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ST. MICHAEL (Genevan)

Composer: Louis Bourgeois

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 psalter… Go to person page >

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Title: ST. MICHAEL (Genevan)
Composer: Louis Bourgeois
Place Of Origin: Switzerland
Meter: 6.6.8.6
Incipit: 51322 35432 21176
Key: A♭ Major
Source: Genevan Psalter, 1543;Day's Psalter, 1562
Copyright: Public Domain

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Arrangements

Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations

  • Final Stanzas Volume 2: Hymn Settings for Organ and Descanting Instrument
    Composer/Editor David Maxwell
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2011) pp. 22
  • Hymn Tunes in Lower Keyes: The Book to Grab When the Congregation Complains that the Hymns are Too High!
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2011) pp. 243
  • Hymn Tunes in Lower Keys: The Book to Grab When the Congregation Complains that the Hymns are Too High!
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2011) pp. 243
  • Off the Page, Too: More Techniques for Creating Hymn-Based Organ Settings
    Composer/Editor Donald Rotermund
    Published By: MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc. (2011) pp. #8-1, #8-2
  • The Organist's Great Big Lent & Easter Book: A Feast of Music for the Greatest Season of the Year
    Composer/Editor Jennifer Bate
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2009) pp. 394
  • The Really Big Descant Book - Full Music Edition: 250 Settings to Raise the Roof by the World's Finest Church Music Composers
    Composer/Editor Nigel Springthorpe
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2009) pp. 193
  • 150 Last Verse Harmonies: For Use with the Hymn Books of the Baptist, Methodist, United Reformed and Other Free Churches
    Composer/Editor Andrew Wright
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2007) pp. 116
  • 200 New Last Verses
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2007) pp. 169
  • Two Hundred One Hymn Tune Prelude Miniatures
    Composer/Editor Mark Winchester
    Published By: Frog Music (2005) pp. 165
  • The Ultimate Finishing Touch: Last-verse Arrangements of Well-loved Hymn Tunes
    Composer/Editor Harrison Oxley
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2000) pp. 124
  • The Creative Use of Descants in Worship: The Creative Church Musician Series / Volume 3
    Composer/Editor Hal H. Hopson
    Published By: Hope Publishing Company (1999) pp. 95
  • The Baptist Hymnal Organ Supplement II
    Composer/Editor Sharron Lyon
    Published By: The Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention (1997) pp. 62
  • Finishing Touch: One Hundred Last Verse Arrangements of Well-Known Hymn Tunes - New and Enlarged Edition
    Composer/Editor Harrison Oxley
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (1996) pp. 51
  • More Last Verses: Another Two Hundred Varied Hymn Tune Harmonies
    Composer/Editor Noel Rawsthorne
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (1996) pp. 172
  • Easy Hymn Accompaniments for Organ or Piano: Set II
    Composer/Editor Edward H. Myer
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1995) pp. 65
