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In the United States "Rock of Ages" is usually sung to the hymn tune Toplady by Thomas Hastings as revised by Lowell Mason. In the United Kingdom the hymn tune Redhead 76 is most common. This tune is also called Petra, after Peter being referred to as the Rock by Christ, by Richard Redhead. Both tunes circulate in the churches of both countries ...
Bar Yochai. v. t. e. " Ma'oz Tzur " (Hebrew: מָעוֹז צוּר, romanized: Māʾōz Ṣūr) is a Jewish liturgical poem or piyyut. It is written in Hebrew, and is sung on the holiday of Hanukkah, after lighting the festival lights. The hymn is named for its Hebrew incipit, which means "Strong Rock (of my Salvation)" and is a name or epithet ...
Augustus Toplady. Augustus Montague Toplady. Augustus Montague Toplady / ˈtɒpləˌdiː / (4 November 1740 – 11 August 1778) was an Anglican cleric and hymn writer. He was a major Calvinist opponent of John Wesley. He is best remembered as the author of the hymn "Rock of Ages". Three of his other hymns – "A Debtor to Mercy Alone ...
"Rock of Ages" is a song by Def Leppard from their 1983 album Pyromania. When issued as a single in the United States, the song reached #16 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #19 on the Cash Box Top 100. It also hit #1 on the Top Tracks Rock chart. [6]
8.6.8.6 (C.M.) Melody. "St. Anne" by William Croft. " Our God, Our Help in Ages Past " (or " O God, Our Help in Ages Past ") is a hymn by Isaac Watts in 1708 that paraphrases the 90th Psalm of the Book of Psalms. It originally consisted of nine stanzas; however, in present usage the fourth, sixth, and eighth stanzas are commonly omitted to ...
Rock of Ages (video game), a 2011 action-strategy video game. Rock of Ages II: Bigger & Boulder, the 2017 sequel. Rock of Ages III: Make & Break, the 2020 sequel. Rock of Ages Corporation, a granite quarrying and finishing company in Graniteville, Vermont. Rocks of Ages, a 1999 book by Stephen Jay Gould.
Hastings compiled the hymn book Spiritual Songs with Lowell Mason in 1831, which included his most well-known hymn "Rock of Ages." He then moved to New York City, where he served as a choir master for 40 years, from 1832 to 1872. Hastings was a prolific composer, writing some 1000 hymn tunes over his career, and what Mason calls the "simple ...
Amy Grant, on her album Rock of Ages... Hymns and Faith (2005) Oslo Gospel Choir, on their live album We Lift Our Hands (2005) Brian Littrell, on the album WOW Hymns (2007) Phil Driscoll, on his album Songs in the Key of Worship (2008) Michael W. Smith, with Coalo Zamorano, on his album A New Hallelujah (2008) Selah, on their album You Deliver ...