God My King, Thy Might Confessing

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Composer
Parker Ramsay
Difficulty
Moderately Easy radio_button_checked radio_button_checked radio_button_unchecked radio_button_unchecked radio_button_unchecked
Season
Season After Pentecost Easter Season General
Voicing(s)
Children's Choir
Instruments
Keyboard [organ/piano] Trumpet(s)
Category
Anthems Children's Music
Instrumental Only?
No
Description

Grade 3-6 Children's Choir (or any age choir) for unison treble voices, trumpet in C and organ.

  • Text Writer: Richard Mant (1776-1848)
  • Hymn Tune: STUTTGART
  • Tune Source: Witt’s Psalmodia Sacra, 1751
  • Composer of Arrangement: Parker Ramsay (b. 1991)
  • Worship Use: Praise/Choir Dedication
  • Vocal Part(s): Unison with optional second part
  • Vocal Range: c-eb’
  • Key: F major
  • Meter: Changing

Anthem Warm-Ups: Intervals within the anthem (for the purpose of tuning)

Teaching Points:

  • Changing meter -- have the choristers clap the rhythm of the melody line, and then chant the words in rhythm before singing melody in rhythm.
  • Singing ascending fourths in the lower part of the treble range (c-f)
  • Melodic interval tuning
Audio
Lyrics

God, my King, Thy might confessing,
Ever will I bless Thy Name;
Day by day Thy throne addressing,
Still will I Thy praise proclaim.

Honor great our God befitteth;
Who His majesty can reach?
Age to age His works transmitteth,
Age to age His power shall teach.

Full of kindness and compassion,
Slow to anger, vast in love,
God is good to all creation;
All His works His goodness prove.

All Thy works, O Lord, shall bless Thee;
Thee shall all Thy saints adore:
King supreme shall they confess Thee,
And proclaim Thy sovereign power.