Title: | RENDEZ À DIEU |
Composer (attributed to): | Louis Bourgeois (1543) |
Harmonizer: | Claude Goudimel (1565) |
Composer: | Guillaume Franc (1543) |
Meter: | 9.8.9.8 D |
Incipit: | 16511 24325 33143 |
Key: | G Major |
Source: | Genevan Psalter, 1551;Genevan 98 |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
GENEVAN 98/118 is the one tune in the Psalter Hymnal used for two psalms. It was first published in the 1551 Genevan Psalter as a setting for Psalm 118; in the 1562 edition it was also set to Psalm 98 (hence both numbers in the tune name). The tune is also often named RENDEZ A DIEV, the French incipit for Psalm 118.
This beloved tune is one of the finest and most widely sung of the Genevan psalm tunes (next to GENEVAN 134). Its clear melodic structure and vibrant rhythm call for firm accompaniment with bright organ registration, though some congregations may want to try unaccompanied singing on a stanza or two in the tradition of the sixteenth-century Reformers.
Many modern hymnals set this tune to versifications of Psalm 98 or to hymn texts such as the one at 314. The 1564 harmonization here by Claude Goudimel (PHH 6) originally placed the melody in the tenor. See 98 and 314 for other harmonizations of this tune; 314 is placed in the key of F.
--Psalter Hymnal Handbook, 1988
Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations
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Organ Solo
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Piano and Organ Duet
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Piano Duet+: Piano Duet One Piano
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Piano Solo
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Instruments: Organ and Brass
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