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THRESHOLD WORDS: A CYCLE OF SIX ANTHEMS BY Stephan Anthony Casurella Submitted to the graduate degree program in Church Music (organ emphasis) and the Graduate Faculty of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts Chairperson Date defended: 9 June 2009

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THRESHOLD WORDS: A CYCLE OF SIX ANTHEMS

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Stephan Anthony Casurella

Submitted to the graduate degree program in Church Music (organ emphasis) and the Graduate Faculty of the University of Kansas

in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts

Chairperson

Date defended: 9 June 2009

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The D.M.A. Document Committee for Stephan Anthony Casurella certifies

that this is the approved version of the following D.M.A. document:

THRESHOLD WORDS: A CYCLE OF SIX ANTHEMS

Committee:

Chairperson

Date approved: 9 June 2009

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THRESHOLD WORDS: A CYCLE OF SIX ANTHEMS

Stephan Anthony Casurella

ABSTRACT

Threshold Words: A Cycle of Six Anthems is a setting of texts by poet John D.

Thornburg, each of which reflects on a narrative from the Gospel of John. The work

is intended either for concert performance as a complete cycle or as a set of

individual anthems for use in connection with specific Scripture readings during

worship services. Scoring is for SATB choir (with some baritone and soprano solo

passages), string quartet, and organ. To provide variety of timbre, however, the full

instrumental resources are used only in the outer movements; the second and fifth

anthems feature organ and a solo instrument (cello and violin, respectively), the third

organ only, and the fourth string quartet only. The choral writing in Threshold Words

balances a quest for fresh, creative expression with sensitivity to the capabilities of a

fine, but mostly amateur, parish music program. The instrumental writing presumes

professional-level performers.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACCEPTANCE PAGE ................................................................................................ ii ABSTRACT ................................................................................................................ iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ............................................................................................ v FOREWORD ................................................................................................................ 1 PERFORMANCE NOTES ......................................................................................... 18 THRESHOLD WORDS I. The Miracle at Cana ................................................................................. 20 II. The Woman at Jacob’s Well .................................................................... 54 III. The Man Born Blind ................................................................................. 74 IV. The Raising of Lazarus ........................................................................... 106 V. The Anointing at Bethany ...................................................................... 131 VI. The Miraculous Catch of Fish ................................................................ 151 BIBLIOGRAPHY .................................................................................................... 194 APPENDIX

A. Texts ....................................................................................................... 196

B. Letter of Permission ............................................................................... 201

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I am indebted to a great many people who have contributed to the success of

this project. I wish to express sincere thanks to the members of my graduate advisory

committee for their invaluable time and support: Professors Michael Bauer, Bryan

Kip Haaheim, Thomas Heilke, James Higdon, and Paul Laird. Professor Haaheim, in

particular, has spent countless hours giving constructive feedback throughout the

compositional process.

Without poet John D. Thornburg this project would not, of course, be what it

is. I am deeply grateful to the Rev. Thornburg for accepting a commission to write

the texts for Threshold Words. Not only has he provided superb poems of theological

depth, but he has been a gracious and supportive presence at every step.

I cannot begin to express adequately my gratitude to Mark Ball, Director of

Music at Village Presbyterian Church. He has been an enthusiastic supporter of this

project from the start, even agreeing to program a performance of Threshold Words

on the church’s 2009–2010 season before the music was written. Other colleagues on

staff at the church have also offered consistent encouragement, ranging from the

Rev. Meg Peery McLaughlin’s insightful reflections on the poetry to Matthew C.

Shepard’s witty commentary on the predilection of twenty-first-century composers

for constant meter changes!

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Last, but certainly not least, I wish to thank my wife Rae and our boys Ryan

and Aidan. Rae has taken on with grace an undue share of responsibility for family

life to make this project possible. The boys, in their own way, have adapted to life

with “Dad always doing homework” and, ever forgiving, still greet me at the door

with enthusiasm. I look forward to spending more time with them in the near future.

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For Mark Ball and the people of Village Presbyterian Church

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FOREWORD

From its origins as a peculiarity of the Church of England in the sixteenth

century, the English anthem has become a fixture in the worship life of many

denominations in a wide variety of styles. The Renaissance polyphony with syllabic

text declamation suggested by Thomas Cranmer (1489–1556) and reinforced in the

Elizabethan Injunctions of 1559 to replace para-liturgical Marian antiphons at the

daily offices initiated a tradition of choral writing that continues to this day, although

Cranmer would shudder at how far the tradition has strayed from his strict

limitations. Within the Church of England, composers have cultivated numerous

anthem genres at various times, from the verse anthems of William Byrd (c. 1540–

1623) to the post-Restoration string anthems of Henry Purcell (1659–1695) and

others. Until the eighteenth century, such music was primarily limited to royal and

cathedral institutions, but with the rise of West Gallery ensembles a more modest

anthem tradition emerged in local parishes and nonconformist congregations. In the

United States, the cultivation of choral music in singing schools led to a rough-hewn

anthem style, as in the fuging tunes of William Billings (1746–1800), which found

its way into worship services toward the end of the eighteenth century.1

1This overview of the English anthem’s first several centuries is, of course, greatly over-

simplified. For a substantial survey of anthem history from the English Reformation through the mid-

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Commentators tend to single out the next hundred years as a low point in the

development of the English anthem, reacting to a pervasive saccharine air even

among the better composers.2 The twentieth century, however, yielded an explosion

of new possibilities (if not always higher quality) in sacred music. Such possibilities

included the rejection of common-practice-era tonality (though generally some form

of neo-tonality is retained in liturgical music), the influence of commercial music,

and the mainstream acceptance of African American traditions.3 Today, depending

on the denomination and particular congregation, worshipers might hear anthems as

divergent in style as: Blessed Assurance arranged by Mark Hayes (b. 1953), with its

distinct gospel idioms;4 Lo, in the Time Appointed by Healey Willan (1880–1968),

which draws on early English point-of-imitation style;5 the African American

spiritual Wade in the Water arranged by Moses Hogan (1957–2003);6 or Ascending

into Heaven by Judith Weir (b. 1954), a fascinating work punctuated by frequent

rising figuration in the organ and glissandos in the vocal lines.7

twentieth century, see Elwyn A. Wienandt and Robert H. Young, The Anthem in England and America (New York: The Free Press, 1970).

2For a particularly scathing assessment, see Kenneth R. Long, The Music of the English Church (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1972), 337–367. Chapter 19, titled “Victoriana,” ends with the terse statement, “So much then for the principal figures of this sterile period” (367).

3For an overview of the stylistic breadth in sacred literature of the twentieth century, see Andrew Wilson-Dickson, The Story of Christian Music: From Gregorian Chant to Black Gospel (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992), 200–242.

4Mark Hayes, arr., Blessed Assurance (Columbus, OH: Beckenhorst Press, 2001).

5Healey Willan, Lo, in the Time Appointed (New York: Oxford University Press, 1929). Willan actually calls this piece a motet.

6Moses Hogan, arr., Wade in the Water (Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard, 1997).

7Judith Weir, Ascending into Heaven (London: Novello, 1983). The text and translation is laid out in the score so as to create visual ascending lines, adding another layer to this work’s symbolic language.

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Amid the great diversity within the church anthem tradition, Threshold

Words: A Cycle of Six Anthems is intended to contribute to that tradition in some

specific ways:

i. To provide anthems for use in Christian worship that reflect on specific Biblical narratives, as might be particularly useful in faith communities that follow a lectionary.8

ii. To serve an additional function as a multi-movement work that could be performed in the context of a sacred concert.

iii. To fulfill both purposes using a musical style that is accessible to a

fine, but mostly amateur, parish music program, while also offering fresh and creative expression.9

The first step in this undertaking was, necessarily, to find appropriate anthem

texts. On 17 April 2008 I contacted poet John D. Thornburg (b. 1954), asking if he

might accept a commission to write a new collection of poems for me to set.10 He

graciously and enthusiastically agreed.

Thornburg, an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church with

twenty-two years of experience in parish ministry, now serves as a Texas-based

8To that end, each anthem lists on its title page the Gospel narrative with which it is

associated along with the liturgical dates for which those readings are appointed in the Revised Common Lectionary. The Revised Common Lectionary (RCL) was released in 1992 by The Consultation on Common Texts in The Revised Common Lectionary (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1992) and is currently used by many mainstream Protestant denominations.

9Throughout the composition of Threshold Words, I have had a specific parish in mind. Village Presbyterian Church in Prairie Village, Kansas, where I currently serve as Principal Organist and Associate Director of Music, has a membership of nearly 5,000. The music department, headed by Mark Ball, consists of three full-time and two part-time musicians. The Village Chamber Choir, an approximately forty-voice ensemble, regularly performs sacred concerts. These concerts feature works ranging from G. F. Handel’s Messiah to Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem.

10I had been aware of John Thornburg’s work for some time through his hymn and anthem texts, one of which I had set for SAB and piano. I was also engaged in preparations to conduct a performance of Craig Phillips’ Dies Gratiae: Requiem Reflections, a choral-orchestral work for which Thornburg had provided the poetry.

