Again, as Boris feels himself nearing death, a procession files into the hall singing a hymn, its modal harmonies adding a churchly touch to the grim atmosphere: The words are hardly calculated to put the Tsar's mind at ease.

Later in the century the dream again found expression in the lines of Katherine Lee Bates ( 1859-1929 ), daughter and granddaughter of New England Congregational ministers, in her widely sung hymn, written in 1893, `` America The Beautiful '', with the words `` O beautiful for pilgrim feet whose stern impassioned stress a thoroughfare for freedom beat across the wilderness.

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

In recent years, the words of the hymn have been changed in some religious publications to downplay a sense of imposed self-loathing by its singers.

The words are selected from Holy Scripture or in some cases from the Liturgy, and the music is generally more elaborate and varied than that of psalm or hymn tunes.

Still in 1871, Sullivan composed a dramatic cantata, On Shore and Sea, for the opening of the London International Exhibition and the hymn Onward, Christian Soldiers, with words by Sabine Baring-Gould.

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 ".

The opening words recall another famous Latin sequence, from which this hymn is derived: Pange Lingua Gloriosi Proelium Certaminis by Venantius Fortunatus.

The anthem is the Swahili language version of Enoch Sontonga's popular hymn that is also used as Zambia's anthem ( with different words ) and part of South Africa's.

There would sometimes be a hymn with up-beat slogan words, marked " Words and Music T. Blair " to emphasise the message.

The songs that were chosen for singing in church omitted the wassailing carols, and the words " hymn " and " carol " were used almost interchangeably.

He lived at Berry Head House, now a hotel, and when he was a very sick man, near to dying, he looked out from his garden as dusk fell over Torbay, and the words of that hymn came into his mind.

Part I is based on the Latin text of a 9th-century Christian hymn for Pentecost, Veni creator spiritus (" Come, Creator Spirit "), and Part II is a setting of the words from the closing scene of Goethe's Faust.

§ 7 ), and a closer examination shows that this is no chance coincidence, and that Monoimus is really to be referred to that sect, although Hippolytus himself has classed them separately ; for Monoimus describes his first principle as bisexual, and applies to it the titles " Father, Mother, the two immortal names ," words taken out of a Naassene hymn.

Baxter wrote the words for the hymn Ye Holy Angels Bright in that year.

Other commemorative works written around this time include the Concerto for Strings ( written in 1938 ), the slow movement of which is in joint memory of Michael and Edward Elgar ; the hymn tune Michael ( to the words " All My Hope on God is Founded " by Robert Bridges ); and the unfinished Cello Concerto, on which Howells had been working at the time of the boy's death and which he found himself unable to complete.

In December 1858 a Brooklyn Sunday school published a hymn called " Brothers, Will You Meet Us " with the words and music of the " Glory Hallelujah " chorus, and the opening line " Say, brothers will you meet us ", under which title the song then became known.

He is remembered for his hymn " Materna " ( 1882 ) which was used for the anthem " America the Beautiful ", with words by Katharine Lee Bates.

It is still regularly used for the traditional words While Shepherds Watched in some churches including Leeds Parish Church, but is no longer widely recognised as a hymn or carol tune in the United Kingdom.

Bench at Earl Long grave inscribed, but blocked from view by the glare, with words of the C. Austin Miles hymn " In the Garden ( 1912 song ) | In the Garden " ( 1912 )

Highly regarded in his lifetime and for a period thereafter, he is now remembered for his poem Snow-Bound, and the words of the hymn Dear Lord and Father of Mankind, from his poem " The Brewing of Soma ", sung to music by Hubert Parry.

He derived the title from two Sanskrit words, turanga and lîla, which roughly translate into English as " love song and hymn of joy, time, movement, rhythm, life, and death ", and described the joy of Turangalîla as " superhuman, overflowing, dazzling and abandoned ".

Lead, Kindly Light is a hymn with words written in 1833 by John Henry Newman as a poem titled " the Pillar of Cloud ".

In fact, in 1903 Crosby claimed that " Spring Hymn " was the only hymn she wrote both the words and music.

From the mid 1920s onwards Bliss moved more into the established English musical tradition, leaving behind the influence of Stravinsky and the French modernists, and in the words of the critic Frank Howes, " after early enthusiastic flirtations with aggressive modernism admitted to a romantic heart and given rein to its less and less inhibited promptings " He received two major commissions from American orchestras, the Introduction and Allegro ( 1926 ) for the Philadelphia Orchestra and Leopold Stokowski and Hymn to Apollo ( 1926 ) for the Boston Symphony and Pierre Monteux.

" Himnusz " ( in English: Hymn ) is a song beginning with the words Isten, áldd meg a magyart ( God, bless the Hungarians ) that's a musical poetic prayer that serves as the official national anthem of Hungary.

With words written in 1941 by Veikko Antero Koskenniemi, the Finlandia Hymn is one of the most important national songs of Finland ( though Maamme is the de facto national anthem ).

:* Processional Hymn: " Once in Royal David's City " – words by Cecil Frances Humphreys Alexander ; melody by H. J.

:* Hymn: " Unto Us is Born a Son " – words, 15th century Latin, translated by G. R.

" (" Wither's Rocking Hymn )" – words by George Wither ; music by Ralph Vaughan Williams

:* Hymn: " O Come, All Ye Faithful " (" Adeste Fideles ") – words, 18th century Latin, translated by Frederick Oakeley ; melody by John Francis Wade, arranged by Stephen Cleobury

The most famous of these is Julia Ward Howe's " The Battle Hymn of the Republic ," which was written when a friend suggested, " Why do you not write some good words for that stirring tune?

Tautiška giesmė ( The National Hymn ) is the national anthem of Lithuania, also known by its opening words " Lietuva, Tėvyne mūsų " ( official translation of the lyrics: " Lithuania, Our Homeland ", literally: " Lithuania, Our Fatherland ") and as " Lietuvos himnas " ( Hymn of Lithuania ).

He directed the chorus of student nurses of LDS Hospital ( 1942 – 48 ), and wrote the words to God of Power, God of Right which is Hymn # 20 in the 1985 Latter-day Saints Hymnal.

Julia Ward Howe, Laura's mother, was famous for writing the words to The Battle Hymn of the Republic.

* By day and night in secret Harvest Hymn of Praise, words by W. H. Draper ( 1904 )

A Hymn of Thanksgiving, words by W. H. Draper ( 1901 )

Hymn for Coronation, words by A. W. Letts ( 1911 )

Hymn for Coronation, words by The Rt.

#" The Military Lovers " ( 0: 50 ) ( 1st pressing only )-Tom rewrites the words to " The Marines ' Hymn.

* A Prayer Meeting and Revival Hymn Book ( First issued in 1825, this book ( words only ) went through over twenty editions.

One of Soga ’ s hymns exemplifies his Xhosa heritage by setting the words of Ntsikana ’ s " Great Hymn " to music.