Sunday, November 10th, 2013

Organ Prelude: Prelude and Fugue in F, by: J. S. Bach

Processional Hymn: 522 Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken

Gospel Hymn: 660 O Master Let Me Walk With Thee

Offertory Anthem: On Jordan’s Stormy Banks

On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand,

And cast a wishful eye,

To Canaan’s fair and happy land

Where my possessions lie.

Oh, the transporting rapt’rous scene

That rises to my sight;

Sweet fields arrayed in living green

And rivers of delight.

O’er all those wide, extended plains

Shines one eternal day;

There God the son forever reigns

And scatters night away.

Oh, the transporting rapt’rous scene…

No chilling winds or pois’nous breath

Can reach that healthful shore ;

Sickness and sorrow, pain and death

Are felt and feared no more.

Oh, the transporting rapt’rous scene…

Communion Anthem: I Know that My Redeemer Lives

1. I know that my Redeemer lives;

What joy the blest assurance gives!

He lives, he lives, who once was dead;

He lives, my everlasting Head!

2. He lives, to bless me with his love;

He lives, to plead for me above;

He lives, my hungry soul to feed;

He lives, to help in time of need.

3. He lives, and grant me daily breath;

He lives, and I shall conquer death;

He lives, my mansion to prepare;

He lives, to bring me safely there.

4. He lives, all glory to his name;

He lives, my Saviour still the same;

What joy the blest assurance gives;

I know that my Redeemer lives!

Communion Hymn: 488 Be Thou My Vision

Recessional Hymn: 376 Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee

Organ Postlude: Trumpet Tune by: Henry Purcell

usic Notes

By: Ashley Sosis

Today’s offertory anthem, “On Jordan’s Stormy Banks” is an old shape-note hymn. Shape-note singing is part of the rich tradition of American Hymnody. The music that we used to learn the hymn was written with notes that were shaped to indicate scale degree. Here are the shapes written in the order they would appear in a major scale. Note the differences between the syllables in this scale and the modern version (Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti, Do; think of the song “Do Re Mi” from The Sound of Music).

More information about this practice can be found at www.fasola.org, including a very interesting timeline of shapenote singing history that traces its roots to the Enlgish Anglican Church. (http://fasola.org/introduction/timeline.html)