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Sing We Triumphant Hymns of Praise

Author: St. Bede the Venerable, 673-735; John D. Chambers, 1805-1893; Benjamin Webb, 1819-1885 Meter: 8.8.8.8 with alleluias Appears in 8 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Sing we triumphant hymns of praise To greet our Lord these festive days, Alleluia, alleluia! Who by a road before untrod Ascended to the throne of God, Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! 2 In wond'ring awe his faithful band Upon the Mount of Olives stand. Alleluia, alleluia! And with the Virgin Mother see Their Lord ascend in majesty. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! 3 O risen Christ, ascended Lord, All praise to you let earth accord, Alleluia, alleuia! Who are, while endless ages run, With Father and with Spirit, One. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! 4 To God the Father let us sing, To God the Son, our risen King, Alleluia, alleluia! And equally let us adore The Holy Spirit evermore. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! Topics: The Liturgical Year The Ascension of the Lord Scripture: Luke 24:50-52 Used With Tune: LASST UNS ERFREUEN

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LASST UNS ERFREUEN

Meter: 8.8.8.8.8 with refrain Appears in 482 hymnals Tune Sources: Geistliche Kirchengasänge, Cologne, 1623 Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 11231 34511 23134 Used With Text: Sing We Triumphant Hymns of Praise

DEO GRACIAS

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 99 hymnals Tune Sources: English traditional, 15th c. Tune Key: d minor Incipit: 11717 76511 75454 Used With Text: Sing We Triumphant Hymns

TUGWOOD

Appears in 7 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Nicholas Gatty Incipit: 55555 66551 235 Used With Text: Sing we triumphant hymns of praise

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Sing We Triumphant Hymns

Author: the Venerable Bede; Benjamin Webb Hymnal: Voices Together #363 (2020) Meter: 8.8.8.8 First Line: Sing we triumphant hymns of praise! Lyrics: 1 Sing we triumphant hymns of praise! New songs to heav’n exulting raise! Christ, by a road before untrod, ascends unto the throne of God. 2 Sing we triumphant hymns of praise! New songs to heav’n exulting raise! Christ, by a road before untrod, ascends unto the throne of God. 3 “You see him now, ascending high above the stars, beyond the sky. Hereafter, Jesus you shall see returning in great majesty.” 4 O risen Christ, ascended now, at your blest name all knees shall bow; you are, while endless ages run, in Triune God forever One. Topics: Heritage Before 1500; Praise; Reign of Christ Scripture: Mark 16:19-20 Tune Title: DEO GRACIAS

Sing We Triumphant Hymns of Praise

Author: Venerable Bede, 673-735; John David Chambers, 1805-93 Hymnal: Catholic Book of Worship III #391 (1994) Meter: 8.8.8.8 with alleluias Lyrics: 1 Sing we triumphant hymns of praise To greet our Lord these festive days, Alleluia, alleluia! Who by a road before untrod Ascended to the throne of God, Alleluia, alleluia, Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! 2 In wond'ring awe his faithful band Upon the Mount of Olives stand, Alleluia, alleluia! And with the virgin mother see Their Lord ascend in majesty, Alleluia, alleluia, Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! 3 To God the Father let us sing, To God the Son, our risen king, Alleluia, alleluia! And equally let us adore The Holy Spirit evermore, Alleluia, alleluia, Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! Topics: Ascension of the Lord Scripture: Luke 24:50-52 Languages: English Tune Title: LASST UNS ERFREUEN

Sing We Triumphant Hymns of Praise

Author: St. Bede the Venerable, 673-735; John D. Chambers, 1805-1893; Benjamin Webb, 1819-1885 Hymnal: Journeysongs (3rd ed.) #426 (2012) Meter: 8.8.8.8 with alleluias Lyrics: 1 Sing we triumphant hymns of praise To greet our Lord these festive days, Alleluia, alleluia! Who by a road before untrod Ascended to the throne of God, Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! 2 In wond'ring awe his faithful band Upon the Mount of Olives stand. Alleluia, alleluia! And with the Virgin Mother see Their Lord ascend in majesty. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! 3 O risen Christ, ascended Lord, All praise to you let earth accord, Alleluia, alleuia! Who are, while endless ages run, With Father and with Spirit, One. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! 4 To God the Father let us sing, To God the Son, our risen King, Alleluia, alleluia! And equally let us adore The Holy Spirit evermore. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! Topics: The Liturgical Year The Ascension of the Lord Scripture: Luke 24:50-52 Languages: English Tune Title: LASST UNS ERFREUEN

