,
lowly praise the Three in One.
Hail Mary, hail Mary, hail Mary, full of grace.

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[quote name='iheartjp2' post='1935883' date='Jul 30 2009, 06:33 PM']I'd just like to point out that I acknowledged my incorrect assessment. Is that just going to continue to be skipped over?[/quote]
No. I'm sorry. You're excused :hehe:

[quote name='Resurrexi' post='1935886' date='Jul 30 2009, 06:42 PM']What would one call a polyphonic setting of "Vexilla Regis prodeunt"?

:detective:[/quote]
iunno. Motet? I'll looky up.

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[quote name='Resurrexi' post='1935886' date='Jul 30 2009, 06:42 PM']What would one call a polyphonic setting of "Vexilla Regis prodeunt"?

:detective:[/quote]

The setting of sacred or religious text to any unaccompanied polyphonic musical composition would be considered a motet.

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Byzantine Chant.....


Troparion of Pentecost:

Most blessed art thou o' Christ our God
who has revealed the fishermen as most wise
by sending down upon them the Holy Spirit
and through them has cast the world into thy net
O' lover of all mankind glory to thee

Paschal (Easter)

Christ has risen from the dead
trampling down death by death
and upon those in the tombs bestowing life

Baptismal Hymn

For as many as have been baptised into Christ
Have put on Christ Alleluia

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[quote name='iheartjp2' post='1935903' date='Jul 30 2009, 06:10 PM']The setting of sacred or religious text to any unaccompanied polyphonic musical composition would be considered a motet.[/quote]

"Vexilla" is a [i]hymn[/i] from the [i]Breviarium Romanum[/i], though. It's the hymn for vespers in Passiontide.

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[quote name='Resurrexi' post='1935921' date='Jul 30 2009, 08:32 PM']Even if vespers were to be sung in polyphony, "Vexilla Regis" would still be the hymn.[/quote]

Once the text of "Vexilla Regis" is set to an unaccompanied, polyphonic composition, it's a motet. The fact that the text of a motet is taken from a hymn doesn't make the motet a hymn. If that were the case, any motet arrangement of "Salve Regina" or "Ave Maria" would be a hymn.

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In other words, a motet is strictly a compositional form. It only requires that the text be sacred, no matter the origin thereof.

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[quote name='iheartjp2' post='1936322' date='Jul 31 2009, 12:53 AM']Once the text of "Vexilla Regis" is set to an unaccompanied, polyphonic composition, it's a motet. The fact that the text of a motet is taken from a hymn doesn't make the motet a hymn. If that were the case, any motet arrangement of "Salve Regina" or "Ave Maria" would be a hymn.[/quote]

"Salve Regina" is not a hymn. It is an antiphon. :P

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