King of Glory, King of Peace (Charles H. Giffen)

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• (Posted 2021-04-03)  CPDL #63891:       

Editor: Charles H. Giffen (submitted 2021-04-03).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 105 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC SA

Edition notes: SATB with descant. The sound file plays the tune through once with a wind quartet (oboe, English horn, French horn, trombone) before the entire hymn is "performed" with descants, etc.

• (Posted 2021-04-03)  CPDL #63892:       

Editor: Charles H. Giffen (submitted 2021-04-03).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 110 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC SA

Edition notes: Choir score, with descant and voicing indications.

• (Posted 2021-04-03)  CPDL #63893:     

Editor: Charles H. Giffen (submitted 2021-04-03).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 48 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC SA

Edition notes: Single page, hymnal style score (no descant).

General Information

Title: King of Glory, King of Peace
Composer: Charles H. Giffen
Hymn tune: Graf
Lyricist: George Herbert (1593-1633)
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB, with Descant
Genre: Sacred, Hymn   Meter: 74. 74. D or 76. 76. D (trochaic)

Language: English
Instruments: Organ

Composed 2020
Description: All seven stanzas of George Herbert's text are set to the composer's tune Graf, adapted from 76. 76. D to 74. 74. D meter. The descant on stanzas 3-4 is just the alto part up an octave (altos sing the melody). A separate descant is provided for stanzas 5-7. Note that in other settings, notably to the tune Gwalchmai, stanza 6 is frequently omitted. In the present work, it is possible to omit stanza 6, simply by jumping directly to stanza 7 after stanza 5. This hymn is quite suitable for the feast of Christ the King (the last Sunday before Advent).

Original text and translations

English text

Praise (2) by George Herbert (1593–1633),
published posthumously in The Temple, 1633.

King of Glory, King of Peace,
   I will love Thee:
And that love may never cease,
   I will move Thee.

Thou hast granted my request,
   Thou hast heard me:
Thou didst note my working breast,
   Thou hast spared me.

Wherefore with my utmost art
   I will sing Thee,
And the cream of all my heart
   I will bring Thee.

Though my sins against me cried,
   Thou didst clear me;
And alone, when they replied,
   Thou didst hear me.

Sev'n whole days, not one in seven,
   I will praise Thee.
In my heart, though not in Heaven,
   I can raise Thee.

Thou grew'st soft and moist with tears,
   Thou relentedst:
And when Justice call'd for fears,
   Thou dissentedst.

Small it is, in this poor sort
   To enrol Thee:
E’en eternity’s too short
   To extol Thee.