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LORD, to You My Soul Is Lifted

Author: Stanley Wiersma Meter: 8.7.8.7.7.8.7.8 Appears in 5 hymnals Topics: Deliverance; Love God's Love to Us; Profession of Faith; Return of Christ; Advent; Afflictions; Confession of Sin; Deliverance; Grace; Humility; Lord's Supper; Love God's Love to Us; Ministry & Service; Profession of Faith; Return of Christ; Sanctification Scripture: Psalm 25 Used With Tune: GENEVAN 25

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GENEVAN 25

Meter: 8.7.8.7.7.8.7.8 Appears in 17 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Louis Bourgeois; Howard Slenk Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 17651 23133 43121 Used With Text: LORD, to You My Soul Is Lifted

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LORD, to You My Soul Is Lifted

Author: Stanley Wiersma Hymnal: Psalter Hymnal (Gray) #25 (1987) Meter: 8.7.8.7.7.8.7.8 Topics: Deliverance; Love God's Love to Us; Profession of Faith; Return of Christ; Advent; Afflictions; Confession of Sin; Deliverance; Grace; Humility; Lord's Supper; Love God's Love to Us; Ministry & Service; Profession of Faith; Return of Christ; Sanctification Scripture: Psalm 25 Languages: English Tune Title: GENEVAN 25

LORD, to You My Soul Is Lifted

Author: Stanley Wiersma, 1930-1986 Hymnal: Psalms for All Seasons #25D (2012) Meter: 8.7.8.7.7.8.7.8 Topics: Acrostic Psalms; Affliction; Biblical Names and Places Israel; Church Year Advent; Elements of Worship Baptism; Elements of Worship Confession (Individual); Elements of Worship Lord's Supper; Elements of Worship Praise and Adoration; Elements of Worship Prayer for Illumination; Forgiveness; God Daily Experience of; God Trust in; God as Guide; God as Judge; God's Compassion; God's Faithfulness; God's Forgiveness; God's Friendship; God's Promises; God's Protection; God's Way; Grace; Guilt; Hope; Humility; Jesus Christ Friend of Sinners; Jesus Christ Parables of; Joy; Lament Individual; Life Stages Youth; Loneliness; Mercy; Occasional Services Ordination and/or Installation; Prayer; Renewal; Rest; Salvation; Shame; The Fall; Trust; Truth; Worship; Year A, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, September 24-October 1; Year B, Lent, 1st Sunday; Year C, Advent, 1st Sunday; Year C, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, July 10-16 Scripture: Psalm 15 Languages: English Tune Title: GENEVAN 25

Lord, to You My Soul Is Lifted

Author: Stanley Wiersma Hymnal: The Presbyterian Hymnal #178 (1990) Meter: 8.7.8.7.7.8.7.8 Topics: Supplication Scripture: Psalm 25 Languages: English Tune Title: GENEVAN 25

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Louis Bourgeois

1510 - 1561 Composer of "GENEVAN 25" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) 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 psalters, including one in Strasbourg in 1539 and another in Geneva in 1542, with melodies by unknown composers. In 1551 another French psalter appeared in Geneva, Eighty-three Psalms of David, with texts by Marot and de Beze, and with most of the melodies by Bourgeois, who supplied thirty four original tunes and thirty-six revisions of older tunes. This edition was republished repeatedly, and later Bourgeois's tunes were incorporated into the complete Genevan Psalter (1562). However, his revision of some older tunes was not uniformly appreciated by those who were familiar with the original versions; he was actually imprisoned overnight for some of his musical arrangements but freed after Calvin's intervention. In addition to his contribution to the 1551 Psalter, Bourgeois produced a four-part harmonization of fifty psalms, published in Lyons (1547, enlarged 1554), and wrote a textbook on singing and sight-reading, La Droit Chemin de Musique (1550). He left Geneva in 1552 and lived in Lyons and Paris for the remainder of his life. Bert Polman

Stanley M. Wiersma

1930 - 1986 Person Name: Stanley Wiersma Versifier of "LORD, to You My Soul Is Lifted" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Pseudonym: Sietze Buning ********** Stanley Marvin Wiersma (b. Orange City, IA, 1930; d. Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1986) was a poet and professor of English at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, from 1959 until his sudden death in 1986. He attended Calvin as an undergraduate and received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1959. His love for the Genevan psalms is reflected in the two books of poetry for which he is most widely known: Purpaleanie and Other Permutations (1978) and Style and Class (1982), both written under the pseudonym Sietze Buning. He also wrote More Than the Ear Discovers: God in the Plays of Christopher Fry and translated many Dutch poems and hymn texts into English, including the children's hymns published in All Will Be New (1982). Bert Polman

Howard Slenk

b. 1931 Harmonizer of "GENEVAN 25" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Howard J. Slenk (b. Holland, MI, 1931) received his undergraduate education from Calvin College and his Ph.D. from Ohio State University in Columbus; his dissertation was entitled The Huguenot Psalter in the Low Countries. He taught at Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights, Illinois, and at Calvin College from 1967 until retiring in 1995. From 1970 to 1993 Slenk served as organist and director of music at Woodlawn Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids. His published works include A Well-Appointed Church Music (1960) and various articles on Genevan psalmody. Bert Polman