In 1760 she published Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional under the name " Theodosia ," and her complete works ( 144 hymns, 34 metrical psalms and 50 moral poems ) appeared in one volume in London ( 1863 ).

* Devotional Music in various languages on weekdays and Devotional Sounds – Islam / Hindu / Sikh on weekends in various languages

Christian hymns are often written with special or seasonal themes and these are used on holy days such as Christmas, Easter and the Feast of All Saints, or during particular seasons such as Advent and Lent.

During the night of Diwali, holy hymns are recited and meditation is done on Mahavira.

The Sikh gurus have described God in numerous ways in their hymns included in the Guru Granth Sahib, the holy scripture of Sikhism, but the oneness of the deity is consistently emphasized throughout.

On Vesākha day, devout Buddhists and followers alike are expected and requested to assemble in their various temples before dawn for the ceremonial, and honorable, hoisting of the Buddhist flag and the singing of hymns in praise of the holy triple gem: The Buddha, The Dharma ( his teachings ), and The Sangha ( his disciples ).

* Japji Sahib – The first 8 pages of the Siri Guru Granth Sahib ( Sikh holy scripture ), consisting of hymns composed by Guru Nanak.

Two hymns composed by Jayadeva have been incorporated in the Guru Granth Sahib, the holy book of the Sikh religion.

Thirumurai ( Tamil: த ி ர ு ம ு ற ை, meaning holy division ) is a twelve volume compendium of songs or hymns in the praise of Shiva in the Tamil language from 6th century to 11th century by various poets in South India.

The four hymns are from the Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh holy scriptures and appear on pages 773 to 774 of the total of 1430.

They praised 108 of this deity's holy abodes in their hymns, known as the Divya Desams.

In royal hymns of the Ur III period, Ur-Nammu of Ur and his son Shulgi describe Lugalbanda and Ninsun as their holy parents, and in the same context call themselves the brother of Gilgamesh.

However, the NEYM's committee on hymns had approved the continued use of the song despite these concerns, and a response also printed in the same NEYM report noted that while " the holy people " happened to be Jewish in the particular case of Jesus, a " larger and more meaningful interpretation " of the phrase is to identify it with " those who consider themselves the most righteous " at any time and place, and of any ethnicity.

By the 13th century, Triodion liturgical books were combining references to icon veneration within hymns, e. g. "... to those who honor your holy image, O reverend one, and with one accord proclaim you as the true Mother of God and faithfully venerate you ".

After Communion, the Deacon holds the diskos above the holy chalice and recites hymns of the Resurrection.

This included going into public places where he would sing hymns and passages from the gospels interspersed with bits of clowning to draw attention to his message.

Aranyani has the distinction of having one of the most descriptive hymns in the Rigveda dedicated to her, in which she is described as being elusive, fond of quiet glades in the jungle, and fearless of remote places.

* Low Mass: the priest sings no part of the Mass, though in some places a choir or the congregation sings, during the Mass, hymns not always directly related to the Mass.

Thousands of people regularly gathered in public places across Lithuania and sang national songs and Roman Catholic hymns.

Practising the Romuva faith is seen by many adherents as a form of cultural pride, along with celebrating traditional forms of art, retelling Baltic folklore, practising traditional holidays, playing traditional Baltic music, singing traditional dainas or hymns and songs as well as ecological activism and stewarding sacred places.

Other, less abundantly attested varieties are Manichaean Middle Persian, used for a sizable amount of Manichaean religious writings, including many theological texts, homilies and hymns ( 3rd – 9th, possibly 13th century ), and the Middle Persian of Nestorian Christians, evidenced in the Pahlavi Psalter ( 7th century ); these were used until the beginning of the second millennium in many places in Central Asia, including Turfan and even localities in Southern India.

