The Enchiridion

Notes on Source Books ( G - G )

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Gabriel, C.H.: Vineyard Songs

Charles H. Gabriel: Vineyard Songs, Louisville, Ky 1892 

Xref:
RS-146 Away in a manger

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Gardiner, Wm: Sacred Melodies

(a) William Gardiner: Sacred Melodies from Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, Adapted to the best English Poets and appropriated to the use of the British Church, Vol.I, 1812

Xrefs:
RS-337 Bedford
RS-441 Belmont

For a later collection on the same lines, see Lowell Mason's 1821 Collection of Church Music made for the Boston Handel & Haydn Society .

(b) - do - Vol.II, 1815

Xref:
RS-606 (613) Fulda

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Gaunt, Alan: Hymn Texts

(a) Alan Gaunt: Hymn Texts and Translations, 1988

A typed booklet, containing 27 of Alan Gaunt's original hymns and 19 of his translations. 

Xrefs: 
RS-216 As royal banners are unfurled
RS-354 Come, living God, when least expected
RS-33 Eternal God, your love's tremendous glory
RS-228 Here proclaim the glorious battle
RS-539 How blessed are all the saints, our God
RS-213 Jesus, in dark Gethsemane
RS-407 Jesus went to worship
RS-454 Let all mortal flesh keep silence
RS-611 Lord Christ, we praise your sacrifice
RS-342 People draw near to God in their distress
RS-338 Stay with us, God, as longed-for peace eludes us
RS-287 The light of morning sheds its rays
RS-189 Why, Herod, so unpitying
RS-247 Yours is the glory, resurrected one

(b) The Hymn Texts of Alan Gaunt, Stainer & Bell 1991

Contains all except one of the hymns, and all except one of the translations, in the 1988 booklet, together with 58 more hymns (one of them in two versions) and 11 more translations or paraphrases (two of them being of the same Latin original `O quanta qualia'). Three of the latter are actually versifications of translated Welsh hymns, translated by another writer. When the same hymn appears in both editions, there are numerous instances of the author's revision of the text.

Original tunes by various composers, written specifically for Alan Gaunt's hymns, are printed in full; for the remainder of the hymns, existing tunes are suggested by name. Brief notes by the author are appended to some of the hymns.

Xrefs: all the hymns listed under the 1988 edition, plus

RS-237 God came in Jesus, human life sharing
RS-525 He comes to us as one unknown
RS-641 We pray for peace
RS-659 What of those sabbaths? what glory! what splendour!

(c) Always from Joy: Hymn Texts 1991-1996; Stainer & Bell 1997

In two parts:

(i) Fifty-six original hymns written during the period mentioned in the title. A few are translations of others' hymns or "based on" or "after" others' writings; several are based explicitly on biblical passages or themes. A few original tunes are included, composed (it appears) for the corresponding texts; the composers are Raymond Clarke, Michael Storr, Doreen (Bunty) Newport, Caryl Micklem, Moira Rose, and Alan Gaunt himself. For the hymns without tunes, an existing tune is suggested in each case.

(ii) Thirty-four poems or hymns by Ann Griffiths (d.1805), translated from the original Welsh (sc. by Alan Gaunt). Sixteen of these consist of a single verse. No music is given or suggested; but metres are indicated, implying that the author expects that the English words may or can be sung to hymn tunes. Twenty-four of the thirty-four hymns are in 8.7.8.7.D Trochaic; the rest in various other conventional hymn-tune metres.

An Introduction to Part (i) by Fred Kaan pays tribute to Alan Gaunt's authorship. Part (ii) is prefaced with a brief Introduction by A.M.Allchin (author of Ann Griffiths, The Furnace and the Fountain, Univ.of Wales Press 1987) about Ann Griffiths's life and poetry.

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Gauntlett, H.J. & Blew, W.J.: Tune Book

(Julian p.149b) 

The Church Hymn and Tune Book, ed. H.J.Gauntlett and W.J.Blew, 1852

(2nd edn 1855)

Xrefs:
RS-239 St Albinus
RS-418 St Fulbert
RS-429 St George

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Geistliche Kirchen-Melodien, 1649
Johann Crüger: Geistliche Kirchen-Melodien &c., Leipzig 1649

(Julian p.272a)

Contained 161 hymns by various authors, with the words of the first stanzas (only) and music in four vocal and two instrumental parts.

Xref:
RS-446 Deck thyself, my soul, with gladness 

For notes on other collections edited by Crüger, see the following -

Newes vollkömmliches Gesangbuch &c., Berlin, 1640
Praxis Pietatis Melica &c., 1647 &c.
Geistliche Lieder und Psalmen &c., Berlin, 1653 
 

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Geistlicher Lieder, 1681
Geistlicher Lieder, Hamburg 1681
 
Xref:
RS-246 Komm, Seele

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Geistreiches Gesangbuch, 1698
Geistreiches Gesangbuch, (Druckts) Sebastian Griebel, Darmstat, 1698
 
Xref:
RS-520 All Saints

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Gelasian Sacramentary, 5th cent.