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freelance consultant on congregational song. He is a significant voice in the ongoing

debates about the role of music in Christian worship and, among other endeavors,

leads workshops to facilitate thoughtful discussion about the relevant issues. His

website, The Ministry of Congregational Singing, is subtitled “building community

through the power and grace of singing and putting an end to ‘worship wars.’” He

challenges congregations to ask “What MUST we sing in order to become the church

God is calling us to be?” rather than “What do the people want?”11

As a poet, John Thornburg has made a substantial contribution to the hymn

and anthem text literature. In addition to providing individual texts for a number of

hymnals (such as the increasingly well-known “God the Sculptor of the

Mountains”),12 he has published several collections of congregational song.13

Important sacred music composers such as John Ferguson (b. 1941), Jane Marshall

(b. 1924), Joel Martinson (b. 1960), and Bruce Neswick (b. 1956) have used his texts

for anthem settings, and the large-scale Dies Gratiae: Requiem Reflections by Craig

Phillips (b. 1961) alternates portions of the Dies irae sequence with Thornburg’s

poetry.14

11John D. Thornburg, The Ministry of Congregational Singing, <www.congregationalsinging.

com> (accessed 19 May 2009).

12This text appears as No. 2060 in the United Methodist supplement The Faith We Sing, ed. Hoyt L. Hickman (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2000) to a rousing tune by Amanda Husberg.

13These include Can God Be Seen in Other Ways: Hymns and Tunes for Today (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2003) with tunes by Jane Marshall, The One Who Taught Beside the Sea: Hymn, Anthem, and Worship Response Texts (Colfax, NC: Wayne Leupold Editions, 2003), and Family of God: New Hymns by John Thornburg and Friends (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2008) with tunes by Dan Damon, Amanda Husberg, Jane Marshall, and Thomas Pavlechko.

14Dies Gratiae: Requiem Reflections (Kingston, NY: Selah Publishing Co., 2000) is scored for SATB choir, soloists, and orchestra. The work was commissioned by Christ Episcopal Church in

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In his writing, Thornburg refuses to avoid difficult subjects of communal and

personal tragedy, confronting the human condition with directness and honesty. The

“Christmas Poems” posted on his website are challenging and a far cry from the

light-heartedness of typical winter season greetings. “Christmas 2008,” for example,

compares Western culture’s penchant for war and consumerist greed with the

atrocities of ancient Rome and the massacring Herod of Matthew’s Gospel.15 Help

Us Sing Again, an anthem text written in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist

attacks on 11 September 2001 and set by Jane Marshall for SATB and keyboard, is

an intense cry of anguish amid horrors that tear “the fabric of our world” and pain

that “turns moments into days.” Thornburg concludes not by pushing aside the

devastation but by asking God to be present in the midst of it and to “give focus to

our eyes, that we can see the miracles that lie beneath the ash.”16 One of Thornburg’s

most poignant poems, “I Cannot Find the Words of Prayer,” is a lament over the

death of a parishioner’s child in utero. The first stanza conveys vividly the pain of a

mother faced with such tragedy:

No more the kicks that stretch my skin; No more the movement in my womb. My precious child is cold within; My body, an unwilling tomb.17

Tyler, Texas, as a counterpart to the chamber version of Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem, Op. 48, and thus uses unusual instrumental resources (such as the omission of a violin section).

15Matthew 2:1–23.

16Jane Marshall, Help Us Sing Again (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2006).

17Thornburg, “I Cannot Find the Words of Prayer” in The One Who Taught Beside the Sea, 9.

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The next two stanzas express a bitter anger: “How dare you say that you are God, /

…when all that you seem fit to do / results in bleak, untimely death!” The poem’s

final verses are a gasp for release so that healing can begin.

While John Thornburg agreed to write the texts for this project, he insisted

that I be a collaborative partner in defining the parameters: “I don’t usually find

myself very motivated by a composer who writes to me and says, ‘Just write

anything you want.’ I don’t want to write what I want; I need to write what you

need.”18 His request initiated a lively dialog over the next four months, during the

course of which we weighed various options. By late September of 2008, Thornburg

had indentified six narratives from the Gospel of John, each of which would serve as

the basis for a reflection on the ministry of Jesus.19 He sent me a draft of the first

reflection, “The Miracle at Cana,” asking for wider collaborative input:

No poem touches two people the same way, but if it doesn’t touch anybody, it’s not good enough for your project. So I’d like you to have a few people read it. If there are reactions that tell you that the text isn’t done, let me know.20

This invitation was more than mere lip service, and throughout the writing process

Thornburg made revisions in response to comments from readers. For example, the

initial draft of “The Raising of Lazarus” read as follows, beginning at verse 3:

When sorrow is a thunderstorm that floods the path we hoped to walk, how often we deflect our pain by fixing our complaint on someone dear.

18Thornburg, email message to author, 21 April 2008.

19John 2:1–12; 4:3–42; 9:1–41; 11:1–45; 12:1–11; 21:1–14.

20Thornburg, email message to author, 27 September 2008.

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In light of reactions from a friend who argued for a different interpretation of the

Gospel narrative, Thornburg amended the passage for the poem’s final version (see

page 198): “my friend…helped me see that Martha is not shrill; she’s wounded (as is

often the case when we cry out our complaints), and so I hope the vocabulary change

signals that.”21 Similarly, he substituted the word “honesty” for “probity” in “The

Woman at Jacob’s Well” after learning that a couple of readers had reached for

dictionaries!

The texts of Threshold Words are notable for their sense of directness.22 This

effect is due, in part, to the author’s economy of language. Monosyllabic words

predominate, and words with three or more syllables are extremely rare.

Furthermore, the poems land the reader immediately in the relevant stories without

unnecessary verbiage, as in the opening verse of “The Miraculous Catch of Fish”:

“He stood beside the sea” (page 199). At times, the directness is intensified through

shortening individual verses from the usual six or eight syllables to four or fewer, as

in “The Woman at Jacob’s Well” (page 197):

“It must not be… It is not done… The truth is plain… The way is clear…” Thornburg’s use of language also demonstrates a particular resonance that

allows it to read easily and renders it ideal for singing. The author’s preference for

21Thornburg, email message to author, 3 December 2008.

22The texts are printed in their original format in Appendix A. This Appendix allows for ease of reference in the following discussion but also serves as acknowledgment that the poems are works of art in their own right, quite apart from any musical setting.

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iambic feet and six- or eight-syllable lines give the texts a certain connectedness to

traditional poetic forms such as the ballad. At the same time, his avoidance of

organizing verses into typical hymn meters leaves room for expressive fluidity, an

effect that is reinforced by the almost complete absence of end rhyme. Thornburg

achieves linguistic resonance through internal relationships within and between

poetic verses. Alliteration is a frequent device, as in the cross-related phonemes [f]

and [θ] in verses 2 and 3 of “The Woman at Jacob’s Well” (page 197):

It was forbidden, such a thing. The air was thick; a stifling fog.

In the same text, the [b] of “bewildered by the boldness of the rabbi’s words” is

another of several notable examples. More difficult to identify precisely is the

pervading sense of assonant vowel relationships. Obvious instances occur in the

opening stanza of “The Miracle at Cana” (page 196) where [eI] and, to a lesser

extent, [i] are prominent:

In Cana, on a wedding day, his mother came, and so did he, this man whose “Follow me” had caused a few to walk his way.23

Perhaps the most appealing feature of Threshold Words is its convincing use

of imagery. The oppression of sexism is a “stifling fog” in “The Woman at Jacob’s

Well” (page 197), but the heavy air becomes “fresh and new” when Jesus breaks

through the barrier of prejudice. Prejudice of a different kind in “The Man Born

Blind” (pages 197–198) is pictured as questions flung from the walls of a fortress. A

23This stanza also happens to be one of the few places where Thornburg uses end rhyme, in

this case an abba scheme.

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particularly haunting image occurs at the end of the same text. In the Johannine

narrative, Jesus has cured the man’s blindness by spreading mud on his eyes and

instructing him to wash it off in the pool of Siloam.24 Thornburg concludes his poetic

reflection on the passage by portraying a God who is still “digging in the mud, /

preparing to anoint the eyes / of all who long for sight.” The playfulness of this

image is compelling, as is its intriguing allusion to one of the creation narratives in

which humankind is formed from the dust of the ground.25 Perhaps Thornburg

intends to interpret Jesus’ healing act as a re-creation, restoring human life to its

initial unblemished state. Such a view of human physicality as enfleshment rather

than antithesis of spirit shows up again in “The Miraculous Catch of Fish” (pages

199–200). Peter, who is naked, jumps into the water when he recognizes Jesus on the

shore: “The leap was what his body did / to demonstrate his joy.”26

Once I had received and begun to absorb the final version of Thornburg’s

Threshold Words, I needed to determine what vocal and instrumental resources

would be appropriate (and practical) for setting the texts as anthems. That SATB

choir and organ should be involved I was already certain, both in light of my own

specialties and the kind of parish music program for which the settings were

intended. At the strong urging of one of my advisory committee members, however,

I began to consider the possibility of including an additional timbral resource. In the

24John 9:6–7.

25Genesis 2:7.

26This sentence parallels a passage from Thornburg’s text for Phillips’ Dies Gratiae: Requiem Reflections: “And now, since words will not suffice, my tears are what my body does to translate what I know” (Reflection II).

