According to Porphyrion, the hymn to Hermes was imitated by Horace in one of his own ' sapphic ' odes ( C. 1. 10: Mercuri, facunde nepos Atlantis ).

** Horatio Spafford, American author of the hymn " It Is Well With My Soul " ( b. 1828 )

* November 25 – Isaac Watts, English hymn writer ( b. 1674 )

* December 21 – John Newton, author of the hymn, Amazing Grace ( b. 1725 )

: b ) If the memorial has its own antiphon for the invitatory, hymn, short reading, Benedictus and Magnificat antiphons and intercessions, these are used.

" Amazing Grace " is a Christian hymn with words written by the English poet and clergyman John Newton ( 1725 – 1807 ), published in 1779.

* Canon ( hymnography ), a type of Eastern Orthodox hymn

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

The word hymn derives from Greek ( hymnos ), which means " a song of praise.

As examples of the distinction, " Amazing Grace " is a hymn ( no refrain ), but " How Great Thou Art " is a gospel song.

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 ).

* John F. Young ( 1820 – 1885 ), American Episcopal bishop of Florida, translator of the hymn Silent Night

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

Notable local Dissenters included John Bunyan, of Bedford, author of the Pilgrim's Progress, and another important hymn writer, Philip Doddridge ( 1702 – 51 ), of Northampton.

Fresh material having come to light, a new edition of the poems ( Die Gedichte des Paulus Diaconus ) has been edited by Karl Neff ( Munich, 1908 ), who denies, however, the attribution to Paul of the most famous poem in the collection, the Ut queant laxis, a hymn to St. John the Baptist, which Guido d ' Arezzo fitted to a melody which had previously been used for Horace's Ode 4. 11.

The Homeric hymn mentions the Nysion ( or Mysion ), probably a mythical place which didn ’ t exist in the map.

The Homeric hymn mentions the Nysion ( or Mysion ), probably a mythical place which didn ’ t exist in the map.

* Sverige ( hymn ), a hymn with lyrics by Verner von Heidenstam and music by Wilhelm Stenhammar

They include Bogurodzica ( Mother of God ), a hymn in praise of the Virgin Mary written down in the 15th century though popular at least a century earlier.

We know this because of a hymn which Pindar was commissioned to write ( fragment 122 Snell ), celebrating " the very welcoming girls, servants of Peïtho and luxurious Corinth ".

There is a hymn in the Atharvaveda which praises a pillar ( Sanskrit: stambha ), and this is one possible origin of linga-worship.

* Meter ( hymn ), the syllable patterns in hymn stanzas

In another hymn Surya is spoken of in terms prasavitr ( Vivifier ), an adjective usually applied to Savitr, and in the third verse Savitr is apparently mentioned as the same god as Surya.

In one hymn ( X. 59 ), she is mentioned several times.

* Joel Hills Johnson ( 1802 – 1883 ), Mormon pioneer, published poet and gospel hymn writer, Utah politician, founded the Utah towns of Enoch and Johnson.

William Williams Pantycelyn ( 1717 – 11 January 1791 ), also known as Williams Pantycelyn and Pantycelyn, is generally acknowledged as Wales ' most famous hymn writer.

Possibly his best known hymn is Arglwydd, arwain trwy ' r anialwch ( in English, Lord, lead me through the wilderness, translated as the English Hymn Guide me, O Thou Great Jehovah ), usually sung to John Hughes ' Cwm Rhondda.

The story indicates that Epimenides was probably heir to the shamanic religions of Asia, and proves together with the Homeric hymn, that Crete had a resisting religion up to the historical times.

Ward had originally written the music, Materna, for the hymn O Mother dear, Jerusalem in 1882, though it was not first published until 1892.

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.

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.

The hymn was translated into other languages as well: while on the Trail of Tears, the Cherokee sang Christian hymns as a way of coping with the ongoing tragedy, and a version of the song by Samuel Worcester that had been translated into the Cherokee language became very popular.

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 ".

According to fellow folk singer Joan Baez, it was one of the most requested songs from her audiences, but she never realized its origin as a hymn ; by the time she was singing it in the 1960s she said it had " developed a life of its own ".

This first hymn was sung until 1828, when it was replaced with what is sung today.

Mariano Egaña, Chilean Minister in London, acting on the criticism that Robles ' song was receiving, asked Carnicer to compose a new hymn with Bernardo de Vera's original text.

The film's title was inspired by the line, " Bring me my chariot of fire ," from the William Blake poem adapted into the popular British hymn " Jerusalem "; the hymn is heard at the end of the film.

The earliest hymn book published was the " Sacred Melodist " which was published by Benjamin Wilson in Geneva, Illinois in 1860.

The next was the hymn book published for the use of Baptised Believers in the Kingdom of God ( an early name for Christadelphians ) by George Dowie in Edinburgh in 1864.

Ackerman was fluent in the international language Esperanto, and claimed to have walked down Hollywood Boulevard arm-in-arm with Leo G. Carroll singing La Espero, the hymn of Esperanto.

Some scholars argue that the prologue was taken over from an existing hymn and added at a later stage in the gospel's composition.

Although the audience did indeed demand an encore, it was not for Va, pensiero but rather for the hymn Immenso Jehova, sung by the Hebrew slaves to thank God for saving His people.

The earlier English writers tended to paraphrase biblical texts, particularly Psalms ; Isaac Watts followed this tradition, but is also credited as having written the first English hymn which was not a direct paraphrase of Scripture.

His father invited him to see what he could do about it ; the result was Watts ' first hymn, " Behold the glories of the Lamb.

Thanks to Thomas Symmes a new idea of how to sing hymns spread throughout the churches in which anyone would sing a hymn any way they felt led to ; this was opposed by the views of Symmes colleagues who felt it was " like Five Hundred different Tunes roared out at the same time.