Psalm 139 SIXTH MODE MELODY
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Date:
8/30/2015
Type:
Concert
Price:
FREE
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First line: All-seeing Lord, whose pow'r unknown
Tune name: 6th Mode Melody
stanzas: 1, 2, 3, 4
Genre: English Renaissance
Source: Congregational Psalter
Composer: Thomas Tallis!
Author: Robert Bridges
Singer: Michael E. Owens
Quality: 3
Comments: Any number of Psalms would work to this exquisite tune, but it was originally set to Psalm 139, albeit a very inferior setting (Archbishop Parker). Bridges' version is heavily paraphrased and idiosyncractic, but the poetry is so beautiful I've got to have it.
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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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