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"Somebody's Knocking at Your Door", sometimes given as "Somebody's Knocking" and "Somebody's Knockin ' at Yo' Door", is a spiritual. The song's music and text has no known author, [ 1 ] but originated among enslaved African-Americans on Plantation complexes in the Southern United States sometime in the early 19th century.
The Hymn of Jesus, H. 140, Op. 37, is a sacred work by Gustav Holst scored for two choruses, semi-chorus, and full orchestra. It was written in 1917–1919 and first performed in 1920. One of his most popular and highly acclaimed compositions, it is divided into two sections.
The third stanza requests that Jesus, called ("gerufen") from grave and death, may be with us on life's steps ("Stufen"). [ 7 ] [ 3 ] [ 8 ] The text was set to music by both Helmut Föller , [ 9 ] a church musician responsible for the musical education of priests and pastoral workers at the Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and ...
The most famous English arrangement of the hymn titled "Beautiful Savior" was composed by F. Melius Christiansen in 1919 and serves as the flagship choral anthem of The St. Olaf Choir to this day. The hymn was also played when US President George H.W. Bush ’s casket was carried up the steps of the US Capitol Rotunda on 3 December 2018.
This is a list of original Roman Catholic hymns. The list does not contain hymns originating from other Christian traditions despite occasional usage in Roman Catholic churches. The list has hymns in Latin and English.
The tune, Zahn No. 983, was written ten years later by Johann Crüger and first appeared in Crüger's Neues vollkömmliches Gesangbuch Augsburgischer Confession. [1] [3]The tune has been used many times, including settings by J.S. Bach: one of the Neumeister Chorales for organ, BWV 1093, [4] two movements of the St John Passion, and three of the St Matthew Passion.
In early editions the hymn, in seven stanzas, was indicated as an improved (German: gebessert) version of "Christ ist erstanden". [1] The hymn is in bar form.The Stollen, that is the repeated first part of the melody, sets two lines of text for each repetition, with the remaining four lines of each stanza set to the remainder of the melody.
Jesus Paid It All (also known as Fullness in Christ and I hear the Saviour say and Christ All and in All) is a traditional American hymn about the penal substitutionary atonement for sin by the death of Jesus. The song references many Bible verses, including Romans 5 ("Jesus' sacrifice gives life") and Isaiah 1:18 ("a crimson flow"). [1]