LES COMANDEMENS DE DIEU

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LES COMANDEMENS DE DIEU

Composer (attributed to): Louis Bourgeois; Harmonizer: Claude Goudimel (1564)
Published in 172 hymnals

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	Music for a Celebration, Set 4

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	Bread of the World

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	THE DAY YOU GAVE US, LORD, IS ENDED (Gra…

Composer (attributed to): 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 >

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Tune Information

Title:	LES COMANDEMENS DE DIEU
Composer (attributed to):	Louis Bourgeois
Harmonizer:	Claude Goudimel (1564)
Meter:	8.8.8.8
Incipit:	11232 43213 43217
Notes:	Tune also known as: BOURGEOIS, COMMANDMENTS, GOUDIMEL, LES COMMANDEMENS DE DIEU, HOUR OF NEED, WHEN IN THE HOUR OF UTMOST NEED, BAVA
Key:	A♭ Major
Source:	Genevan Psalter, 1547;Geneva Psalter, 1547; Setting, 1573;Genevan 141;German Psalter, 1562;French. 1540;Wg Zum Zehn-Gebote-Lied Guillaume Franc 1543
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Texts

The Day Thou Gavest, Lord, Is Ended

When in the Hour of Utmost Need

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Alternative Tunes

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Notes

LES COMMANDEMENS (French for "the commandments"), a rich and graceful tune in the Hypo-Ionian mode (major), was used in the Genevan Psalter (1547) for the Decalogue and for Psalm 140, and later in British psalters and in the Lutheran tradition. The first setting in the Psalter Hymnal derives from Claude Goudimel's (PHH 6) 1564 harmonization; his original harmonization with the melody in the tenor (on facing page in the hymnal) may be used for unison or choral stanzas.

Here are two performance suggestions: (a) the congregation or choir can sing stanzas 1 and 9 as a frame around the solo reading of stanzas 2 through 8 or of the corresponding verses from Scripture; (b) all can sing stanzas 1 and 9 (with the choir singing in harmony from the second setting), and the congregation can sing stanzas 2 through 8 antiphonally in unison. Organists can find preludes by Lutheran composers under the German title for this chorale tune: WENN WIR IN HÖCHSTEN NÖTEN SEIN.

--Psalter Hymnal Handbook, 1987

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Timeline

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Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations

Thirty-Three Hymn Descants and Melodies for Reformation
Composer/Editor Patricia D. Backhaus
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2016) pp. 48
Twenty-Seven Hymn Harmonizations for Reformation
Composer/Editor Henry V. Gerike
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2016) pp. 35
150 Last Verse Harmonies: For Use with the Hymn Books of the Baptist, Methodist, United Reformed and Other Free Churches
Composer/Editor June Nixon
Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2007) pp. 68
200 New Last Verses
Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2007) pp. 102
Free Harmonizations of Hymn Tunes: Volume II
Composer/Editor D. DeWitt Wasson
Published By: Hinshaw Music, Inc. (1986) pp. 158
The Concordia Hymn Prelude Series Volume 41: General: Walt - Werde
Composer/Editors Richard Hillert; Margarete Jacobi
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1986) pp. 39, 41
Hymns for the Church Year: 68 Accompaniment Settings for Keyboard of the Hymns of the Day
Composer/Editor Roger Petrich
Published By: Augsburg Publishing House (1980) pp. 30
Intonations for the Hymn of the Week
Composer/Editor Theodore Beck
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1969) pp. 17
The Hymn of the Week: Tabulatura Americana Pars Prima Organ Settings
Composer/Editor Jan Bender
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1961) pp. 23

