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Many and Great, O God
Author: Joseph Renville; Philip Frazier Meter: 9.6.9.9.9.6 Appears in 48 hymnals First Line: Many and great, O God, are your works Text Sources: Dakota hymn
Many and Great, O God
[Many and great, O God are thy things]
Appears in 54 hymnals Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 11156 55434 42121 Used With Text: Psalm 8
[Many and great, O God are thy things]
Wakantanka Taku Nitawa (Many and Great, O God, Are Your works)
Author: Joseph R. Renville; R. Philip Frazier Hymnal: The New Century Hymnal #3 (1995) Meter: 9.6.9.9.9.6 Lyrics: 1 Many and great, O God, are your works,
Maker of earth and sky;
Your hands have set the heavens with stars,
your fingers spread the mountains and plains.
Lo, at your word the waters were formed;
deep seas obey your voice.
2 Grant unto us communion with you,
O star abiding One.
Come unto us and dwell with us;
with you are found the gifts of life.
Bless us with life that has no end,
eternal life with you.
Dakota -
1 Watanka taku nitawa
tankaya qa ota;
Mahpiya kin eyahnake ca,
maka kin he duowanca,
Mniowanca śbeya wanke cin,
hena oyakihi.
2 Woehdaku nitawa kin he
minagikin qu wo;
Mahpiya kin iwankam yati,
wicowaśte yuha nanka,
Wiconi kin he majaqu nun,
owihanke wanin.
Topics: Adoration and Praise God; Eternal Life; God Works in Creation; Year A Passion Sunday; Year A Pentecost; Year B Baptism of Jesus Scripture: 2 Esdras 16:56-60 Languages: Dakota, English Tune Title: LACQUIPARLE
Wakantanka Taku Nitawa (Many and Great, O God, Are Your works)
Many and great, O God, are your works
Author: Joseph R. Renville, 1779-1846; Philip Frazier 1892-1964; Stan McKay, 1941- Hymnal: The Book of Praise #301 (1997) First Line: Many and great, O God, are your works (Ka-ti-pe-yi-ci-ket ki-si-pas-ka-mi-kaahk kii-me-kiw) Topics: Canticles and Scripture Paraphrases; Ecology / Environment; Eternal Life; God Creator and Ruler; Languages other than English Cree Scripture: Genesis 1:9-10 Languages: Cree; English Tune Title: DAKOTA MELODY
Many and great, O God, are your works
Many and Great, O God, Are Your Works
Author: Joseph R. Renville; Philip Frazier; Stan McKay Hymnal: Voices United #308 (1996) Meter: Irregular First Line: Many and great, O God, are your works (Katipeyiciket kisipas) Topics: God Creation and Providence; Blessings; Communion with Christ and God; Creation; God Creator; God Kingdom, Majesty, Realm; God Power/Might; God Presence; God Works; Gratitude; Heaven(s)/Paradise; Life; Brevity of Life; Nature; Petition; Praise; Service Music Gathering, Call to Worship, Greeting; Water; Word of God; Christmas Eve Year A; Lent 2 Year A; Pentecost Year A; Trinity Sunday Year A; Easter 6 Year B; Proper 7 Year B; Proper 24 Year B; Trinity Sunday Year C; Proper 18 Year C; New Year Year ABC Languages: Cree; English Tune Title: LACQUIPARLE
Many and Great, O God, Are Your Works
James R. Murray
1841 - 1905 Person Name: J. R. Murray Harmonizer of "LACQUIPARLE" in The Presbyterian Hymnal L.P.M. (1905, April 12). Obituary. New Church Messenger, p.209.
Murray.--At Cincinnati, March 10, 1905, James Ramsey Murray. Funeral services in the Church of the New Jersualem, March 13th.
James R. Murray was widely known in the musical world as the author of many songs and song books, and in the New Church in Chicago and Cincinnati as an affectionate, intelligent, and loyal New Churchman.
He was born in Andover (Ballard Vale), Mass., March 17, 1841. In early life he developed musical talent, and composed many minor pieces for local and special occasions. Later at North Reading, Mass., he attended Dr. George F. Root's School of Music, and was associated with William Bradbury and Dr. Lowell Mason. He enlisted in the Fourteenth Regiment of infantry, commonly known as the Essex County Regiment, and afterwards was changed to the First Regiment, Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, which was engaged in most of the battles fought by the Second Army Corps up to the surrender of General Lee.
"Daisy Deane," the first and most popular of his early song successes, was composed in 1863 in Virginia while in camp, words by his cousin, Thomas F. Winthrop. This song is known all over the world, and the Salvation Army is using an arrangement of it for one of their war cry songs.
In 1868 Mr. Murray married Isabella Maria Taylor of Andover; and they removed to Chicago. Here three children were born to them, two passing early to their heavenly home, the youngest, Winthrop Root Murray, is still living. It was during these first years in Chicago that Mr. and Mrs. Murray became interested in the New Church, while he was engaged with Root and Cady as editor of the Long Visitor, afterwards merged with the Musical Visitor. After the great fire of 1871 Mr. and Mrs. Murray returned East, where he was engaged in teaching in Lawrence and Andover, and as organist at the Old South Church in Andover. In 1881 they removed to Cincinnati and Mr. Murray became the editor of the Musical Viistor [sic] and head of the publication department of the John Church Company. Among the most popular of his books are "Pure Diamonds," "Royal Gems," "The Prize" and "Murray's Sacred Songs." The following titles will recall some of his best loved sacred songs: "At Last," "Calm on the Listening Ear of Night," "I Shall Be Satisfied," "There Shall No Evil Befall Thee," "Thine, O Lord, Is the Greatness," "The Way Was Mine," "How Beautiful Upon the Mountains," "Angels from the Realms of Glory."
His last great labor in the publishing department of the John Church Company was the seeing through the press five volumes of Wagner's music dramas, with full score and original German text, and an English translation. The immense and careful labor involved in the preparation of these volumes, with a really smooth and excellent English translation, had perhaps, as it was done under pressure, something to do with Mr. Murray's breakdown. Although for some reason Mr. Murray's name does not appear on the title page of these volumes, his friends knew of the place the work held in his affections and ambition.
Mr. Murray was a member of the Church Council of the Cincinnati Society for the last four years and took a deep interest in the building of the New Church, and in the inauguration of services, with all the changes looking to the improvement of the musical part of the service. The vested choir, organized by Mr. and Mrs. Lawson, which Mr. Murray as councilman had urged from the beginning, in their entrance to the church each Sunday singing the processional hymn participated in the funeral service, with a congregation of brethren and friends, all moved by deep love and profound respect for the consistent life and faith of a worthy Churchman and beloved friend.
--DNAH Archives
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For a discussion of Murray and the tune MUELLER, see: Stulken, M.K. (1981). Hymnal companion to the Lutheran Book of Worship. Philadelphia : Fortress Press, p.170.
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Also available in the DNAH Archives:
1. An excerpt from Christie, George A. (1927). New Free Church. In Music in Andover. Papers read at "Fagot Party" of the Andover Natural History Society.
2. Unsourced essay about Murray written soon after his death, likely from Andover, Mass., perhaps authored by Charlotte Helen Abbott.
James R. Murray
Richard Proulx
1937 - 2010 Harmonizer of "LACQUIPARLE" in The United Methodist Hymnal Richard Proulx (b. St. Paul, MN, April 3, 1937; d. Chicago, IL, February 18, 2010). A composer, conductor, and teacher, Proulx was director of music at the Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago, Illinois (1980-1997); before that he was organist and choirmaster at St. Thomas' Episcopal Church in Seattle, Washington. He contributed his expertise to the Roman Catholic Worship III (1986), The Episcopal Hymnal 1982, The United Methodist Hymnal (1989), and the ecumenical A New Hymnal for Colleges and Schools (1992). He was educated at the University of Minnesota, MacPhail College of Music in Minneapolis, Minnesota, St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota, and the Royal School of Church Music in England. He composed more than 250 works.
Bert Polman
Richard Proulx
John L. Bell
b. 1949 Person Name: John L. Bell, b. 1949 Arranger of "LACQUIPARLE" in Gather Comprehensive John Bell (b. 1949) was born in the Scottish town of Kilmarnock in Ayrshire, intending to be a music teacher when he felt the call to the ministry. But in frustration with his classes, he did volunteer work in a deprived neighborhood in London for a time and also served for two years as an associate pastor at the English Reformed Church in Amsterdam. After graduating he worked for five years as a youth pastor for the Church of Scotland, serving a large region that included about 500 churches. He then took a similar position with the Iona Community, and with his colleague Graham Maule, began to broaden the youth ministry to focus on renewal of the church’s worship. His approach soon turned to composing songs within the identifiable traditions of hymnody that began to address concerns missing from the current Scottish hymnal:
"I discovered that seldom did our hymns represent the plight of poor people to God. There was nothing that dealt with unemployment, nothing that dealt with living in a multicultural society and feeling disenfranchised. There was nothing about child abuse…,that reflected concern for the developing world, nothing that helped see ourselves as brothers and sisters to those who are suffering from poverty or persecution." [from an interview in Reformed Worship (March 1993)]
That concern not only led to writing many songs, but increasingly to introducing them internationally in many conferences, while also gathering songs from around the world. He was convener for the fourth edition of the Church of Scotland’s Church Hymnary (2005), a very different collection from the previous 1973 edition. His books, The Singing Thing and The Singing Thing Too, as well as the many collections of songs and worship resources produced by John Bell—some together with other members of the Iona Community’s “Wild Goose Resource Group,” —are available in North America from GIA Publications.
Emily Brink
John L. Bell
