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Hail! great Creator, wise and good!
Author: Anon. Appears in 113 hymnals Used With Tune: ST. MARTIN'S
Hail! great Creator, wise and good!
ST. MARTIN'S
Appears in 232 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Wm. Tansur Incipit: 11215 12334 54312 Used With Text: Hail! great Creator, wise and good!
ST. MARTIN'S
HARVEY'S CHANT
Appears in 52 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: W. B. Bradbury Incipit: 11111 71222 22233 Used With Text: Hail! great Creator, wise and good!
HARVEY'S CHANT
Hail, great Creator, wise and good!
Hymnal: Hymns, Selected and Original #58 (1828) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Lyrics: 1 Hail, great Creator, wise and good!
To thee our songs we raise.
Nature, thro' all her various scenes,
Invites us to thy praise.
2 At morning, noon, and ev'ning mild,
Fresh wonders strike our view;
And while we gaze, our hearts exult,
With transports ever new.
3 Thy glory beams in ev'ry star,
Which gilds the gloom of night;
And decks the smiling face of morn
With rays of cheerful light.
4 The lofty hill, the humble lawn,
With countless beauties shine;
The silent grove, the awful shade,
Proclaim thy pow'r divine.
5 Great nature's God! still may these scenes
Our serious hours engage!
Still may our grateful hearts consult
Thy works' instructive page!
6 And while in all thy wondrous works,
Thy varied love we see;
Still may the contemplation lead
Our hearts, O God, to thee!
Topics: God's love displayed in creation; The Works of God
Hail, great Creator, wise and good!
Hail, great Creator, wise and good!
Hymnal: A Collection of Hymns and A Liturgy #63 (1814) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Lyrics: 1 Hail, great Creator, wise and good!
To thee our songs we raise.
Nature, thro' all her various scenes,
Invites us to thy praise.
2 At morning, noon, and ev'ning mild,
Fresh wonders strike our view;
And while we gaze, our hearts exult,
With transports ever new.
3 Thy glory beams in ev'ry star,
Which gilds the gloom of night;
And decks the smiling face of morn
With rays of cheerful light.
4 The lofty hill, the humble lawn,
With countless beauties shine;
The silent grove, the awful shade,
Proclaim thy pow'r divine.
5 Great nature's God! still may these scenes
Our serious hours engage!
Still may our grateful hearts consult
Thy works' instructive page!
6 And while in all thy wondrous works,
Thy varied love we see;
Still may the contemplation lead
Our hearts, O God, to thee!
Topics: Works of God In Nature Languages: English
Hail, great Creator, wise and good!
Hail, great Creator, wise and good!
Hymnal: A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Social and Private Worship #LXIII (1823) Languages: English
Hail, great Creator, wise and good!
Anonymous
Person Name: Anon. Author of "Hail! great Creator, wise and good!" in Crown Him In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.
Anonymous
William B. Bradbury
1816 - 1868 Person Name: Wm. B. Bradbury Composer of "HARVEY'S CHANT" in New Christian Hymn and Tune Book William Bachelder Bradbury USA 1816-1868. Born at York, ME, he was raised on his father's farm, with rainy days spent in a shoe-shop, the custom in those days. He loved music and spent spare hours practicing any music he could find. In 1830 the family moved to Boston, where he first saw and heard an organ and piano, and other instruments. He became an organist at 15. He attended Dr. Lowell Mason's singing classes, and later sang in the Bowdoin Street church choir. Dr. Mason became a good friend. He made $100/yr playing the organ, and was still in Dr. Mason's choir. Dr. Mason gave him a chance to teach singing in Machias, ME, which he accepted. He returned to Boston the following year to marry Adra Esther Fessenden in 1838, then relocated to Saint John, New Brunswick. Where his efforts were not much appreciated, so he returned to Boston. He was offered charge of music and organ at the First Baptist Church of Brooklyn. That led to similar work at the Baptist Tabernacle, New York City, where he also started a singing class. That started singing schools in various parts of the city, and eventually resulted in music festivals, held at the Broadway Tabernacle, a prominent city event. He conducted a 1000 children choir there, which resulted in music being taught as regular study in public schools of the city. He began writing music and publishing it. In 1847 he went with his wife to Europe to study with some of the music masters in London and also Germany. He attended Mendelssohn funeral while there. He went to Switzerland before returning to the states, and upon returning, commenced teaching, conducting conventions, composing, and editing music books. In 1851, with his brother, Edward, he began manufacturring Bradbury pianos, which became popular. Also, he had a small office in one of his warehouses in New York and often went there to spend time in private devotions. As a professor, he edited 59 books of sacred and secular music, much of which he wrote. He attended the Presbyterian church in Bloomfield, NJ, for many years later in life. He contracted tuberculosis the last two years of his life.
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William B. Bradbury
William Tans'ur
1699 - 1783 Person Name: Wm. Tansur Composer of "ST. MARTIN'S" in Crown Him William Tansur, b. about 1700, Dunchurch of Barnes; d. 1783, St. Neots Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908
Also known as Tansur; Tanzer; le Tansur
William Tans'ur
