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THE NEW COVERDALE PSALTER (Year B)Set to Gregorian ChantSee the important article titled “The Music Settings of The New Coverdale Psalter” (under the Psalms in Worship tab) for the vision, history, effective use, and teaching of chanting the Psalms.INTRODUCTION: The singing of the Psalms in Christian worship enjoys a particularly rich heritage within our Anglican tradition. Psalms, meaning songs, are meant to be sung. And Gregorian Chant, Full Anglican Chant, and here Simplified Anglican Chant are all beautiful, effective, and tried and true ways of the congregation worshipping through the Psalms of David. All three forms, just mentioned, will eventually be available and set in highly usable forms within this Psalter section under the main Music Resources tab of the ACNA website. For successful use of the three Psalm collections, it is important to understand some basics on how to best read and present chanting to the worshipper. In this section, we will specifically address Gregorian Chant. Gregorian Chant is credited to Pope Gregory in the 9th and 10th centuries and is Plainsong, (monophony), the singing of a unison melody together. Out of the Middle Ages, eight common chants (numbered Tones 1 through 8) were identified and chosen for the Roman Church by Pope Gregory prior to the Protestant Reformation. They remain in use to present day. The composers of these chants are anonymous and I believe that this form of chant is still used in worship today because it is beautiful, it is powerful, and it has a distinct way of focusing worshippers on the text of the Psalm. Meant to be sung in unison by the congregation with a choir or cantor leading, Gregorian Chant is generally sung a cappella. Sometimes the use of a pedal point drone of a unison pitch, or the interval of a 5th in the tenor or bass octaves, or possibly the melody above is added to help the singers stay on pitch and to establish the simple mood of this early style of chant. (Note: as noted above, see further information on both accompanying and effectively teaching chant in the article The Music Settings of the New Coverdale Psalter found on the PSALTER main page.) Beginning with Year A, the entire three-year cycle will be available utilizing a carefully chosen repertoire of four chants, each with an excellent memorable melody and each conveying a particular musical mood. With this size repertoire, it is hoped that the congregation will be able to enjoy both a variety of quality chants and at the same time have a manageable, learnable repertoire which will allow them to worship through the chanting rather than frequently be learning new musics. Anthony Ruff states, “There is a growing tendency around the world to adapt the Gregorian melodies rather than to employ them literally, as they were designed for a Latin text. There are simply too many problems with the literalist approach.” 1 Therefore, with the Gregorian Chants presented, a slight simplification of the melodies and the pointing of the text as well as a better pitch range has been employed for successful congregational use while still striving to maintain the integrity of the Chant melodies.And finally, each chant has been carefully married to its corresponding Psalm, taking into consideration both melodic mood and text content. In future, all of the Psalms, (Years A, B, and C) will also be set to both Simplified Anglican Chant as well as Full Anglican Chant. In addition, a fresh approach to Full Anglican Chants will be to set them in the more accessible and familiar hymn style of layout (words between staffs) for better use by the full congregation.1 Anthony Ruff: OSB, “Gregorian Psalm Tones with English Texts?,” CUSTOS: The Newsletter of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians Chant Section. Issue 2, 2009. ON READING AND PRESENTING THE GREGORIAN CHANTS1. The music printed above each chant is printed there for initial learning of the memorable and relatively simple two-measure chant, and afterward only for reference. Once the melody has been learned, there is less need to focus on the printed music and with the melody in hand, the congregation can now move their focus on singing and worshipping with the given Psalm text.2. The text of each Psalm is pointed to reflect the layout of the printed music above. Therefore, there are pointing symbols ( ? ) as well as single ( | ) bar lines included in the Psalm text, just as in the music, with a bolded double bar line ( ║ ) indicating when the chant music comes to an end and the worshippers are to start again at the beginning of the chant.3. Good chanting, at its foundation, is the rhythm of speech (as one would recite a poem out loud) sung on a given pitch. When chanting, the words are sung on the same given pitch in the printed chant melody (the reciting pitch) until encountering a bar line within the Psalm text. The pointing symbol ( ? ) indicates a change of pitch for the singers. The single ( | ) or bolded double ( ║ ) bar lines correspond directly to the bar lines within the printed chant music. (Note: for some Gregorian Chant Tones, a word in parentheses means that the word is sung across the two corresponding slurred notes in the music. A note in parentheses means that the note is only sung when the number of syllables in the final word of a phrase requires it, otherwise end singing the line on the note before it not in parentheses.)4. Sing through commas, so as to maintain the musical line. Breathe at breath marks ( ’ ) as well as periods, exclamation marks, and semi-colons in order to successfully navigate or properly express long lines of text. And finally, a rehearsed choir or cantor/song leader will go a long way toward effectively modeling and leading this beautiful and most powerful manner of singing the Psalms.