Epigmenio Velasco Urda was a choir director, pastor, poet, composer and journalist from Mexico City.
Dianne Shapiro from Celebremos su Gloria (Colombia/Illinois: Libros Alianza/Celebration), 1992 Go to person page >
Author: Isaac Watts
Isaac Watts was the son of a schoolmaster, and was born in Southampton, July 17, 1674. He is said to have shown remarkable precocity in childhood, beginning the study of Latin, in his fourth year, and writing respectable verses at the age of seven. At the age of sixteen, he went to London to study in the Academy of the Rev. Thomas Rowe, an Independent minister. In 1698, he became assistant minister of the Independent Church, Berry St., London. In 1702, he became pastor. In 1712, he accepted an invitation to visit Sir Thomas Abney, at his residence of Abney Park, and at Sir Thomas' pressing request, made it his home for the remainder of his life. It was a residence most favourable for his health, and for the prosecution of his literary… Go to person page >
TRURO is an anonymous tune, first published in Thomas Williams's Psalmodia Evangelica, (second vol., 1789) as a setting for Isaac Watts' "Now to the Lord a noble song." Virtually nothing is known about this eighteenth-century British editor of the two-volume Psalmodia Evangelica, a collection of thr…
GENEVAN 138 was first published in the 1551 edition of the Genevan Psalter. Dale Grotenhuis (PHH 4) harmonized the tune in 1985. See also the 1564 alternative harmonization by Claude Goudimel (PHH 6) with the melody in the tenor (facing page). This second setting can be useful for a choral stanza (f…
Display Title: Señor Jesús, eterno ReyFirst Line: Señor Jesús, eterno ReyTune Title: TRUROAuthor: Epigmenio Velasco; Isaac WattsMeter: 8.8.8.8.Scripture: Psalm 10:16; Psalm 20:9; Psalm 44:4; Matthew 2:2; Luke 9:38Date: 1998Subject: Jesucristo | ; Jesus Christ | ; Reign of Christ the King | ; Reinado de Cristo Rey | ; Reinado de Cristo/Cristo Rey |