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GENEVAN 143

GENEVAN 143

Published in 5 hymnals


Printable scores: PDF, MusicXML
Audio files: MIDI

Tune Information

Title: GENEVAN 143
Meter: 9.9.8.9.8
Incipit: 15545 67651 11765
Key: c minor/e minor
Copyright: Public Domain
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Texts

Hallgass Uram könyörgő szómra

Lord, Hear My Prayer, My Supplication

LORD, hear my prayer, my supplication;
in truth and righteousness, now answer.
But do not judge your servant, LORD,
for who could stand before your judgment?
No one is righteous in your sight.

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LORD, listen to my supplication

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Notes

GENEVAN 143 was a setting for Psalm 143 in the first partial edition of the Genevan Psalter (1539) and was altered in subsequent editions to its present form. Howard Slenk (PHH 3) harmonized the tune in 1985. In the Dorian mode, GENEVAN 143 consists of five lines in which lines 1 and 3 are similar and lines 2 and 4 are identical. Though it is solemn, do not sing the tune too slowly.

--Psalter Hymnal Handbook

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Timeline

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Media

Psalter Hymnal (Gray) #143
Text: LORD, Hear My Prayer, My Supplication
  • Full Score (PDF, XML)
  • Bulletin Score (melody only) (PDF)
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Instances in all hymnals

Instances (1 - 2 of 2)

Book of Praise #143

Book of Praise #143
Text InfoTune InfoScoreAudio

Psalter Hymnal (Gray) #143

Psalter Hymnal (Gray) #143
Include 3 pre-1979 instances
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