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MarkB

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Salieri

This is excellent.

Someone recently opined: "Do we really need another collection of Responsorial Psalms?" May answer to that is: "No."--if we are talking about the usual fare. HOWEVER: if you were to put together a collection of Responsorial Psalms setting the verses in this fashion, then my answer will be a resounding "YES!!"

I hope to use this on Lent II this year.

davido

Excellent! IMHO this is the appropriate style for responsorial psalms.

Melodic verses emphasize the text better, as Haugen et al have demonstrated. I have always felt that aside from the irreverence of the contemporary style, Haugen and Co psalms had s better grasp of the psalm as a musical institution than the pedestrian Alstott settings.

So this one is musical and reverent. Hurrah!

matthewj

I think you should rework "do not in anger repel your servant." It doesn't have the same flow as most of the rest of the piece.

MarkB

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Salieri

Having sung through this a bit, I will echo the feeling about the flow of Verse 3. Verse 3 is more syllabic than the other verses, and seems to get bogged down on the tonic, with a lot of down-ward motion. I would suggest a reworking of the entirety of verse 3, not just the phrase "do not...". Something along the lines of the attached might work, I don't know. (Obviously, its up to you.)

Never the less, this is an excellent setting, and I would definitely like to see more of these--perhaps a whole collection of this type of Responsorial Psalm--this is certainly the direction that we need to move in.

(c4)Your(d) pre(h)sence,(g) O(h) Lord,(ji) I(g) seek.(h.) (:) Hide(d) not(f) your(g) face(fe) from(d) me;(e.) (;) do(g) not(f) in(g) an(ixhi)ger(h) re(g)pel(ef) your(e) ser(d.)vant.(d.) (:) You(dh) are(h) my(g) help(ji)er;(h.) (;) cast(hg) me(ef) not(cd) off.(d.) (::)

MarkB

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Heath

MarkB, excellent! A whole cycle's worth of these, please! : )

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