Organ Solo

Hymn Prelude Library Volume Twelve Tunes WXYZ: Lutheran Service Book
Composer/Editors Kevin J. Hildebrand; Charles W. Ore
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2017) pp. 51
The Organist's Companion Volume 33 Number 2 January February 2011: A Bi-monthly Journal of Quality Organ Music for the Practical Church Musician
Composer/Editors Wayne Leupold; Bernard Wayne Sanders
Published By: Wayne Leupold Editions, Inc. (2011) pp. 30
Treasures of the Singing Church: Organ Literature for the Liturgical Year Volume 2 Tunes I-W
Composer/Editors Henry V. Gerike; Johann Gottfried Walther
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2010) pp. 49, 52
100 New Hymn Preludes
Composer/Editor Rosalie Bonighton
Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2008) pp. 154
Music for a Celebration Set 4: Chorale Settings from the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries
Composer/Editors Michael A. Burkhardt; Johann Michael Bach
Published By: MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc. (2005) pp. 50
Chorale Preludes II: Choralvorspiele fur Orgel 20 Choralvorspiele
Composer/Editor Helmut Walcha
Published By: C. F. Peters Corporation (2002) pp. 52
Nine Hymn Preludes for Organ Volume II
Composer/Editor Stephen Weber
Published By: The H. W. Gray Company, Inc. (1996) pp. 22
The Organist's Companion Volume 15 Number 2 January 1993 General, Lent, Holy Week, Funerals: A Bi-monthly Journal of Quality Organ Music for the Practical Church Musician
Composer/Editors Wayne Leupold; Johann Christoph Bach
Published By: Wayne Leupold Editions, Inc. (1993) pp. 8
The Concordia Hymn Prelude Series Volume 41: General: Walt - Werde
Composer/Editors Richard Hillert; Margarete Jacobi
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1986) pp. 38, 40
Twelve Chorales for Organ
Composer/Editor Lionel Rogg
Published By: Augsburg Publishing House (1974) pp. 19
Twenty Chorale-Preludes, Four Inventions and a Fugue
Composer/Editor Randall Thompson
Published By: E. C. Schirmer Music Company (1970) pp. 6
113 Variations on Hymn Tunes for Organ
Composer/Editor George Thalben-Ball
Published By: Novello and Company Limited (1969) pp. 47
Hymn Preludes for the Liturgical Year Volume IV Minor Festivals: For Organ in 24 Volumes Opus 100
Composer/Editor Flor Peeters
Published By: C. F. Peters Corporation (1966) pp. 20
Season Chorale Preludes For Manuals Only Book I: Advent Christmas Epiphany Lent Passiontide General
Composer/Editors C. H. Trevor; Johann Christian Bach
Published By: Oxford University Press (1962) pp. 26
Thirty-Five Interludes on Hymn Tunes
Composer/Editor Joseph W. Clokey
Published By: J. Fischer & Brothers (1958) pp. 62
Ten Preludes on Hymn Tunes in Free Style: For Organ Opus 85
Composer/Editor Camil van Hulse
Published By: Carl Fischer, Inc. (1957) pp. 21
Organ Music for the Communion Service
Composer/Editors Paul G. Bunjes; Johann Gottfried Walther
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1956) pp. 56
The Parish Organist Part Seven: Lent, Palm Sunday and Holy Week
Composer/Editors Erich Goldschmidt; Samuel Scheidt
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1956) pp. 9
The Parish Organist Part Four: One Hundred Twenty Chorale Preludes, Voluntaries, and Postludes by Older Masters and Contemporary Composers
Composer/Editors Heinrich Fleischer; Johann Michael Bach
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1953) pp. 20
The Parish Organist Parts I to IV: One Hundred Twenty Chorale Preludes, Voluntaries, and Postludes by Older Masters and Contemporary Composers
Composer/Editors Heinrich Fleischer; Johann Michael Bach
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1953) pp. 188
80 Chorale Preludes: German Masters of the 17th and 18th Centuries
Composer/Editors Hermann Keller; Johann Christoph Bach
Published By: C. F. Peters Corporation (1951) pp. 117
The Church Organist's Golden Treasury Volume Three-- An Anthology of Choral Preludes: Carl F. Pfatteicher
Composer/Editors Archibald T. Davison; Johann Sebastian Bach
Published By: Oliver Ditson Company (1951) pp. 136-138, 140
Suite on Sixteenth Century Hymn Tunes: For Organ
Composer/Editor George Frederick McKay
Published By: The H. W. Gray Company, Inc. (1950) pp. 5
Chorale Preludes By Masters of the XVII and XVIII Centuries: Organ Series Vol. 1 - Anthology of Sacred Music
Composer/Editor Walter E. Buszin
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1948) pp. 15
The Liturgical Year (Orgelbüchlein): Forty-five Organ Chorals
Composer/Editors Johann Sebastian Bach; Alrbert Riemenschneider
Published By: Oliver Ditson Company (1933) pp. 128