Tune: ROK NOVY (11177)

Tune Information

Title:	ROK NOVY (11177)
Meter:	8.8.8.6
Incipit:	11177 11237 33445
Key:	f minor/g minor
Source:	T. Zavorka's Kancional, 1602;Slovak carol tune

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Texts

Greet Now the Swiftly Changing Year

The Lord Almighty Spoke the Word

The Lord Almighty spoke the word,
the morning stars together sang;
the word he spoke through chaos broke,
the worlds in order sprang.

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ROK NOVY is an anonymous Slovak tune that was first published in Tobias Zavorka's Kancional of 1602, though it may date back into the fifteenth century. The tune title means "new year" and is the incipit of the Slovak Old/New Year text "Rok novy zase k nam prisel," traditionally associated with this music (PHH 444). Zavorka served as a pastor and dean in the Bohemian city of Dubrava. Kancional was an important Bohemian Brethren hymnal containing 770 tunes (usually dated 1602, the year in which work on the hymnal began, although it was published around 1606).

The tune is a fine match for the striking text: a short initial phrase launches the remainder of the melody, which flows on in one long line. The harmony, prepared in 1984 by choral composer Dale Grotenhuis (PHH 4), is well suited to part singing. Raise the final tenor note at the end of stanza 3 to conclude with a bright major chord.

--Psalter Hymnal Handbook, 1988

Notes

ROK NOVY is an anonymous Slovak tune that was first published in Tobias Zavorka's Kancional of 1602, though it may date back into the fifteenth century. The tune title means "new year" and is the incipit of the Slovak Old/New Year text "Rok novy zase k nam prisel," traditionally associated with this music (PHH 444). Zavorka served as a pastor and dean in the Bohemian city of Dubrava. Kancional was an important Bohemian Brethren hymnal containing 770 tunes (usually dated 1602, the year in which work on the hymnal began, although it was published around 1606).

The tune is a fine match for the striking text: a short initial phrase launches the remainder of the melody, which flows on in one long line. The harmony, prepared in 1984 by choral composer Dale Grotenhuis (PHH 4), is well suited to part singing. Raise the final tenor note at the end of stanza 3 to conclude with a bright major chord.

--Psalter Hymnal Handbook, 1988

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Arrangements

Arrangements

Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations

The Concordia Hymn Prelude Series Volume 15: Lesser Festivals: K - Z
Composer/Editors Herbert Gotsch; Richard Wienhorst
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1983) pp. 27

Organ Solo

The Concordia Hymn Prelude Series Volume 15: Lesser Festivals: K - Z
Composer/Editors Herbert Gotsch; Richard Wienhorst
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1983) pp. 27
Preludes for the Hymns in Worship Supplement Volume IV: General Nos. 767 - 793
Composer/Editor Paul Thomas
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1973) pp. 34