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O praise our God today
Author: Sir H. W. Baker Appears in 76 hymnals Used With Tune: LEIGHTON
O praise our God today
ST. MICHAEL
Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 338 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Louis Bourgeois; William Crotch Tune Sources: French Genevan Psalter, 1551; adapted in Psalm Tunes, 1836 Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 51322 35432 21176 Used With Text: O Praise Our God Today
ST. MICHAEL
O praise our God today, His constant mercy bless
Author: Henry Williams Baker Hymnal: Kingdom Hymns with Music #d44 (1925) Languages: English
O praise our God today, His constant mercy bless
O praise our God today, His constant mercy bless
Author: Henry Williams Baker Hymnal: The Church Hymnary #49 (1893)
O praise our God today, His constant mercy bless
O praise our God today, His constant mercy bless
Author: Henry Williams Baker Hymnal: Hymn and Tune Book #d56 (1903) Languages: English
O praise our God today, His constant mercy bless
Louis Bourgeois
1510 - 1561 Composer (melody) of "ST. MICHAEL" in The Cyber Hymnal 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
Louis Bourgeois
William Tans'ur
1699 - 1783 Person Name: William Tansur (1699-1774) Composer of "ST. THOMAS" in Carmina Sanctorum William Tansur, b. about 1700, Dunchurch of Barnes; d. 1783, St. Neots Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908
Also known as Tansur; Tanzer; le Tansur
William Tans'ur
John Goss
1800 - 1880 Person Name: J. Goss Composer of "OFFORD" in The New Laudes Domini John Goss (b. Fareham, Hampshire, England, 1800; d. London, England, 1880). As a boy Goss was a chorister at the Chapel Royal and later sang in the opera chorus of the Covent Garden Theater. He was a professor of music at the Royal Academy of Music (1827-1874) and organist of St. Paul Cathedral, London (1838-1872); in both positions he exerted significant influence on the reform of British cathedral music. Goss published Parochial Psalmody (1826) and Chants, Ancient and Modern (1841); he edited William Mercer's Church Psalter and Hymn Book (1854). With James Turle he published a two-volume collection of anthems and Anglican service music (1854).
Bert Polman
John Goss