As a day of remembrance towards all gurus, through whom God grants the grace of knowledge ( Jnana ) to the disciples, special recitations of the Hindu scriptures especially, the Guru Gita, a 216 verse ode to Guru, authored by the sage, Vyasa himself, are held all day ; apart from singing of bhajans, hymns and organising of special kirtan session and havan at many places, where devotees from all over gather at the ashrams, matha or place where the seat of Guru, Guru Gaddi exists.

The positioning of Marian hymns in the Orthodox liturgical services effectively places the Theotokos in the most prominent place after Christ, in that the Theotokia immediately follow the hymns that praise Christ.

Hymns would be sung, indeed a number of hymns are titled for their role, and many places in the English countryside bear names such as Gospel Oak testifying to their role in the beating of the bounds.

Church schools in Hungary taught Western Christian chanting, especially in places like Esztergom, Nyitra, Nagyvárad, Pannonhalma, Veszprém, Vác and Csanád ; and later schools began focusing on singing, spreading Latin hymns across the country.

Throughout the ceremony, Vedic hymns from the Rig Veda, the Ganapati Atharva Shirsha Upanishad, and the Ganesha stotra from the Narada Purana are chanted.

A writer of hymns is known as a hymnist or hymnodist, and the practice of singing hymns is called hymnody ; the same word is used for the collectivity of hymns belonging to a particular denomination or period ( e. g. " nineteenth century Methodist hymnody " would mean the body of hymns written and / or used by Methodists in the 19th century ).

Adad / Ishkur presents two aspects in the hymns, incantations, and votive inscriptions.

The lark in mythology and literature stands for daybreak, as in Chaucer's " The Knight's Tale ", " the bisy larke, mesager of day " ( I. 1487 ; Benson 1988 ), and Shakespeare's Sonnet 29, " the lark at break of day arising / From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate " ( 11-12 ).

Likewise the harmonies and tune characteristics / ' strophe patterns ' of much of the music of Polynesia is western in style and derived originally from missionary influence via hymns and other church music.

Most of the hymns are either traditional Amish / Mennonite hymns or from the 19th century Swiss state church.

In 1877 Crosby met William J. Kirkpatrick, one of the most prolific composers of gospel song tunes, and " the most prominent publisher in the Wesleyan / Holiness Movement ", whom she called " Kirkie ", with whom she wrote many hymns.

The explicitly religious folk tradition of tekke literature shared a similar basis with the aşık / ozan tradition in that the poems were generally intended to be sung, generally in religious gatherings, making them somewhat akin to Western hymns ( Turkish ilahi ).

There are 429 hymns / tunes: 297 hymns are presented with different tune settings ( 241 appeared in the 1910 edition ).

In late 2008, a new supplement containing 33 additional hymns / tunes was published.

According to Max, " The Blood is not a classic hymns cover project or a white / homogenized version of black gospel or soul music.

Likewise, the harmonies and tune characteristics / ' strophe patterns ' of much of the music of Polynesia is western in style and derived originally from missionary influence via hymns and other church music.

Roloff also incorporated singing into his sermons, and would occasionally break into impromptu singing of hymns and / or leading his choir to sing along.

The various myths of nature goddesses such as Inanna / Ishtar ( myths and hymns attested on Mesopotamian tablets as early as the third millennium B. C.

Cornel Pewewardy ( flautist Comanche / Kiowa ) is a leading performer of Kiowa / Southern Plains music, including Kiowa Christian hymns which include prominent glissandos.

Zemirot or Z ' mirot () ( Yiddish: Zmiros ; Biblical Hebrew: Z ' miroth ; singular: zemer / z ' mer ) are Jewish hymns, usually sung in the Hebrew or Aramaic languages, but sometimes also in Yiddish or Ladino.

In the mid-1990s Dawud began to work in the genre of English language nasheed ( spiritual hymns of a folk / world-beat style, drawn from Qur ' anic tradition ).

* I-The hymns of Severus and others in the Syriac version of Paul of Edessa as revised by James of Edessa / E. W.

* V-The hymns of Severus and others in the Syriac version of Paul of Edessa as revised by James of Edessa ( II ) / E. W.