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DONNE SECOURS

Composer: Louis Bourgeois (1551)
Published in 50 hymnals

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	HOPE OF THE WORLD

Composer: Louis Bourgeois

Loys "Louis" Bourgeois (French: [buʁʒwa]; c. 1510 – 1559) was a French composer and music theorist of the Renaissance. He is most famous as one of the main compilers of Calvinist hymn tunes in the middle of the 16th century. One of the most famous melodies in all of Christendom, the Protestant doxology known as the Old 100th, is commonly attributed to him. See also in: Wikipedia Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Composer:	Louis Bourgeois (1551)
Meter:	11.10.11.10
Incipit:	53457 53432 1
Key:	d minor or modal
Source:	Genevan Psalter, 1441; Trente quatre pseaumes de David, 1551 (melody)

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Texts

Hope of the World

My Lord, My Master, At Thy Feet Adoring

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Alternative Tunes

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Notes

GENEVAN 12 first appeared in the 1551 Genevan Psalter and has thus been attributed to Louis Bourgeois (PHH 3), music editor for the 1551 edition. It is also known as DONNE SECOURS, the first two words of the French text for Psalm 12. The tune is included in many English-language hymnals because of its frequent association with the well-known 1954 text "Hope of the World" (524). Composed in the Dorian mode, this Genevan tune has four phrases and two main rhythmic patterns: one for lines 1 and 3 and another for lines 2 and 4. Howard Slenk (PHH 3) harmonized GENEVAN 12 in 1985 for the Psalter Hymnal.

--Psalter Hymnal Handbook

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Arrangements

Piano/Organ

HOPE OF THE WORLD

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Choral

Go, Silent Friend

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The Cyber Hymnal #5237

Text: Our Nation, God, Its Heart to Thee Upraiseth

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The Cyber Hymnal #5325

Text: O Son of God, Our Captain of Salvation

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Psalter Hymnal (Gray) #12

Text: Help, LORD, for Those Who Love Your Truth

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Bulletin Score (melody only) (PDF)

MIDI file from The Cyber Hymnal #5237
MIDI file from The Cyber Hymnal #5325
Audio recording from Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #734
MIDI file from Psalter Hymnal (Gray) #12
MIDI file from Psalter Hymnal (Gray) #12
Audio recording from Small Church Music #3677

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Page Scans

The Worshipbook: Services and Hymns (1972), p.363

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Instances

Instances (1 - 13 of 13)	Tune name	First Line	Composer	Meter	Incipit	Key	Source
Common Praise (1998) #411	DONNE SECOURS	O Lord of every shining constellation	Claude Goudimel (1514-1572); Jacques Feuillie (19??-)	11 10 11 10		C Major
Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #734	DONNE SECOURS	Hope of the world, thou Christ of great compassion		11.10.11.10		d minor or modal
Hymnal 1982: according to the use of the Episcopal Church #472	DONNE SECOURS	Hope of the world, thou Christ of great compassion	Claude Goudimel, 1514-1572	11 10. 11 10		d minor or modal	<i>Trente quatre pseaumes de David, </i>1551 (melody)
Lutheran Worship #377	DONNE SECOURS	Hope of the world, thou Christ of great compassion		11 10 11 10		C Major	<cite>Trente quatre pseaumes de David</cite>, Geneva, 1551
Presbyterian Hymnal: hymns, psalms, and spiritual songs #360	DONNE SECOURS	Hope of the world, Thou Christ of great compassion		11.10.11.10		d minor	Genevan Psalter, 1441
Psalter Hymnal (Gray) #12	GENEVAN 12	Help, LORD, for those who love your truth have vanished	Howard Slenk; Louis Bourgeois	11 10 11 10		d minor or modal
Rejoice in the Lord #414	PSALM 12 (DONNE SECOURS)	Hope of the world, thou Christ of great compassion		11.10.11.10		d minor or modal	<i> Genevan Psalter</i> (1551) (melody)
Rejoice in the Lord #548	DONNE SECOURS (PSALM 12)	Father, we greet thee, God of love, whose glory		11.10.11.10		d minor or modal
Small Church Music #3677	DONNE SECOURS	Hope of the world, Thou Christ		11.10.11.10
The Cyber Hymnal #5237	DONNE SECOURS	Our nation, God, its heart to Thee upraiseth		11.10.11.10	33457 53432 13345	d minor or modal	<cite>Genevan Psalter</cite>, 1551
The Cyber Hymnal #5325	DONNE SECOURS	O Son of God, our captain of salvation		11.10.11.10	33457 53432 13345	d minor or modal	<cite>Genevan Psalter</cite>, 1551
Voices United: The Hymn and Worship Book of The United Church of Canada #215	DONNE SECOURS	Hope of the world, O Christ of great compasssion	Claude Goudimel	11 10 11 10		d minor or modal	melody in <I>Genevan Psalter</i> 1551
Worship (3rd ed.) #565	DONNE SECOURS	Hope of the world, O Christ of great compassion	Claude Goudimel, c. 1505-1572	11 10 11 10		a minor or modal	<cite>Genevan Psalter</cite>, 1551