AU FORT DE MA DETRESSE

AU FORT DE MA DETRESSE

Composer: Louis Bourgeois; Harmonizer: Claude Goudimel (1564)
Published in 34 hymnals


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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 >

Harmonizer: Claude Goudimel

The music of Claude Goudimel (b. Besançon, France, c. 1505; d. Lyons, France, 1572) was first published in Paris, and by 1551 he was composing harmonizations for some Genevan psalm tunes-initially for use by both Roman Catholics and Protestants. He became a Calvinist in 1557 while living in the Huguenot community in Metz. When the complete Genevan Psalter with its unison melodies was published in 1562, Goudimel began to compose various polyphonic settings of all the Genevan tunes. He actually composed three complete harmonizations of the Genevan Psalter, usually with the tune in the tenor part: simple hymn-style settings (1564), slightly more complicated harmonizations (1565), and quite elaborate, motet-like settings (1565-1566). The vario… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: AU FORT DE MA DETRESSE
Harmonizer: Claude Goudimel (1564)
Composer: Louis Bourgeois
Meter: 7.6.7.6 D
Incipit: 51232 17312 34554
Key: d minor
Source: French Psalter, Strassburg, 1539;Genevan Psalter (1542), melody of Psalm 130
Copyright: Public Domain

Notes

GENEVAN 130 was first published in the 1539 edition of the Genevan Psalter. The 1564 harmonization by Claude Goudimel (PHH 6) originally placed the melody in the tenor. GENEVAN 130 is a Dorian tune consisting of four long lines in which the rhythm of line 3 is a fitting contrast to the repeated rhythmic pattern of the other lines. Sing the first stanza in a subdued manner and the second stanza boldly, with bright, full organ registration.

--Psalter Hymnal Handbook

Timeline

Arrangements

Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations

  • Make a joyful noise: 25 Hymns and Carols for the Church Year for Unison Voices, treble instrument, and organ
    Composer/Editor Max Drischner
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1965) pp. 8
  • Make a joyful noise: 25 Hymns and Carols for the Church Year for Unison Voices, treble instrument, and organ
    Composer/Editor Max Drischner
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1965) pp. 8

Organ Solo

  • Choral Preludes Organ Volume 3
    Composer/Editor Willem Van Suijdam
    Published By: Muziekuitgeverij J. C. Willemsen, Huizen (1996) pp. 1
  • Hymn Preludes for the Liturgical Year Volume XVIII Contemplation The Inner Life Comfort Trust: For Organ in 24 Volumes Opus 100
    Composer/Editor Flor Peeters
    Published By: C. F. Peters Corporation (1969) pp. 26

Voices: Organ, Voices, Descant Instrument

  • Make a Joyful Noise: 25 Hymns and Carols for the Church Year for Unison Voices, Treble Instrument and Organ
    Composer/Editor Max Drischner
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1965) pp. 8
  • Make a Joyful Noise: 25 Hymns and Carols for the Church Year for Unison Voices, Treble Instrument and Organ
    Composer/Editor Max Drischner
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1965) pp. 8

Media

Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #47
  • Four-part harmony, full-score (PDF, NWC)
Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #1401
  • Four-part hamrony, full score (PDF, NWC)
The Cyber Hymnal #4805
Text: Our Father's Home Eternal
  • Adobe Acrobat image (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer score (NWC)
  • XML score (XML)
Psalter Hymnal (Gray) #130
Text: Out of the Depths I Cry, LORD
  • Full Score (PDF, XML)
  • Bulletin Score (PDF)
  • Bulletin Score (melody only) (PDF)

Instances

Instances (1 - 10 of 10)
Tune InfoScoreAudio

Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #47

ScoreAudio

Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #1401

Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New #397

Text InfoTune InfoScoreAudio

Psalter Hymnal (Gray) #130

TextPage Scan

Rejoice in the Lord #97

Audio

Small Church Music #5336

TextPage Scan

The Book of Praise #182

TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #4805

Page Scan

The New English Hymnal #400

TextPage Scan

The Presbyterian Hymnal #71

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