In the tune to which this hymn is most often sung, `` Boylston '', the syllables have and fy, ending their lines, have twice the time any other syllables have.

Some modern churches include within hymnody the traditional hymn ( usually describing God ), contemporary worship music ( often directed to God ) and gospel music ( expressions of one's personal experience of God ).

Nevertheless, the 13 principles of Maimonides have a certain priority over other formulations: they are often printed in prayer books, and in many congregations a hymn ( Yigdal ) incorporating them is sung on Friday nights.

" The priest and other ministers then leave, often to the accompaniment of a recessional hymn.

It is often sung in English as the hymn Of the Glorious Body Telling, to the same tune as the Latin.

Pitch pipes of this sort were most often used in the 18th and 19th centuries in churches which had no organ to give the opening note of a hymn.

" They went on to say, " there is no doubt that a deterioration in taste follows the use of this type of hymn and tune ; it fosters an attachment to the trivial and sensational which dulls and often destroys sense of the dignity and beauty which best befit the song that is used in the service of God.

A doxology ( from the Greek δόξα " glory " +-λογία, " saying ") is a short hymn of praises to God in various Christian worship services, often added to the end of canticles, psalms, and hymns.

Milman wrote the hymn, Ride on, ride on, in majesty !, often sung on Palm Sunday.

Despite his history of drinking and fighting, York attended church regularly and often led the hymn singing.

These patriotic songs can be sung in hymn or even in orchestra, but most often was sung in kroncong style known as kroncong perjuangan ( struggle kroncong ).

The hymn is often attributed to William Steffe, though the category of " composer " fits poorly into the camp meeting and oral folk tradition of the time.

A popular hymn, " We Plough the Fields and Scatter ", is often sung at Harvest Festival to the same tune.

Modern hygiene regulations have made this activity more complicated, but so entwined are the ideals of the hymn and ongoing self-sufficiency that the ideology of the organisation is often summarised as " Jam and Jerusalem "

It is often intricately embroidered with the instruments of the Passion and the Trisagion ( the angelic hymn ).

In most versets, counterpoints to the hymn melody engage in imitation or fore-imitation, and more often than not they are derived from the hymn melody.

In current use, the hymn seems to be set most often to the tune " Beecher " by John Zundel ( 1815 – 1882 ; from

All of them are characterized by erudition ( he knew even some Greek and Hebrew ) and includes " Veni Creator Spiritus ," a hymn to the Holy Spirit, often sung at Pentecost and at ordinations.

A hymn commonly sung to Old 100th is " Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow ," using the text often referred to as the Doxology, written in 1674 by Thomas Ken, a clergyman in the Church of England.

* Moveable type with music symbols – a centuries-old method, often used for hymn books, but which produced low-quality results

Lowell Mason ( January 8, 1792-August 11, 1872 ) was a leading figure in American church music, the composer of over 1600 hymn tunes, many of which are often sung today.

Today the hymn is often condensed into a smaller number ( typically between six and eight ) stanzas.

Halberstam also observed regarding the " best and the brightest " phrase, that "... hymn or no, it went into the language, although it is often misused, failing to carry the tone or irony that the original intended.

One definition of a hymn is "... a lyric poem, reverently and devotionally conceived, which is designed to be sung and which expresses the worshipper's attitude toward God or God's purposes in human life.

The music to which a hymn may be sung is a hymn tune.

As all Federal Presidents but his mentor Heinemann, who had not wished to be seen off in this manner, Rau was honored by a Großer Zapfenstreich which on his wish included the hymn " Jesus bleibet meine Freude " ( Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring ).

This is not to say they would be two different poems, since the technique of having separate parts that respond to another is used in the genre of the odal hymn, used in the poetry of other Romantic poets including John Keats or Percy Bysshe Shelley.

According to the Homeric hymn, the goddesses who assembled to be witnesses at the birth of Apollo were responding to a public occasion in the rites of a dynasty, where the authenticity of the child must be established beyond doubt from the first moment.

For example, the tune ' Austria ' ( originally Haydn's ' Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser ') is associated today with the hymn ' Glorious things of thee are spoken ', just as ' New Britain ' an American folk melody, believed to be Scottish or Irish in origin ; has since the 1830s been associated with ' Amazing grace '.

In 2002, as a result of her friend Kent Sexton dying from scleroderma, she interrupted work on her new album C ' mon C ' mon to record the traditional hymn " Be Still, My Soul ," to be played at his funeral.

One of the most common manifestations of stanzaic form in poetry in English ( and in other Western European languages ) is represented in texts for church hymns, such as the first three stanzas ( of nine ) from a poem by Isaac Watts ( from 1719 ) cited immediately below ( in this case, each stanza is to be sung to the same hymn tune, composed earlier by William Croft in 1708 ):

As " first to be devoured ... and the last to be yielded up again ", Hestia was thus both the eldest and youngest daughter ; this mythic inversion is found in the Homeric hymn to Aphrodite ( 700 BC ).

Similarly, a large two dimensional dove figure would be, and in some places still are, cut out of wood, painted and decorated with flowers, to be lowered over the people, particularly during the singing of the sequence hymn, or Veni Creator Spiritus.

Other Sumerian texts showed that kings were to be married to Inanna in a sacred marriage, for example a hymn that describes the sacred marriage of King Iddid-Dagan ( ca 1900 BCE ).

Before Evensong each evening, hymn tunes are played on a baton keyboard connected with the bells, but occasionally anything from Beethoven to the Beatles may be heard.

Wilson's surviving home tapes document his initial efforts singing with various friends and family, including a song that would later be recorded in the studio by The Beach Boys, " Sloop John B ", as well as " Bermuda Shorts " and a hymn titled " Good News ".

W. H. D. Rouse in 1940 wrote an ironic end note to Book 40 of his edition of Nonnus ' Dionysiaca about a very syncretistic hymn sung by Dionysus to Tyrian Heracles, that is, to Ba ‘ al Melqart whom Dionysus identifies with Belus on the Euphrates ( who should be Marduk!

Chorales also appear in chorale preludes, pieces generally for organ designed to be played immediately before the congregational singing of the hymn.

There would sometimes be a hymn with up-beat slogan words, marked " Words and Music T. Blair " to emphasise the message.

The New York Times review of the novel named Rand " a writer of great power " who writes " brilliantly, beautifully and bitterly ," and it stated that she had " written a hymn in praise of the individual ... you will not be able to read this masterful book without thinking through some of the basic concepts of our time.

" Dies Irae " ( Day of Wrath ) is a thirteenth century Latin hymn thought to be written by Thomas of Celano ( 1200 – c. 1265 ).

That evening, after Kitty performs Bob's new song for his guests, they hear the nuns singing a hymn which they recognize to be similar to Bob's song.

However, the Lucernarium may have had, at that time, some analogy with the ceremony of Holy Saturday, and the hymn could thus be adapted to one or the other.