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Prepare the Way of the Lord
Appears in 22 hymnals First Line: Prepare the way of the Lord, Prepare the way of the Lord
Prepare the Way of the Lord
Prepare! Prepare!
Author: Stephen Pishner Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Prepare the way, The way of the Lord Refrain First Line: Prepare! Prepare the way of the Lord
Prepare! Prepare!
Prepare the Way of the Lord
Author: John L. Bell Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: [Prepare the Way of the Lord] (Bell) Text Sources: Enemy of Apathy (G. I. A. Publications, 1988)
Prepare the Way of the Lord
PREPARE THE WAY
Meter: Irregular Appears in 24 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Jacques Berthier; Community of Taizé Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 55566 61133 4445 Used With Text: Prepare the Way of the Lord
PREPARE THE WAY
[Prepare the way]
Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Stephen Pishner Tune Key: g minor Incipit: 11711 43224 43445 Used With Text: Prepare! Prepare!
[Prepare the way]
[Prepare the way of the Lord]
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Michael Burkhardt Tune Key: f minor Incipit: 51123 21511 23455 Used With Text: Prepare the Way of the Lord
[Prepare the way of the Lord]
Prepare! Prepare!
Author: Stephen Pishner Hymnal: RitualSong (2nd ed.) #494 (2016) First Line: Prepare the way, the way of the Lord Refrain First Line: Prepare! Prepare the way of the Lord Topics: Advent Languages: English Tune Title: [Prepare the way, the way of the Lord]
Prepare! Prepare!
Prepare! Prepare!
Author: Stephen Pishner Hymnal: Gather (3rd ed.) #398 (2011) First Line: Prepare the way Refrain First Line: Prepare! Prepare the way of the Lord Topics: Advent Season; Conversion Scripture: Isaiah 40:3-4 Languages: English Tune Title: [Prepare the way]
Prepare! Prepare!
Prepare the Way of the Lord
Author: Michael Burkhardt Hymnal: Voices United #10 (1996) Topics: Choruses and Refrains; Christian Year Advent; Rounds Scripture: Isaiah 40:3 Tune Title: [Prepare the way of the Lord]
Prepare the Way of the Lord
Communauté de Taizé
Person Name: Taize Community Author of "Prepare the Way of the Lord" in Gather Comprehensive
Communauté de Taizé
Jacques Berthier
1923 - 1994 Composer of "[Prepare the way of the Lord]" in Songs for Life Jacques Berthier (b. Auxerre, Burgundy, June 27, 1923; d. June 27, 1994) A son of musical parents, Berthier studied music at the Ecole Cesar Franck in Paris. From 1961 until his death he served as organist at St. Ignace Church, Paris. Although his published works include numerous compositions for organ, voice, and instruments, Berthier is best known as the composer of service music for the Taizé community near Cluny, Burgundy. Influenced by the French liturgist and church musician Joseph Gelineau, Berthier began writing songs for equal voices in 1955 for the services of the then nascent community of twenty brothers at Taizé. As the Taizé community grew, Berthier continued to compose most of the mini-hymns, canons, and various associated instrumental arrangements, which are now universally known as the Taizé repertoire. In the past two decades this repertoire has become widely used in North American church music in both Roman Catholic and Protestant traditions.
Bert Polman
Jacques Berthier
John L. Bell
b. 1949 Person Name: John Bell Author of "Prepare the Way of the Lord" in Scripture Song Database John Bell (b. 1949) was born in the Scottish town of Kilmarnock in Ayrshire, intending to be a music teacher when he felt the call to the ministry. But in frustration with his classes, he did volunteer work in a deprived neighborhood in London for a time and also served for two years as an associate pastor at the English Reformed Church in Amsterdam. After graduating he worked for five years as a youth pastor for the Church of Scotland, serving a large region that included about 500 churches. He then took a similar position with the Iona Community, and with his colleague Graham Maule, began to broaden the youth ministry to focus on renewal of the church’s worship. His approach soon turned to composing songs within the identifiable traditions of hymnody that began to address concerns missing from the current Scottish hymnal:
"I discovered that seldom did our hymns represent the plight of poor people to God. There was nothing that dealt with unemployment, nothing that dealt with living in a multicultural society and feeling disenfranchised. There was nothing about child abuse…,that reflected concern for the developing world, nothing that helped see ourselves as brothers and sisters to those who are suffering from poverty or persecution." [from an interview in Reformed Worship (March 1993)]
That concern not only led to writing many songs, but increasingly to introducing them internationally in many conferences, while also gathering songs from around the world. He was convener for the fourth edition of the Church of Scotland’s Church Hymnary (2005), a very different collection from the previous 1973 edition. His books, The Singing Thing and The Singing Thing Too, as well as the many collections of songs and worship resources produced by John Bell—some together with other members of the Iona Community’s “Wild Goose Resource Group,” —are available in North America from GIA Publications.
Emily Brink
John L. Bell
