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Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: United Church Publishing House / Wood Lake Publishing Inc. / Westminster John Knox Press Publication Place: Toronto / Kelowna, BC / Louisville

Author: Ruth Duck Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 8 hymnals First Line: Why stand so far away, my God Topics: Confession, Lament, and Healing; Christian Year Pentecost; Healing; Justice; Lament Scripture: Psalm 10 Used With Tune: WHY STAND SO FAR AWAY

Come and Seek the Ways of Wisdom

Author: Ruth Duck Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: Gathering, Centring, and Invocation; Baptism; Christian Year Epiphany; Covenanting; Creation; Discernment; Healing; Justice; Light; Service Music Gathering; Service Music Prayer For Illumination / Scripture Response; Spiritual Growth; Transformation; Trinity; Wisdom Scripture: Proverbs 8 Used With Tune: MADELEINE

Maranatha

Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Maranatha, maranatha, come, Lord Jesus, come (Maranatha, maranatha, viens Jésus Christ) Lyrics: ENGLISH: Maranatha, maranatha, come, Lord Jesus, come. Maranatha, maranatha, come, Lord Jesus, come. FRENCH: Maranatha, maranatha, viens, Jésus Christ. Maranatha, maranatha, viens, Jésus Christ. Topics: Christian Year Advent; Healing; Healing; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ Second Coming; Service Music Gathering; Service Music Confession; Service Music Response / Affirmation; Service Music Communion; Service Music Memorial Acclamation Scripture: Exodus 19:9 Used With Tune: [Maranatha, maranatha, come, Lord Jesus] Text Sources: Traditional liturgical text; French trans.: More Voices, 2001

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Tunes

Tune authorities

TWO OAKS

Meter: Irregular Appears in 26 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Marty Haugen Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 56123 23165 51234 Used With Text: Let Us Build a House (All Are Welcome)

KELLY

Meter: 10.11.7.7.11 Appears in 5 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Daniel Charles Damon Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 12321 76715 12321 Used With Text: I Have Called You by Your Name (Te sais...je t'ai appelé(e) par ton nom)

AVERY

Meter: Irregular Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Rick Gunn Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 33211 43323 32116 Used With Text: I Am the Dream

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Instances

Published text-tune combinations (hymns) from specific hymnals

Let Us Build a House (All Are Welcome)

Author: Marty Haugen ; David Fines Hymnal: SVU2007 #1 (2007) Meter: Irregular First Line: Let us build a house where love can dwell (Bâtissons un lieu d'amour, de foi) Refrain First Line: All are welcome all are welcome (Venez, entrez! Venez, entrez!) Topics: Anniversary (Congregation); Christian Year Advent; Church Dedication; Covenanting; Healing; Jesus Christ Cross; Justice; Peace; Service Music Communion; Teaching; Gathering, Centring and Invocation Scripture: Psalm 85:10 Languages: English; French Tune Title: TWO OAKS

Come All You People (Uyai mose)

Author: Alexander Gondo, 1936-; I-to Loh Hymnal: SVU2007 #2 (2007) First Line: Uyai mose, tinamate Mwari (Come all you people, come and praise your Maker) Topics: Gathering, Centring, and Invocation; Children Shorter Songs; Praise Scripture: Psalm 95:6 Languages: English; Shona Tune Title: [Uyai mose, tinamate Mwari]

River (Rivière)

Author: Julian Pattison; David Fines Hymnal: SVU2007 #3 (2007) First Line: River, rush-a-down to the ocean blue (Rivière, coule, coule vers l'océan) Topics: Gathering, Centring, and Invocation; Discernment; Healing; Holy Spirit; Water Scripture: Matthew 3:16 Languages: English; French Tune Title: [River, rush-a-down to the ocean blue]

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People

Authors, composers, editors, etc.

