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The Praise Offering: Designed Expressly for Prayer, Experience, Revival and Camp Meetings. (1876) [372] Songs of the Cross, for the Sabbath-school (1876) [373] Golden Leaves: a collection of choice hymns and tunes adapted to Sabbath-schools, social meetings, Bible classes, &c. (1880) [374]
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 ...
Secularly, as "We Shall Not Be Moved" it gained popularity as a labor union song and a protest song of the Civil Rights Movement. [2] The text is based on biblical scripture: Blessed is the man that trusteth in the L ORD, and whose hope the L ORD is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river ...
At 17, he was composing and performing his own music for church services, revival campaigns, and prayer meetings. As a singer evangelist , Stanphill traveled the United States and Canada extensively and around the world to 40 countries over his career to preach and perform his music.
Within his first year at Olney a gallery was added to the church to increase its congregational capacity, and the weekly prayer-meetings were moved in 1769 to Lord Dartmouth's mansion, the Great House, to accommodate even greater numbers. Jesus where'er thy people meet was written for their first meeting at the Great House.
Kingdom songs are the hymns sung by Jehovah's Witnesses at their religious meetings.The current hymnal used by the organization is "Sing Out Joyfully" to Jehovah. In addition to the current and previous hymnals containing sheet music and lyrics, releases in various audio formats have included vocals in several languages, piano instrumentals, and orchestral arrangements.
These are often designated "gospel songs" as distinct from hymns, since they generally include a refrain (or chorus) and usually (though not always) a faster tempo than the hymns. As examples of the distinction, "Amazing Grace" is a hymn (no refrain), but "How Great Thou Art" is a gospel song. During the 19th century the gospel-song genre ...
Eventually these settings became a separate form of Passion music. Perhaps the most outstanding work in this genre in the Lutheran tradition is the work by Heinrich Schütz. Joseph Haydn composed string quartets titled Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze (The seven last words of our Redeemer on the cross).