`Sacramentary' is the name given to a number of books, in use from the 5th century onwards, which contained the prayers and rubrics for the priest's part in the Eucharist. From the 11th century onwards, other parts of the service were combined with those in the Sacramentary to make a complete service book - the Missal; but originally the material in the Sacramentary would have been separate from that in the Lectionary (the appointed Bible readings), the Cantatorium or Gradual (with music for the choir), the Antiphoner (with responses) and other manuals.

The exact contents of a Sacramentary would have varied from place to place, but two main `families' of such books developed in the Western Church through the middle ages. The most widely used was perhaps the Gregorian, attributed to Pope Gregory the Great (c.540-604), though the earliest references to it date from about 790 A.D. However, another Sacramentary is known to have been in use before that date; this was attributed to St Gelasius (Pope, 492-496) - hence the name `Gelasian' - though there is no evidence for the attribution.

The earliest known MS of the Gelasian Sacramentary is preserved in the Vatican, and dates from about the middle of the 8th century; it probably originated in France, and was acquired by the Vatican as part of the Library of Queen Christiana of Sweden. The name `Gelasian', however, is also used for a Sacramentary containing a mixture of Gallican and Gregorian material, of which the earliest surviving example was written about 800 A.D. at St Gall.

Many of the collects in the Book of Common Prayer (from 1549 onwards) are derived from Latin originals in the various `Gelasian Sacramentaries'. These include the Second Collect for Good Friday:

Xref: 
RS-562 Head of Church, our risen Lord
 

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Gell's Collection

(a) Philip Gell: A Church Hymn Book. Being a Collection of Psalms and Hymns, chiefly designed for Public Worship, Derby 1815

(b) - do - 3rd edition, Derby 1822

Xref:
RS-755 We praise, we worship thee, O God

(c) - do - nth edition, Derby 1825 (Julian, p.335a)

(d) - do - xth edition, Derby 1826 (Julian, p.1554b)

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Gellert, C.F.: Geistliche Oden usw.
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert: Geistliche Oden und Lieder, Leipzig, 1757

Published 6 years after his appointment to a professorship of philosphy in the University of Leipzig. Many subsequent editions were issued. (Julian, p.407a). The first edition contained 54 hymns, including `Jesus lebt!'. 

Xref:
RS-239 Jesus lives! thy terrors now

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Gemau Mawl (ed. D.Jenkins), 1890

GEMAU MAWL: Casgliad o Donau ynghyda Geriau, ac ychydig Salmau ac Anthemau, wedi eu casglu a'u golygu gan David Jenkins, Mus. Bac.(Cantab), 1890

Attodiad I: `Tonau, Salmau, ac Anthemau'

Attodiad II: ( - do - ), 189_ ?

Xrefs:
RS-505 Llanllyfni
RS-540 (and 369) Llef
RS-54 Trewen

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Gesang- und Gebetbuch, 1837
Katholisches Gesang- und Gebetbuch, Stuttgart 1837
 
Xref:
RS-245 Christus ist erstanden

See also a note on the Trier Gesangbuch (1847, 1871)

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Gill, T.H.: The Golden Chain

(a) T.Hornblower Gill: The Golden Chain of Praise, 1869

Xref:
RS-484 We come unto our faithful God
  [ We come unto our fathers' God ]

(b) The Golden Chain of Praise. Hymns by Thomas Hornblower Gill Author of the `Papal Drama', `The Anniversaries,' etc. Second Edition, Greatly Enlarged, London, Hodder & Stoughton 1894.

Contained (in the author's words) `well-nigh ninety hymns'. Seven hymns which had appeared in the 1869 edition were withdrawn by the author for 1894, on account of `imperfection of form or repetition of theme'.

Xrefs:
RS-484 We come unto our faithful God
RS-68 Lord God, by whom all change is wrought 

Click here . . . to view T.H.Gill's Preface to the 2nd Edition (where, among other things, he inveighed against hymn-book editors and others who indulge in what he called `hymn-mangling'.)

See also T.H.Gill's Songs of the Spirit.

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Gill, T.H.: Songs of the Spirit

T.Hornblower Gill: Songs of the Spirit, New York 1871

Xref:
RS-68 Lord God, by whom all change is wrought

See also T.H.Gill's Golden Chain of Praise.

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Gilmour, R.: Psalm-Singer's Assistant

(a) Robert Gilmour The Psalm-Singer's Assistant: Being a Collection of the most approved Psalm and Hymn Tunes. (undated; but possibly 1790)

Xref:
RS-43 Montrose 

(b) - do - 2nd edition, with improvements, Paisley, 1793

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