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end, I settled on adding string quartet, a medium that seemed capable of supporting

my own emotional responses to the poems.27 To provide contrasts of instrumentation

from movement to movement in the event that all the anthems should be performed

in concert setting, I planned a scheme that reflects thematic symmetries within the

whole collection of texts. Specifically, I determined that anthems 1 and 6, both of

which explore concepts of feasting, should be scored for the full complement of

choir, strings, and organ; that numbers 2 and 5, both of which reflect on narratives in

which Jesus shows respect to women in the midst of a misogynistic society, should

feature a single string instrument along with organ; and that 3 and 4, both of which

focus on restoration of physical wholeness, should each employ only one of the

instrumental forces (organ alone and string quartet alone, respectively).28

Actually putting pencil to paper as I begin composing always feels risky to

me, so I am grateful for the host of musical voices that, consciously or

unconsciously, shape how I write. Benjamin Britten (1913–1976) has always been an

important influence for me. From his exceptional ability to set English texts with

expressive fluidity I have learned to be sensitive to the natural accents, syllable

lengths, and overall tonal shapes of the language. Studying such works as the

Festival Te Deum,29 War Requiem,30 and The Turn of the Screw 31 has been

27As mentioned above, the music program at Village Presbyterian Church in Prairie Village,

Kansas, served as paradigmatic in my decision making. Hiring a string quartet on an occasional basis for use in liturgies is well within the church’s financial means and worship practice.

28This scheme also has the practical benefit of requiring significantly fewer instrumentalists for anthems 2, 3, and 5, and thus increasing the chance of their usefulness to congregations with budgets less ample than Village Church’s.

29Benjamin Britten, Festival Te Deum, Op. 32 (London: Boosey & Hawkes, 1945).

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particularly helpful. Britten’s influence in this regard is evident, for example, in the

soprano line at bars 20–26 of “The Woman at Jacob’s Well” (see Example 1).

Duration, metric placement, and relative pitch level reflect natural English speech

patterns.

Example 1. “The Woman at Jacob’s Well,” bars 20–26, soprano line. Another significant influence has been the lush writing of Herbert Howells (1892–

1983). Certain turns of phrase and harmonic structures from Like as the Hart

Desireth the Waterbrooks32 are present in the same movement, such as the flattened

fifth degree of a minor mode (e.g., the G-flat on “thick” in bar 7) and various

dominant-seventh-related chords that resolve in nontraditional ways (e.g., the D-flat

eleventh structure in bar 13). I have also unashamedly employed certain sardonic

elements from the work of Francis Poulenc (1899–1963), with whose dry wit my

own writing shares a certain affinity. While my settings are intended to be quite

sincere, anyone who knows well Poulenc’s Concerto for Organ, Strings, and

Timpani will recognize in “The Miraculous Catch of Fish” the organ part’s spare

contrapuntal textures and even specific motivic gestures, not to mention the biting

30Britten, War Requiem, Op. 66 (London: Boosey & Hawkes, 1962).

31Britten, The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54 (London: Boosey & Hawkes, 1966).

32Herbert Howells, Like as the Hart Desireth the Waterbrooks (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1943).

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dominant-seventh structures with added false relations so prevalent in “The Man

Born Blind.”33 More specifically relevant to the anthem tradition, I have gleaned

ideas from other composers’ settings of Thornburg texts, such as Joel Martinson’s

Three Days Had Passed (for choir, brass quintet, timpani, and organ)34 and Craig

Phillips’ Dies Gratiae: Requiem Reflections. Both Martinson and Phillips have, in

their own ways, found musical techniques suitable for Thornburg’s compact and

theologically dense poetic style. In particular, they have modeled for me musical

idioms that are sufficiently accessible to avoid outright rejection in the Church’s

liturgical life while still engaging the poetry’s uncompromising—and sometimes

startling—complexities.

From a purely musical standpoint, one of the chief challenges in writing

music for Threshold Words was to ensure that each anthem could stand alone while

also forming part of a satisfying whole. The cycle, therefore, needed clear contrasts

of mood and key center but also unifying elements.35 I tackled the latter by

identifying motivic gestures and harmonic vocabularies that could recur throughout

the set of pieces. The opening pages of “The Miracle at Cana,” for example, contain

materials that appear in various guises in all the other anthems. Bar 1 features a

33Francis Poulenc, Concerto en Sol mineur pour Orgue, Orchestre à Cordes et Timbales

(Paris: Salabert, 1999). The Poulenc influence was particularly strong in Threshold Words, since I was preparing the concerto for performance while composing the anthems.

34Joel Martinson, Three Days Had Passed (Orleans, MA: Paraclete Press, 2002).

35The texts themselves suggested contrasting moods, ranging from the lament of “The Raising of Lazarus” to the scherzo finale of “The Miraculous Catch of Fish.” Key centers for the six movements (E, C, A, D, G, E) follow a compelling trajectory that supports the opening and concluding E-major movements. In selecting key areas, I gave particular consideration to the relationships formed between the end of one anthem and the beginning of the next. “The Raising of Lazarus,” for example, ends on the tonic with a D-major triad. That triad, in turn, serves as a dominant to the G tonal center of “The Anointing at Bethany.”

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descending tetrachord from the tonic with lowered sixth and seventh scale degrees,

setting the stage for frequent modal references. Likewise, the ascending tetrachord

leading into bar 3 emphasizes a raised fourth scale degree, an element that features

prominently throughout the cycle both melodically and harmonically. The first violin

part in bars 16–18 uses an octatonic scale segment, preparing for frequent

interactions between octatonic and diatonic collections. Some of the motivic

connections between movements are obvious, such as the opening organ gestures of

“The Man Born Blind,” formed by transposition and rhythmic alteration of the violin

passage just mentioned. Likewise, the descending motive D–C–B–A that pervades

much of “The Raising of Lazarus” as an inner voice of the string accompaniment

derives directly from the opening tetrachord of movement 1.

Many of the unifying factors are more subtle, however. Consider, for

instance, the soprano line in bars 5–9 of “The Miracle at Cana.” As Example 2

shows, this melody is inverted and transposed to form the skeleton of the bass solo in

bars 2–6 of “The Woman at Jacob’s Well.”

a.

b. c.

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d. Example 2. a. “The Miracle at Cana,” bars 5–9, soprano line.

b. Melodic inversion of the passage.

c. Transposition of the inverted passage down a major 6th.

d. “The Woman at Jacob’s Well,” bars 2–6, bass solo, derived from the inversion (with new rhythmic profile and a few melodic adjustments).

At other times, I have derived new material from inner voice leading. The germinal

idea for the melody cited in Example 1 is illustrative since it is based on the viola

part at bars 40–43 of the first anthem.

Beyond such purely musical devices, my concerns have been primarily with

the relationship between text and musical expression, and I have sought to illuminate

rather than cloud the various levels of meaning evident in Thornburg’s poetry. On a

fairly obvious level, the music reflects general moods and themes. The rhapsodic

“fiddling” of “The Miracle at Cana” (e.g., the first violin part in bars 72–81) seeks to

conjure the festivities of a rustic wedding, though clearly not in any historically

authentic fashion. The pervasive minor mode tendencies of “The Woman at Jacob’s

Well” give way to major mode inflections in the last eight bars as the air becomes

“fresh and new.” Martha’s cry of “If only…” in “The Raising of Lazarus” is set to a

descending three-note motive that reverses direction beginning at bar 75 (and

changes intervallic content to suggest major mode) after the miracle occurs. And the

slower harmonic rhythm coupled with longer choral note values from bar 115 of

“The Miraculous Catch of Fish” suggests the mystery of a feast that “stretches to the

present day.”

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More interesting to me are the less blatant relationships between text and

music. In “The Anointing at Bethany,” Thornburg sets up the listener to respond

viscerally to two different characters: the self-righteous “betrayer” and the tender

“anointer.” The characters seem quintessentially opposed on the moral spectrum, and

so the music features juxtaposed passages of solo violin writing marked “biting”

(reinforced with accented double stops) and “tender.” As it turns out, Thornburg’s

dichotomous treatment of the characters has indeed been a setup, for the poem’s final

two verses read: “And when he died, the Christ of God, / his death was for them

both” (page 199). In musical terms, this leveling of the moral playing field under the

mercy of God’s grace has been present throughout the anthem, since both the

“biting” and “tender” passages are constructed from the same motivic materials. The

personality contrasts are musically subsumed in the agitato depiction of Christ’s

death (bars 65–73) and finally resolved in the coda (bars 79–85) as the violin comes

to rest on an ethereal double stop of natural harmonics.

“The Man Born Blind” afforded a particularly unusual opportunity to play

with musical materials for the sake of interaction with the text. As in the Gospel

narrative on which the poem reflects,36 Thornburg’s character explains in a “simple

speech,” “I once was blind, but now I see” (page 197). For many listeners this

statement is permanently linked to the hymn “Amazing Grace, How Sweet the

36John 9:25.

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Sound” by John Newton (1725–1807), typically sung to the tune New Britain.37

Stanza 1 reads:

Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found, Was blind, but now I see.38

I found the idea of quoting the well-known tune unsavory but could not ignore the

chance to play with worshipers’ associative expectations. As a compromise, I

decided to rework melodic materials from the tune to create something vaguely

familiar. To begin with, I isolated two figures that seemed particularly useful as

material for an organ interlude immediately after the textual quotation in question

(see Example 3).

a. b. Example 3. a. Two motives from the closing bars of New Britain marked x and y.

b. The use of x and y to construct material in the organ part of “The Man Born Blind” (bars 30–32, right hand).

