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Castle Island
Staff Notation • Sacred, Hymns
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Different typesettings and voicings of the same work. This page shows the main edition; the others are below.
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Castle Island by Jacob French — Lyrics
In finem, pro iis qui commutabuntur. Testimonium Asaph, psalmus.
Qui regis Israël, intende; qui deducis velut ovem Joseph.
Qui sedes super cherubim, manifestare
coram Ephraim, Benjamin, et Manasse. Excita potentiam tuam, et veni, ut salvos facias nos.
Deus, converte nos, et ostende faciem tuam, et salvi erimus.
Domine Deus virtutum, quousque irasceris super orationem servi tui?
cibabis nos pane lacrimarum, et potum dabis nobis in lacrimis in mensura?
Posuisti nos in contradictionem vicinis nostris, et inimici nostri subsannaverunt nos.
Deus virtutum, converte nos, et ostende faciem tuam, et salvi erimus.
Vineam de Aegypto transtulisti: ejecisti gentes, et plantasti eam.
Dux itineris fuisti in conspectu ejus; plantasti radices ejus, et implevit terram.
Operuit montes umbra ejus, et arbusta ejus cedros Dei.
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About Castle Island
Jacob French, a composer of American sacred music from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, wrote this SATB setting. The work is based on Psalm 80, a plea for divine intervention and restoration. The text, sung in Latin, expresses deep sorrow and a yearning for God's favor, likening Israel to a vine transplanted from Egypt. The music would have been intended for congregational or choir use within the tradition of early American psalmody and hymnody, reflecting a period of significant musical development in the nascent United States.
