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All glory be to God on high, And peace on earth from heaven
Author: Nicolaus Decius; Bland Tucker Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.7 Appears in 7 hymnals Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project Text Sources: Gloria in excelsis (para.)
All glory be to God on high, And peace on earth from heaven
ALLEIN GOTT IN DER HÖH
Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.7 Appears in 212 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Nikolaus Decius, 1490?-1541; Hironymous Praetorius, 1560?-1629 Hymnal Title: The Hymnal 1982 Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 13454 32333 23421 Used With Text: All glory be to God on high
ALLEIN GOTT IN DER HÖH
All Glory Be to God on High
Author: Nikolaus Decius; F. Bland Tucker Hymnal: Lift Up Your Hearts #542 (2013) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.7 Hymnal Title: Lift Up Your Hearts Topics: God as King; Jesus Christ Lamb; Jesus Christ Lord; Jesus Christ Son of God; Elements of Worship Praise and Adoration Scripture: Luke 2:14 Languages: English Tune Title: ALLEIN GOTT IN DER HÖH’ SEI EHR
All Glory Be to God on High
All Glory Be to God on High
Author: Nicolaus Decius; F. Bland Tucker Hymnal: Moravian Book of Worship #472 (1995) Hymnal Title: Moravian Book of Worship Topics: Son and Redeemer; Christ; Christ--Adoration and praise; Christ--Lamb of God Scripture: John 1:29-34 Languages: English Tune Title: ALLEIN GOTT (DECIUS)
All Glory Be to God on High
All Glory Be to God on High
Author: Nikolaus Decius; F. Bland Tucker Hymnal: Psalter Hymnal (Gray) #247 (1987) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.7 Hymnal Title: Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Topics: Doxologies; Intercession of Christ; Epiphany & Ministry of Christ; King, God/Christ as; Opening of Worship; Atonement; Christmas; Doxologies; Epiphany & Ministry of Christ; Intercession of Christ; King, God/Christ as; Lamb of God; Mercy; Opening of Worship; Peace; Prayer; Thanksgiving & Gratitude Scripture: John 1:29 Languages: English Tune Title: ALLEIN GOTT
All Glory Be to God on High
Nicolaus Decius
1485 - 1541 Person Name: Nikolaus Decius Hymnal Title: Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Versifier of "All Glory Be to God on High" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Decius, Nicolaus (Nicolaus a Curia or von Hofe, otherwise Hovesch, seems to have been a native of Hof, in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, and to have been originally called Tech. He became a monk, and was in 1519 Probst of the cloister at Steterburg, near Wolfenbüttel. Becoming favourable to the opinions of Luther, he left Steterburg in July, 1522, and went to Brunswick, where he was appointed a master in the St. Katherine and Egidien School. In 1523 he was invited by the burgesses of Stettin to labour there as an Evangelical preacher along with Paulus von Rhode. He became preacher at the Church of St. Nicholas; was probably instituted by the Town Council in 1526, when von Rhode was instituted to St. Jacob's; and at the visitation in 1535 was recognized as pastor of St. Nicholas'. He died suddenly at Stettin, March 21, 1541, with some suspicion of being poisoned by his enemies of the Roman Catholic faction (Koch, i. 419-421, 471, 472; ii. 483; Allg. Deutsche Biography, iii. 791-793).He seems to have been a popular preacher and a good musician. Three hymns are ascribed to him. These are versions of the “Sanctus," the "Gloria in excelsis," and the "Agnus Dei." The second and third are noted under these Latin first lines. He is also said to have composed or adapted the melodies set to them. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Nicolaus Decius
Bland Tucker
1895 - 1984 Person Name: F. Bland Tucker Hymnal Title: Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Translator of "All Glory Be to God on High" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Francis Bland Tucker (born Norfolk, Virginia, January 6, 1895). The son of a bishop and brother of a Presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, he was educated at the University of Virginia, B.A., 1914, and at Virginia Theological Seminary, B.D., 1920; D.D., 1944. He was ordained deacon in 1918, priest in 1920, after having served as a private in Evacuation Hospital No.15 of the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I.
His first charge was as a rector of Grammer Parish, Brunswick County, in southern Virginia. From 1925 to 1945, he was rector of historic St. John's Church, Georgetown, Washington, D.C. Then until retirement in 1967 he was rector of John Wesley's parish in Georgia, old Christ Church, Savannah. In "Reflections of a Hymn Writer" (The Hymn 30.2, April 1979, pp.115–116), he speaks of never having a thought of writing a hymn until he was named a member of the Joint Commission on the Revision of the Hymnal in 1937 which prepared the Hymnal 1940
Bland Tucker
Hieronymus Praetorius
1560 - 1629 Hymnal Title: The Presbyterian Hymnal Harmonizer of "ALLEIN GOTT IN HER HÖH'" in The Presbyterian Hymnal Hieronymus Praetorius (10 August 1560 – 27 January 1629) was a north German composer and organist of the late Renaissance and very early Baroque eras. He was not related to the much more famous Michael Praetorius, though the Praetorius family had many distinguished musicians throughout the 16th and 17th centuries.
He was born in Hamburg, and spent most of his life there. Praetorius studied organ early with his father (Jacob Praetorius, also a composer), afterwards going to Cologne for further study. In 1580 he became organist in Erfurt, but only remained there two years, returning to Hamburg in 1582. Back in Hamburg he worked with his father as assistant organist at St. Jacobi, becoming principal organist in 1586 when his father died. His son, Jacob, was born that same year, and was also destined to become a composer.
In 1596 he went to Gröningen where he met Michael Praetorius and Hans Leo Hassler; presumably he became acquainted with their music, and through them the music of the contemporary Italian Venetian School, at this time.
He remained in Hamburg as organist at St. Jacobi until his death.
Praetorius wrote masses, ten settings of the Magnificat, and numerous motets, mostly in Latin. Most of his music is in the Venetian polychoral style, which uses numerous voices divided into several groups. These compositions are the first to be written in north Germany in the progressive Venetian style. Choir sizes range from 8 to 20, with the voices divided into two, three or four groups, and he must have had well-trained and sophisticated musicians at his disposal, considering both the amount and the difficulty of music he wrote for these ensembles.
While progressive in writing in the Venetian style, he was conservative in using Latin and avoiding the basso continuo, which was eagerly adopted by many other contemporary German composers. Most of his vocal music is a cappella.
Praetorius was also the first composer to compile a collection of four-part German chorales with organ accompaniment, a sound which was to become a standard in Protestant churches for several centuries. The music in the collection was compiled from four churches in Hamburg; 21 of the 88 settings are of his own composition.
Some of his organ compositions survive, including nine settings of the Magnificat, which are in a highly contrapuntal cantus firmus style. In addition to these settings, numerous anonymous pieces in north German collections of the time are now attributed with reasonable certainty to Hieronymus Praetorius.
--en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Hieronymus Praetorius