Next I inverted the entire tune fragment cited in Example 3a, applied a new rhythmic

profile, altered a few intervals, and extended it to create a melody appropriate for the

formerly blind man’s “simple speech.” The result is a passage that evokes something

of American Southern hymnody without actual quotation (see Example 4).

37The composer of New Britain is unknown. The tune was first printed in The Virginia

Harmony of 1831. See Richard Crawford, America’s Musical Life: A History (New York: W. W. Norton, 2001), 167.

38 This text appears to the customary tune as No. 280 in The Presbyterian Hymnal, ed. LindaJo McKim (Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1990).

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a.

b. Example 4. a. An inversion of Example 3a (the last 8 bars of New Britain). Note

that under inversion the hymn tune’s pentatonicism is retained.

b. “The Man Born Blind,” bars 34–42, soprano line. The intervallic structure of this melody is based on the inversion of New Britain.

Having vowed not to quote New Britain and spent a great deal of energy finding

indirect ways to evoke it, I finally relented! A seven-note fragment of the tune

appears in the organ part on a solo stop at the very end of the anthem (bars 118–123).

Since the fragment’s intervallic properties have already been exploited at some

length, the fragment does not, to my ears, seem out of place.

Daring to set texts by a poet as influential as John Thornburg is a daunting

task. I hope that Threshold Words: A Cycle of Six Anthems illuminates the poetry

and, in turn, the Biblical narratives on which they reflect. If it succeeds in doing so, I

trust that the work will be of value to the Church whether in liturgical or concert

settings.

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PERFORMANCE NOTES

Threshold Words is intended either for concert performance as a complete

cycle or as a set of individual anthems for use in connection with specific Scripture

readings during worship services. In order to facilitate the latter use, the Gospel

narrative on which each anthem reflects is cited, along with the liturgical dates for

which those readings are appointed in the Revised Common Lectionary. In the case

of concert performance as a cycle, the relevant Scripture passages may be read prior

to each movement to give a context for the poetic reflections.

All obligatory breaths in the choral parts are indicated precisely with rests, as

in bar 9 of “The Miracle at Cana.” Ideally, lines should be carried through without a

breath if no rest is present, even when punctuation might seem to suggest otherwise

(see bar 7 of the same movement). By the same token, punctuation may effectively

be shown through shaping when choral breaths are not indicated. The conductor

should feel free, however, to add occasional lifts as needed for clear text declamation

and beauty of tone, especially if the vocal ensemble is small. In any event, whenever

a syllable ending in a consonant is followed by a rest, the concluding consonant

should be placed on the rest itself, as in the tenor line at bar 52 of “The Miracle at

Cana.”

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Organ registrations indicated in the score are intended merely as a general

guide. Depending on the instrument, room, and choir, the range of stop combinations

may need to be narrowed, as, for instance, in situations where the addition of a

mixture would be overpowering. Except where otherwise noted, the pedal line is

intended to include at least one sixteen-foot stop and match the dynamic level of the

manuals.

Tempo markings are likewise general guidelines. So long as the specific

character of each movement or section is retained, the conductor should feel free to

respond to interpretive instincts and the acoustical environment.

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Music: Stephan Casurella

*Text © 2008 by John D. Thornburg. Used by permission.

Text: John D. Thornburg*

The Miracle at Cana(for SATB, string quartet, and organ)

John 2:1–11(RCL Year C, 2 Epiphany)

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could do...

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Œ ‰ jœfœ œ

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Œ ‰ jœfœ œ

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jœœâf‰ Œ Œ

Jœœnäf‰ Œ Œ

jœœâ‰ Œ Œ

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wed ding’s

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course, that

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Œ Œ œnPœn œn

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sat is fies our hun gry

œb œn œn œb œ œsat is fies our hun gry,

œb œn œ œn .œ Jœnfies our hun gry

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œb œn œ œn .œ jœnŒ œb œb œn œn œ

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Vln. II

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Org.(add)

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Œ œf œ œ

the ar row

Œ œf œ œ

the ar row

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97

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œ œŒ œ œ œ

Œ œ œ œ

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œ œ œ œpierc ing, ar row

œ œ œ œar row pierc ing

Ó Jœ>f .œn

pierc ing

jœ .œ œ œœ œ œ œ

œ œ œ œÓ Jœ .œn

.œ ‰ Jœ> .œ œ œceit, pierc ing all de

jœ> .œ œ œ œ œnpierc ing all de ceit,

˙ .œ ‰ Jœ> .œall, pierc ing

œ œ ˙n ˙all de ceit,

˙jœ .œ œ œ

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100

wceit,

w

œ œ ˙all de ceit,

100

Œ œ>f œ œnjœ.‰ œ œ œ#

3 3

Œ œ>f œ œnjœ.‰ Œ3

œ>f œ œnjœ.‰ œ> œ œ#

jœ# . ‰3 3

œ>f œ œnjœ.‰ œ> œ œ#

jœ# . ‰3 3

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œ# œ œ œ œ œn3

3

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3

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3

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più

più

più

f legatoprincipal choruswith mixture

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103

103 œn œ œ œ> œ œ# . Œ œ> œ œ.3

3 3

Œ œ> œ œ# .Œ œ> œ œ.

3 3

Œ œ> œ œ# . Œ œ> œ œ.3 3

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œ ˙ œ œÓ ˙w

Ó Œ œf œ œis chang ing

Ó Œ œf œ œis chang ing

Ó Œ œf œ œis chang ing

Ó Œ œf œ œis chang ing

Ó œ> œ œ# . Œ Ó3

Œ œ> œ œ# .œ> œ œ# . Œ Ó3

3

Œ œ> œ œ# . œ> œ œ. Œ Ó3 3

Œ œ> œ œ# .œ> œ œ# . Œ Ó3

3

œ œ ˙ œœ œœ œœ˙ ˙ œ œw œ œ

Ó Ó ˙

œn œn œn œbwa ter in to

œn œn œ œbwa ter in to

œn œn œn œbwa ter in to

œn œn œ œbwa ter in to

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˙n œnœn œn œ

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Org.

106 œn ˙nwine

œb ˙nwine

œn ˙nwine

œb ˙nwine

106

Œ œnfœn œ œ œn œn3

3

Œ œnfœn œ œ œn œn3

3

Œ œnfœn œ œ œn œn3

3

Œ œnfœn œ œ œn œn3 3

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œb œn œn œ œ œ œ œn œn3 3

3

œb œn œn œ œ œ œ œn œn3 3

3

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3

œb œn œn œ œ œ œb œn œn3 3 3

+ reed 8'

Œ œf œn œ

so we can

Œ œf œn œso we can

Œ œf œn œ

so we can

Œ œf œn œso we can

Jœäƒ‰ Œ Ó

Jœäƒ‰ Œ Ó

Jœäƒ‰ Œ Ó

Jœäƒ‰ Œ Ó

Œ œfœœnn œœn

Œ ˙ œn

Ó ˙n

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Org. più f

109 œƒ Œ ˙n>feast, feast

œƒ Œ ˙n>feast, feast

œƒ Œ ˙n>feast, feast

œƒ Œ ˙n>

feast, feast

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3

3

3

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œ> œn œn œ œ# œ. Œœ> œ œ

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œ Œ˙

œ Œ ˙

poco rit.

poco rit.

poco rit.

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Œ œ- œn - œ-in to the

Œ œ- œn - œ-in to the

Œœ- œn - œ-in to the

œn œ œ. Œ Ó3

jœœnn ≠Œ Ó

œn œ œ. Œ Ó3

jœœâ ‰ Œ Ó

Œ œ œn œŒ œ ˙n

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a tempo

a tempo

a tempo

wnight.

wnight.

wnight.

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Œ œ> œn œnjœ.‰ Œ3

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112

112

Jœ# . ‰ œPœ œ œ# œ œ3

3

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œ> œn œn jœ.P‰ Œ

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115

115

Œ œnFœn œ œn

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3

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‰ Œ

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(gliss.)

+ high mixture

senza rit.

senza rit.

senza rit.

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q = ca. 52 (sultry)

q = ca. 52 (sultry)

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p

pflute(s) 8'

flutes 16', 8'

œ- œ œ ˙3

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Music: Stephan Casurella

*Text © 2008 by John D. Thornburg. Used by permission.

Text: John D. Thornburg*

The Woman at Jacob’s Well(for SATB, cello, and organ)

John 4:4–42(RCL Year A, 3 Lent)

Duration = ca. 4' 30"

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done... The truth is

˙n ‰ jœœpœœ œœ

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‰ Jœœ- œ œ œ œ

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œœn ‰ jœœp.œb jœ

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Œ œp˙n œb

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– celeste

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poco più animato

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add (+ 4')

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Solo (8', 2 2/3')

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mir a cle oc

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pflute(s) 8'

a tempo

a tempo

a tempo

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p reduce to flute 8'(no celeste)

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q = ca. 112 (militant)

q = ca. 112 (militant)

principal chorus to mixture+ reed 8' (enclosed division)

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œ# œ œ œ œ œ œ œ3 3

∑principals 16', 8'(manuals coupled)

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III.

Music: Stephan Casurella

*Text © 2008 by John D. Thornburg. Used by permission.

Text: John D. Thornburg*

The Man Born Blind(for SATB and organ)

John 9:1–41(RCL Year A, 4 Lent)

Duration = ca. 4' 30"

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IV.

Music: Stephan Casurella

*Text © 2008 by John D. Thornburg. Used by permission.

Text: John D. Thornburg*

The Raising of Lazarus(for SATB and string quartet)

John 11:1–45(RCL Year A, 5 Lent)

Duration = ca. 5' 15"

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35 œP œ œ œ œ œ œ2 2

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œ# œ œ .œ# œ œ œ# œ# œn œ

œ jœ# .œ# .œn .œ

.œn œ œ œ# .œ# œ jœ

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Christ, not

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Christ, not

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plaint, and

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her com plaint, and

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œ œ .œ œ œ .œ2 2

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.œ .œ œn jœlocked the door of

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.œ# .œ œ Jœlocked the door of

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œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ

..œœ ..œœn œ jœ

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œ jœ# œ œ œ œ œ2

Christ the door is o pen

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œ jœ# œ œ œ œ2 2

is the res ur

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.p .œlife.

.pœ œ œn

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Œ Jœ

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.˙ jœ‰ jœπ

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.œ .œ œ ‰ pizz.

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Soprano

Alto

Tenor

Bass

Violin

Organ

q = ca. 69

q = ca. 69

biting

œœ>fJœ. œ# . œ. œ.

œ- œœ>œ. œ. œ. œ.

œ-œœ>œ. œn . œ. œ.

Jœœ ‰

Pnon legato

light foundations 8', 4'

Œ ‰ jœFœ œ

He was so

Œ ‰ JœF œ œ

He was so

œ œn . œ. œ.jœ. ‰ Œ

Œ Œ œœ

Œ Œ œ

œ jœ œ œnbent on seem ing

œJœ œ œn

bent on seem ing

Œ jœœ>Fjœœ>‰

.œ œœn‰ œœ

.œ œ

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V.

Music: Stephan Casurella

*Text © 2008 by John D. Thornburg. Used by permission.

Text: John D. Thornburg*

The Anointing at Bethany(for SATB, violin, and organ)

John 12:1–8(RCL Year C, 5 Lent)

John 12:1–11(RCL Years A, B, and C, Monday of Holy Week)

Duration = ca. 3' 30"

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œ ‰ jœ œ œjust, so keen to

œ ‰ Jœœ œ

just, so keen to

‰ jœœ>jœœ>‰ Œ

6

œ œœn œœ‰ Jœœ

œ œ œ

poco

poco

œ jœ œ œ œshame, so poised to

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œ ‰ Jœœ œ

blame, that when the

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œ œœn œœ‰ Jœœ

œ œ œ

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œ œ œ œ œncen sure crossed his

œ œ œ œ œncen sure crossed his

‰ jœœ>jœœ>‰ Œ

9

œœ œ œœnœ œ œ

œn œ œ

œf ‰ jœ

lips, the

œf ‰ Jœlips, the

‰ jœœ>jœœ>‰

œ œœn‰ Jœœ

œ œ

œn œ œ œ œ œLord was quick to

œn œ œ œ œ œLord was quick to

Œ jœœ>jœœ>‰

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œ œœn‰ Jœœ

œ œ

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œ-fœœ>œ. œ. œ. œ.

13

.œ œœn‰ œœ

.œ œ

∑foundations 16', 8'

œ- œœ>œ. œPœ œ œ œ# œ œ3

.œ œœ#‰ œœ

.œœ

Œ . œ

‰ Jœf œ œ

“Leave her a

‰ Jœf œ œ

“Leave her a

‰ Jœf œ œ

“Leave her a

‰ Jœf œ œ

“Leave her a

Jœ.

f‰ Œ

jœœ.F‰ Œ

Jœ. ‰ Œ

jœ. ‰ Œ

œ œ œ œlone,” the Sav ior

œ œ œ œlone,” the Sav ior

œ œ œ œlone,” the Sav ior

œ œ œ œlone,” the Sav ior

Œ Œ ‰ jœœ>f

non legato

.œ ‰ Œsaid,

.œ ‰ Œsaid,

.œ ‰ Œsaid,

.œ ‰ Œsaid,

œœ>œ. œ. œœ>œ. œ. œ# .

Œ œFœœ

Œ œ œ

˙ œ

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foundation(s) 8'or flutes 8', 4'

18

Œ ‰ JœF œ œ# œ œre fer ring to the

Ó Œ œFthe

Ó ‰ JœF œ œ#re fer ring

œ- œœ>jœœ>‰ Ó

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œ Œ Œ œœ

œ Œ œP

œ

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œ œ# .œ Jœpre cious one whose

œ œ œpre cious one

œ œ œ œ# œto the pre cious one

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œœ œ œœœ œ œ

œ œ œ

poco

poco

pocoœ œ œ œhair was moist with

œ œ œ œ œmoist with

œ œ œmoist with

œ œ œhair with

œœ œ œ œœ œ œœ œ œ

œ œ œ

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21

œ œ œ ‰ JœP

scent ed oil, whose

œ œn œ œ œscent ed oil,

œn œ ‰ jœoil, whose

.œn Jœ œ œscent ed oil,

21

œ œ œn jœœp‰˙

œn Œ Œ

.œn Jœ Jœ ‰

poco

poco

poco

poco

œ œb ˙n œ œ œheart was pure and un a

œnP

œ œ œ œn œ œwho was pure and un a

œ œ œb œ œ œn œ œheart was pure and un a

œbP

˙ œ œ œpure and un a

tender

legatoflute 8'

˙p Œ

fraid.

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fraid.

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fraid.

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Œ œ œ#

Œ ˙

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24

˙ œœn

˙ œ

Œ œ œ

.œ Jœ œ# œ œ

˙ œœ˙ œ#

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principals 8', 4', 2'

29

œ- œœ>œœ>œ. œ. œ. œ.

29

Œ jœœ.F‰ Œ

Œ Jœœ. ‰ Œ

Œ jœ.‰ Œ

œ-œœ>œ. œ. œ. œn .

‰ jœœ.‰ Œ

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œ-œœ>œ. œb . œ. œ.

‰ œ œ œ œjœœ.‰ Œ

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‰ œœnb

‰ œ

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– 2'

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jœœ. œœb

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jœ. œ

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34

‰ jœF œ œBe tray ers

‰ JœF œ œBe tray ers

jœ. ‰ Œ

34

jœ.‰ œœn

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œ jœlive to

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live to

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œn jœ œb œlie, and so he

œn Jœœb œ

lie, and so he

œœ>œœnb > ‰ Œ

..œœbn œœb

.œ œ

.œ ‰ ‰ jœdid. Pa

.œ ‰ ‰ Jœdid. Pa

‰ jœœ>œœ>œœnb > Œ

‰ jœœ œn. œb œ œ œ œœ œb œ

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œ jœ œ œ œn œ œthet ic to the ver y

œJœœ œ œn œ œ

thet ic to the ver y

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core, he grabbed at

‰ jœœ>œœ>œœnb > Œ

‰ jœœ œn. œb œ œ œ œœ œb œ

œ œ œ

œn œ œ œ œban y thing he

œb œ œ œ œan y thing he

‰ jœœ>jœœ>‰ ‰ J

œœnb >

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.œf ‰ Œcould..œf ‰ Œcould.

‰ jœœ>œœ>œœnb > ‰ jœœ>

41

‰ jœœ. œb œ œ œn œ œœ œn œb

œ œ œ

œœ> œœ œ œ œ. œœ>

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jœœ.‰ ‰ jœœ.

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‰ Jœf œ œHis deeds dis

‰ Jœf œ œ

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‰ Jœf œ œ

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‰ Jœf œ œ

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œ œ œ œtort ed all his

œ œ œ œtort ed all his

œ œ œ œtort ed all his

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– mixture

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.œ ‰ Œwords.

‰ Jœœ> œœ> œ. œ# . œ. œ.

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legatofoundation(s) 8'

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A

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jœp‰ ‰ jœ œ œ œ

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jœ ‰ Œ Ó

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Œ ‰ Jœp œ œ# œ œA noint ers live to

œ œ œ œ œ˙ œ œ#œ œ œ œ œœ

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Œ Œ œp

to

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œ œœ œœ

œœ œ œ œ œ

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œ œ œ œpur pose and to

œ œ œpur pose and

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53

œ œ œœn œœœœ œ œ

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grace,

˙bF Œgrace,F Œgrace,

‰ jœnFœn œ œ œ

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jœ œœ˙n.˙b

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and

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57 œb œ œ œbpoint ed to what

œb œb œact to what

œ œb œto what

œb œb œ œn œpoint ed be

57 œb œ œœb Œœb

œœb œb Œ

œ œ œ œlay be yond the

œ œ œ œ œlay be yond the

œ œ œ œlay be yond the

œ œ œyond the

Œ Œ œœ

Œ Œ œ œŒ Œ œ

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˙bP

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clam or

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˙bb œœ

œ œ œb˙b œ

calmato

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œ œ œof that

œ œ œof that

œ œ œof that

‰ jœpœ œ œn œ

œœ œœn œœœ œ œœ ˙

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hour.

