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[May the Lord watch over this house]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: LB; JG; AGM Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 55661 712 Used With Text: Psalm (126) 127

Psalm (126) 127

Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: May the Lord watch over this house Topics: Psalter Scripture: Psalm 127 Used With Tune: [May the Lord watch over this house]

Author: The Grail Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: If the LORD does not build the house Refrain First Line: May the Lord watch over this house Topics: Psalms Scripture: Psalm 127 Used With Tune: [May the Lord watch over this house] Text Sources: Verses: The Revised Grail Psalms

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Psalm 127

Author: The Grail Hymnal: Worship (4th ed.) #100 (2011) First Line: If the LORD does not build the house Refrain First Line: May the Lord watch over this house Topics: Psalms Scripture: Psalm 127 Languages: English Tune Title: [May the Lord watch over this house]

Psalm (126) 127

Hymnal: Worship (3rd ed.) #70 (1986) First Line: May the Lord watch over this house Topics: Psalter Scripture: Psalm 127 Languages: English Tune Title: [May the Lord watch over this house]

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Joseph Gelineau

1920 - 2008 Person Name: JG Composer (Gelineau Tone) of "[May the Lord watch over this house]" in Worship (3rd ed.) Joseph Gelineau (1920-2008) Gelineau's translation and musical settings of the psalms have achieved nearly universal usage in the Christian church of the Western world. These psalms faithfully recapture the Hebrew poetic structure and images. To accommodate this structure his psalm tones were designed to express the asymmetrical three-line/four-line design of the psalm texts. He collaborated with R. Tournay and R. Schwab and reworked the Jerusalem Bible Psalter. Their joint effort produced the Psautier de la Bible de Jerusalem and recording Psaumes, which won the Gran Prix de L' Academie Charles Cros in 1953. The musical settings followed four years later. Shortly after, the Gregorian Institute of America published Twenty-four Psalms and Canticles, which was the premier issue of his psalms in the United States. Certainly, his text and his settings have provided a feasible and beautiful solution to the singing of the psalms that the 1963 reforms envisioned. Parishes, their cantors, and choirs were well-equipped to sing the psalms when they embarked on the Gelineau psalmody. Gelineau was active in liturgical development from the very time of his ordination in 1951. He taught at the Institut Catholique de Paris and was active in several movements leading toward Vatican II. His influence in the United States as well in Europe (he was one of the founding organizers of Universa Laus, the international church music association) is as far reaching as it is broad. Proof of that is the number of times "My shepherd is the Lord" has been reprinted and reprinted in numerous funeral worship leaflets, collections, and hymnals. His prolific career includes hundreds of compositions ranging from litanies to responsories. His setting of Psalm 106/107, "The Love of the Lord," for assembly, organ, and orchestra premiéred at the 1989 National Association of Pastoral Musicians convention in Long Beach, California. --www.giamusic.com