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In setting the four hymns to music, Vaughan Williams chose poems by Jeremy Taylor, Isaac Watts, Richard Crashaw, and Robert Bridges (a translation from the Greek). The cycle is sometimes called Four Hymns for Tenor and Strings and performed in an orchestrated version with a string orchestra replacing the piano part.
In hymnals such as the U.S. Armed Forces Hymnal (1959) and The Presbyterian Hymnal (1990) it is set to the tune St Bride composed by Samuel Howard. [3] [4] The Woman's Christian Temperance Union adopted the hymn as its "Crusade Hymn"; to be sung at meetings at local, state, and national levels of the organization. [5]
"Chester" is a patriotic anthem composed by William Billings and sung during the American Revolutionary War.Billings wrote the first version of the song for his 1770 songbook The New England Psalm Singer, and made improvements for the version in his The Singing Master's Assistant (1778).
The has been and is published in more than fifty hymnbooks, including those of a number of significant denominations, such as the Church of England; [1] the United Church of Canada [1] and the Presbyterian Church in Canada (Book of Praise 1972 version, as Thy hand, O God, has guided; [2] and the current Book of Praise 1997 version, as Your hand, O God, has guided [3]); the Evangelical Lutheran ...
Singing the Faith is the latest in a line of hymnbooks going back to A Collection of Hymns for the Use of The People Called Methodists [2] (1779) by John Wesley and Charles Wesley. [ 3 ] The decision to produce a 21st-century hymnbook was taken at the Methodist Conference of 2009.
The Primary Hymn Book, Hymns and Songs for Little Children (1936) [335] United Lutheran Church in America. Common Service Book of the Lutheran Church with Hymnal (1917) [286] Hymnal for the Sunday School (1922) [336] Hymns and Prayers for Church Societies and Assemblies (1923) [337] United Norwegian Lutheran Church of America
An even newer hymnal, Lutheran Service Book (LSB) was published in 2006 that restored many of the features of TLH in the hope that more widespread use could be achieved. In the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, TLH was effectively replaced by Christian Worship: A Lutheran Hymnal in 1993, and few congregations continue to use it on a regular ...
The hymn's lyrics refer to the heavenly host: "Thee we would be always blessing / serve thee with thy hosts above".. At its first appearance, the hymn was in four stanzas of eight lines (8.7.8.7.D), and this four-stanza version remains in common and current use to the present day, being taken up as early as 1760 in Anglican collections such as those by Madan (1760 and 1767), Conyers (1772 ...