O Sacred Head Now Wounded - guitar/cello duet performed by Jack Marti & Elisabeth Montague
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- Elisabeth called me a couple of weeks ago to see if I would be willing to help her make an instrumental recording of this song for a project she's helping with. I said sure. Well, that's been put on hold for a while, so I thought since we've practiced, we might as well make a video. So, here it is!
The hymn is based on a long medieval Latin poem, Salve mundi salutare, with stanzas addressing the various parts of Christ's body hanging on the Cross. The last part of the poem, from which the hymn is taken, is addressed to Christ's head, and begins "Salve caput cruentatum." The poem is often attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153), but is now attributed to the Medieval poet Arnulf of Louvain (died 1250). It was used for the text of Dieterich Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri.
The poem was translated into German by the prolific Lutheran hymnist Paul Gerhardt (1607-1676). Although Gerhardt translated the whole poem, it is the closing section which has become best known, and is often sung as a hymn in its own right. The German hymn begins, "O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden". The closing section has also been translated into English, by several writers, but is best known as "O Sacred head, sore wounded".
The hymn was first translated into English in 1752 by John Gambold (1711-1771), an Anglican vicar in Oxfordshire. His translation begins, "O Head so full of bruises." In 1830 a new translation of the hymn was made by an American Presbyterian minister, James Waddel Alexander (1804-1859). Alexander's translation, beginning "O sacred head, now wounded," became one of the most widely used in 19th and 20th century hymnals.
Another English translation, based on the German, was made in 1861 by Sir Henry Baker. Published in Hymns Ancient and Modern, it begins, "O sacred head surrounded by crown of piercing thorn."
In 1899 the English poet Robert Bridges (1844-1930) made a fresh translation from the original Latin, beginning "O sacred Head, sore wounded, defiled and put to scorn." This is the version used in the 1940 Hymnal (Episcopal), the 1982 Hymnal (Episcopal; stanzas 1-3 and 5), and the Church of England's New English Hymnal (1986) and several other late 20th-century hymn books.
The English Hymnal, 1906 has a translation atrributed to "Y.H.", referring to Bridges' translations for the Yattendon Hymnal, of which he was the editor.
The music for the German and English versions of the hymn is by Hans Leo Hassler, written around 1600 for a secular love song, "Mein G'müt ist mir verwirret", which first appeared in print in 1601. The tune was appropriated and rhythmically simplified for Gerhardt's German hymn in 1656 by Johann Crüger. Johann Sebastian Bach arranged the melody and used five stanzas of the hymn in his St Matthew Passion, stanza 6 also in his cantata Sehet, wir gehn hinauf gen Jerusalem, BWV 159. Bach used the melody on different words in his Christmas Oratorio, both in the first choral (#5) and the triumphant final chorus. Franz Liszt included an arrangement of this hymn in the sixth station, Saint Veronica, of his Via Crucis (the Way of the Cross), S.504a. The Danish composer Rued Langgaard composed a set of variations for string quartet on this tune.
The melody of "American Tune" by Paul Simon is based on the hymn.
O sacred Head, now wounded, with grief and shame weighed down,
Now scornfully surrounded with thorns, Thine only crown;
How pale Thou art with anguish, with sore abuse and scorn!
How does that visage languish, which once was bright as morn!
What Thou, my Lord, hast suffered, was all for sinners' gain;
Mine, mine was the transgression, but Thine the deadly pain.
Lo, here I fall, my Savior! 'Tis I deserve Thy place;
Look on me with Thy favor, vouchsafe to me Thy grace.
What Thou, my Lord, hast suffered, was all for sinners' gain;
Mine, mine was the transgression, but Thine the deadly pain.
Lo, here I fall, my Savior! 'Tis I deserve Thy place;
Look on me with Thy favor, vouchsafe to me Thy grace. - เพลง
The best version of this song I have ever heared.
Thank you!
Absolutely beautiful, love how the two instruments went so perfectly together.
Just beautiful. Thanks to both.
It was our pleasure!
What a beautiful instrumental... folks
2 favorite instruments well played, thank you for making my Holy Saturday special.
Glad we were able to minister to you! Thanks for watching/listening!
absolutely beautiful! The cello adds a sorrow feeling and it was so perfect
Just stumbled upon this. Stunning.
I started researching the melody of Paul Simon's song (a favorite). I eventually ended up on this TH-cam page. This is extremely moving.
I agree entirely!
Yes , An American tune always springs to mind when I sing O Sacred Head. Paul Simon borrowed the tune from J S Bach , who had borrowed it from H L Hassler.
St Bernard of Clairvaux was born 997 years ago, and wrote the words of this most lovely Good Friday hymn, which inspired JS Bach's music of 1729. This version is new, but in the stream that's flowed so long. I loved it.
Incredibly beautiful.
Very moving piece. Beautifully played from your hearts. God Bless you.
Thanks, Tracy!
Wonderfully well done. Thank you for your efforts, talents, skills, and time! It is more than pleasing to the ear -- it touched my heart.
