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

* A hymn tune composed by Aaron Williams

" 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.

At various times in the more than 100 years that have elapsed since the song was written, particularly during the John F. Kennedy administration, there have been efforts to give " America the Beautiful " legal status either as a national hymn, or as a national anthem equal to, or in place of, " The Star-Spangled Banner ", but so far this has not succeeded.

Each principle preceded by " Ani Ma ' amin B ' emunah Shleymah ", " I believe with perfect faith that ..." These principles are reflected in the hymn Yigdal.

It was recorded with musical accompaniment for the first time in 1930 by Fiddlin ' John Carson, although to another folk hymn named " At the Cross ", not to " New Britain ".

The Christian hymn " The Lord is in His Holy Temple ", written in 1900 by William J. Kirkpatrick, is based on verse 2: 20.

The fourth verse of William Cowper's hymn " Sometimes a Light Surprises ", written in 1779, quotes.

The song " Hold the Fort " " Storm the Fort ", a Knights of Labor pro-labor revision of the hymn by the same name, became the most popular labor song prior to Ralph Chaplin's IWW anthem " Solidarity Forever ".

In the Homeric hymn the ritual is connected with the myth of the agricultural god Triptolemos The high point of the celebration was " an ear of corn cut in silence ", which represented the force of the new life.

The album also includes the traditional hymn " I Know I've Been Changed ", performed as a duet by Hammond and Waits.

* Publication of the Anglo-Genevan metrical psalter including the " Old 100th ", the version of the hymn " All People That on Earth Do Dwell " made from Psalm 100, attributed to the probably-Scottish clergyman and biblical translator William Kethe, exiled in Geneva.

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 ).

The accretion of legends around Joseph of Arimathea in Britain, encapsulated by the poem hymn of William Blake And did those feet in ancient time held as " an almost secret yet passionately held article of faith among certain otherwise quite orthodox Christians ", was critically examined by A. W. Smith in 1989.

After the hymn " Te Deum ", Laurentius Andreae proclaimed Gustav Eriksson king of Sweden.

*" Jerusalem ", a patriotic English hymn.

In the hymn " Immortal, Invisible, God only Wise ", the last two lines of the first verse read:

The legend that Jesus himself visited Britain is referred to in " And did those feet in ancient time ", by William Blake in 1804, and in the hymn " Jerusalem ", with music written by C. Hubert H. Parry in 1916.

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 ".

Hence it may also refer to the pattern of lines and accents in the verse of a hymn or ballad, for example, and so to the organization of music into regularly recurring measures or bars of stressed and unstressed " beats ", indicated in Western music notation by a time signature and bar-lines.

Journey into the Morn followed in 1995, a more accessible and rock-oriented album loosely based on the hymn " Be Thou My Vision ", which was performed in Gaelic at the beginning of the album and again near the end.

Bankim Chandra Chatterji's 1882 novel Anandamath introduced the hymn " Vande Mātaram ", which soon became the song of the emerging freedom movement in India.

In addition to seven original songs, the album included three covers: " Lilac Wine ", based on the version by Nina Simone ; " Corpus Christi Carol ", from Benjamin Britten's A Boy Was Born, Op. 3, a composition that Buckley was introduced to in high school, based on a 15th century hymn ; and " Hallelujah " by Leonard Cohen, based on John Cale's recording from the Cohen tribute album, I'm Your Fan.