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O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

Author or Translator: Charles S. Cook

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Text Information

First Line: O u ye, O Emmanuel
Title: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
Author or Translator: Charles S. Cook
Language: Dakota
Publication Date: 1951
Copyright: This text may still be under copyright because it was published in 1951.

Tune

MELITA (Dykes)

The original chant melody associated with this text [i.e., "Eternal Father, strong to save"] is found in most hymnals of denominations where chant has played a role, including the Lutheran tradition, which has produced much organ music on this well-known chant. The setting here is by John B. Dykes (…

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VENI EMMANUEL (Chant)

VENI IMMANUEL was originally music for a Requiem Mass in a fifteenth-century French Franciscan Processional. Thomas Helmore (b. Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England, 1811; d. Westminster, London, England, 1890) adapted this chant tune and published it in Part II of his The Hymnal Noted (1854). A g…

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