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Use: General
Required Resources: 2-part choir
Language: English
There is a great deal of flexibility built into this setting of verses two to five of Psalm 84.
Two voice lines are sung over a Tudor ground in d minor.
These can be sung by Soprano and Alto sections (or soloists), or by Alto and Tenor.
Both settings are given in our octavo.
Further, the ground can be beautifully rendered on cello, or can be taken by organ.
The voice parts lie in very comfortable ranges, and the Tenor line can easily by sung by a Baritone (range: C to D).
The text runs:
How lovely your dwelling place, O Lord of hosts!
My soul yearns and pines for the courts of the Lord.
My heart and flesh cry out for the living God.
As the sparrow finds a home and the swallow a nest to settle her young, My home is by your altars, Lord of hosts, my king and my God!
Blessed are those who dwell in your house!
They never cease to praise you.
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