Inquiry
  • Mubiito
    Posts: 2
    Dear forum,
    My spiritual director, mentor and friend is celebrating 25years in priesthood, he asked me to choose a song of thanksgiving. Does anyone have an idea or suggestions?
  • M. Jackson Osborn
    Posts: 8,368
    Te Deum.
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  • Mubiito
    Posts: 2
    Thank you Jackson. Do you have any version to recommend?
  • Casavant Organist
    Posts: 800
    Te Deum in B Flat by Stanford is joyous and fun. Not horribly difficult either.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbaz9T-RW-M
    Thanked by 1MarkS
  • Liam
    Posts: 4,944
    Another Stanford chestnut, which goes down like honey and would also be appropriate albeit not as linearly "thanksgiving":

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxHUSCFDJrk
    Thanked by 1MarkS
  • mmeladirectress
    Posts: 1,075
    or if it is more to your friend's taste, Te Deum by Jacob Handl (Jacobus Gallus)?

    or maybe a Magnificat? for example, Hassler's, in Tone VIII? or Palestrina's, Primi Toni?
  • Chris Garton-Zavesky
    Posts: 6,902
    Do you have a setting of Tu es sacerdos?
  • M. Jackson Osborn
    Posts: 8,368
    All the above suggestions are really good.
    In answer to your question, the setting I had in mind was the plainchant one, found in your Liber Usualis. Stanford, or Howells, or Britten, or Byrd, or any other such would be nice if you have the resources - choir and organ. If you have an orchestra as well as a choir and soloists, the Charpentier could hardly be bettered.
  • Kathy
    Posts: 5,500
    If your music program is simpler at this time, metrical hymn settings of the Te Deum include God We Praise You and Holy God, We Praise Thy Name.
  • SalieriSalieri
    Posts: 3,177
    If your music program is simpler at this time, metrical hymn settings of the Te Deum include God We Praise You and Holy God, We Praise Thy Name.

    Just make sure that you do ALL the Verses!
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  • MatthewRoth
    Posts: 1,956
    ^made more feasible by eliminating extra eighth notes and the repeat of the final line of each verse.
    Thanked by 2M. Jackson Osborn WGS
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