˙p Œ

hour.

˙p

Œhour.

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.œ Jœ œ œ œn œ

62

˙ œœn

˙ œ

Œ œ œ

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˙ œœ˙ œ#

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Jœ œ jœ œ œ œ3

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œ œ œ œ œ œ3 3

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.œf

Jœ- œn œ œ

67

˙ œœn

Jœœb ‰ œœ œœ

jœb ‰ œ œ

œ. œ œn œ œ œ œb œ œ œ

˙ œœb

Jœœb ‰ œœ œb

jœb ‰ œ œ

(adding)

œ. œb> œ œ œn

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hushed

poco meno mosso

poco meno mosso

poco meno mosso

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75

Œ œp œ œthe Christ of

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poco rit.

+ 32'

+ celestelegato

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Œ .˙bπ

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Œ .˙b ˙n

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più calmato

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a tempo

a tempo

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80

˙ œœ˙ œ#

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Alto

Tenor

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Violin I

Violin II

Viola

Violoncello

Organ

h = ca. 66 (playful)

h = ca. 66 (playful)

h = ca. 66 (playful)

œƒ œœ Jœ. ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

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principals 8', 4', 2', mixture

œf œœ Jœ. ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

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. ‰3 3

œfœ œjœ. ‰ œ œ œ

jœ. ‰3 3

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. ‰3 3

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œ œ œ Jœ. ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

. ‰3 3

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jœ. ‰3 3

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œ œ œ œn œ œ œ œ œ œn3 3 3

VI.

Music: Stephan Casurella

*Text © 2008 by John D. Thornburg. Used by permission.

Text: John D. Thornburg*

The Miraculous Catch of Fish(for SATB, string quartet, and organ)

John 21:1–19(RCL Year C, 3 Easter)

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Org.

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œ Œ ˙now

wF

souls

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souls now

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foundations 16', 8'

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˙ ˙nfor

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food.

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food.

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food.

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food.

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Solo (8', 4', 2 2/3', 2, 1 3/5' or 8', 2 2/3')

arco

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quiet string 8' + celeste

(organ may double voices if desired)

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Œ œnpœ œ

Their

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nets

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the

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waves,

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waves,

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œn - œ œ- œ

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π35

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their

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hopes

sus

sus

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their

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pend ed

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the

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38 .˙n Œ Óair.

air.

.˙b Œ Ó

.˙n Œ Óair.

38

œn -πœ œ- œ œ- œ œ œ

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Ó œπœ œn Jœ.‰

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jœ ‰ Œ Ó

Ó œπœ œn Jœ. ‰3

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Œ œpœ œn œ œ œ3 3

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pizz.

pizz.

pizz.

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legato

œn Œ œn œ œnsaid, he said, “The

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45

œn œ œn œnfish are on the

œn œ œn œnfish are on the

45

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48

48 œnF‰ œ œn ‰ œ œ ‰ œ œn ‰ œ3

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legatopiù

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and when they

Œ œbfœb œb

and when they

Œ œbfœb œb

and when they

Œ œb f œb œband when they

Jœb f‰ Œ Ó

jœbf‰ Œ Ó

jœbf‰ Œ Ó

jœbf‰ Œ Ó

Jœœbbf‰ Œ Ó

Jœb ‰ Œ Œ œb

jœb ‰ Œ Ó

œb œb œb œbver i fied his

œb œb œb œbver i fied his

œb œb œb œbver i fied hisœb œb œb œbver i fied his

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51

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Œ Œ œb œb œ3

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œb œb œb œbœbœb ˙b

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Œ œb œb œthey near ly

Œ œb œb œthey near ly,

Œ œb œb œthey near ly

Œ œb œb œthey near ly,

œb ‰ œ œb ‰ œ œn ‰ œ œb ‰ œ3

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53 .˙b f Œ œn œsank, near ly

œb f œb œb Œ œ œnear ly sank, near ly

.˙b f Œ œn œsank, near lyœbf œb œb Œ œ œnnear ly sank, near ly

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Jœbf‰ Œ Ó Ó

jœb f‰ Œ Ó Œ œn œn œ

3

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. ‰ Œ3

jœnf‰ Œ œn œn œ Jœn

. ‰ œ œ œ Jœn.‰3

3

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Œ Œ œœbJœb ‰ œ œb Œ

Jœœbb ‰ œœ œœbn Œ Œ œn

jœn ‰ œ œn Œ Ó

˙b œb œb œnsank be neath the

˙n œb œb œnsank be neath the

˙b œb œb œnsank be neath the

˙b œb œb œnsank be neath the

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3

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jœn ‰ Œ Œ Œ œb ‰ œn3

jœb ‰ Œ Œ Œ œ

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55

wbweight.

wbweight.

wbweight.

wbweight.

55

Jœb ‰ Œ œb œb œ Jœb. ‰3

œb œb œ Jœb. ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

. ‰3 3

œb œb œjœ. ‰ œ œ œ

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principals 8', 4', 2', mixture

œb œb œ Jœb. ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

. ‰3 3

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. ‰3 3

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jœ. ‰3 3

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œb œn œn œ œb œn œb œ œ Jœb.‰

3 3 3

∑principals 16', 8', 4'

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. ‰3 3

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. ‰3 3

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. ‰3 3

œn œn œ Jœn.‰ œ œ œ Jœ

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œn œn œ Jœn. ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

. ‰3 3

œn œn œ Jœn. ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

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œn œn œ Jœn. ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

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œn œn œ Jœn.‰ œ œ œ Jœ

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œ ‰ œ œn ‰ œ œb ‰ œ œn ‰ œ3 3 3 3

jœb ‰ Jœb ‰jœn ‰ jœ ‰

œ# œn œ Jœn. ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

. ‰3 3

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. ‰3 3

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jœ. ‰3 3

œn œ œ Jœ. ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

. ‰3 3

Jœn ‰ Œ Ó

Jœn ‰ Œ Ó

pizz.

marcato

Ó Œ œP

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. ‰3 3

œ œn œ Jœn. ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

. ‰3 3

jœn ‰ œ œn œ jœ.‰ œ œ œ

3 3

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hun dred fif ty three, there

62

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marcato

Œ œnP œ> Jœn œ Jœ

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One hun dred fif ty

˙ Œ œnwere; one

œ œn œ Jœn. ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

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jœn .‰ Œ jœ ‰ œn œ œ

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œn œn Œ œ

Ó Œ jœp‰

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molto sost.

light principals 8', 4'

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Œ œnF

˙a catch

œn Œ œ> Jœn œ Jœ3

3three, hun dred fif ty

œ- œ Œ œnhun dred, one

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œ œn œ Jœn. ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

. ‰3 3

jœn .‰œ œ œ jœ.

‰ œn œ œ3 3

jœn .‰ Œ jœ ‰ œn œ œ

3

œn œn Œ œ

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Ó Œ jœœnP‰

Ó Œ Jœn ‰

œn Œ Œ jœ ‰

marcato

œ œn ˙nso vast

Œ œnP œn> Jœ œ

jœn3

3

One hun dred fif ty

œn Œ œ> Jœn œ Jœ3

3three, hun dred fif ty

œ- œ Œ œnhun dred, one

œ œn œ Jœn. ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

. ‰3 3

jœn .‰œ œ œ jœ.

‰ œn œ œ3 3

jœn .‰ Œ jœ ‰ œn œ œ

3

œn œn Œ œ

œœn Œ Œ jœœn ‰

œ Œ Œ Jœn ‰

œn Œ Œ jœ ‰

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Org. (add) legato

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œ œn œ œnthat words can

œ œn œ>jœ œ

jœ3 3

three, one hun dred fif ty

œn Œ œn> Jœ œjœ

33

three, hun dred fif ty

œ- œ Œ œnhun dred, one

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œ œn œ Jœn. ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

. ‰3 3

jœn . ‰ œ œ œ jœ. ‰ œ œ œ3 3

jœ. ‰jœ ‰ Jœn ‰ œ œ œ

3

œn œn Œœ

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˙n Œ œœn

˙ Œ œ

˙n Œ œ

sost.

sost.

sost.

arco

œ œ œn œnot ex press the

œn œ œ œthree ex press the

œ œ œ œnthree ex press the

˙n œ œnhun dred the

œn œn œ Jœn. ‰ œn œ œ Jœn

. ‰33

jœn . ‰ œn œ œjœ. ‰ œn œ œ

33

jœn . ‰ œ œn œ

˙ œ œn

˙ œœn œœnœn œn.˙n œ

˙ œ œn

+ mixture(manual only)

œn f œ ˙ Œprov i dence.

œnfœ ˙ Œ

prov i dence.

œf œn ˙ Œ

prov i dence.

œn f œ ˙ Œprov i dence.

Jœœnn >F‰ Œ ‰ œ œ Jœn

. ‰3

jœn>F‰ Œ Œ œ œn œ

3

jœœnn >F‰ Œ ‰ œ œ Jœn

. ‰3

jœn>F‰ Œ Œ œn œn œ

3

œœn .Fœœn .œœ Ó

œn . œ. œ Œ œ

˙n Œ Jœn ‰

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Vla.

Vlc.

Org.

