Let Us Go Rejoicing Psalm 121 (122)

This another delightful tune for a psalm setting by Paul Mason from Psalms for All Time.

It is the psalm for the first Sunday of Advent Year A, but Mason also notes its use as a seasonal psalm in the last weeks of Ordinary Time and through Lent and Advent. As a hymn it was historically an entrance song, specifically for ending a pilgrimage, and there is no reason and can’t perform that function now.

If you don’t have it in your missal, it is the same text as set by Kate Keefe here.

This is another song with extra instrumental parts, this time for flute and bass guitar. I also should note once again the excellent commentary for each of the psalms, with historical background and basis for their current use. I haven’t mentioned to date the chord chart for guitarists in the back of the book with the 22 chords he notes as the minimum set to play all the psalms with a capo. I you fudge things you could get away with half that, but it would probably wound his composer soul. Need I note that there is none of this sensible pastoral assistance in CWB II. Perhaps when he has a spare weekend Paul could devise CWB II for guitar!

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