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Here hangs a man discarded
Author: Brian Wren (b. 1936) Meter: 7.6.7.6 Appears in 7 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Here hangs a man discarded,
a scarecrow hoisted high,
a nonsense pointing nowhere
to all who hurry by.
2 Can such a clown of sorrows
still bring a useful word
when faith and love seem phantoms
and every hope absurd?
3 Yet here is help and comfort
for lives by comfort bound,
when drums of dazzling progress
give strangely hollow sound:
4 Life, emptied of all meaning,
drained out in bleak distress,
can share in broken silence
our deepest emptiness;
5 And love that freely entered
the pit of life's despair,
can name our hidden darkness
and suffer with us there.
6 Christ, in our darkness risen,
help all who long for light
to hold the hand of promise,
till faith receives its sight. Topics: Christ Incarnate Passion and Death; Christian Year Good Friday; Despair and Trouble; Longing Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:23 Used With Tune: SHRUB END
Here hangs a man discarded
PASSION CHORALE
Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6 Appears in 560 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750 Tune Sources: Traditional secular melody; Hans Leo Hassler Lustgarten neuer teutscher Gesäng, 1601 Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 36543 23611 76763 Used With Text: Here hangs a man discarded
PASSION CHORALE
ST ALPHEGE
Meter: 7.6.7.6 Appears in 146 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry John Gauntlett, 1805-1876 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 13451 71171 43213 Used With Text: Here hangs a man discarded
ST ALPHEGE
Here Hangs a Man Discarded
Author: Brian Wren Hymnal: Chalice Hymnal #203 (1995) Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Lyrics: 1 Here hangs a man discarded,
a scarecrow hoisted high,
a nonsense pointing nowhere
to all who hurry by.
2 Can such a clown of sorrows
still bring a useful word
when faith and love seem phantoms
and every hope absurd?
3 Yet here is help and comfort
for lives by comfort bound,
when drums of dazzling progress
give strangely hollow sound:
4 Life, emptied of all meaning,
drained out in bleak distress,
can share in broken silence
our deepest emptiness;
5 And love that freely entered
the pit of life's despair,
can name our hidden darkness
and suffer with us there.
6 Christ, in our darkness risen,
help all who long for light
to hold the hand of promise,
till faith receives its sight. Topics: God Known in Jesus Christ Suffering and Death; Adversity; Christian Year: Holy Week; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ: Cross; Jesus Christ: Suffering Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 Languages: English
Here Hangs a Man Discarded
Here hangs a man discarded
Author: Brian Wren, b. 1936 Hymnal: Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New #276 (2000) Meter: 7.6.7.6 Topics: Passiontide Scripture: John 19:17-37 Languages: English Tune Title: ST ALPHEGE
Here hangs a man discarded
Here hangs a man discarded
Author: Brian Wren (b. 1936) Hymnal: Church Hymnary (4th ed.) #385 (2005) Meter: 7.6.7.6 Lyrics: 1 Here hangs a man discarded,
a scarecrow hoisted high,
a nonsense pointing nowhere
to all who hurry by.
2 Can such a clown of sorrows
still bring a useful word
when faith and love seem phantoms
and every hope absurd?
3 Yet here is help and comfort
for lives by comfort bound,
when drums of dazzling progress
give strangely hollow sound:
4 Life, emptied of all meaning,
drained out in bleak distress,
can share in broken silence
our deepest emptiness;
5 And love that freely entered
the pit of life's despair,
can name our hidden darkness
and suffer with us there.
6 Christ, in our darkness risen,
help all who long for light
to hold the hand of promise,
till faith receives its sight. Topics: Christ Incarnate Passion and Death; Christian Year Good Friday; Despair and Trouble; Longing Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:23 Languages: English Tune Title: SHRUB END
Here hangs a man discarded
Peter Cutts
1937 - 2024 Person Name: Peter Warwick Cutts (b. 1937) Composer of "SHRUB END" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.)
Peter Cutts
Brian A. Wren
b. 1936 Person Name: Brian Wren, b. 1936 Author of "Here hangs a man discarded" in Singing the Faith Brian Wren (b. Romford, Essex, England, 1936) is a major British figure in the revival of contemporary hymn writing. He studied French literature at New College and theology at Mansfield College in Oxford, England. Ordained in 1965, he was pastor of the Congregational Church (now United Reformed) in Hockley and Hawkwell, Essex, from 1965 to 1970. He worked for the British Council of Churches and several other organizations involved in fighting poverty and promoting peace and justice. This work resulted in his writing of Education for Justice (1977) and Patriotism and Peace (1983). With a ministry throughout the English-speaking world, Wren now resides in the United States where he is active as a freelance lecturer, preacher, and full-time hymn writer. His hymn texts are published in Faith Looking Forward (1983), Praising a Mystery (1986), Bring Many Names (1989), New Beginnings (1993), and Faith Renewed: 33 Hymns Reissued and Revised (1995), as well as in many modern hymnals. He has also produced What Language Shall I Borrow? (1989), a discussion guide to inclusive language in Christian worship.
Bert Polman
Brian A. Wren
Johann Sebastian Bach
1685 - 1750 Person Name: Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750 Harmonizer of "PASSION CHORALE" in Singing the Faith 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