I'm glad it ministered to you!
Very Beautiful Music , The Guitar and Cello blend perfectly here : )
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Beautiful,,,so amazing what the cello adds....I love music, and love you guys for sharing!!! Bravo!~~John
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Beautiful. And very interesting background to the origins of the tune and lyrics. Thank you.
Thank you! Indeed, there are hardly more powerful lyrics to be found in any hymn.
Beautiful, Jack, both of you. Blessed.
Maravilhoso !!!
Simply Divine!
So beautiful Jack!! The cello and your guitar go so well together!!
Real nice Jack! You and your friend did a wonderful job!
Awesome music playing indeed ! Thanks, and Best Regards, Bob
that was lovely!
Wonderful!!!
What a great joy. I thees dark days that , that lay ahead.
Astute observation! Yeah, if you read the description, that is indeed what happened! Interesting that Paul calls it an American Tune, when it's origins are anything but American!
Great job ,sir .
Wow! awesome arrangement and guitar playing! I like it very much. Congrats, 5* and best regards! Karlheinz
Beautiful!
Merci, Bob! Blessings on you!
Hey Jack, it's been a while since I've stopped by one of your videos. It's always encouraging to see you and your friends perform hymns to God. Thanks.
Gnarly , what a blessing !
I'm glad it ministered to you!
@@JackMarti1956 , yes sir , I shall pray this on my guitar.
Beautiful
Thank you!
Beautiful. Your cello and guitar complement each other so nicely.
Thank you. :-)
Wonderful !!
Glad it ministered to you!
I would think it'd be safe to say that Paul Simon was inspired by this when he wrote "An American Tune." The similarities are quite evident. Both are lovely melodies, indeed.
***** Thank you! I did not know that.
I always wondered that too - we sang this many time when I growing up and when I first heard American Tune I thought I heard the influence of this song.
He admitted it openly that he used this tune in american tune. It also inspired him to write bridge over troubled water.
Thank you.
Thanks, Rob!
Thanks, Raymond!
Thanks, Doug!
Thanks, Jeff!
Thanks, Arthur!
Nice job, you two!
Thank you!
Thanks, Virginia!
Glad u enjoyed it!
I understand! I've been attempting to play guitar for 46 years!
Thanks, Karlheinz! I'm glad u appreciated it. Thanks for the video resoponse, too!
very nice great
superb
Thank you.
It's very nice, indeed. I think we should do this IndahNezia as well - it is such an insanely beautiful song...
Beautiful playing to both of you!! While the actual recording quality is not great, or not to my preference, the intonation, technical skills and emotion in the playing more than makes up for it! An interesting interpretation, while keeping the original in the guitar. Thank you!
Thank you, Chris. Yes, the recording quality is not the best, but not bad for an inexpensive camcorder!
Amazing job and quite inspiring!! I hope you don't mind me asking for the sheet music? :D
Hey Jack-do you have music for this? Thinking of using it for Good Friday.
Sorry, no, I play mostly by ear. I learned this by watching one of my former students who put this arrangement together. I probably don't do it exactly like him either. It's pretty simple though. Just watch the chords and pick out the melody between and while playing the chords.
Hello - I wonder if you would allow us to share this song with our congregation during our strearming online Good Friday worship service? This is beautiful.
Absolutely! Permission granted, not that you really need it! Blessings!
LOL! Yeah, I thought that was funny! Just had to include that!
Sorrow encripted!
Indeed.
I don't think there is any per se for this particular arrangement. For the guitar part, I just copied the arrangement one of my former students made up in his head by watching him play it. As for the cello part, I think she was just looking at the hymnal to get an idea how the harmony should be played.
Greetings--would it be possible to use this music in a video? I can give more information if you'd like via email. Thanks!
Certainly! Let me know whenever you upload it, so I can watch it!
@@JackMarti1956 Awesome, thanks so much! It'll be a lenten video so not for a few months.
American Tune - Simon & Garfunkel
Any way I could get a copy of that score?
Sorry. There is no score. I learned it by ear from one of my former students, and I think Elisabeth got her part from a hymnal.
+Kevin King this is one of the chorale's from Bach's St. Matthew Passion. It appears in the work at least 4 times, all with different harmonizations. You'll have to read alto or tenor clef(s) to discern the cello part.
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Really? Wow! Thanks for letting me know! That's awesome! We really enjoyed doing this!
beautiful. please tune next time.
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Chords not correct 1:50 - 1:58
2:54-2:59 pitch clashes
Correct progression: Am, G, G/B/ C/E C/F# G Dsus4-D G
The pitch F-natural against an F major chord at 2:57-58 is disconcerting; not sure where your primary source is coming from, but it's wrong.
Thanks. I appreciate your input. I also think the dissonance is a little intense at that point. Perhaps if we had had more time to work on it, we could have fixed it, but, alas, we were both pretty much playing by ear, though Elisabeth was roughly following notes from a hymnal. Still, overall we were pleased with it.
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Jack Marti, been enjoying your videos...great playing with nice production! Sorry for cursing on your page.