Friday, February 12, 2010

Pls does anyone know who wrote or sang this song, but here are some lines ';as the deer panteth for the water';?

It's the opening lines from the 42nd Psalm, and King David supposedly fashioned them.





The Latin ';tag'; for this psalm is ';Sicut cervus.'; There have been many settings, I'm sure, but the one by Palestrina is done a lot.





There's also a gorgeous setting by Herbert Howells called ';Like as the hart.';Pls does anyone know who wrote or sang this song, but here are some lines ';as the deer panteth for the water';?
It's from Psalms 42, so I'm not really sure who wrote it. Lots of people have used it in song over the centuries.

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