TOULON

Composer: Louis Bourgeois

Louis Bourgeois (b. Paris, France, c. 1510; d. Paris, 1561). In both his early and later years Bourgeois wrote French songs to entertain the rich, but in the history of church music he is known especially for his contribution to the Genevan Psalter. Apparently moving to Geneva in 1541, the same year John Calvin returned to Geneva from Strasbourg, Bourgeois served as cantor and master of the choristers at both St. Pierre and St. Gervais, which is to say he was music director there under the pastoral leadership of Calvin. Bourgeois used the choristers to teach the new psalm tunes to the congregation. The extent of Bourgeois's involvement in the Genevan Psalter is a matter of scholar­ly debate. Calvin had published several partial psalter… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: TOULON
Composer: Louis Bourgeois (1551)
Meter: 10.10.10.10
Incipit: 12343 21171 34565
Key: F Major
Source: Genevan Psalter, 1551; adapt from GENEVAN 124
Copyright: Public Domain

Notes

TOULAN was originally an adaptation of the Genevan Psalter melody for Psalm 124 (124). In one melodic variant or another and with squared-off rhythms, the tune was used in English and Scottish psalters for various psalm texts. It was published in the United States in its four-line abridged form (called MONTAGUE) by Lowell Mason (PHH 96) and George Webb (PHH 559) in The National Psalmist (1848). That version, now called TOULON, is named quite arbitrarily after the French city. Sing the outer stanzas in unison and the middle stanzas in harmony. On the fifth stanza add the descant by Emily R. Brink (PHH 158). TOULON is a fine tune for accompaniment by brass quartet. It should be sung and played with power and dignity.

--Psalter Hymnal Handbook, 1988

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    Composer/Editor Hal H. Hopson
    Published By: Hope Publishing Company (2008) pp. 178
  • Creative Hymn Accompaniments for Organ: Volume 4 A Tribute to Dale Wood
    Composer/Editor Gerhard Krapf
    Published By: The Sacred Music Press (2005) pp. 31
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    Composer/Editor Harold J. Owen
    Published By: GIA Publications, Inc. (2002) pp. 19
  • The Creative Use of the Organ in Worship
    Composer/Editor Hal H. Hopson
    Published By: Hope Publishing Company (2000) pp. 165
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    Composer/Editor David Schelat
    Published By: MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc. (1998) pp. LL
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    Composer/Editor Edmund Shay
    Published By: MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc. (1993) pp. LL
  • Organ Improvisations for Hymn Singing Volume 2
    Composer/Editor Gerre Edward Hancock
    Published By: Hinshaw Music, Inc. (1991) pp. 16
  • Free Harmonizations of Hymn Tunes: Volume II
    Composer/Editor D. DeWitt Wasson
    Published By: Hinshaw Music, Inc. (1986) pp. 185
  • Preludes for Fifty-five Well-known Hymn Tunes: Modeled after the Free Organ Accompaniments of T. Tertius Noble
    Composer/Editor Howard D. McKinney
    Published By: J. Fischer & Brothers (1967) pp. 38
  • Free Organ Accompaniments to One Hundred Well-known Hymn Tunes
    Composer/Editor T. Tertius Noble
    Published By: J. Fischer & Brothers (1946) pp. 35

Organ Solo

  • The Organist's Library Volume 49
    Composer/Editor David Paxton
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (2011) pp. 16
  • The Organ Portfolio Volume 73 Number 6 July August `2010: The Service Music Anthology for the Church Organist
    Composer/Editors Gilbert M. Martin; David Paxton
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (2010) pp. 16
  • Hymn Treatments for Organ Volume 1: Op. 22
    Composer/Editor Dennis Janzer
    Published By: Wayne Leupold Editions, Inc. (2007) pp. 11
  • A Musical Gift Book 1: Organ Preludes on Fourteen Familiar Hymn Tunes
    Composer/Editor Austin Cole Lovelace
    Published By: Darcey Press (1994) pp. 26
  • Ten Preludes for Organ: Based on Well-Known Hymn Tunes
    Composer/Editor Camil van Hulse
    Published By: J. Fischer & Brothers (1954) pp. 5

Piano Solo

  • Sonatas of Praise: Piano Arrangements and Devotional Reflections
    Composer/Editor Don Wyrtzen
    Published By: Genevox Music Group (1994) pp. 48

Voices: Vocal Solo

  • The Christian Christmas Songbook: 46 Songs from Top Contemporary Christian Artists
    Composer/Editor Michael Card
    Published By: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation (2002) pp. 135

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