[O give thanks to the Lord for he is good] (Gelineau)

[O give thanks to the Lord for he is good] (Gelineau)

Composer: Joseph Gelineau
Published in 1 hymnal


Composer: Joseph Gelineau

Joseph Gelineau (1920-2008) Gelineau's translation and musical settings of the psalms have achieved nearly universal usage in the Christian church of the Western world. These psalms faithfully recapture the Hebrew poetic structure and images. To accommodate this structure his psalm tones were designed to express the asymmetrical three-line/four-line design of the psalm texts. He collaborated with R. Tournay and R. Schwab and reworked the Jerusalem Bible Psalter. Their joint effort produced the Psautier de la Bible de Jerusalem and recording Psaumes, which won the Gran Prix de L' Academie Charles Cros in 1953. The musical settings followed four years later. Shortly after, the Gregorian Institute of America published Twenty-four Psalms… Go to person page >

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Title: [O give thanks to the Lord for he is good] (Gelineau)
Composer: Joseph Gelineau
Incipit: 56116 12323 12127
Key: B♭ Major
Copyright: © The Grail

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New English Praise #686

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