The guns are fired, the hymns are sung, and the body of Charles is carried down to the vault and laid beside the tombs of his ancestors.

Thus the first lines of one of Charles Wesley's hymns are as follows.

Primitive Baptists in the Appalachian region often used " New Britain " with other hymns, and sometimes sing the words of " Amazing Grace " to other folk songs, including titles such as " In the Pines ", " Pisgah ", " Primrose ", and " Evan ", as all are able to be sung in common meter, of which the majority of their repertoire consists.

# the Mozarabic Breviary, once in use throughout all Spain, but now confined to a single foundation at Toledo ; it is remarkable for the number and length of its hymns, and for the fact that the majority of its collects are addressed to God the Son ;

They are: psalms ( including canticles ), antiphons, responsories, hymns, lessons, little chapters, versicles and collects.

The longer poems differ from the polymetra and the epigrams not only in length but also in their subjects: There are seven hymns and one mini-epic, or epyllion, the most highly prized form for the " new poets ".

In many Christadelphian hymn books a sizeable proportion of hymns are drawn from the Scottish Psalter and non-Christadelphian hymn-writers including Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, William Cowper and John Newton.

Differences in praxis ( practice ) tend to be slight ; they involve such things as the order in which a particular set of hymns are sung or what time a particular service is celebrated.

The most important of his works are his lyric, teaching hymns (, madrāšê ).

These hymns are full of rich, poetic imagery drawn from biblical sources, folk tradition, and other religions and philosophies.

However, most of these liturgical hymns are edited and conflated versions of the originals.

There are many hymns written in his honor.

On the day of the cremation, the body is taken to the Gurdwara or home where hymns ( Shabads ) from the Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh Scriptures are recited by the congregation, which induce feeling of consolation and courage.

In addition, there are at least 72 hymns, 35 magnificats, 11 litanies, and four or five sets of lamentations.

The songs from the Symphonia are set to Hildegard ’ s own text and range from antiphons, hymns, and sequences, to responsories.

" Collections of hymns are known as hymnals or hymnbooks.

Originally modeled on the Psalms and other poetic passages ( commonly referred to as " canticles ") in the Scriptures, Christian hymns are generally directed as praise and worship to the monotheistic God.

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.

Some hymns praise or address individual saints, particularly the Blessed Virgin Mary ; such hymns are particularly prevalent in Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and to some extent " High Church " Anglicanism.

In many Evangelical churches, traditional songs are classified as hymns while more contemporary worship songs are not considered hymns.

A breviary ( from Latin brevis, ' short ' or ' concise ') is a liturgical book of the Latin liturgical rites of the Catholic Church containing the public or canonical prayers, hymns, the Psalms, readings, and notations for everyday use, especially by bishops, priests, and deacons in the Divine Office ( i. e., at the canonical hours or Liturgy of the Hours, the Christians ' daily prayer ).

* Various hymns employ specific forms, such as the common meter, long meter, and short meter.

These included sermons, hymns and a short autobiography.

Together with these long hymns, odes and elegies – which included " Der Archipelagus " (" The Archipelago "), " Brod und Wein " (" Bread and Wine ") and " Patmos " – he also cultivated a crisper, more concise manner in epigrams and couplets, and in short poems like the famous " Hälfte des Lebens " (" The Middle of Life ").

A doxology ( from the Greek δόξα " glory " +-λογία, " saying ") is a short hymn of praises to God in various Christian worship services, often added to the end of canticles, psalms, and hymns.

The story of the fall of humanity, the promise of the Messiah, and the birth of Jesus is told in nine short Bible readings from Genesis, the prophetic books and the Gospels, interspersed with the singing of Christmas carols, hymns and choir music.

Two short hymns to Artemis and Dionysus, consisting of eight and eleven lines respectively, stand first amongst his few undisputed remains, as printed by recent editors.

Raja Raja Chola I ( 985-1013 CE ) embarked on a mission to recover the hymns after hearing short excerpts of Tevaram in his court.

