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"Awake My Soul and with the Sun" is a 17th-century hymn by the Anglican cleric and hymnodist Thomas Ken. It was written in 1695 as a morning hymn and, latterly, it is usually sung to the tune Morning Hymn by François Hippolyte Barthélemon (1741–1808). Occasionally, it is sung to Old Hundredth. Comprising 14 verses, ordinarily only the first ...
One Morning in May" (Roud 140, Laws P14) is an English folk song which has been collected from traditional singers in England and the USA and has also been recorded by revival singers. Through the use of double-entendre , at least in the English versions, it tells of an encounter between a grenadier (or soldier) and a lady.
This is a list of musical compositions or pieces of music that have unusual time signatures. "Unusual" is here defined to be any time signature other than simple time signatures with top numerals of 2, 3, or 4 and bottom numerals of 2, 4, or 8, and compound time signatures with top numerals of 6, 9, or 12 and bottom numerals 4, 8, or 16.
Brightest and best of the sons a of the morning; Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid; Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid. Cold on His cradle the dewdrops are shining; Low lies His head with the beasts of the stall; Angels adore Him in slumber reclining, Maker and Monarch and Savior of all!
"Morning Star" is an American Moravian Church carol with text originating from a poem by Johannes Scheffler in 1657 and music composed by Francis F. Hagen in 1836. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] References
this day hath God fulfilled his promised word, this day is born a Saviour, Christ the Lord.' He spake; and straightway the celestial choir in hymns of joy, unknown before, conspire; the praises of redeeming love they sang, and heaven's whole orb with alleluias rang: God's highest glory was their anthem still, peace upon earth, and unto men good ...
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Gerhardt's hymn is in twelve stanzas of ten lines. [12] In a comparatively small number of his poems, Gerhardt used an unusual verse structure, in rhyme scheme and hymn metre. [2]: 20 Half a dozen complicated stanza formats appear in Gerhardt's poetry, half of which, including the one he used for "Die güldne Sonne", are his own invention.