Find the melody
  • monk
    Posts: 1
    If anyone is interested in a coffee break challenge:
    the early missionaries in British Columbia used familiar French songs, such as the Lourdes hymn and Venez Divin Messie, as the musical settings for the Chinook Jargon hymns that they composed. Would anyone be able to identify the music in the attached hymns? (And, yes, Caelitum Joseph is listed as the Air. for the first hymn but I can't source the music since it's different than the chant.)
    Chinook hymn melodies - Le Jeune, JMR 1896.pdf
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  • DL
    Posts: 80
    The first is in the New English Hymnal, 171, as Annue Christi, https://hymnary.org/hymn/NEH1985/171
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  • CHGiffenCHGiffen
    Posts: 5,192
    The second (no. 175) is LOURDES HYMN ("Immaculate Mary, your praises we sing").
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