In very traditional monasteries, readings from the Church Fathers can be added after each of the Sessional Hymns.

In very traditional monasteries, readings from the Church Fathers can be added after each of the Sessional Hymns.

He also played organ at Philadelphia's Christ Church and composed or edited a number of hymns and psalms including: " A Collection of Psalm Tunes with a few Anthems and Hymns Some of them Entirely New, for the Use of the United Churches of Christ Church and St. Peter's Church in Philadelphia " ( 1763 ), " A psalm of thanksgiving, Adapted to the Solemnity of Easter: To be performed on Sunday, the 30th of March, 1766, at Christ Church, Philadelphia " ( 1766 ), and " The Psalms of David, with the Ten Commandments, Creed, Lord's Prayer, & c. in Metre " ( 1767 ).

Other works, such as the corpus of Homeric Hymns, the comic mini-epic Batrachomyomachia (" The Frog-Mouse War "), and the Margites were also attributed to him, but this is now believed to be unlikely.

The Batrachomyomachia, Homeric Hymns and cyclic epics are generally agreed to be later than the Iliad and the Odyssey.

In the preface to the Hymns Newton says that: ' They should be Hymns, not Odes, if designed for public worship, and for the use of plain people '.

He published his Hymns, dedicated to Margaret de Valois, in 1555 ; the conclusion of the Amours, addressed to another heroine, in 1556 ; and then a collection of Œuvres completes, said to be due to the invitation of Mary Stuart, Queen of Francis II, in 1560 ; with Elégies, mascarades et bergeries in 1565.

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.

" The revelation goes on to state that Emma would " be ordained under hand to expound scriptures, and to exhort the church " and further authorizes Emma to " make a selection of sacred Hymns " for the church.

Hymns proved to be their best-selling release, receiving a Dove Award for " Best Praise and Worship Album of the Year " in 1987.

Hymns from British and American hymnals continue to be part of the musical fabric of many churches, and many harmonic practices are derived from Western hymn influences.

A Sacred Cantata for four solo voices and chorus, interspersed with Hymns to be sung by the congregation.

* Thy Will be done, words by S. Wensley ( 1904 ) 2 of Three Hymns from Olivet to Calvary via CPDL

Hymns would also be sung during the session.

Myths and Hymns will be getting its first narrative treatment, written and directed by Elizabeth Lucas ( Clear Blue Tuesday ), in February 2012 at Prospect Theater in New York City.

Of his many translations, mention may be made of the Homeric Hymns in collaboration with R. Schwenck ( 1814 ), Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered ( 1818 ) and Siegfrieds Tod from the Nibelungenlied ( 1842 ); he also collected and translated Latin hymns and sacred poetry ( 1819 ).

Article 69 of the church order adopted by the Synod of Dordt states that: " In the churches only the 150 Psalms of David, the Ten Commandments, the Lord's Prayer, the Twelve Articles of Faith, the Songs of Mary, Zacharias, and Simeon, the Morning and Evening Hymns, and the Hymn of Prayer before the sermon shall be sung.

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.

Hymns for the Nonbeliever was Kisschasy's second album to be certified gold in Australia.

The text of the Thanksgiving Hymns — which was found in the Dead Sea Scrolls — tells of " the Sheol of Abaddon " and of the " torrents of Belial burst into Abaddon ".

MacDiarmid wrote a number of long poems, including On a Raised Beach, Three Hymns to Lenin and In Memoriam James Joyce, in which he incorporated materials from science, linguistics, history and even found poems based on texts from the Times Literary Supplement.

It contains: For the Divine Office ; the Lucernaria, Antiphons, Responsoria, Psallenda, Completoria, Capitula, Hymns, and other changeable parts, except the Lessons, which are found separately.

He had compiled and published A Selection of Psalms and Hymns Adapted to the Services of the Church of England in 1810 but to his disappointment and concern he found that his new parishioners did not take kindly to using it.

Originally he used pages from The Bible, but after the scene had been animated Scully found the joke " horrible " and changed the book title to " Hymns ".

" Bunessan " had been found in L. McBean's Songs and Hymns of the Gael, published in 1900.