Marty Haugen

b. 1950 Hymnal Number: 73 Author of "O God, Why Are You Silent?" in More Voices Marty Haugen (b. 1950), is a prolific liturgical composer with many songs included in hymnals across the liturgical spectrum of North American hymnals and beyond, with many songs translated into different languages. He was raised in the American Lutheran Church, received a BA in psychology from Luther College, yet found his first position as a church musician in a Roman Catholic parish at a time when the Roman Catholic Church was undergoing profound liturgical and musical changes after Vatican II. Finding a vocation in that parish to provide accessible songs for worship, he continued to compose and to study, receiving an MA in pastoral studies at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul Minnesota. A number of liturgical settings were prepared for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and more than 400 of his compositions are available from several publishers, especially GIA Publications, who also produced some 30 recordings of his songs. He is composer-in-residence at Mayflower Community Congregational Church in Minneapolis and continues to compose and travel to speak and teach at worship events around the world. Emily Brink

Hans Leo Hassler

1564 - 1612 Hymnal Number: 73 Composer of "PASSION CHORALE" in More Voices Hans Leo Hassler Germany 1564-1612. Born at Nuremberg, Germany, he came from a family of famous musicians and received early education from his father. He then studied in Venice, Italy, with Andrea Gabrieli, uncle of Giovanni Gabrieli, his friend, with whom he composed a wedding motet. The uncle taught him to play the organ. He learned the polychoral style and took it back to Germany after Andrea Gabrieli's death. He served as organist and composer for Octavian Fugger, the princely art patron of Augsburg (1585-1601). He was a prolific composer but found his influence limited, as he was Protestant in a still heavily Catholic region. In 1602 he became director of town music and organist in the Frauenkirche in Nuremberg until 1608. He married Cordula Claus in 1604. He was finally court musician for the Elector of Saxony in Dresden, Germany, evenually becoming Kapellmeister (1608-1612). A Lutheran, he composed both for Roman Catholic liturgy and for Lutheran churches. He produced two volumns of motets, a famous collection of court songs, and a volume of simpler hymn settings. He published both secular and religious music, managing to compose much for the Catholic church that was also usable in Lutheran settings. He was also a consultant to organ builders. In 1596 he, with 53 other organists, had the opportunity to examine a new instrument with 59 stops at the Schlosskirche, Groningen. He was recognized for his expertise in organ design and often was called on to examine new instruments. He entered the world of mechanical instrument construction, developing a clockwork organ that was later sold to Emperor Rudolf II. He died of tuberculosis in Frankfurt, Germany. John Perry

John L. Bell

b. 1949 Hymnal Number: 67 Composer of "[Kyrie eleison]" in More Voices John Bell (b. 1949) was born in the Scottish town of Kilmarnock in Ayrshire, intending to be a music teacher when he felt the call to the ministry. But in frustration with his classes, he did volunteer work in a deprived neighborhood in London for a time and also served for two years as an associate pastor at the English Reformed Church in Amsterdam. After graduating he worked for five years as a youth pastor for the Church of Scotland, serving a large region that included about 500 churches. He then took a similar position with the Iona Community, and with his colleague Graham Maule, began to broaden the youth ministry to focus on renewal of the church’s worship. His approach soon turned to composing songs within the identifiable traditions of hymnody that began to address concerns missing from the current Scottish hymnal: "I discovered that seldom did our hymns represent the plight of poor people to God. There was nothing that dealt with unemployment, nothing that dealt with living in a multicultural society and feeling disenfranchised. There was nothing about child abuse…,that reflected concern for the developing world, nothing that helped see ourselves as brothers and sisters to those who are suffering from poverty or persecution." [from an interview in Reformed Worship (March 1993)] That concern not only led to writing many songs, but increasingly to introducing them internationally in many conferences, while also gathering songs from around the world. He was convener for the fourth edition of the Church of Scotland’s Church Hymnary (2005), a very different collection from the previous 1973 edition. His books, The Singing Thing and The Singing Thing Too, as well as the many collections of songs and worship resources produced by John Bell—some together with other members of the Iona Community’s “Wild Goose Resource Group,” —are available in North America from GIA Publications. Emily Brink

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