{"id":4471,"date":"2006-11-21T09:45:39","date_gmt":"2006-11-21T09:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/11\/advent-of-advent.html"},"modified":"2006-11-21T09:45:39","modified_gmt":"2006-11-21T09:45:39","slug":"advent-of-advent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/11\/advent-of-advent.html","title":{"rendered":"Advent of Advent"},"content":{"rendered":"

DAN at Holy Whapping has great suggestions for Advent liturgical life.<\/a> Of course, it’s a bit late, considering these things often get rolling in October, but parish musicians and their friends: put this in the file.<\/p>\n

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1. Learn some more hymns. There are many and beautiful Advent hymns besides "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel" and "On Jordan’s Bank." Let’s flip through our hymnal and take a look:
"When the King Shall Come Again" (Gaudeamus Pariter) <\/span>is one of my favorite Advent hymns, a great text that bespeaks the hope of Advent, set to a great tune that also accompanies the Easter hymn, "Come Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain."
"O Come Divine Messiah" is a beautiful, easy-to-learn hymn from the French tradition.
"Creator of the Stars of Night" and its Latin original Creator Alme Siderum – <\/span>a great Advent hymn from the Church’s tradition of chant. "Rorate Caeli" and "Veni Redemptor Gentium" are also very good, easily learnable chant hymns.
"Wake, O Wake And Sleep No Longer" and other translations of Bach’s Wachet Auf <\/span>help engage people with some of the greatest music ever written.
"Savior of the Nations, Come" (Nun Komm der Heiden Heiland) <\/span>is another great German tune that a good parish organist can also expand on in an improvisation or one of many wonderful settings from Buxtehude to Distler.
"Comfort, Comfort, O My People" is an unconventional, highly chromatic hymn tune, but quite effective.
"Lo, He Comes With Clouds Descending" (Helmsley) <\/span>is one of the most majestic combinations of hymn and tune ever composed, and is highly recommended to any parish, especially with a good organ. The setting of this to "Saint Thomas" in the Adoremus Hymnal<\/span>, incidentally, is highly unfortunate. This hymn demands the tune Helmsley<\/span>, and any other setting is completely inadequate to the majesty of this text<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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