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Author: Dewey Westra, 1899-1979 Meter: 9.8.9.8 Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: My soul, recall with rev'rent wonder Topics: Law of God; Obedience Scripture: Exodus 20:1-18 Used With Tune: LES COMMANDEMENTS DE DIEU Text Sources: The Ten Commandments; Alt.: Psalter Hymnal, 1987

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LES COMMANDEMENS

Meter: 9.8.9.8 Appears in 177 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Claude Goudimel Tune Sources: Genevan Psalter, 1547 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 11232 43213 43217 Used With Text: The Ten Commandments

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The Ten Commandments

Author: Dewey Westra Hymnal: Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship #100a (2024) Meter: 9.8.9.8 First Line: My soul, recall with reverent wonder Topics: Lent Scripture: Exodus 20:1-17 Languages: English Tune Title: LES COMMANDEMENS DE DIEU

The Ten Commandments

Author: Dewey Westra, 1899-1979 Hymnal: Psalter Hymnal (Gray) #153 (1987) Meter: 9.8.9.8 First Line: My soul, recall with reverent wonder Topics: Commitment & Dedication; Law of God; Alternative Harmonizations; Commitment & Dedication; Covenant; Law of God; Word of God Scripture: Exodus 20:1-17 Languages: English Tune Title: LES COMMANDEMENS

The Ten Commandments

Author: Dewey Westra, 1899-1979 Hymnal: Trinity Psalter Hymnal #174 (2018) Meter: 9.8.9.8 First Line: My soul, recall with rev'rent wonder Topics: Law of God; Obedience Scripture: Exodus 20:1-18 Languages: English Tune Title: LES COMMANDEMENTS DE DIEU

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Claude Goudimel

1514 - 1572 Harmonizer of "LES COMMANDEMENS" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) The music of Claude Goudimel (b. Besançon, France, c. 1505; d. Lyons, France, 1572) was first published in Paris, and by 1551 he was composing harmonizations for some Genevan psalm tunes-initially for use by both Roman Catholics and Protestants. He became a Calvinist in 1557 while living in the Huguenot community in Metz. When the complete Genevan Psalter with its unison melodies was published in 1562, Goudimel began to compose various polyphonic settings of all the Genevan tunes. He actually composed three complete harmonizations of the Genevan Psalter, usually with the tune in the tenor part: simple hymn-style settings (1564), slightly more complicated harmonizations (1565), and quite elaborate, motet-like settings (1565-1566). The various Goudimel settings became popular throughout Calvinist Europe, both for domestic singing and later for use as organ harmonizations in church. Goudimel was one of the victims of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of Huguenots, which occurred throughout France. Bert Polman

Dewey Westra

1899 - 1979 Person Name: Dewey Westra, 1899-1979 Versifier of "The Ten Commandments" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Dewey D. Westra (b. Holland, MI, 1899; d. Wyoming, MI, 1979) was a dedicated educator, writer, and musician who faithfully served the Christian Reformed Church. He attended Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Wayne State University in Detroit. In the 1920s and 30s he was a Christian school Principal in Byron Center and Detroit, Michigan. During the 1940s he was involved in various ventures, including becoming a diesel instructor for the Ford Motor Company. After 1947 he became a principal again, serving at Christian schools in Sioux Center, Iowa; Randolph, Wisconsin; and Walker, Michigan. Westra wrote poetry in English, Dutch, and Frisian, and translated poetry into English from Dutch and Frisian. He arranged many songs and composed songs for children's choirs. He also versified all one hundred and fifty psalms and the Lord's Prayer, as well as the songs of Mary, Zechariah, and Simeon, in meters that fit the corresponding Genevan psalm tunes. His manuscripts are housed in the library of Calvin College. Seventeen of his psalm versifications and his paraphrases of the Lucan canticles were included in the 1934 and in the 1959 editions of the Psalter Hymnal. Much of the credit for keeping the Genevan psalms alive in the Christian Reformed Church goes to Westra. Bert Polman

Louis Bourgeois

1510 - 1561 Person Name: Loys Bourgeois Composer of "LES COMMANDEMENS DE DIEU" in Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship Louis Bourgeois (b. Paris, France, c. 1510; d. Paris, 1561). In both his early and later years Bourgeois wrote French songs to entertain the rich, but in the history of church music he is known especially for his contribution to the Genevan Psalter. Apparently moving to Geneva in 1541, the same year John Calvin returned to Geneva from Strasbourg, Bourgeois served as cantor and master of the choristers at both St. Pierre and St. Gervais, which is to say he was music director there under the pastoral leadership of Calvin. Bourgeois used the choristers to teach the new psalm tunes to the congregation. The extent of Bourgeois's involvement in the Genevan Psalter is a matter of scholarly debate. Calvin had published several partial psalters, including one in Strasbourg in 1539 and another in Geneva in 1542, with melodies by unknown composers. In 1551 another French psalter appeared in Geneva, Eighty-three Psalms of David, with texts by Marot and de Beze, and with most of the melodies by Bourgeois, who supplied thirty four original tunes and thirty-six revisions of older tunes. This edition was republished repeatedly, and later Bourgeois's tunes were incorporated into the complete Genevan Psalter (1562). However, his revision of some older tunes was not uniformly appreciated by those who were familiar with the original versions; he was actually imprisoned overnight for some of his musical arrangements but freed after Calvin's intervention. In addition to his contribution to the 1551 Psalter, Bourgeois produced a four-part harmonization of fifty psalms, published in Lyons (1547, enlarged 1554), and wrote a textbook on singing and sight-reading, La Droit Chemin de Musique (1550). He left Geneva in 1552 and lived in Lyons and Paris for the remainder of his life. Bert Polman