Thoughts on Resurrecting the Melchizedek Alleluia?
  • SponsaChristi
    Posts: 837
    I was perusing through Glory & Praise, Volume 2 when I came across an old traditional Gospel Acclamation, the Melchizedek Alleluia. For those not familiar with it I’ve included the organ accompaniment with the choral arrangement and a recording of it.

    I don’t think congregations are getting sufficient experience singing on the off beat, which ultimately leads to train wrecks when they try to sing For All the Saints and other hymns set to the same hymn tune.

    https://youtu.be/cvzU2UyLEYI?si=oo3NEDyWMd9fUmm2
    I think the tambourine is a bit too much. I don’t think this syncopated rhythm with the guitar was the original intention.

    What are y’all’s thoughts on bringing this classic back to life?
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  • maestrodicapella
    Posts: 134
    Stop it!
  • RoborgelmeisterRoborgelmeister
    Posts: 418
    I wouldn't think that it qualifies as old, nor traditional.
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  • Diapason84
    Posts: 165
    Though I have a guilty soft spot for the Gloria from the obsolete Mass in A-minor by the late Joe Zsigray, Glory & Praise is happily well on its way out the door.
  • SponsaChristi
    Posts: 837
    Though I have a guilty soft spot for the Gloria from the obsolete Mass in A-minor by the late Joe Zsigray, Glory & Praise is happily well on its way out the door.


    No, it’s not. It’s still going strong back at the parish I grew up in. New cathedral, old hymnals. Zsigray’s psalms still (literally) resound in booming loudness.
    https://youtu.be/NsgHnURuIFY?si=BUKSlWNOqW5-NZ2d
    Every Christmas I sit there wishing my parish’s MD was there to fix the acoustics and mic’s and regain a new appreciation for those special gifts people have that are overlooked in parishes.
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