Turn to me and have mercy on me, O Lord (Charles H. Giffen)

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• (Posted 2023-06-30)  CPDL #74425:     

Editor: Charles H. Giffen (submitted 2023-06-30).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 136 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC SA

Edition notes: Score with keyboard reduction for rehearsal accomapniment. Please inform the composer of any performances or recordings of this work.

• (Posted 2023-05-30)  CPDL #73940:       

Editor: Charles H. Giffen (submitted 2023-05-30).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 114 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC SA

Edition notes: Choral parts only. Performance time is about 4 minutes. Please inform the composer of any performances or recordings of this work.

General Information

Title: Turn to me and have mercy on me, O Lord
Composer: Charles H. Giffen
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Introit

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 2023
Description: Entrance Antiphon for the 9th Sunday of Ordinary Time (c.f. Pentecost III), text from the English translation of The Roman Missal © 2010 ICEL. This work, composed shortly after the composer's Respice in me (in Latin), was inspired by the composer's earlier English Entrance Antiphon O look at me and be merciful, expanding upon its melodic and harmonic material.

Original text and translations

English text

Antiphon: Psalm 25(24 Vulgate): 16,18
Turn to me and have mercy on me, O Lord,
for I am alone and poor.
See my lowliness and suffering,
and take away all my sins, my God.

Versicle: Psalm 25(24 Vulgate): 1-2a
To thee, O Lord, I lift up my soul,
my God, in thee I put my trust,
let me not be ashamed.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit;
as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen.