Parts for Thaxted and Lasst Uns Erfreun
  • RCS333
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    Anyone have settings in SATB of these hymns (O God Beyond All Praising and All Creatures of Our God and King texts preferred)? Seems like all the ones I can find are the same unison setting. Thank you in advance!
  • Liam
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    That's because they entered English hymnody expressly to be sung in unison - English hymnists were rather particular/deliberate about hymns to be sung in parts vs unison:

    1906 English Hymnal (Lasst Uns Erfreuen, as set by RVW) & 1925 Songs of Praise (Thaxted, as set by Holst)

    You can find SATB settings of THAXTED (e.g.: https://hymnary.org/hymn/GG2013/page/457) but I think they may well prove the wisdom of unison singing when a melody is so sprawling and emphatic as that tune. I would venture the same about the other tune (here's an SATB harmonization of the German text from 1876: https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/SELG1876/126/high)
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  • davido
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    LASST UNS ERFREUN as arranged by Vaughan Williams actually alternates unison and SATB singing
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  • Liam
    Posts: 5,092
    Yes, you are right - on the Alleluias and Amen.
  • ServiamScores
    Posts: 2,886
    You can find images for just about any hymn on hymnary.org
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  • Liam
    Posts: 5,092
    yes, that's what I did. Scroll rightward, keep on scrolling [voice of Dory]. That's how I learned that things that some Catholic music folks thought were relatively recent American developments of hymn melodies - notably for two warhorses, Immaculate Mary and Holy God We Praise Thy Name - started back in the 19th century.
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  • Jeffrey Quick
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    I wrote a tenor and bass part for the last 2 lines of THAXTED, but nothing SATB.
  • francis
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    wrote an SATB arr. back in 2021... I modified it for better voicing here.

    (this is a pop hymn IMHO)
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  • rich_enough
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    Richard Proulx made a popular setting of THAXTED (O God Beyond All Praising) published by GIA which includes a verse in SATB.
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