– Mark K. Williams, Christ Church Anglican, Savannah, GAYEAR B PSALMSGregorian Chant___________________IMPORTANT: For reproduction of these Gregorian Chant settings in your Sunday worship bulletins, note that all typesetting as well as formatting of Psalm pointing was done in the Garamond 11pt font. Also, Gregorian Chants are in the Public Domain, and so you do not need to post your church’s CCLI license number (Christian Copyright Licensing Incorporated) along with the printed music. Thank you.PENTECOST 5: Proper 8Psalm 112 (Praise of the Upright) 1Praise the Lord! Blessed is the one who fears the ? Lord, |who has great delight in ? his commandments. ║2His seed shall be mighty in the ? land; |the generation of the faithful ? shall be blessed. ║3Riches and plenteousness shall be in his ? house, |and his righteousness shall en? dure forever. ║4For the upright, there rises light in the ? darkness; |he is merciful, lo? ving, and righteous. ║5It is good for him to be generous in ? lending |and to guide his words ? with discretion. ║6For he shall never be ? moved, |and the righteous shall be kept in everlast? ing remembrance. ║7He will not be afraid of any evil ? tidings, |for his heart is steadfast and ? trusts in the Lord. ║8His heart is established, and will not ? fear; |at the last he shall see his desire ? upon his enemies. ║9 He has given freely to the? poor, |and his righteousness endures for ever; ’ his horn shall be exalt? ed with honor. ║10The ungodly shall see it, and shall be ? angry; |he shall gnash his teeth, and waste away; ’ the desire of the ungod? ly shall perish. ║PENTECOST 6: Proper 9Psalm 123 (Prayer in Distress) 1Unto you I ? lift up my eyes, |you who are en? throned in the heavens. ║2Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand ? of their masters, |and as the eyes of a maiden to the? hand of her mistress, ║3Even so our eyes wait upon ? the Lord our God, |until he ? show us his favor. ║4Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have ? mercy upon us, |for we have suffered more ? than enough contempt. ║5Long has our soul suffered the ? scorn of the wealthy |and the spite? fulness of the proud. ║PENTECOST 7: Proper 10Psalm 85 (Prayer for Peace and Justice) 1Lord, you have been ? (gracious) to your land; |you have turned away the captivi? ty of Jacob. ║2You have forgiven the ? offence of your people |and covered ? all their (sins). ║3You have taken away ? (all) your displeasure |and turned yourself from your wrathful ? indignation. ║4Restore us then, ? O God our Savior, |and let your anger ? cease from (us). ║5Will you be dis ? pleased at us forever, |and will you stretch out your wrath from one generation ? to another? ║6Will you not turn a? gain and quicken us, |that your people may re ? joice in (you)? ║7Show us your ? mercy, (O) Lord, |and grant us ? your salvation. ║ 8I will hearken to what ? the Lord God will say, |for he shall speak peace unto his people, ’ and to his saints, that they turn ? not again. ║9For his salvation is near ? to those who fear him, |that glory may dwell ? in our (land). ║10Mercy and ? truth have met together; |righteousness and peace have ? kissed each other. ║11Truth shall flourish ? (out) of the earth, |and righteousness shall look ? down from heaven. ║12Indeed, the ? (Lord) shall show goodness, |and our land shall ? give its increase. ║13Righteousness ? shall go before him, |and he shall direct his going ? in the (way). ║PENTECOST 8: Proper 11Psalm 22:23-31 (The Sufferings and Hopes of the Upright) 23O praise the Lord, you that ? fear him; |magnify him, all you seed of Jacob, ’ and fear him, all you seed of ? Israel. ║24For he has not despised nor abhorred the low estate of the ? poor; |he has not hidden his face from him, but when he called unto him, ? he heard him. ║25My praise is of you in the great congre? gation; |my vows will I perform in the sight of those ? who fear him. ║26The poor shall eat and be satis? fied; |those who seek after the Lord shall praise him; may your hearts ? live forever. ║27All the ends of the world shall remember, ’ and be turned unto the ? Lord, |and all the families of the nations shall worship ? before him. ║28For the kingdom is the ? Lord’s, |and he is the Governor a ? mong the peoples. ║29All those who sleep in the earth, how shall they worship ? him? |All those who go down into the dust, ’ how shall they kneel ? before him? ║30But my life shall be preserved in his sight, ’ and my children shall worship ? him; |they shall tell of the Lord to the genera? tions to come; ║31And to a people yet unborn shall they declare his ? righteousness, |that he has brought ? it to pass. ║PENTECOST 9: Proper 12Psalm 114 (Passover Hymn) 1When Israel ? came out of Egypt, |and the house of Jacob from among a people of a ? foreign tongue, ║2Judah ? was God’s sanctuary, |and Israel ? his dominion. ║3The sea ? beheld it and fled; |Jordan was ? driven back. ║4 The ? mountains skipped like rams, |and the little hills ? like young sheep. ║5 What ailed you, ? O sea, that you fled? |O Jordan, that you were ? driven back? ║6You mountains, ? that you skipped like rams, |and you little hills ? like young sheep? ║7Tremble, O earth, at the ? presence of the Lord, |at the presence of the ? God of Jacob, ║8Who turned the hard rock in? to a pool of water, |and the flint stone into a ? springing well. ║ ................
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