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The Venerable Bede

673 - 735 Person Name: Venerable Bede, 673-735 Author of "Sing We Triumphant Hymns of Praise" in Catholic Book of Worship III Bede (b. circa 672-673; d. May 26, 735), also known as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede, was an English monk at Northumbrian monastery at Monkwearmouth (now Jarrow). Sent to the monastery at the young age of seven, he became deacon very early on, and then a priest at the age of thirty. An author and scholar, he is particularly known for his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, which gained him the title “Father of English History.” He also wrote many scientific and theological works, as well as poetry and music. Bede is the only native of Great Britain to have ever been made a Doctor of the Church. He died on Ascension Day, May 26, 735, and was buried in Durham Cathedral. Laura de Jong ========================== Bede, Beda, or Baeda, the Venerable. This eminent and early scholar, grammarian, philosopher, poet, biographer, historian, and divine, was born in 673, near the place where, shortly afterwards, Benedict Biscop founded the sister monasteries of Wearmouth and Jarrow, on an estate conferred upon him by Ecgfrith, or Ecgfrid, king of Northumbria, possibly, as the Rev. S. Baring-Gould, Lives of the Saints (May), p. 399, suggests, "in the parish of Monkton, which appears to have been one of the earliest endowments of the monastery." His education was carried on at one or other of the monasteries under the care of Benedict Biscop until his death, and then of Ceolfrith, Benedict's successor, to such effect that at the early age of nineteen he was deemed worthy, for his learning and piety's sake, to be ordained deacon by St. John of Beverley, who was then bishop of Hexham, in 691 or 692. From the same prelate he received priest's orders ten years afterwards, in or about 702. The whole of his after-life he spent in study, dividing his time between the two monasteries, which were the only home he was ever to know, and in one of which (that of Jarrow) he died on May 26th, 735, and where his remains reposed until the 11th century, when they were removed to Durham, and re-interred in the same coffin as those of St. Cuthbett, where they were discovered in 1104. He was a voluminous author upon almost every subject, and as an historian his contribution to English history in the shape of his Historia Ecclesiastica is invaluable. But it is with him as a hymnist that we have to do here. I. In the list of his works, which Bede gives at the end of his Ecclesiastical History, he enumerates a Liber Hymnorum, containing hymns in “several sorts of metre or rhyme." The extant editions of this work are:— (1) Edited by Cassander, and published at Cologne, 1556; (2) in Wernsdorf's Poetae Latin Min., vol. ii. pp.239-244. II. Bede's contributions to the stores of hymnology were not large, consisting principally of 11 or at most 12 hymns; his authorship of some of these even is questioned by many good authorities. While we cannot look for the refined and mellifluous beauty of later Latin hymnists in the works of one who, like the Venerable Bede, lived in the infancy of ecclesiastical poetry; and while we must acknowledge the loss that such poetry sustains by the absence of rhyme from so many of the hymns, and the presence in some of what Dr. Neale calls such "frigid conceits" as the epanalepsis (as grammarians term it) where the first line of each stanza, as in "Hymnum canentes Martyrum," is repeated as the last; still the hymns with which we are dealing are not without their peculiar attractions. They are full of Scripture, and Bede was very fond of introducing the actual words of Scripture as part of his own composition, and often with great effect. That Bede was not free from the superstition of his time is certain, not only from his prose writings, but from such poems as his elegiac "Hymn on Virginity," written in praise and honour of Queen Etheldrida, the wife of King Ecgfrith, and inserted in his Ecclesiastical History, bk. iv., cap. xx. [Rev. Digby S. Wrangham, M.A.] -- Excerpts from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Benjamin Webb

