ST. MICHAELS (55435)

Tune Information

Title: ST. MICHAELS (55435)
Meter: 8.6.8.6 D
Incipit: 55435 43243 16217
Key: F Major/G Major or modal
Source: German;From William Gawler's Hymns and Psalms, 1789
Copyright: Public Domain
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Notes

ST. MICHAEL'S is an anonymous tune first published by William Gawler (b. Lambeth, London, England, 1750; d. London, 1809) in 1789 in his London collection Hymns and Psalms Used at the Asylum for Female Orphans (1785-1789). Gawler was organist at the Asylum of Refuge for French Orphans in Lambeth, the first such residence in England for homeless girls. He published a variety of voluntaries for organ.

In some hymnals the tune has been attributed to Mozart or Haydn. ST. MICHAEL'S (which refers to the archangel Michael in the Bible) is also known as ST. MICHEL'S, MOZART, or GOSHEN. Some hymnals set this text to ST. MATTHEW, a useful alternate tune (see 21).

The tune is a rounded bar form (AABA), which displays the symmetry of phrases and the cadences often associated with the classical style. Sing in harmony. Perhaps a choir could sing stanzas 1 and 2a, which tell the story, with the congregation joining in with the prayer in stanzas 2b and 3.

--Psalter Hymnal Handbook, 1988

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Arrangements

Organ Solo

  • Easy Organ Library Volume 71
    Composer/Editor James Manfield
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (2022) pp. 75
  • The Organist Volume 125 Number 2 July August 2021: The Service Music Companion for the Church Organist
    Composer/Editors Carson Cooman; James Mansfield
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (2021) pp. 7
  • The Organist Volume 111 Number 3 July August 2007: The Service Music Companion for Church Organists
    Composer/Editors Gilbert M. Martin; James Mansfield
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (2007) pp. 96
  • Pull Out All the Stops! Volume 3: Easy "Roof-Raisers" for the Church Organist
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (2003) pp. 37
  • The Organist Volume 87 Number 6 January 1984: A Bi-monthly Magazine for Church Organists
    Composer/Editor James Mansfield
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1984) pp. 3
  • Hymn Preludes for the Mennonite Hymnal, 1969: For Organ (Or, Occasionally, Piano)
    Composer/Editor Charles Burkhart
    Published By: Goshen College (1970) pp. 60
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