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" Herr, dir ist nichts verborgen" (Lord, nothing is hidden from you) is a Catholic hymn by Maria Luise Thurmair, based on Psalm 139 and set to a 1582 melody by Kaspar Ulenberg. [1] The hymn in five stanzas of seven lines each was written in 1973. It appeared in the Catholic hymnal Gotteslob in 1975 as GL 292. [2]
It is based on Psalms 139 which is paraphrased in the strophes, while verse 5 is quoted as the refrain. [1] The text has been set to music by Torsten Hampel. The hymn appears in the regional part of the Catholic hymnal Gotteslob of the Diocese of Limburg as GL 825. [2] It is also part of Junges Gotteslob, the hymnal for young people. [3]
The opening chorus is based on Psalms 139:23, [2] focused on the examination of the believer's heart by God. [5] The closing chorale is the ninth stanza of Johann Heermann's hymn " Wo soll ich fliehen hin" (1630) on the melody of "Auf meinen lieben Gott ", [2] [6] which Bach used again in 1724 as the base for his chorale cantata Wo soll ich ...
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Psalm 139 is the 139th psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me". In Latin , it is known as "Domine probasti me et cognovisti me" . [ 1 ]
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 ...
The songs "Dokkoise House (With Face Covered)" and "Kasa No Hone (The Umbrella's Bones)" are both from a collection of poems called Japanese Peasant Songs. The lyrics of "By Number" feature a Japanese translation of Psalm 139:5, "Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me." The song "Yuki! Yuki! Yuki!"
"Turn! Turn! Turn!", also known as or subtitled "To Everything There Is a Season", is a song written by Pete Seeger in 1959. [1] The lyrics – except for the title, which is repeated throughout the song, and the final two lines – consist of the first eight verses of the third chapter of the biblical Book of Ecclesiastes. The song was originally released in 1962 as "To Everything There Is a ...