Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The hymn tune is based on the Medieval chant of the paraphrased hymn; John Eliot Gardiner, who conducted the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage in 2000, described it as of "dark, imposing character". [9] The melody is in four lines, the last one equal to the first. [12] Church music was allowed in Leipzig only on the first Sunday of Advent.
The hymn was first published in 1935 in the youth magazine Die Wacht for which Thurmair was an editor. It became known when it was included in the Kirchenlied in 1938, subtitled Eine Auslese geistlicher Lieder für die Jugend (A selection of spiritual song for the youth), a collection of 140 old and new hymns from different periods.
Sabine Baring-Gould, 1869 Arthur Sullivan, c. 1870 "Onward, Christian Soldiers" is a 19th-century English hymn.The words were written by Sabine Baring-Gould in 1865, and the music was composed by Arthur Sullivan in 1871.
A Collection of Hymns and a Liturgy: for the use of Evangelical Lutheran Churches, to which are added prayers for families and individuals (1834) [257] Church Hymn Book; consisting of hymns and psalms, original and selected. adapted to public worship and many other occasions (1838) [258] Church of the Lutheran Confession. The Lutheran Hymnal (1941)
The later hymn "Veni Creator Spiritus" borrows two lines from the hymn (Infirma nostri corporis — Virtute firmans perpeti). "Veni redemptor gentium" was particularly popular in Germany where Martin Luther translated it into German as "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland," which then he, or possibly Johann Walter, set as a chorale, based on the original plainchant. [3]
The hymn appears on Phil Wickham's album 'Sing-A-Long'. This song is also sung by Clark Davis in the film Love Comes Softly and is a recurring background music in the film. Mumford & Sons have covered it in a small number of their live shows. Leigh Nash has covered it in Hymns and Sacred Songs.
Gottfried Vopelius (28 January 1645 – 3 February 1715), was a German Lutheran academic and hymn-writer, mainly active in Leipzig. He was born in Herwigsdorf, now a district of Rosenbach , Oberlausitz , and died in Leipzig at the age of 70.
In addition to the service music, The Hymnal 1982 has 720 hymns. It is strongly founded on congregational singing, and takes some beginning steps toward multiculturalism, including eight hymns based on spirituals, two on Ghanaian work songs, [4] two on Chinese hymns, two on "Amerindian" songs, one Hispanic American song, and one by a Mexican ...