ES KOMMT EIN SCHIFF GELADEN

ES KOMMT EIN SCHIFF GELADEN

Published in 9 hymnals


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Tune Information

Title: ES KOMMT EIN SCHIFF GELADEN
Meter: 7.6.7.6
Incipit: 11122 34555 44123
Key: d minor
Source: Andernacher Gesangbuch,Köln, 1608

Notes

The tune ES KOMMT EIN SCHIFF GELADEN was originally part of a German Maria-lied, or love song to Mary. The tune became a carol when it was set to a text attributed to the mystic Johannes Tauler (around 1300-1361). It was published with Tauler's text in the Roman Catholic Andernacher Gesangbuch of 1608. Psalter Hymnal editor Emily R. Brink (PHH 158) composed the harmonization in 1985 on the birthday of one of her sisters, whose husband was missing at that time and later found murdered.

This Renaissance melody begins in triple meter but then changes to duple at the midpoint–the only time this happens in the entire Psalter Hymnal! The tune's meter requires keeping a constant two pulses per bar, both in the triple- and duple-meter sections. Sing in unison with sturdy organ support, or try having a choir sing unaccompanied. If this tune is unfamiliar, consider the alternate tune at 565 or sing the text in two long stanzas to a longer tune (7676D).

Seerve1d wants to have this hymn sung at his own funeral. But he has requested that a New Orleans jazz-style interlude be improvised between stanzas 3 and 4 in the tradition of African American funerals in the southern United States. In those funerals music is traditionally played en route to the cemetery, but upbeat, joyful jazz is played as the mourners return home to emphasize their sure belief in a Christian resurrection.

--Psalter Hymnal Handbook, 1988

Timeline

Arrangements

Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations

  • Make a joyful noise: 25 Hymns and Carols for the Church Year for Unison Voices, treble instrument, and organ
    Composer/Editor Max Drischner
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1965) pp. 12

Organ Solo

  • Hymn Prelude Library Volume Five Tunes HI: Lutheran Service Book
    Composer/Editors Kevin J. Hildebrand; Donald Rotermund
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2014) pp. 78, 82
  • The Master Organ Works of Jan Bender Volume 2: Chorale Preludes for Organ (A - L)
    Composer/Editors Jan Bender; David Fienen
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2005) pp. 49
  • Kleines Orgelbuch: Leichtere Choralvorspiele und Orgelchorale
    Composer/Editor Ernst Pepping
    Published By: Schott & Co. Ltd. (1941) pp. 2

Media

The Cyber Hymnal #2876
Text: I Lift My Banner, Saith the Lord
  • Adobe Acrobat image (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer score (NWC)
  • XML score (XML)
The Cyber Hymnal #9894
Text: Down Headlong From Their Native Skies
  • PDF (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer Score (NWC)
The Cyber Hymnal #13501
Text: Es Kommt Ein Schiff Geladen
  • PDF (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer Score (NWC)
Psalter Hymnal (Gray) #491
Text: Our Lives Are Filled with Sorrows
  • Full Score (PDF, XML)
  • Bulletin Score (melody only) (PDF)

Instances

Instances (1 - 6 of 6)

Adoru #179

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Psalter Hymnal (Gray) #491

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The Cyber Hymnal #2876

TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #9894

TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #13501

Trimum #61

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