Ambassador Hymnal #81
Tune Title: O DU LIEBE MEINER LIEBE First Line: Jesus, refuge of the weary Meter: 87 87 D Key: G Major Date: 1994 Source: Johann Thommen's Christenschatz, 1745
Ambassador Hymnal #81
Title: | O DU LIEBE MEINER LIEBE (Thommen) |
Composer: | Johannes Thommen |
Meter: | 8.7.8.7 D |
Incipit: | 12354 32232 12171 |
Key: | F Major |
Source: | Erbaulicher Musicalischer Christen-Schatz, Basel, 1745;Moravian Chorale Book manuscript, Herrnhut, 1735;Johann Thommen's Christenschatz, 1745 |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Originally a folk song ("Sollen nun die grünen Jahre") dating from around 1700, O DU LIEBE MEINER LIEBE was used as a hymn tune in the Catholic hymnal Bambergisches Gesangbuch (1732). The tune name is the incipit of the text to which it was set in Johann Thommen's Erbaulicher Musicalischer Christen-Schatz oder 500 Geistliche Lieder (1745). The Psalter Hymnal version is from a manuscript chorale book of the Moravian Brethren compiled in Herrnhut in 1735.
The tune is a rounded bar form (AABA) with simple stepwise melodic motion. Sing in harmony. Another harmonization in G major (see 513) could provide an alternative setting, perhaps for a higher and fuller sound on stanza 4.
--Psalter Hymnal Handbook, 1988
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