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"The Lord's My Shepherd" is a Christian hymn. It is a metrical psalm commonly attributed to the English Puritan Francis Rous and based on the text of Psalm 23 in the Bible. The hymn first appeared in the Scots Metrical Psalter in 1650 traced to a parish in Aberdeenshire.
Biblical Songs was written between 5 and 26 March 1894, while Dvořák was living in New York City. It has been suggested that he was prompted to write them by news of a death (of his father Frantisek, or of the composers Tchaikovsky or Gounod, or of the conductor Hans von Bülow); but there is no good evidence for that, and the most likely explanation is that he felt out of place in the ...
Chichester Psalms is an extended choral composition in three movements by Leonard Bernstein for boy treble or countertenor, choir and orchestra. The text was arranged by the composer from the Book of Psalms in the original Hebrew. Part 1 uses Psalms 100 and 108, Part 2 uses 2 and 23, and Part 3 uses 131 and 133. [1]
5.3 Songs. 6 See also. 7 References. 8 Works cited. ... Psalm 23 is the 23rd psalm of the Book of Psalms, ... He leadeth me beside the still waters. 3
Beside Still Waters is a phrase used in the 23rd psalm of the Book of Psalms. It could also refer to: It could also refer to: Beside Still Waters (book) , a 1998 book by Greg Easterbrook
The Twenty-Third Psalm (The Lord is my Shepherd) for SATB unaccompanied (written for the Winchester Consort) The Vauday Part Songs for SATB unaccompanied (commissioned by the St Peter’s Singers for Grimsthorpe Castle) The Oaks; Stone; The Carriageway; In Memoriam; The Waters of Love for soprano & tenor, or SATB, harp & strings
The 23rd psalm, in which this phrase appears, uses the image of God as a shepherd and the believer as a sheep well cared-for. Julian Morgenstern has suggested that the word translated as "cup" could contain a double meaning: both a "cup" in the normal sense of the word, and a shallow trough from which one would give water to a sheep.
Luther "Georgia Boy" Johnson, a member of Waters's band in the 1960s, co-opted the song as his own, "complete with Muddy's gospel preaching at the song's climax". [ 9 ] David Dicaire, in Blues Singers: Biographies of 50 Legendary Artists of the Early 20th Century , calls the song "a definitive modern blues classic". [ 4 ]