O Thou sweetest Source (Charles Wood)

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•  Posted on 2026-02-26(Posted 2026-02-26)  CPDL #88508:        (Sibelius 4) (Sibelius 7)

Editor: Peter Gibson (submitted 2026-02-26).   Score information: A4, 14 pages, 155 kB   Copyright: CPDL

• (Posted 2024-03-19)  CPDL #79615:       

Editor: Daniel Pickens-Jones (submitted 2024-03-19).   Score information: Letter, 11 pages, 2.59 MB   Copyright: CC BY SA

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General Information

Title: O Thou sweetest Source of gladness
Composer: Louis Bourgeois
Arranger: Charles Wood
Lyricist: Paul Gerhardt
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Anthem   Meter: 87. 87. 77. 88

Language: English
Instruments: Organ

First published: 1931 in the Year Book Press Series of Anthems and Church Music, No. A72. H. F. W. Deane & Sons
Description: Based on a 16th-century Genevan Psalter tune by Louis Bourgeois, setting a 1648 Paul Gerhardt hymn text (O Du allersüßte Freude) in a 1904 translation by Wood's fellow Caius don George Ratcliffe Woodward.

See also:

• Germany (Louis Bourgeois), a shape-note arrangement of this tune.

• Psalm 42 Ainsi qu'on oit le cerf (Claude Goudimel), Claude Goudimel's polyphonic arrangement of this tune.

• Comfort, comfort, ye my people (Louis Bourgeois), a different harmonization of this tune in 20th-century hymnal format.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at O Du allersüßte Freude.