Psalm 119 FIFTH MODE MELODY
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Type:
Concert
Price:
FREE
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First line: Enter Thy courts, Thou Word of Life
Tune name: 5TH MODE MELODY
Stanzas: 1, 2, 3
Genre: English Renaissance
Source: Cantus Christi 2020 #227
Composer: Thomas Tallis
Author: Robert Bridges
Singer: Michael E. Owens
Quality: 3
Comments: One of Tallis’ 8 tunes written for congregation, written for Psalm singing, all of brilliant beauty and power and skill. Never before all in one hymnal. Bridges’ poetry summarizes the sense of Psalm 119 without quoting it, and the calm gladness of the tune richly carries the whole.
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Michael E. Owens is an amateur musician serving the Reformed and Mennonite communities from Lancaster County, PA. Michael was born in 1974, and is a piano technician and music engraver by trade. www.noteworthymusicservices.com
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