SONG 24

SONG 24

Composer: Orlando Gibbons (1623)
Published in 33 hymnals


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Composer: Orlando Gibbons

Orlando Gibbons (baptised 25 December 1583 – 5 June 1625) was an English composer, virginalist and organist of the late Tudor and early Jacobean periods. He was a leading composer in the England of his day. Gibbons was born in Cambridge and christened at Oxford the same year – thus appearing in Oxford church records. Between 1596 and 1598 he sang in the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, where his brother Edward Gibbons (1568–1650), eldest of the four sons of William Gibbons, was master of the choristers. The second brother Ellis Gibbons (1573–1603) was also a promising composer, but died young. Orlando entered the university in 1598 and achieved the degree of Bachelor of Music in 1606. James I appointed him a Gentleman of th… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: SONG 24
Composer: Orlando Gibbons (1623)
Meter: 10.10.10.10
Incipit: 33455 43221 55677
Key: e minor
Copyright: Public Domain

Notes

Orlando Gibbons (b. Oxford, England, 1583; d. Canterbury, England, 1625) composed SONG 24 as a setting for a paraphrase of Lamentations 1. The tune was number 24 (hence, the tune name) in his collection of hymn tunes composed for and published in George Wither's The Hymnes and Songs of the Church (1623).

Gibbons began his musical career at age twelve as a chorister at King's College, Cambridge. He studied music at Cambridge and became the organist at the Chapel Royal in 1605, remaining in that position until his sudden death. He was recognized as one of the outstanding composers and organists of his day. In addition to composing hymn tunes, Gibbons published a collection of his music, Madrigals and Motets (1612), and is noted for his anthems and other liturgical music for the Anglican Church.

Mainly in the Dorian mode, SONG 24 is a beautiful tune most fitting for the penitential Psalm 51. As in most modern hymnals containing this tune, the original third and fourth phrases are omitted. The soprano and bass parts are by Gibbons; the inner voices are from The English Hymnal (1906). Sing this tune in unison or harmony; where resources permit, sing a stanza or two unaccompanied (perhaps using the E minor setting at 308).

--Psalter Hymnal Handbook, 1988

Timeline

Arrangements

Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations

  • 200 New Last Verses
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2007) pp. 150
  • More Last Verses: Another Two Hundred Varied Hymn Tune Harmonies
    Composer/Editor Noel Rawsthorne
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (1996) pp. 149
  • Twenty-Four Interludes Based on Communion Hymn Tunes: For Manuals Only, with Optional Pedal
    Composer/Editor Henry Coleman
    Published By: Oxford Organ Music (1961) pp. 17

Organ Solo

  • Twenty-Four Interludes Based on Communion Hymn Tunes: For Manuals Only, with Optional Pedal
    Composer/Editor Henry Coleman
    Published By: Oxford Organ Music (1961) pp. 17
  • Thirty-Five Interludes on Hymn Tunes
    Composer/Editor Joseph W. Clokey
    Published By: J. Fischer & Brothers (1958) pp. 24
  • Ten Hymn Preludes for Organ Set I
    Composer/Editor Healey Willan
    Published By: C. F. Peters Corporation (1956) pp. 3
  • Ten Hymn Preludes for Organ Set I
    Composer/Editor Healey Willan
    Published By: C. F. Peters Corporation (1956) pp. 3

Media

Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #427
  • Four-part harmony, full-score (PDF, NWC)
The Cyber Hymnal #289
Text: And Truly It Is a Most Glorious Thing
  • Adobe Acrobat image (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer score (NWC)
  • XML score (XML)
The Cyber Hymnal #5519
Text: O Word Immortal of Eternal God
  • Adobe Acrobat image (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer score (NWC)
  • XML score (XML)
The Cyber Hymnal #14564
Text: The Day Is Come
  • PDF (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer Score (NWC)
The Cyber Hymnal #15266
Text: From Virgin's Womb This Christmas Day Did Spring
  • PDF (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer Score (NWC)
Psalter Hymnal (Gray) #167
Text: O God, Be Gracious to Me in Your Love
  • Full Score (PDF, XML)
  • Bulletin Score (PDF)
  • Bulletin Score (melody only) (PDF)
Psalter Hymnal (Gray) #308
Text: Come, Risen Lord, as Guest among Your Own
  • Bulletin Score (melody only) (PDF)
  • Full Score (PDF, XML)
  • Bulletin Score (PDF)

Instances

Instances (1 - 16 of 16)

Ancient and Modern #133

ScoreAudio

Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #427

Church Hymnary (4th ed.) #40

Page Scan

Hymns of Glory, Songs of Praise #40

Psalms and Hymns to the Living God #7

Text InfoTune InfoScoreAudio

Psalter Hymnal (Gray) #167

Text InfoTune InfoScoreAudio

Psalter Hymnal (Gray) #308

Audio

Small Church Music #4503

TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #289

TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #5519

TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #14564

TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #15266

TextPage Scan

The New English Hymnal #303

Text

Together in Song #524

Page Scan

Trinity Psalter Hymnal #7

TextPage Scan

Voices United #393

Include 17 pre-1979 instances
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