However, Odes appears more to be intended to use directly in religious services, mixing short sermons with songs and hymns.

The hymns in the Syriac Office, which conclude the part known as sedra and replace the short prayers of the Nestorian Office, are called ba ' utha ( prayer, request ).

Raja Raja Chola I ( 985-1013 CE ) embarked on a mission to recover the hymns after hearing short excerpts of Tevaram in his court.

* Smithsonian Global Sound: The Music of Poetry — audio samples of poems, hymns and songs in ballad meter.

*** The Classic of Poetry is made up of 305 poems divided into 160 folk songs, 74 minor festal songs, traditionally sung at court festivities, 31 major festal songs, sung at more solemn court ceremonies, and 40 hymns and eulogies, sung at sacrifices to gods and ancestral spirits of the royal house.

Ephrem wrote a wide variety of hymns, poems, and sermons in verse, as well as prose biblical exegesis.

He wrote hymns and poems, the most famous being, " Man of Sorrows ".< ref >

Most of these fragments contain poems ( partheneia ), but there are also other kinds of hymns among them.

Of these, only six hymns, sixty-four epigrams, and some fragments are extant ; a considerable fragment of the Hecale, one of Callimachus ' few longer poems treating epic material, has also been discovered in the Rainer papyri.

Over the years, Nielsen wrote the music for over 290 songs and hymns, most of them for poems written by well-known Danish authors such as N. F. S.

" In verse, Dwight wrote an ambitious epic in eleven books, The Conquest of Canaan, finished in 1774 but not published until 1785, a somewhat ponderous and solemn satire, The Triumph of Infidelity ( 1788 ), directed against David Hume, Voltaire and others ; Greenfield Hill ( 1794 ), the suggestion for which seems to have been derived from John Denham's Coopers Hill ; and a number of minor poems and hymns, the best known of which is that beginning " I love thy kingdom, Lord ".

# The Classic of Poetry, a collection of poems, folk songs, festival and ceremonial songs, and hymns and eulogies.

10th-7th century BCE ) comprises over 300 poems in a variety of styles ranging from those with a strong suggestion of folk music to ceremonial hymns.

During his time in Berlin his hymns and poems brought him to the attention of Johann Crüger the cantor and organist at the Nicolaikirche in Berlin.

Her poems were set to music and made into hymns, and were published in the United States and Germany as well as in England.

Many of her poems were made into hymns or otherwise set to music.

His early education was mainly conducted by his father, Ernst Friedrich Haupt, burgomaster of Zittau, a man of learning who took pleasure in translating German hymns or Goethe's poems into Latin, and whose memoranda were employed by Gustav Freytag in his Bilder aus der deutschen Vergangenheit.

The Goliards used sacred sources like texts from the Roman Catholic Mass and Latin hymns and warped them to secular and satirical purposes in their poems.

The volume of 1770 had struck Bruce's friends as being incomplete, and his father missed his son's " Gospel Sonnets ," which are supposed by the partisans of Bruce against Logan to have been the hymns printed in the 1781 edition of Logan's poems.

Some poems and songs, like the Gambler's Mass ( officio lusorum ) from the Carmina Burana, were parodies of Christian hymns, while others were student melodies: folksongs, love songs and drinking ballads.

While continuing his quest for " the ultimate truth ", Nanu would often spend time in the confines of temples, writing poems and hymns and lecturing to villagers on philosophy and moral values.

His chief literary work was the translation of the folk-songs of most European nations, although he also wrote original poems and hymns, as well as works on political and economic subjects.

Highly regarded in his lifetime and for a period thereafter, he is now largely remembered for his patriotic poem Barbara Frietchie, Snow-Bound, and a number of poems turned into hymns.

A number of Snow's poems were set to music and have become important LDS hymns, some of which appear in the current edition of the LDS Hymnal.

The English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams famously set existing poems, by men like William Cowper and Charles Wesley, to traditional folk tunes to create hymns, many of which he published in the English Hymnal.