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Around the Throne
Author: Anne Shepherd Meter: 8.6.8.6.8.8 Appears in 456 hymnals First Line: Around the throne of God in heav'n Refrain First Line: Singing: Glory, glory, glory! Topics: Children Used With Tune: GLORY
Around the Throne
Today a Wonder We Behold
Author: John Brownlie Meter: 8.6.8.6.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics:
To-day a wonder we behold,
A Mystery profound,--
The Great Invisible of old
Before our eyes is bound:
And He Who came to set us free,
Is held in base captivity.
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The judge of all, to Whose assize
The race of man shall wend,
When He to judgement shall arise,
And forth the summons send,--
Behold Him, faultless and alone,
Before an earthly judgement throne.
And cruel hands are on Him laid,
And smite Him on the face,
'Though by Himself the hands were made,
Thus sullied with disgrace;
Creation, view the awful sight,
The creature his Creator smite.
He, Who Immortal Life bestows,
And hades' might defies,
Is hurried by relentless hands,
To Calvary, where He dies;--
And all is borne,--the scorn, the Cross,
In love to save our souls from loss.
Text Sources: Sticheron Idiomelon from Vespers on Friday of Passion Week
Today a Wonder We Behold
Have We Not Known? Have We Not Heard
Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith Meter: 8.6.8.6.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: 1 Have we not known? Have we not heard
how from that throne on high
there sprang, at God's creative word,
our earth and sea and sky?
Beneath his heaven stands displayed
this firmly-founded world he made.
2 Our days on earth are in his hand,
our thread of life, how frail!
Before his greatness none can stand,
no mortal strength prevail.
All human pride and power must fall:
his kingdom stands and orders all.
3 The starry host he holds in place
and they his power proclaim;
beyond the darkest depths of space
he knows them all by name.
No hand but his could set them there,
no mind in majesty compare.
4 Have we not heard? Have we not known
how God shall still sustain
the heart that looks to him alone
and his eternal reign?
where borne aloft on eagles' wings
we share the song creation sings. Topics: Creation; God Father; Providence; Trust Scripture: Isaiah 40:21-31
Have We Not Known? Have We Not Heard
UNE JEUNE PUCELLE
Meter: 8.6.8.6.8.8 Appears in 43 hymnals Tune Sources: French folk tune, c. 16th cent. Tune Key: g minor Incipit: 51234 32171 1271 Used With Text: 'Twas in the Moon of Wintertime
UNE JEUNE PUCELLE
How calm and beautiful the morn
Author: Thomas Hastings Hymnal: Trinity Hymnal #209 (1961) Meter: 8.6.8.6.8.8 Lyrics: 1 How calm and beautiful the morn
That gilds the sacred tomb,
Where Christ the crucified was borne,
And veiled in midnight gloom!
O weep no more the Saviour slain;
The Lord is risen; he lives again.
2 Ye mourning saints, dry ev'ry tear
For your departed Lord;
Behold the place, he is not here,
The tomb is all unbarred;
The gates of heath were closed in vain:
The Lord is risen; he lives again.
3 Now cheerful to the house of prayer
Your early footsteps bend;
The Saviour will himself be there,
Your Advocate and Friend:
Once by the law your hopes were slain,
But now in Christ ye live again.
4 How tranquil now the rising day!
'Tis Jesus still appears,
A risen Lord to chase away
Your unbelieving fears:
O weep no more your comforts slain;
The Lord is risen; he lives again.
5 And when the shades of evening fall,
When life's last hour draws nigh,
If Jesus shine upon the soul,
How blissful then to die!
Since he has risen that once was slain,
Ye die in Christ to live again.
Amen. Topics: Blessed Hope; Christ, The Lord Jesus; Christ Resurrection; Consolation; Resurrection of Believers Scripture: Matthew 28:6 Languages: English Tune Title: HASTINGS
How calm and beautiful the morn
The rosy-fingered dawn appears
Author: John Brownlie Hymnal: Hymns of the Russian Church #1 (1920) Meter: 8.6.8.6.8.8 Lyrics:
The rosy-fingered dawn appears,
And lo, the sun uprise;
His shafts like golden pointed spears
Illume the brightening skies;--
Up, soul of mine, in beauty shine,
And praise the Lord of Light divine.
Thou hast a task to do this day,
Thy God to serve in all;
Like morn and noon thy light display,
Ere night in darkness fall.--
Up, soul of mine, in beauty shine,
And praise the Lord of Light divine.
The rosy morn shall fade away,
The sun his course complete;
Thy task must end with close of day,
When light and darkness greet.--
Up, soul of mine, in beauty shine,
And praise the Lord of Light divine.
2
Eternal light eternal glows,
Beyond the realms of time;
Where service still to service grows,
As suns to noontide climb.--
Up, soul of mine, in beauty shine,
And praise the Lord of Light divine.
