Tune: DIR DIR JEHOVAH

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DIR DIR JEHOVAH

Composer: C. A. Roberts; Adapter: Johann Anastasius Freylinghausen
Published in 66 hymnals

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Composer: C. A. Roberts

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Adapter: Johann Anastasius Freylinghausen

Freylinghausen, Johann Anastasius, son of Dietrich Freylinghausen, merchant and burgomaster at Gandersheim, Brunswick, was born at Gandersheim, Dec. 2, 1670. He entered the University of Jena at Easter, 1689. Attracted by the preaching of A. H. Francke and J. J. Breithaupt, he removed to Erfurt in 1691, and at Easter, 1692, followed them to Halle. About the end of 1693 he returned to Gandersheim, and employed himself as a private tutor. In 1695 he went to Glaucha as assistant to Francke; and when Francke became pastor of St. Ulrich's, in Halle,1715, Freylinghausen became his colleague, and in the same year married his only daughter. In 1723 he became also sub-director of the Paedagogium and the Orphanage; and after Francke's death in 1727,… Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title:	DIR DIR JEHOVAH
Adapter:	Johann Anastasius Freylinghausen
Composer:	C. A. Roberts
Meter:	9.10.9.10.10.10
Incipit:	51566 54321 23456
Key:	B♭ Major
Source:	Hamburg 1690;Musikalisches Handbuch, Hamburg, 1690;Based on Dir Dir Jehovah;J. A. Freylinghausen's Gesangbuch, Halle, 1704 (melody)
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Texts

Wach auf, du Geist der ersten Zeugen

Dir, Dir, Jehova, will ich singen

Jehovah, let me now adore Thee

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Notes

DIR, DIR, JEHOVA was published anonymously in Georg Wittwe's Musikalisches Handbuch der Geistlichen Melodien (1690). The bar form (AAB) melody was expanded in Johann A. Freylinghausen's Geistreiches Gesangbuch (1704), where it was set to a hymn by Bärtholomaus Crasselius, "Dir, dir, Jehovah, vill ich singen" ("To thee, Jehovah, will I sing"); it maintains basically that shape in the Psalter Hymnal. Dale Grotenhuis (PHH 4) composed the harmonization. WINCHESTER NEW (593) is a long-meter adaptation of the same tune; that tune's familiarity may help in learning this more rhythmically varied one. Though the entire piece could be sung in harmony, try this alternative: sing the stanzas in unison and the refrain in harmony–then choral harmony should indicate the "end of strife"!

--Psalter Hymnal Handbook, 1987

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