Alternate lyrics for AURELIA
  • rogue63
    Posts: 410
    In honor of my last Sunday at my current position; I'm leaving on good terms and moving on to a bigger job.Anyway, enjoy!

    To the tune of AURELIA

    This is the moment glorious when I pull on the reeds
    And add the screaming mixtures to make your eardrums bleed
    Throw open wide the swell-box with Trompette en Chamade;
    When this last stanza's over, the people say "Thank God!"
    Thanked by 3Casavant Organist CharlesW igneus
  • canadashcanadash
    Posts: 1,499
    Congratulations! Enjoy!
  • CCoozeCCooze
    Posts: 1,259
    All I can think of is "This is the Moment!" from Jekyll and Hyde. I can sort of make the lyrics work, in my head....
  • CharlesW
    Posts: 11,934
    Congrats on your new position!
  • Marc Cerisier
    Posts: 517
    You can use the text of Jim Chepponis' anthem, "With Songs of Jubilation" to that tune. It talks about new beginnings, so it might be a good fit.
    Thanked by 1Fr. Jim Chepponis
  • M. Jackson Osborn
    Posts: 8,368
    What gladsome tidings glorious
    Will light upon our ears
    When we are given notice
    That never will they hear
    Again that tawdry hymn-tune
    That's over-used and bad
    The one so gravely awful
    Whose name's Aurelia.
    Thanked by 3Casavant Organist Salieri igneus
  • rogue63
    Posts: 410
    Thanks for all the kind wishes!

    A verse for MJO:

    With simulacrum buzzing and oil-filled Almy fakes
    I lean upon the manual and care not for mistakes.
    The Lord's my shepherd, truly; and I his humble sheep
    With Tuba Mirabilis, the dead shall rise from sleep.
    Thanked by 6CharlesW Casavant Organist M. Jackson Osborn chonak Carol igneus
  • CharlesW
    Posts: 11,934
    I know Aurelia is a bit over-exposed. But would you prefer "Gather Us In" or "Sing to the Mountains?" I will take Aurelia any day.
    Thanked by 4Casavant Organist Continuousbass chonak Carol
  • matthewjmatthewj
    Posts: 2,694
    AURELIA is only overused if you overuse it. If it gets sung once (or possibly twice) per year, it is not overused.
    Thanked by 2Andrew_Malton Richard Mix
  • M. Jackson Osborn
    Posts: 8,368
    ...possibly twice) per year...

    Well... maybe... just maybe!

    (Actually, I should think maybe once in five years would be 'pushing it'?)

    Oh, what their joy and glory
    must be, those souls at rest
    who only chant their praises
    or sing polyphony.
    They never stoop to drivel,
    nor maudlin tunes do sing;
    thus have they been delivered
    e'er from Aurelia.
    Thanked by 1Carol
  • Chris Garton-Zavesky
    Posts: 6,902
    In honor (sort of) of the Hallowe'en, I resurrect (or reconstruct) this set of alternate words:


    The churches' one foundation
    is us, you silly twit!
    We worship now our own selves,
    as worship right and fit
    for modern philperchildren,
    for our audacity:
    as center of the known world
    (that's only you and me).

    Thanked by 2Casavant Organist Carol
  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,160
    It puzzles me to see MJO setting words to a hymn-tune without rhyming them. I thought that a total lack of rhyme was more characteristic of works from the Gather hymnal songbook.
    Thanked by 2CharlesW M. Jackson Osborn
  • RomanticStringsRomanticStrings
    Posts: 337
    MJO's tune seems to have a complicated internal rhyme. And maybe it's in translation, like some of the hymns in the Lumen Christi Hymnal, which sacrifice rhyme for precision and clarity.
    Thanked by 1M. Jackson Osborn
  • M. Jackson Osborn
    Posts: 8,368
    Be puzzled no longer, Chonak - I'm not, as is evident, a poet at all. These attempts at humour were lucky to exhibit correct workable metre. Rhyme? Well, it could have been cobbled clumsily had I wished at it more time to spend.

    There was one veiled reference, though, to another hymn, one appropriate to last week's liturgical events. I was wondering if anyone would notice. It is a borrowing from that great hymn for All Saints', O quanta qualia, or, 'O, what their joy and their glory must be', as found at no. 589 in the 1940. If there are any who don't know this marvelous hymn and tune, it is hard to surpass. Singing it on All Saints' is like singing 'O come, all ye faithful' on Christmas.

    Tune: O quanta qualia
    O what their joy and their glory must be,
    Those endless Sabbaths the blessed ones see;
    Crown for the valiant, to weary ones rest,
    God shall be all, and in all ever blest.
    - Peter Abelard, Trans., J.M. Neale

    So, you want rhyme?

    O how is it bearable,
    Aurelia to sing?
    Its form's not commendable
    to any ears that ring
    with finer music's dower
    of inspired, glorious, song.
    Yea, do our paeans ever
    to ampler strains belong!
    Thanked by 3chonak Carol igneus
  • rogue63
    Posts: 410
    To AURELIA:

    The harpies on this forum should learn to take a joke
    And read these posts while drinking a nice big rum and Coke
    Matt Maher's making money, and Marty Haugen too,
    So don't you act so grumpy just because it's not you!

    Cheers!
    Thanked by 3Carol igneus ghmus7
  • KARU27
    Posts: 184
    I'm still messed up from Sunday, when our parish sang "How Great Thou Art" for Communion, so I'm trying to make all the verses above fit that.
  • CharlesW
    Posts: 11,934
    I like the Diocese of Winchoster hymnal in the chained library for Aurelia. A verse and a link follow.

    Hymns Modern & Ancient

    202: The church's main foundation

    (Tune: "Aurelia" by S. S. Wesley 1810 -1876)



    © Pharisaios Publications 2001

    The church's main foundation
    Is cheques and cash in hand,
    That flow from celebrations
    Enjoyed throughout the land;
    But Treasurers are watching
    The books with eagle-eye,
    And praying for some donation
    That saves the spire on high!

    There are more verses equally as funny.



    http://www.dioceseofwenchoster.co.uk/hymnal/hymnstore/HM&A202.htm
    Thanked by 4Carol CHGiffen igneus chonak
  • M. Jackson Osborn
    Posts: 8,368
    Another text or two for Aurelia
    and a balm for KARU27

    ...

    + or

    Let men and angels ponder
    The goodness of our God,
    Who unto us dost tender
    His Body and his Blood
    That we may, always hopeful
    Of heaven's glory bright,
    To him, in lays most joyful,
    Sing ever in his light.

  • Chris Garton-Zavesky
    Posts: 6,902
    I seem to recall I wrote a parody of ecumenism which began

    "The churches' one foundation is us, you silly twit".

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