Languages: English
The rosy-fingered dawn appears
May I, A Pilgrim, Hope to Tread
Author: Herbert Grieb Hymnal: Ten New Hymns on the Ministry #4 (1966) Meter: 8.6.8.6.8.8
May I, A Pilgrim, Hope to Tread
Johann Sebastian Bach
1685 - 1750 Meter: 8.6.8.6.8.8 Composer of "GOTTLOB" in Christian Science Hymnal (Rev. and enl.) Johann Sebastian Bach was born at Eisenach into a musical family and in a town steeped in Reformation history, he received early musical training from his father and older brother, and elementary education in the classical school Luther had earlier attended.
Throughout his life he made extraordinary efforts to learn from other musicians. At 15 he walked to Lüneburg to work as a chorister and study at the convent school of St. Michael. From there he walked 30 miles to Hamburg to hear Johann Reinken, and 60 miles to Celle to become familiar with French composition and performance traditions. Once he obtained a month's leave from his job to hear Buxtehude, but stayed nearly four months. He arranged compositions from Vivaldi and other Italian masters. His own compositions spanned almost every musical form then known (Opera was the notable exception).
In his own time, Bach was highly regarded as organist and teacher, his compositions being circulated as models of contrapuntal technique. Four of his children achieved careers as composers; Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Chopin are only a few of the best known of the musicians that confessed a major debt to Bach's work in their own musical development. Mendelssohn began re-introducing Bach's music into the concert repertoire, where it has come to attract admiration and even veneration for its own sake.
After 20 years of successful work in several posts, Bach became cantor of the Thomas-schule in Leipzig, and remained there for the remaining 27 years of his life, concentrating on church music for the Lutheran service: over 200 cantatas, four passion settings, a Mass, and hundreds of chorale settings, harmonizations, preludes, and arrangements. He edited the tunes for Schemelli's Musicalisches Gesangbuch, contributing 16 original tunes. His choral harmonizations remain a staple for studies of composition and harmony. Additional melodies from his works have been adapted as hymn tunes.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Henry Thomas Smart
1813 - 1879 Meter: 8.6.8.6.8.8 Composer of "EVENING LIGHT (Smart)" Henry Smart (b. Marylebone, London, England, 1813; d. Hampstead, London, 1879), a capable composer of church music who wrote some very fine hymn tunes (REGENT SQUARE, 354, is the best-known).
Smart gave up a career in the legal profession for one in music. Although largely self taught, he became proficient in organ playing and composition, and he was a music teacher and critic. Organist in a number of London churches, including St. Luke's, Old Street (1844-1864), and St. Pancras (1864-1869), Smart was famous for his extemporizations and for his accompaniment of congregational singing. He became completely blind at the age of fifty-two, but his remarkable memory enabled him to continue playing the organ. Fascinated by organs as a youth, Smart designed organs for important places such as St. Andrew Hall in Glasgow and the Town Hall in Leeds. He composed an opera, oratorios, part-songs, some instrumental music, and many hymn tunes, as well as a large number of works for organ and choir. He edited the Choralebook (1858), the English Presbyterian Psalms and Hymns for Divine Worship (1867), and the Scottish Presbyterian Hymnal (1875). Some of his hymn tunes were first published in Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861).
Bert Polman
Henry Thomas Smart
John Haynes Holmes
1879 - 1964 Meter: 8.6.8.6.8.8 Author of "All hail, the pageant of the years" in The Beacon Song and Service book Born: November 29, 1879, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Died: April 3, 1964, New York City.
Buried: Community Church of New York Unitarian Universalist, New York City.
Holmes graduated from Harvard University, Phi Beta Kappa. His grandfather, John Cummings Haynes, manager of the Oliver Ditson music publishing house, helped pay his Harvard tuition. Holmes was ordained in 1904, and became minister of the Unitarian Third Congregational Church, Dorchester, Massachusetts. In February 1907, he became junior minister at the Church of the Messiah in New York City. His works include:
I Speak for Myself, 1959
Collected Hymns, 1960
--www.hymntime.com/tch/
John Haynes Holmes
Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary
Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: Grand Rapids, MI: Christian Classics Ethereal Library Meter: 8.6.8.6.8.8
Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary
Small Church Music
Meter: 8.6.8.6.8.8 Editors: Josiah Conder Description:
The SmallChurchMusic site was launched in 2006, growing out of the requests from those struggling
to provide suitable music for their services and meetings. Rev. Clyde McLennan was ordained in mid
1960’s and was a pastor in many small Australian country areas, and therefore was acutely aware of
this music problem. Having also been trained as a Pipe Organist, recordings on site (which are a subset
of the smallchurchmusic.com site) are all actually played by Clyde, and also include piano and piano
with organ versions. All recordings are in MP3 format.
Churches all around the world use the recordings, with downloads averaging over 60,000 per
month.
The recordings normally have an introduction, several verses and a slowdown on the last verse.
Users are encouraged to use software: Audacity (http://www.audacityteam.org) or Song Surgeon (http://songsurgeon.com) (see http://scm-audacity.weebly.com for more information) to adjust the MP3 number of verses, tempo
and pitch to suit their local needs.
Copyright notice: Rev. Clyde McLennan, performer in this collection, has assigned his performer rights in this collection to Hymnary.org. Non-commercial use of these recordings is permitted. For permission to use them for any other purposes, please contact manager@hymnary.org.
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