Tune: OLD 107TH

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OLD 107TH

Composer (attributed to): Louis Bourgeois
Published in 18 hymnals

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Composer (attributed to): Louis Bourgeois

Louis Bourgeois (b. Paris, France, c. 1510; d. Paris, 1561). In both his early and later years Bourgeois wrote French songs to entertain the rich, but in the history of church music he is known especially for his contribution to the Genevan Psalter. Apparently moving to Geneva in 1541, the same year John Calvin returned to Geneva from Strasbourg, Bourgeois served as cantor and master of the choristers at both St. Pierre and St. Gervais, which is to say he was music director there under the pastoral leadership of Calvin. Bourgeois used the choristers to teach the new psalm tunes to the congregation. The extent of Bourgeois's involvement in the Genevan Psalter is a matter of scholarly debate. Calvin had published several partial psalter… Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title:	OLD 107TH
Composer (attributed to):	Louis Bourgeois
Meter:	8.6.8.6 D
Incipit:	11511 77556 5343
Key:	c minor/d minor
Source:	Scottish Psalter, 1635; Based on Genevan Psalter;Genevan Psalter, 1551

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Texts

The Lord Will Come and Not Be Slow

Thine Arm, O Lord, in Days of Old

God's word is like a flaming sword

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Alternative Tunes

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Notes

GENEVAN 107 first appeared in the 1551 edition of the Genevan Psalter. Dale Grotenhuis (PHH 4) harmonized the tune in 1986. Composed in the Dorian mode this Genevan tune consists of four long lines, each of which has two phrases; lines 1 and 2 share melodic and rhythmic patterns, and lines 3 and 4 also have similar rhythms. Psalm 107 is a joyous song that needs strong organ accompaniment. Signal the internal refrain in the last half of stanzas 2 through 5 ("Bless him, his love proclaim. . .") by changing organ registration or texture.

--Psalter Hymnal Handbook, 1988

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Timeline

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Arrangements

Arrangements

Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations

Hymn Preludes and Free Accompaniments 22
Composer/Editor Donald Johns
Published By: Augsburg Publishing House (1993) pp. LL
The Concordia Hymn Prelude Series Volume 35: General: O - Pi
Composer/Editors Richard Hillert; Donald Busarow
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1985) pp. 29
Free Harmonizations of Hymn Tunes: By Fifty American Composers
Composer/Editor D. DeWitt Wasson
Published By: Hinshaw Music, Inc. (1984) pp. 15

Organ Solo

Be Still, My Soul: 11 Hymn Tune Preludes
Composer/Editor Jonathan Kohrs
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2010) pp. 22
The Concordia Hymn Prelude Series Volume 35: General: O - Pi
Composer/Editors Richard Hillert; Donald Busarow
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1985) pp. 27
Thirty-Five Interludes on Hymn Tunes
Composer/Editor Joseph W. Clokey
Published By: J. Fischer & Brothers (1958) pp. 64
Suite on Sixteenth Century Hymn Tunes: For Organ
Composer/Editor George Frederick McKay
Published By: The H. W. Gray Company, Inc. (1950) pp. 8