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.

A hymn tune composed by Samuel A.

He composed the tune for the old hymn " O Mother Dear, Jerusalem ", retitling the work " Materna ".

* Creation ( William Billings ), a hymn tune composed by William Billings

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

The second half of the 19th century witnessed an explosion of hymn tune composition and choir singing in Wales.

This provides a means of marrying the hymn's text with an appropriate hymn tune for singing.

* William Henry Monk ( 1823 – 1889 ), English hymn tune writer

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 '.

The hymn's Scottish or Irish melody is pentatonic and suggests a bagpipe tune ; the hymn is frequently performed on bagpipes and has become associated with that instrument.

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 ):

* New edition of the Genevan psalter, Pseaumes octantetrois de David, with Louis Bourgeois as supervising composer, including first publication of the hymn tune known as the " Old 100th ".

Holst himself adapted the theme from " Jupiter " as a hymn tune under the name of " Thaxted ", specifically for the words " I Vow to Thee My Country ".

As a hymn tune it has the title Thaxted, after the town in Essex where Holst lived for many years, and it has also been used for other hymns, such as " O God beyond all praising ".

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

* Ancient of Days is a well-known Anglican hymn, also known by its tune, Albany, by William Doane, the first Episcopal bishop of Albany, New York.

* ' Dundee ', tune to which the hymn I To The Hills Will Lift Mine Eyes ( Psalm 121 ) is usually sung

A recent theory, proposed by Clive McClelland of the University of Leeds, suggests that the hidden theme is the hymn tune " Now the day is over ".

He also used the Scottish hymn tune Crimond, a traditional French cradle song, an Irish version of the fertility dance-tune " All Around My Hat " and a reference to the English folksong " Early One Morning ".

* " Jordan ", a hymn tune by composer William Billings

" 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.

During each hour, one prophecy is read at the beginning, a hymn is chanted twelve times, a psalm is sung in a sad tune, one passage from a gospel is read, and an exposition concludes the hour.

The Russian Federation itself had abandoned the Soviet hymn, replacing it with a tune by Glinka.

St. Ambrose was also traditionally credited with composing the hymn Te Deum, which he is said to have composed when he baptised St. Augustine of Hippo, his celebrated convert.

In a life of Saint Dunstan composed about 1000, the author tells how Dunstan, going into a church, found maidens dancing in a ring and singing a hymn.

( see Minchas Yaakov and anonymous commentary in the Siddur Beis Yaakov on the Sabbath hymn of Askinu Seudasa, composed by the Arizal based on this lofty concept of the Zohar ).

John XXII has traditionally been credited with having composed the prayer " Anima Christi, sanctifica me ...", which has come down to us in English as " Soul of Christ, sanctify me ..." and as the hymn, " Soul of my Saviour, sanctify my breast ".

Besides his purely textual works, many of which are listed below, John of Damascus also composed hymns, perfecting the canon, a structured hymn form used in Eastern Orthodox church services.

Still in 1871, Sullivan composed a dramatic cantata, On Shore and Sea, for the opening of the London International Exhibition and the hymn Onward, Christian Soldiers, with words by Sabine Baring-Gould.

Written in highly Sanskritised ( Tatsama ) Bengali, it is the first of five stanzas of a Brahmo hymn composed and scored by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.

Several competition entries, including a cantata and a hymn composed for the Paris Exhibition of 1867 were unsuccessful.

He composed longer pieces on a Persian War theme, including Dirge for the Fallen at Thermopylae, Battle at Artemisium and Battle at Salamis but their genres are not clear from the fragmentary remains-the first was labelled by Diodorus Siculus as an encomium but it was probably a hymn and the second was characterized in the Suda as elegiac yet Priscian, in a comment on prosody, indicated that it was composed in lyric meter.

Ravana in turn became a lifelong devotee of Lord Shiva and is said to have composed the hymn known as Shiva Tandava Stotra.

After unification ( 1861 ) the adopted national anthem was the Marcia Reale, the Royal March ( or Fanfara Reale ), official hymn of the royal house of Savoy composed in 1831 to order of Carlo Alberto di Savoia.

The hymn was set to music in 1865 by the Corfiot operatic composer Nikolaos Mantzaros, who composed two choral versions, a long one for the whole poem and a short one for the first two stanzas ; the latter is the one adopted as the National Anthem of Greece.

However, it is only in the mid 6th century that the earliest literary evidence of a cosmological interpretation of a domed church building exists, in the form of a hymn composed for the cathedral church of Edessa.

During his reign a hymn to Saint James was composed with an acrostic mentioning the king's name.

In a document of unquestionable authority of that period the Office is described as follows: The evening hour, or vespertina synaxis, is composed of four psalms, a capitulum, a response, a hymn, a versicle, a canticle from the Gospel, litany ( Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison ), Pater with the ordinary finale, oratio, or prayer, and dismissal ( Regula Sancti Benedicti, xvii ).

In Prudentius ( 4th century ) we find a hymn entitled " Ad incensum lucernæ " which, according to some critics, would appear to have been composed for the hour of the Lucernarium ( Arevalo, " Prudenti carmina ", I, 124, ed.

This still places the older Homeric Hymns among the oldest monuments of Greek literature ; but although most of them were composed in the seventh and sixth centuries, a few may be Hellenistic, and the Hymn to Ares might be a late pagan work, inserted when it was observed that a hymn to Ares was lacking.

This includes the famous hymn tiruvanaikkavula, which was composed praising lord sivan at ancient tiruvanaikkaval in trichy.

* a hymn, composed by the Church