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The men were said to have dropped to their knees as the song began 'Last night I lay a-sleeping, There came a dream so fair.', the lyrics contrasting with their previous night's drunkenness. The song's conclusion resulted in the judge dismissing the men without punishment, each having learned a lesson from the song.
Spanish lyrics: Tierra bendita y divina es la de Palestina donde nació Jesús; Eres, de las naciones, cumbre bañada por la lumbre que derramó su luz. Coro Eres la historia inolvidable, Porque en tu seno se derramó La sangre, preciosa sangre, Del unigénito Hijo de Dios. Cuenta la historia del pasado que en tu seno sagrado vivió el Salvador,
The Kirtland printing of the hymnbook was probably very small – perhaps 500 copies at most. Today, original copies of this hymnbook are extremely rare; less than a dozen are known to exist. On December 5, 2006, an original 1835 hymnal was sold at Christie's Auction House in New York City for $273,600. [4]
Au fond du temple saint" ("At the back of the holy temple") is a duet from Georges Bizet's 1863 opera Les pêcheurs de perles. The libretto was written by Eugène Cormon and Michel Carré . Generally known as " The Pearl Fishers' Duet ", it is one of the most popular numbers in Western opera – it appeared on seven of the Classic 100 ...
Personent hodie in the 1582 edition of Piae Cantiones, image combined from two pages of the source text. "Personent hodie" is a Christmas carol originally published in the 1582 Finnish song book Piae Cantiones, a volume of 74 Medieval songs with Latin texts collected by Jacobus Finno (Jaakko Suomalainen), a Swedish Lutheran cleric, and published by T.P. Rutha. [1]
Michael Maybrick (31 January 1841 – 26 August 1913) [1] was an English composer and singer, best known under his pseudonym Stephen Adams as the composer of "The Holy City", one of the most popular religious songs in English.
"O sanctissima" (O most holy) is a Roman Catholic hymn in Latin, seeking the prayers of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and often sung in various languages on her feast days.The earliest known publication was from London in 1792, presenting it as a traditional song from Sicily; no original source or date has been confirmed for the simple melody or poetic text.
His cantatas were widely performed on the music festival circuit, with the best known The Holy City – premiered at the Birmingham Music Festival in 1882 – being the most popular of its era. [5] At the time of Gaul's death in 1913 it was the most performed work of English choral music in history, [ 2 ] and by 1914 over 162,000 copies of its ...