1819 - 1885 Person Name: Benjamin Webb, 1819-1885 Translator (vx 3) of "Sing We Triumphant Hymns of Praise" in One in Faith Benjamin Webb (b. London, England, 1819; d. Marylebone, London, 1885) originally translated the text in eight stanzas, although six only appear in Lift Up Your Hearts. It was published in The Hymnal Noted (1852), produced by his friend John Mason Neale. Webb received his education at Trinity College, Cambridge, England, and became a priest in the Church of England in 1843. Among the parishes he served was St. Andrews, Wells Street, London, where he worked from 1862 to 1881. Webb's years there coincided with the service of the talented choir director and organist Joseph Barnby, and the church became known for its excellent music program. Webb edited The Ecclesiologist, a periodical of the Cambridge Ecclesiological Society (1842-1868). A composer of anthems, Webb also wrote hymns and hymn translations and served as one of the editors of The Hymnary (1872). Bert Polman ================== Webb, Benjamin, M.A., was born in London in 1820, and was educated in St. Paul's School; whence he passed to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1838, B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845. Ordained by the Bishop [Monk] of Gloucester and Bristol he was Assistant Curate of Kemeston in Gloucestershire, 1843-44; of Christ Church, St. Pancras, 1847-49; and of Brasted, Kent, 1849-51; at which date he was presented to the P. C. of Sheen in Staffordshire, which he held until 1862, when he became Vicar of St. Andrews, Wells Street, London. In 1881 the Bishop [Jackson] of London collated him to the Prebend of Portpool in St. Paul's Cathedral. Mr. Webb was one of the Founders of the Cambridge Camden, afterwards the Ecclesiological Society; and the Editor of the Ecclesiologist from 1842 to 1868, as well as the General Editor of the Society's publications. His first appearance in print was as joint editor of Bishop Montague's Articles of Inquiry in 184; in 1843 he was joined with Mr. J. M. Neale in An Essay on Symbolism, and A Translation of Durandus; in 1847 he put forth his valuable work on Continental Ecclesiology; in 1848 he was joint editor with Dr. Mill of Frank’s Sermons, for the Anglo-Catholic Library, and with the Rev. J. Fuller-Russell of Hierurgia Anglicana. After the decease of his father-in-law (Dr. Mill), he edited Dr. Mill's Catechetical Lectures, 1856; a second edition of Dr. Mill's Christian Advocates Publications on the Mythical Interpretation of the Gospels, 1861; and of Dr. Mill's Sermons on our Lord's Temptation, 1873. He was also one of the editors of the Burntisland reprint of the Sarum Missal. One of his most valuable works is Instructions and Prayers for Candidates for Confirmation, of which the third edition was published in 1882. Mr. Webb was one of the original editors of the Hymnal Noted, and of the sub-Committee of the Ecclesiological Society, appointed to arrange the words and the music of that book; and was also the translator of some of the hymns. In conjunction with the Rev. Canon W. Cooke he was editor of the Hymnary, 1872, for which office his habitual reconstruction and composition of the words of the anthems used at St. Andrew's, Wells Street, as well as his connection with the Hymnal Noted, eminently qualified him. His original hymns contributed to the Hymnary, 1871 and 1872, were:-- 1. Assessor to thy King. St. Bartholomew. In the Hymnary, 1872. 2. Behold He comes, thy King most holy. Advent. Originally written to be sung in St. Andrew's Church, Wells Street, as an anthem to the music of Schumann's Advent-lied, and afterwards published in the Hymnary, 1872. 3. Praise God, the Holy Trinity. Hymn of Faith. Originally written for use in St. Andrew's, Wells Street, and subsequently in the Hymnary, 1872. 4. Praise the Rock of our salvation. Dedication of a Church. Published in the Hymnary, 1872. Mr. Webb's authorised text is in the Westminster Abbey Hymn Book, 1883. 5. Ye angel hosts above. Universal Praise to God. In the Hymnary, 1872. He died in London, Nov. 27, 1885. [Rev. William Cooke, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)