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. ‰3 3

Jœn . ‰ œn œn œ Jœ. ‰ œ œ œ

3 3

œn œn œ Jœn. ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

. ‰3 3

Jœn . ‰ œn œn œ Jœ.‰ œ œ œ

3 3

69

Œ œn œn jœ œ jœ3 3

œn Jœ œ Jœ œ Œ3 3

jœn ‰ Œ Œ Jœn ‰

œn œn œ Jœn. ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

. ‰3 3

Jœn . ‰ œn œn œ Jœ. ‰ œ œ œ

3 3

œn œn œ Jœn. ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

. ‰3 3

Jœn . ‰ œn œn œ Jœ.‰ œ œ œ

3 3

jœn ‰ œ œ œ œb œn œn œb œ œ3 3 3

œ Jœ œn ‰ œœn ‰ œ œn ‰ œ

3 3 3 3

jœn ‰ Œ Œ Jœn ‰

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Vln. II

Vla.

Vlc.

Org.

71

71

œn œn œ Jœn. ‰ œ œ œ œ œ œ

3 3 3

Jœn . ‰ œn œn œ Jœ. ‰ œ œ œ

33

œn œn œ Jœn. ‰ œ œ œ œ œ œ

3 3

3

Jœn . ‰ œn œn œ Jœ.‰ œ œ œ

33

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œn ‰ œ œn ‰ œœn ‰ œ œ ‰ œ

3

3

3 3

Jœn ‰ œœ œn œn œ œ œb œn œ3 3 3

jœn ‰ Jœn ‰jœ ‰ jœ ‰

Ó Œ œnf

The

Ó Œ œnf

The

Ó Œ œnf

The

Ó Œ œnf

The

œnfœn œ Jœn. ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

. ‰3 3

œnfœn œ Jœn. ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

. ‰3 3

œnfœn œ Jœn. ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

. ‰3 3

œnfœn œ Jœn .‰ œ œ œ J

œ.‰

3 3

Jœœnnf‰ Œ Ó

Jœœnn ‰ Œ Ó

jœ ‰ Œ Ó

pizz.

pizz.

pizz.

pizz.

˙n œn œn œna ked Pe ter

˙n œ œ œbna ked Pe ter

˙n œn œn œna ked Pe ter

˙n œ œb œnna ked Pe ter

Œ œn> Œ Ó

Œ œn> Œ Ó

Œ œn> Œ Ó

Œ œn> Œ Ó

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Vln. II

Vla.

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Org. principals 8', 4', 2', mixture

arco

arco

arco

arco

74

œn œn ˙grabbed his clothes

œn œn ˙grabbed his clothes

œn œn ˙grabbed his clothes

œn œn ˙grabbed his clothes

74

Ó œn œn œjœn . ‰

3

Ó œn œn œjœn . ‰

3

Ó œn œn œjœ. ‰

3

Ó œn œn œ Jœn. ‰3

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œ Œ Ó

œ Œ Ó

œ Œ Ó

œ Œ Ó

œn œn œjœn . ‰ œ œ œ

jœ. ‰3 3

œn œn œjœn . ‰ œ œ œ

jœ. ‰3 3

œn œn œjœ. ‰ œ œ œ

jœ. ‰3 3

œn œn œ Jœn. ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

. ‰3 3

Œ œnfœ œ Jœn . ‰

œ œ œ3 3

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Vln. II

Vla.

Vlc.

Org.

principals 16', 8', 4'

76

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œn œn œjœn . ‰ œ œ œ

jœ. ‰3 3

œn œn œjœn . ‰ œ œ œ

jœ. ‰3 3

œn œn œjœ. ‰ œ œ œ

jœ. ‰3 3

œn œn œ Jœn. ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

. ‰3 3

76 œ œn œ œ œ œ œn œn œ œ ‰ œ3 3

33

Œœ ‰ œ œ ‰ œ œ œn œn

3 3 3

Jœ ‰ Jœn ‰ Jœ ‰ jœn ‰

Œ œn fand

œn œn œ Jœn. ‰3

œn œn œ Jœn. ‰3

œn œn œ Jœn. ‰3

œn œn œ Jœn.‰

3

jœ ‰ Œ

Jœ ‰ Œ

jœn ‰ Œ

pizz.

pizz.

pizz.

pizz.

˙ Œ œnjumped, and

Œ œnf˙

and jumped

Ó Œ œnf

and

œn œn œ Jœn. ‰ œœ> Œ3

œn œn œ Jœn. ‰ œœ> Œ3

œn œn œ Jœn. ‰ œœ>

Œ3

œn œn œ Jœn.‰ œn>

Œ3

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Vla.

Vlc.

Org.

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arco

arco

arco

79 œ œn œ œjumped in to the

œ œn œn œin to the

œ œn œn œjumped in to the

Œ œfœn œ

in to the

79

Ó Œ œƒœ œ3

Ó Œ œƒœ œ3

Ó Œ œnƒœ œ3

Ó œnƒœ œn Jœ. ‰3

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wnƒ

sea.

wnƒ

sea.

wnƒ

sea.

wnƒ

sea.

œn œn œ Jœn.‰ œ œ œ J

œ.‰

3 3

œn œn œ Jœn.‰ œ œ œ J

œ.‰

3 3

Jœn . ‰ œ œn œnjœ. ‰ œ œ œ

3 3

Jœn ‰œn œ œn Jœ. ‰

œ œ œ3 3

œnf œnœ Jœn . ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

. ‰3 3

œnf œnœ Jœn . ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

. ‰3 3

jœn .f‰ œn œ œn

jœ. ‰ œ œ œ3 3

Jœn .f‰ œn œ œn Jœ. ‰

œ œ œ3 3

œnfœ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ3

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3

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Org.(gradually reduce)

82

Ó Œ œnPThe

Ó Œ œnPThe

Ó Œ œnPThe

Ó Œ œnPThe

82

œn œn œ Jœn. ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

. ‰3 3

œn œn œ Jœn. ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

. ‰3 3

jœn . ‰ œn œ œnjœ. ‰ œ œ œ

3 3

Jœn . ‰œn œ œn Jœ. ‰

œ œ œ3 3

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œn ‰ œ œn ‰ œ œn ‰ œ œ ‰ œ3

3

3 3

Jœn ‰ Œ Ó

Jœn ‰ Jœn ‰jœ ‰ jœn ‰

œn œn œ œleap was what his

œn œn œ œleap was what his

œn œn œ œleap was what his

œn œn œ œleap was what his

œnp œnœ Jœn . ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

. ‰3 3

œnp œnœ Jœn . ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

. ‰3 3

œnpœ œjœ. ‰ œ œ œ

jœ. ‰3 3

œnpœ œ Jœ. ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

. ‰3 3

jœnp‰ Œ Œ œœ

Ó Œ œ

jœn ‰ Œ Œ œ

(gradually add)

œn œ ˙ œbod y did to

œ œn ˙n œbod y did to

œn œ ˙ œbod y did to

œ œn ˙n œbod y did to

œn œn œ Jœn. ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

. ‰3 3

œn œn œ Jœn. ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

. ‰3 3

œn œ œjœ. ‰ œ œ œ

jœ. ‰3 3

œn œ œ Jœ. ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

. ‰3 3

jœœn ‰ œ œ œn Jœn . ‰ œœn

3

Jœ ‰ Œ Œ œ

jœn ‰ Œ Œ œ

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Vla.

Vlc.

Org.

85 œ œn œn Œ œdem on strate, to

œn œn œ Œ œndem on strate, to

œ œn œn Œ œdem on strate, to

œn œn œ Œ œndem on strate, to

85

œn œn œ Jœn. ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

. ‰3 3

œn œn œ Jœn. ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

. ‰3 3

œ œn œ Jœn. ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

. ‰3 3

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.‰

3 3

85 jœœn ‰ œn œn œ Jœn. ‰ œœn

3

Jœn ‰ œn œ œ Jœ. ‰œœ

3

jœn ‰ Œ Œ œ

œn œ œn Œ œdem on strate, to

œn œn œb Œ œdem on strate, to

œn œ œn Œ œdem on strate, to

œn œn œb Œ œdem on strate, to

œb œn œ Jœn. ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

. ‰3 3

œb œn œ Jœn. ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

. ‰3 3

œb œn œ Jœn . ‰ œ œ œ J

œ. ‰3 3

œb œn œ Jœn .‰ œ œ œ J

œ.‰

3 3

jœœnn ‰ œn œb œ œb œ œn œœ3

3

Jœœnb ‰ œ œn œ Jœn .‰ œ œn œn

3 3

jœn ‰ Œ Œ œ

œ œn œn œndem on strate his

œb œn œn œdem on strate his

œn œ œn œdem on strate his

œn œ œb œdem on strate his

Jœœnb >f‰ Œ Ó

Jœœnb >f‰ Œ Ó

jœœnn >f‰ Œ Ó

Jœn>f‰ Œ Ó

jœœœnnb ‰ Œ Œ œœ

Jœœnn ‰ Œ Œ

œœnb

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Vln. II

Vla.

Vlc.

Org. + high mixture, reed 8'

88 wƒ

joy.

wnƒjoy.

joy.

w#ƒ

joy.

