Domine, dominus noster

This is the Communion hymn for this week, the 21st Sunday after Pentecost, or Proper 24.  Here's the mp3 from JoguesChant, and here's the score:

It's a wonderful text, the first verse of Psalm 8:

1 O LORD our Governor, *
how exalted is your Name in all the world!
2 Out of the mouths of infants and children *
your majesty is praised above the heavens.
3 You have set up a stronghold against your adversaries, *
to quell the enemy and the avenger.
4 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, *
the moon and the stars you have set in their courses,
5 What is man that you should be mindful of him? *
the son of man that you should seek him out?
6 You have made him but little lower than the angels; *
you adorn him with glory and honor;
7 You give him mastery over the works of your hands; *
you put all things under his feet:
8 All sheep and oxen, *
even the wild beasts of the field,
9 The birds of the air, the fish of the sea, *
and whatsoever walks in the paths of the sea.
10 O LORD our Governor, *
how exalted is you Name in all the world!

Here's a really nice video of the St. Peter's Choir (in Philadelphia, and Episcopal, I think) singing Barry Rose's version of "O Lord Our Governor":



And here's a plainsong version of the Psalm with fauxbourdon by Gerre Hancock; I've sung this one, in fact. Here it's done by "the choir of the Royal School of Church Music Washington Course for Advanced Trebles with lovely DC-area choir members singing ATB."



And why not? I'll just post this smashing Anglican Chant Psalm again, along with its Coverdale text!

1 O Lord our Governor, how excellent is thy Name in all the world *
thou that has set thy glory above the heavens!
2 Out of the mouth of very babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength, because of thine enemies *
that thou mightest still the enemy, and the avenger.
3 For I will consider thy heavens, even the works of thy fingers *
the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained.
4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him *
and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
5 Thou madest him lower than the angels *
to crown him with glory and worship.
6 Thou makest him to have dominion of the works of thy hands *
and thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet;
7 All sheep and oxen *
yea, and the beasts of the field;
8 The fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea *
and whatsoever walketh through the paths of the seas.
9 O Lord our Governor *
how excellent is thy Name in all the world!