*" 239: Choose the Right "-wording to hymn as found in the Hymns of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( 1985 )

Myths and Hymns ( originally known as Saturn Returns ) is a song cycle by composer Adam Guettel, based on Greek myth and lyrics found in an antique hymnal.

Both Delphic Hymns were addressed to Apollo, and were found inscribed on stone fragments from the south outer wall of the Athenian treasury at Delphi in 1893 by a French archaeologist ( Weil 1893 ; Reinach 1893 ).

The Western tradition of hymnody begins with the Homeric Hymns, a collection of ancient Greek hymns, the oldest of which were written in the 7th century BC, praising deities of the ancient Greek religions.

A third work, the Temple Hymns, a collection of specific hymns, addresses the sacred temples and their occupants, the deity to whom they were consecrated.

His list of sacred works includes two Masses and two Requiems ( in German ), seven Offertories, a Gradual, Psalms, a Magnificat and Hymns.

* Web texts taken from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica, edited and translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, published as Loeb Classical Library # 57, 1914, ISBN 0-674-99063-3:

During these years Holst also became interested in Hindu mysticism and spirituality, and this interest led to the composition of several works set to translations of Sanskrit texts, including: Sita ( 1899 – 1906 ), a three-act opera based on an episode in the Ramayana ; Sāvitri ( 1908 ), a chamber opera based on a tale from the Mahabharata ; 4 groups of Hymns from the Rig Veda ( 1908 – 14 ); and two texts originally by Kalidasa: Two Eastern Pictures ( 1909 – 10 ) and The Cloud Messenger ( 1913 ).

The pomegranate has been mentioned in many ancient texts, notably the Book of Exodus, the Homeric Hymns and the Quran.

All religions in general use invoking prayers, liturgies, or hymns ; see for example the mantras in Hinduism and Buddhism, the Egyptian Coming Out by Day ( aka Book of the Dead ), the Orphic Hymns and the many texts, still preserved, written in cuneiform characters on clay tablets, addressed to Shamash, Ishtar, and other deities.

It was titled A Collection of Sacred Hymns, for the Church of the Latter Day Saints and contained 90 hymn texts ( no music ).

* Collection of Sacred Hymns ( Kirtland, Ohio ) First hymnal of the Latter Day Saint Church, published 1835 or 1836, 90 hymn texts

* Collection of Sacred Hymns ( Manchester, England ), published 1840, 277 hymn texts

* Collection of Sacred Hymns ( Nauvoo, Illinois ), published 1841, 304 hymn texts

He drew on a wide range of evidence from a variety of sources including not only the literary myths in Greek and Latin and the Orphic Hymns, but French, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew and Arabic texts, attempting to isolate the surviving original mythic strain from layers of later accretions.

Hymns sung to Apollo were called paeans.

It debuted in print in 1779 in Newton and Cowper's Olney Hymns, but settled into relative obscurity in England.

The first known instance of Newton's lines joined to music was in A Companion to the Countess of Huntingdon's Hymns ( London, 1808 ), where it is set to the tune " Hephzibah " by English composer John Jenkins Husband.

The Book of Hymns, The Overlook Press.

Sing Them Over Again to Me: Hymns and Hymnbooks in America, University of Alabama Press.

An Annotated Anthology of Hymns, Oxford University Press.

* Hymns: Alcaeus sang about the gods in the spirit of the Homeric hymns, to entertain his companions rather than to glorify the gods and in the same meters that he used for his ' secular ' lyrics.

The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White.

At 23, he published his first poem, “ Hymns to the Gods .” Later work was printed in literary journals like Blackwood ’ s Edinburgh Magazine and local newspapers.

The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White.

The Nisibene Hymns.

Traditional Themes and the Homeric Hymns.

Particularly influential were his Hymns Against Heresies.

The Hymns Against Heresies employ colourful metaphors to describe the Incarnation of Christ as a fully human and divine.

" — Ephrem the Syrian, " Hymns on Faith " 16: 5.

" — Ephraim the Syrian, Nisibene Hymns 27: 8 ; ca.

Hymns on paradise: St. Ephrem the Syrian.

" Hymns Against Heresies: Comments on St. Ephrem the Syrian ".

Hymns and other forms of religious music are often of traditional and unknown origin.