88 œƒœ œ Jœ.‰ œ œ œ Jœ

.‰

3 3

œƒœ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ3 3 3 3

œƒœ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ3

3

3

3

œƒœ œ Jœ. ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

. ‰3 3

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Jœœƒ‰ Œ œ œ œ

jœ# . ‰3

Jœœn ‰ Œ œ œ œ Jœ# . ‰

3

jœ ‰ Œ Ó

œ œ œ Jœ.‰ œ œ œ Jœ

.‰ œ œ œ Jœ

.‰

3 3 3

œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ3 3 3 3 3 3

œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ3

3

3

3

3

3

œ œ œ Jœ. ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

. ‰ œ œ œ Jœ. ‰

3 3 3

œ œ œ œ#jœ ‰ œ œ œ œ œ œ œn œ œ

3 3

3 3

Ó œ œ œ Jœ# . ‰œ œn œ œ ‰ œ

3 3 3

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Vln. II

Vla.

Vlc.

Org.

90

90 œ œ œ Jœ.‰ œ œ œ œ œ# œ œ

3 3

œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ3 3 3 3

œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ3

3

3

3

œ œ œ Jœ. ‰ œ œ œ Jœ

. ‰3 3

90 œn œn œ œ œ œn œ œ œ œ œ œ3 3 3 3

Jœ ‰ œ œ œnœ ‰ œn œ œ œ

3 3 3

Jœ# ‰ Jœ ‰ jœ ‰ jœ ‰

œ œ œ Jœ.‰ œ œ œ Jœ

.‰

3 3

œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ3 3 3 3

œn œn œ œnœn œ œ œ œ œ

œ œ3

3

3

3

œn œn œ Jœn.‰ œ œ œ Jœ

.‰

3 3

œœn ‰ œœ œœ ‰ œœ œœn ‰ œœ œœ ‰ œœ3 3 3

3

œ ‰ œ œn ‰ œ œn ‰ œ œ ‰ œ3 3 3 3

jœn ‰ Œ Ó

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Vla.

Vlc.

Org.

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92 œ ‰ œ œ ‰ œ œn ‰ œ œ ‰ œ3 3 3

3

œn ‰ œ œ ‰ œ œ ‰ œ œ ‰ œ3 3

3 3

œ ‰ œ œn ‰ œ œn ‰ œ œ ‰ œ3 3 3

3

Jœn ‰œ œ œ Jœ ‰

œ œ œ3 3

92 œœn œ œœ œœ œ œ œœ œ œœ œœ œ œ3

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3

œ œn œ Jœ. ‰ œ œ œ Jœ. ‰3 3

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Jœn ‰ Œ Jœ ‰ Œ

nonlegato

jœ ‰ Œ Œ œ œn œn3

jœn ‰ Œ Œ œ œn œn3

Jœn ‰ Œ Œ œn œ œ3

jœ ‰ Œ Ó

œœœnn

œœœnn

œœœ

œœœ

œœœ

œœœ

œœœ

œœœ

œœœ

œœœ

œœœ

œœœ

3

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Vln. II

Vla.

Vlc.

Org.

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94 œ ‰ œ œ ‰ œ œn ‰ œ œ ‰ œ3 3 3 3

œn ‰ œ œ ‰ œ œ ‰ œ œ ‰ œ3 3

3

3

œ ‰ œ œn ‰ œ œn ‰ œ œ ‰ œ3 3 3

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Britten, Benjamin. Festival Te Deum, Op. 32. London: Boosey & Hawkes, 1945. . The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54. London: Boosey & Hawkes, 1966. . War Requiem, Op. 66. London: Boosey & Hawkes, 1962. The Consultation on Common Texts. The Revised Common Lectionary. Nashville:

Abingdon Press, 1992. Crawford, Richard. America’s Musical Life: A History. New York: W. W. Norton,

2001. The Faith We Sing, ed. Hoyt L. Hickman. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2000. Harper, John, et al. “Anthem.” In Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online,

<http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.www2.lib.ku.edu:2048/subscriber/ article/grove/music/00998> (accessed 19 May 2009).

Hayes, Mark, arr. Blessed Assurance. Columbus, OH: Beckenhorst Press, 2001. Hogan, Moses, arr. Wade in the Water. Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard, 1997. Howells, Herbert. Like as the Hart Desireth the Waterbrooks. Oxford: Oxford

University Press, 1943. Long, Kenneth R. The Music of the English Church. London: Hodder and Stoughton,

1972. Marshall, Jane. Help Us Sing Again. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2006. Martinson, Joel. Three Days Had Passed. Orleans, MA: Paraclete Press, 2002. The New Oxford Annotated Bible: New Revised Standard Version. New York:

Oxford University Press, 1991.

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Phillips, Craig. Dies Gratiae: Requiem Reflections. Kingston, NY: Selah Publishing Co., 2000.

Poulenc, Francis. Conerto en Sol mineur pour Orgue, Orchestre à Cordes et

Timbales. Paris: Salabert, 1999. The Presbyterian Hymnal, ed. LindaJo McKim. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John

Knox Press, 1990. Thornburg, John. The Ministry of Congregational Singing,

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Tunes for Today. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2000. Thornburg, John, et al. Family of God: New Hymns by John Thornburg and Friends.

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APPENDIX A

TEXTS

Threshold Words by John D. Thornburg

The Miracle at Cana John 2:1-11 (RCL Year C, 2 Epiphany)

In Cana, on a wedding day, his mother came, and so did he, this man whose “Follow me” had caused a few to walk his way.

But once the feasting had begun, the wine gave out, we know not why.

His mother spoke, “They have no wine.” To our surprise, he did not summon heaven right away.

He seemed to say, “It is not yours to tell me what to do.” And since we want a Lord who makes our wishes his command, we pause.

His mother sensed what he could do… would do…

It was his word alone that changed the wedding’s course, that turned the water into wine.

And still his word, the balm that heals our every wound, the food that satisfies our hearts, the arrow piercing all deceit, is changing water into wine so we can feast into the night.

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The Woman at Jacob’s Well John 4:4-42 (RCL Year A, 3 Lent)

He spoke to her at Jacob’s well. It was forbidden, such a thing.

The air was thick; a stifling fog. “It must not be... It is not done… The truth is plain… The way is clear…”

And even so, he spoke. “Give me a drink…”

These were the threshold words; the words that opened windows so the breath of life could enter in.

She could have fled, bewildered by the boldness of the rabbi’s words. But something in his honesty said, “Stay.”

The laws of nature were unchanged. No water into wine, no sight restored. And yet a miracle occurred.

The thirsty rabbi redefined the scope of love. And boundaries once seen as firm gave way to panoramic views. The fog dispersed, the air was fresh and new.

The Man Born Blind John 9:1-41 (RCL Year A, 4 Lent)

They said that blindness was a sin. They built a fortress for their truth, then, standing on the massive walls, they flung the questions of their troubled minds.

The one they scorned knew only this: “I once was blind, but now I see.

The one called Jesus took some mud and spread it on my eyes, then sent me on my way to seek Siloam’s pool. And when I washed I saw in real time and space the things my mind had drawn.”

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To those encased in fear this simple speech was warrant for a bigger wall.

Their questions thundered on: “How dare you try to lecture us?”

This drama still unfolds today, and fortress builders of all faiths retreat into their certainty.

But God, who never sleeps, who knows the hairs upon our heads, who senses all our hope and pain, is digging in the mud, preparing to anoint the eyes of all who long for sight.

The Raising of Lazarus John 11:1-45 (RCL Year A, 5 Lent)

“If only you had been here…”

O Martha, how you speak for us!

When sorrow is a thunderstorm that floods the path we hoped to walk, how often we express our pain and signal the embrace we need, by crying our complaint.

“If only you had been here…”

Collecting every ounce of hope she had, she spoke again, “I know that God will give you what you ask.”

And Christ, not deaf to her complaint, and not immune to sorrow and to tears, unlocked the door of death.

In Christ, the door is open still. He is the resurrection and the life.

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The Anointing at Bethany John 12:1-8 (RCL Year C, 5 Lent) John 12:1-11 (RCL Years A, B, and C, Monday of Holy Week)

He was so bent on seeming just, so keen to shame, so poised to blame, that when the censure crossed his lips, the Lord was quick to speak.

“Leave her alone,” the Savior said, referring to the precious one whose hair was moist with scented oil, whose heart was pure and unafraid.

Betrayers live to lie, and so he did. Pathetic to the very core, he grabbed at anything he could. His deeds distorted all his words.

Anointers live to bless, to point the way to purpose and to grace, and in her tender act she pointed to what lay beyond the clamor of that hour.

And when he died, the Christ of God, his death was for them both.

The Miraculous Catch of Fish John 21:1-19 (RCL Year C, 3 Easter)

He stood beside the sea.

And those who, days ago, had fished for souls now searched for food. Their nets were limp upon the waves, their hopes suspended in the air.

He said, “The fish are on the other side,” and when they verified his claim they nearly sank beneath the weight.

One hundred fifty three, there were; a catch so vast that words cannot express the providence.

The naked Peter grabbed his clothes and jumped into the sea.

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The leap was what his body did to demonstrate his joy.

Ashore, the Lord had built a fire. A resurrection feast began that stretches to the present day.

Texts copyright © 2008 by John D. Thornburg. Used by permission.

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APPENDIX B

LETTER OF PERMISSION