{"id":3222,"date":"2016-09-30T15:54:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T19:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=3222"},"modified":"2021-11-07T09:22:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T14:22:32","slug":"songs-we-sing-creator-of-the-stars-of-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/songs-we-sing-creator-of-the-stars-of-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs We Sing \u2014 “Creator of the Stars of Night”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello, Song Leaders!<\/p>\n

“Creator of the Stars of Night” is a centuries old hymn we’ll be singing as a lamp lighting song during Advent.<\/p>\n

We’ll be singing it in unison using call and echo.<\/p>\n

You have two options.<\/p>\n

Method #1:<\/p>\n

This is the simplest approach. \u00a0You, the song leader, sing a line and invite the congregation to echo it back.<\/p>\n

Song Leader: Creator of the stars of night,
\nCongregation: Creator of the stars of night,
\nSong Leader: Your people’s everlasting light
\nCongregation: Your people’s everlasting light
\netc.<\/p>\n

Method #2:<\/p>\n

You could teach the congregation how to sing the entire first verse.<\/p>\n

Creator of the stars of night,
\nyour people’s everlasting light,
\nO Christ, Redeemer of us all,
\nwe pray you hear us when we call.<\/p>\n

Then, you sing verse two, solo, cuing them to repeat the first verse as you finish. \u00a0You continue this alternation between you as soloist, singing through the other verses, and the congregation refraining with verse one.<\/p>\n

To give you a sense of the melody, listen to this recording<\/a>, which is performed in Latin.<\/p>\n

And here is the sheet music. \u00a0Creator of the Stars of Night<\/a><\/p>\n

Because the type on the sheet music is small, it may help to copy these lyrics and print them out.<\/p>\n

Creator of the stars of night
\nyour people\u2019s everlasting light,
\nO Christ, redeemer of us all
\nwe pray you hear us when we call.<\/p>\n

In sorrow that the ancient curse
\nshould doom to death a universe
\nyou came, O savior, to set free
\nyour own in glorious liberty<\/p>\n

When this old world drew on toward night
\nyou came; but not in splendor bright
\nnot as a monarch, but the child
\nof Mary, blameless mother mild<\/p>\n

At your great name, O Jesus, now
\nall knees must bend, all hearts must bow
\nall things on earth with one accord
\nlike those in heaven, shall call you lord,<\/p>\n

Come in your holy might, we pray
\nredeem us for eternal day
\ndefend us while we dwell below
\nfrom all assaults of our dread foe<\/p>\n

To God, above and here below,
\nand in between in spirit\u2019s flow,
\npraise, honor great and glory be
\nfrom age to age eternally<\/p>\n

It’s a beautiful and meditative hymn, and one of the rare chances we get to sing plainchant together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello, Song Leaders! “Creator of the Stars of Night” is a centuries old hymn we’ll be singing as a lamp lighting song during Advent. We’ll be singing it in unison using call and echo. You have two options. Method #1: This is the simplest approach. \u00a0You, the song leader, sing a line and invite the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3222"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4242,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222\/revisions\/4242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}