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The Realms of the Blest
Author: Elizabeth Mills Appears in 367 hymnals First Line: We speak of the realms of the blest
The Realms of the Blest
REALMS OF THE BLEST
Meter: Irregular Appears in 43 hymnals Tune Key: A Flat Major Incipit: 51111 23217 12222 Used With Text: We speak of the realms of the blest
REALMS OF THE BLEST
Realms of the Blest
Hymnal: Wondrous Love #49 (1885) First Line: We speak of the realms of the blest Refrain First Line: Oh, what must it be to be there? Lyrics: 1 We speak of the realms of the blest,
That country so bright and so fair,
And oft are its glories confessed,
But what must it be to be there!
Refrain:
Oh, what must it be,
Oh, what must it be,
Oh, what must it be to be there.
2 We speak of its freedom from sin,
From sorrow, temptation and care,
From trials without and within,
But what must it be to be there! [Refrain]
3 We speak of its pathway of gold,
Its walls decked with jewels so rare,
Its wonders and pleasures untold,
But what must it be to be there! [Refrain] Tune Title: [We speak of the realms of the blest]
Realms of the Blest
The Realms of the Blest
Author: Mrs. M. E. Mills Hymnal: Gospel Praise Book. #276 (1885) First Line: We speak of the realms of the blest Refrain First Line: What must it be to be there Lyrics: 1 We speak of the realms of the blest,
That country so bright and so fair;
And oft are its glories confess’d;
But what must it be to be there?
Chorus:
What must it be to be there?
What must it be to be there?
If its wonders and pleasures can ne’er be told,
O what must it be to be there?
2 We speak of its pathway of gold,
Its walls deck’d with jewels most rare;
Its wonders and pleasures untold,
But what must it be to be there? [Chorus]
3 We speak of its freedom from sin,
From sorrow, temptation, and care—
From trials without and within;
But what must it be to be there? [Chorus]
4 Then let us ‘midst pleasure or woe,
For heaven our spirits prepare;
And shortly we also shall know,
And feel what it is to be there. [Chorus]
Topics: Heaven Languages: English Tune Title: [We speak of the realms of the blest]
The Realms of the Blest
We Speak of the Realms
Author: Elizabeth Mills Hymnal: Hymns of Victory #33 (1905) First Line: We speak of the realms of the blest Refrain First Line: To be there, to be there Languages: English Tune Title: [We speak of the realms of the blest]
We Speak of the Realms
Johann Sebastian Bach
1685 - 1750 Person Name: Johann S. Bach Composer of "GREEN FIELDS" in The Cyber Hymnal 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
George C. Stebbins
1846 - 1945 Composer of "TO BE THERE" in The Evangelical Hymnal Stebbins studied music in Buffalo and Rochester, New York, then became a singing teacher. Around 1869, he moved to Chicago, Illinois, to join the Lyon and Healy Music Company. He also became the music director at the First Baptist Church in Chicago. It was in Chicago that he met the leaders in the Gospel music field, such as George Root, Philip Bliss, & Ira Sankey.
At age 28, Stebbins moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he became music director at the Claredon Street Baptist Church; the pastor there was Adoniram Gordon. Two years later, Stebbins became music director at Tremont Temple in Boston. Shortly thereafter, he became involved in evangelism campaigns with Moody and others. Around 1900, Stebbins spent a year as an evangelist in India, Egypt, Italy, Palestine, France and England.
(www.hymntime.com/tch)
George C. Stebbins
Anonymous
Person Name: Anon. Composer of "REALMS OF THE BLEST" in Church Hymns 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
