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Psalm 137 is the 137th psalm of the Book of Psalms, ... French Baroque settings were written by Henry Dumont, [25] Marc-Antoine Charpentier, 2 settings, H.170 ...
Psalm 137. A yearning for Jerusalem is expressed as well as hatred for the Holy City's enemies with sometimes violent imagery. People: Lord יהוה YHVH God.
The Psalms were written not merely as poems, but as songs for singing. ... Four Psalms (114, 126, 133, 137) by John Harbison—1998; Individual psalm settings
"Rivers of Babylon" is a Rastafari song written and recorded by Brent Dowe and Trevor McNaughton of the Jamaican reggae group The Melodians in 1970. The lyrics are adapted from the texts of Psalms 19 and 137 in the Hebrew Bible.
Psalm 137 is a song, originally written to be sung, and Mary Sidney's translation definitely resonates with that. The choice of rhyme and a chosen 8-syllable form underlines that songs tend to rhyme, and brings the next line round faster than if Sidney had stuck to the 11-syllable form typically used in the ottava rima scheme, makes it sound ...
Psalm 137:1-4 : Captivity (Coptic) [79] Captivity (Arabic) [80] By the rivers of Babylon we sat down and wept as we remembered Zion. On the willow trees there we hung up our lyres, for there those who had carried us captive asked us to sing them a song, our captors called on us to be joyful: "Sing us one of the songs of Zion."
"An Wasserflüssen Babylon" is a Lutheran hymn written in 1525 and attributed to Wolfgang Dachstein, organist at St Thomas' Church, Strasbourg. [1] [2] [3] The hymn is a closely paraphrased versification of Psalm 137, "By the rivers of Babylon", a lamentation for Jerusalem, exiled in Babylon.
The libretto is by Temistocle Solera, inspired by Psalm 137. The opera with its powerful chorus established Verdi as a major composer in 19th-century Italy. The full incipit is "Va, pensiero, sull'ali dorate", meaning "Go, thought, on wings of gold".