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John de Luca has provided his arrangement of the plainsong version of this C7 Latin Advent hymn in the New Living Parish Hymn Book.
I made a backing but don’t blame him:
The Latin text:
Creator alme siderum,
aeterna lux credentium
Jesu Redemptor omnium,
intende votis supplicum.
Qui daemonis ne fraudibus
periret orbit, i...
O covered this in the new (!) music for 2020 at OCP.
This is John Mason Neale’s translation of a C8 text by St John Damascene based on E...
This isn’t in the New Living Parish Hymn Book, but Gio mentioned it in a comment and I thought I should follow up on it.
This hymn by Jeanette Palmiter is from the 1800s and fades out of hymnals by the 1930s. There are several versions and settings but I ...
I have covered this Eucharistic hymn already with a modernised text as provided in CWB II. To make those changes rhyme, quite a lot of other changes needed to made and there are other alternative lines in CWB II that vary a lot from this version.
...I am enjoying doing the hymns from the New Living Parish Hymn Book. I’m finding hymns that are new to me, arrangements by John de Luca that improve on the original versions and it also gives me a chance to do better with organ backings on songs that I have looked at before.
This is in CWB II as