Balulalow (Jennifer Bastable)

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• (Posted 2023-12-05)  CPDL #77875:       

Editor: Jennifer Bastable (submitted 2023-12-05).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 282 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Balulalow
Composer: Jennifer Bastable
Lyricist: James, John & Robert Wedderburn^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: Solo Soprano + SATB
Genre: Sacred, Carol

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published:
Description: A setting for Mezzo-soprano soloist and accompanying choir, of verses from a translation of Martin Luther's hymn ‘Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her’ by the brothers James, John & Robert Wedderburn, published by them in 1567, in 'Ane Compendious Buik of Godly and Spiritualt Sangis.' Although the words are in 16th century lowland Scottish (aka Lallands), there is no need to sing the solo in a Scottish accent: modern southern English pronunciation is fine.

Original text and translations

English text

O my deir hart, yung Jesus sweit
prepair thy creddill in my spreit
And I sall rock thee in my hart
and never mair fra thee depart.

Bot I sall praise thee evermoir
with sangis sweit unto thy gloir
The kneis of my hart sall I bow
and sing that rycht Balulalow.