KABODE

Composer: Joyce Recker

Joyce Recker (b. Hammond, IN, 1951) composed KABODE in 1983 for Fred Pratt Green's "O Christ, the Healer" while she was a music student at The King's College, Edmonton, Alberta. She coined the title to represent the Edmonton co-op house she and her husband lived in at the time; the letter k, present in all the occupants' names, combined with the word abode to make kabode. Later they realized that in Hebrew kabode means "the glory of God." Recker received a bachelor's degree in fine arts from Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, Michigan. She is currently a piano teacher and freelance artist living in Grand Rapids.

KABODE was first published in the 1987 Psalter Hymnal A long-meter tune in minor tonality (an uncommon combination), it features consistent rhythms in its four lines. Sing in unison or harmony to a solemn tempo.

--Psalter Hymnal Handbook

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