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Anders Nyberg

Matching Instances: 7 Alterer of "Thuma mina (Send me, Lord)" in In Every Corner Sing

María Eugenia Cornou

b. 1969 Person Name: María Eugenia Cornou, b. 1969 Matching Instances: 1 Translator (Spanish) of "Thuma mina (Send Me, Jesus) (Jesucristo, envíame)" in Santo, Santo, Santo

Joëlle Gouel

Person Name: Joëlle Gouël, 1943- Matching Instances: 1 Translator (French) of "Send me, Lord (Thuma Mina)" in The Book of Praise

b. 1937 Matching Instances: 1 Transcriber of "[Thuma mina]" in Halle Halle A Roman Catholic priest for many years, Fr. Dargie observed that many priests resorted to using European or North American melodies they knew and ignored the rich heritage of South African music, especially the music of the Xhosa and Zulu peoples. For example, the venerable Latin chant “Tantum Ergo Sacramentum” (a communion hymn attributed to St. Thomas Aquinas), was sung in one parish to “My Darling Clementine”! For Fr. Dargie, a white South African of Scots-Irish lineage, part of the liberation of black South Africans from the political oppression of apartheid was to encourage them to sing their Christian faith with their own music rather than in the musical idioms of their colonial oppressors. In the decades immediately following the reforms of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), Fr. Dargie was among many who encouraged Africans to find their own voice in congregational singing. He sponsored workshops throughout southern Africa with indigenous musicians, giving them specific texts from the Mass and asking them to compose music to fit the melodic contour and rhythmic structure of the words. Since most African languages are tonal, a melodic shape emerges directly from speaking the text. Stephen Molefe was among the first South African musicians that Fr. Dargie worked with in these workshops. --www.gbod.org/