Sporty Psalm needed

joeburns · Post by **joeburns** » Mon May 22, 2006 7:22 pm

Hi.
I've been asked to provide the catholic bit of an ecumenical service in July.
I did the same last year, and sang a Gelineau based psalm setting that seemed to go down all right.
So, I've been asked to find a psalm setting for this year's service.
The complication is that it is in the middle of July and the general theme is "Sport".
Understandable, I suppose - but sport doesn't really figure in the themes at the back of the hymnbooks I have.
Any (sensible) suggestions???....
(Bearing in mind that I am a very average singer and will be accompanying myself on guitar)

VML · Post by **VML** » Mon May 22, 2006 8:35 pm

Hi Joe,
Welcome to the forum, and I hope you find it as helpful as I do.

How about 'As the deer pants for the water,' the Martin Nystrom version?

'You alone are my strength, my shield....

V2: I want you more than gold of silver...'

You could sing it in a lower key than the D it is printed, and it could be a fairly robust psalm. It's Psalm 41/42, (I think..)
and it is the kind of tune that appeals to a large possibly non churchgoing gathering.
V

musicus · Post by **musicus** » Mon May 22, 2006 9:02 pm

Hi Joe, and welcome!

How about David Haas's We Will Rise Again? It's not a psalm (Isaiah 40:11, 26, 29-30 & 41:10), but it sounds like one. It's a lovely piece of music, easily learnt by a 'first-time' congregation, and its refrain is sporty:

We will run and not grow weary,
for our God will be our strength,
and we will fly like the eagle,
we will rise again.

Think Chariots of Fire :lol:

This piece is published by OCP. I've got it in the Lead Me, O Lord collection, but it's probably available separately. Decani Music (the UK agents for OCP) could advise (Decani Music Ltd, Oak House, 70 High Street, Brandon, Suffolk IP27 0AU, Tel: 0845 456 8392. Fax: 01842 819832. E-mail sueATdecanimusic.co.uk* ) It is also in the new supplement to Celebration Hymnal for Everyone at number 889.

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contrabordun · Post by **contrabordun** » Tue May 23, 2006 7:11 pm

Offers please for the others... Posh, Baby, Scary and Ginger Psalm?

joeburns · Post by **joeburns** » Tue May 23, 2006 8:17 pm

Do you know , I didn't even make the Spice Girls connection :shock:

Anyway, thanks for the welcome and the suggestions - I shall be looking them up in due course.
The service is not until July - So there's time yet for a few more ideas!

presbyter · Post by **presbyter** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 2:52 pm

contrabordun wrote:Offers please for the others... Posh, Baby, Scary and Ginger Psalm?

Scary - 141 - they have hidden a snare to entrap me....I have no means of escape, not one who cares for my soul

Baby - 138 - It was you who created my being, knit me together in my mother's womb....

or - 130 - a weaned child on its mother's breast, even so is my soul

or 127 - your children like shoots of the olive around your table

or 126 - sons are a gift from the Lord, a blessing, the fruit of the womb

Posh - as in "I'm a snob" - 118 - I look at the faithless with disgust

Ginger - Song of Songs looks the best bet - if 'spice' is allowed - King James Version here

1 I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my SPICE; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.

2 I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of SPICED wine of the juice of my pomegranate.

Society of Saint Gregory

Sporty Psalm needed

Sporty Psalm needed

More than gold or silver..