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We are singing for the Lord is our lightTranslator and Author (verses): Hal H. HopsonTune: SIYAHAMBA Published in 4 hymnals Printable scores: PDF, SibeliusAudio files: MIDI | ||
Hal H. Hopson (born 22 June 1933) is a full-time composer and church musician residing in Dallas, Texas. He has over 1000 published works, which comprise almost every musical form in church music. With a special interest in congregational song, he continues to make a significant contribution to the new repertoire of hymn tunes and responsorial psalm settings as evidenced by the proliferation of his settings that are included in newly published hymnals and psalm collections.
His cantata, God with Us, was one of the few compositions selected by a panel at the Kennedy Space Center, Washington, DC, to be placed in a capsule during the American Bicentennial in 1976. The capsule will be opened at the Tricentennial in 2076 and will be heard aga… Go to person page >| First Line: | We are singing for the Lord is our light |
| Title: | We Are Singing |
| Zulu Title: | Siyahamba/ Caminando |
| Translator and Author (verses): | Hal H. Hopson |
| Meter: | Irregular |
| Source: | South Africa |
| Language: | English; Spanish; Zulu |
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| Instances (4) | First Line | Text Title | Refrain First Line | Authors | Composers | Meter | Scripture | Tune Title | Tune Key | Incipit | Languages | Publication Date | |||||
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| Celebrating Grace Hymnal #155 | We are singing, for the Lord is our light (Siyahamb' ekukhanyen' kwenkhos') | We Are Singing, for the Lord Is Our Light | Hal Hopson | Hal Hopson | Irregular | SIYAHAMBA | G Major or modal | English; Zulu | 2010 | ||||||||
| Sing the Faith #2235-a | We are singing for the Lord is our light | We Are Singing | Hal H. Hopson | Hal H. Hopson | Irregular | SIYAHAMBA | G Major | Zulu; English; Spanish | 2003 | ||||||||
| The Faith We Sing #2235a | We are singing for the Lord is our light | We Are Singing | Hal H. Hopson | Hal H. Hopson | Irregular | SIYAHAMBA | G Major | Zulu; English; Spanish | 2001 | ||||||||
| Worship and Rejoice #76 | The Lord is the strength of our lives | We Are Singing, for the Lord Is Our Light | We are singing, for the Lord is our light (Siyahamb' ekukhanyen' kwnekhos,') | Hal H. Hopson, 1933- | Hal H. Hopson, 1933- | Irregular | Psalm 56:13; Psalm 27:1; Philippians 2:10; John 9:5; John 1:9 | SIYAHAMBA | G Major or modal | Zulu; English | 2001 |