  • The Descant Hymn-Tune Book Book II: A Collection of Well-Known Tunes
    Composer/Editor Geoffrey Shaw
    Published By: Novello and Company Limited (1995) pp. 26
  • PedalPoint Volume 14 Number 1 October November December 1994: Church Music and Study Helps for Pianists and Organists
    Composer/Editors Sharron Lyon; Mark Blankenship
    Published By: The Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention (1994) pp. 25
  • Hymn Intonations, Preludes, and Free Harmonizations Volume III: Harmonizations
    Composer/Editor Richard Proulx
    Published By: Selah Publishing Company, Inc. (1992) pp. 11
  • Music Supplement: The United Methodist Hymnal
    Composer/Editor Gary Alan Smith
    Published By: Abingdon Press (1991) pp. 306
  • Contemporary Hymn Accompaniments: With Interludes, Modulations and Free Accompaniments on Thirty Well-known Hymns For Organ
    Composer/Editor Charles Galetar
    Published By: Harold Flammer, Inc. (1989) pp. 48
  • Contemporary Hymn Accompaniments: With Modulations and Free Accompaniments on Thirty Well-known Hymns for Organ
    Composer/Editor Charles Galetar
    Published By: Harold Flammer, Inc. (1989) pp. 48
  • Free Harmonizations of Hymn Tunes: Volume II
    Composer/Editor D. DeWitt Wasson
    Published By: Hinshaw Music, Inc. (1986) pp. 149
  • The Concordia Hymn Prelude Series Volume 37: General: S - Saint Paul
    Composer/Editors Richard Hillert; Wayne Barlow
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1986) pp. 47
  • The Organist's Companion Volume 6 Number 5 August 1984 General, Weddings: A Bi-monthly Journal of Quality Organ Music for the Practical Church Musician
    Composer/Editors Wayne Leupold; Ronald Besemer
    Published By: McAfee Music Corporation (1984) pp. 4
  • Twenty-Three Hymn Introductions Volume V: Opus 56
    Composer/Editor Jan Bender
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1984) pp. 36
  • The Concordia Hymn Prelude Series Volume 18: Holy Communion: N - Z
    Composer/Editors Herbert Gotsch; Donald Rotermund
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1983) pp. 31
  • Come, Christians, Join to Sing: Organ Preludes and Free Accompaniments
    Composer/Editor Jack W. Jones
    Published By: Broadman Press (1978) pp. 48
  • Twenty-one Hymn Intonations
    Composer/Editor Finn Videro
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1971) pp. 19
  • 113 Variations on Hymn Tunes for Organ
    Composer/Editor George Thalben-Ball
    Published By: Novello and Company Limited (1969) pp. 89
  • New Organ Settings for Hymns and Chorales Set I: Opus 22
    Composer/Editor Jan Bender
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1963) pp. 49
  • 15 Harmonizations on Hymn Tunes
    Composer/Editor Jane Marshall
    Published By: Abingdon Press (1962) pp. 10
  • Piano Arrangements of Great Hymn Tunes
    Composer/Editor Don Whitman
    Published By: Standard Publishing Company (1951) pp. 49
  • Varied Accompaniments to Thirty-four Well-known Hymn Tunes
    Composer/Editor Eric Harding Thiman
    Published By: Oxford University Press (1937) pp. 12
  • Alternate Hymn Harmonizations
    Composer/Editor David Joseph Stith
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House pp. LL

Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations: Trombone Counter-melody

  • 61 Trombone Hymns & Counter-Melodies Volume 2
    Composer/Editor Douglas Smith
    Published By: Hope Publishing Company (1981) pp. 14

Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations: Trumpet Descant

  • 61 Trumpet Hymns & Descants Volume 2
    Composer/Editor Douglas Smith
    Published By: Hope Publishing Company (1980) pp. 14

Organ Solo

  • Hymn Prelude Library Volume Ten Tunes S: Lutheran Service Book
    Composer/Editors Kevin J. Hildebrand; J. Wayne Kerr
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2016) pp. 54
  • The Organist's Library Volume 49
    Composer/Editor Lani Smith
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (2011) pp. 10
  • This Wondrous Mystery: 10 Preludes on Communion Hymns for Manuals
    Composer/Editor J. Wayne Kerr
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2011) pp. 16
  • The Organ Portfolio Volume 73 Number 6 July August `2010: The Service Music Anthology for the Church Organist
    Composer/Editors Gilbert M. Martin; Lani Smith
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (2010) pp. 10
  • The Organist's Great Big Lent & Easter Book: A Feast of Music for the Greatest Season of the Year
    Composer/Editors John Columba McCann; Jennifer Bate
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2009) pp. 392
  • 100 New Hymn Preludes
    Composer/Editor John Columba McCann
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2008) pp. 241
  • Hymn Inventions Volume 2: 9 Chorale Preludes for the Church Year
    Composer/Editor Sam Eatherton
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2008) pp. 36
  • Easy Hymn Preludes for Organ Volume 5: Musica Sacra
    Composer/Editor Benjamin M. Culli
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2006) pp. 46
  • The Master Organ Works of Jan Bender Volume 3: Chorale Preludes for Organ (M - Z)
    Composer/Editors Jan Bender; David Fienen
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2005) pp. 52-53
  • Prayer, Praise, and Thanksgiving: Hymn Settings for Organ
    Composer/Editor Dennis R. Johnson
    Published By: The FJH Music Company, Inc. (2002) pp. 18
  • For All the Saints: Eight Familiar Arrangements for Organ
    Composer/Editor Edwin T. Childs
    Published By: The H. W. Gray Company, Inc. (2000) pp. 30
  • Organ Miniatures: 200 Short Improvisations on Familiar Hymn Tunes
    Composer/Editor June Nixon
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (1999) pp. 160
  • For All the Saints: For Organ
    Composer/Editor Dorothy Wells
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1993) pp. 9
  • 7 Hymn Preludes Set 2: Baptism, Holy Communion, and Non-festivals of the Church year
    Composer/Editor Donald Rotermund
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1992) pp. 5
  • Composer/Editor Paul O. Manz
    Published By: MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc. (1992) pp. 9
  • Nine Easy Preludes on Familiar Hymn Tunes for Organ
    Composer/Editor J. Wayne Kerr
    Published By: Harold Flammer, Inc. (1989) pp. 6
  • The Sacred Organ Journal Volume 22 Number 3 January 1988: A Bi-Monthly Anthology for Church Organists
    Composer/Editors Howard Wells; Robert J. Hughes
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1988) pp. 72
  • The Concordia Hymn Prelude Series Volume 37: General: S - Saint Paul
    Composer/Editors Richard Hillert; Wayne Barlow
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1986) pp. 45
  • The Organist's Companion Volume 6 Number 5 August 1984 General, Weddings: A Bi-monthly Journal of Quality Organ Music for the Practical Church Musician
    Composer/Editors Wayne Leupold; Ronald Besemer
    Published By: McAfee Music Corporation (1984) pp. 4
  • The Concordia Hymn Prelude Series Volume 18: Holy Communion: N - Z
    Composer/Editors Herbert Gotsch; Donald Rotermund
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1983) pp. 29
  • Come, Christians, Join to Sing: Organ Preludes and Free Accompaniments
    Composer/Editor Jack W. Jones
    Published By: Broadman Press (1978) pp. 44
  • Ten Chorale Improvisations Set V: Opus 14
    Composer/Editor Paul O. Manz
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1974) pp. 29
  • 113 Variations on Hymn Tunes for Organ
    Composer/Editor George Thalben-Ball
    Published By: Novello and Company Limited (1969) pp. 89
  • Hymn Preludes for the Liturgical Year Volume X Christian Church, Holy Ministry, Ordination, Installation and Commissioning: For Organ in 24 Volumes Opus 100
    Composer/Editor Flor Peeters
    Published By: C. F. Peters Corporation (1966) pp. 27
  • Preludes on Well-Known Hymn Tunes Volume 4: For Organ with Hammond Registration
    Composer/Editor Samuel W. Shanko
    Published By: Broadman Press (1965) pp. 19
  • Prelude on "St. Michael's": Organ Solo with Registrations for Pipe, Hammond, and All Electronic Organs
    Composer/Editor Richard Peek
    Published By: Carl Fischer, Inc. (1961) pp. 2
  • The Parish Organist Part Three: One Hundred Twenty Chorale Preludes, Voluntaries, and Postludes by Older Masters and Contemporary Composers
    Composer/Editors Heinrich Fleischer; Jan Bender
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1953) pp. 21
  • The Parish Organist Parts I to IV: One Hundred Twenty Chorale Preludes, Voluntaries, and Postludes by Older Masters and Contemporary Composers
    Composer/Editors Heinrich Fleischer; Jan Bender
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1953) pp. 131

Piano and Organ Duet

  • I Will Sing of My Redeemer: Organ Piano Duets
    Composer/Editors Todd Billingsley; Barry Braman
    Published By: Genevox Music Group (1998) pp. 3

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Baptist Hymnal 1991 #30
Text: Stand Up and Bless the Lord
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