There is a parallel to this tendency in the assignment of time in long-known hymn tunes.

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 often to be heard in Catholic churches is `` Faith Of Our Fathers '', which glories in England's ancient faith that endured persecution, and which proclaims: `` Faith of our Fathers: Mary's prayers Shall win our country back to thee ''.

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.

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

The Dictionary of American Hymnology claims it is included in more than a thousand published hymnals, and recommends its use for " occasions of worship when we need to confess with joy that we are saved by God's grace alone ; as a hymn of response to forgiveness of sin or as an assurance of pardon ; as a confession of faith or after the sermon.

The following fragment of a hymn to Castor and Polydeuces ( the Dioscuri ) is possibly another example of this though some scholars interpret it instead as a prayer for a safe voyage.

Johnny Appleseed is remembered in American popular culture by his traveling song or Swedenborgian hymn (" The Lord is good to me ..."), which is today sung before meals in some American households.

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.

The following is a troparion ( hymn ) to St Athanasius sung in some Eastern Orthodox churches.

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

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

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.

It is one of the largest collections of monophonic ( solo ) songs from the Middle Ages and is characterized by the mention of the Virgin Mary in every song, while every tenth song is a hymn.

Arya tribes charged into battle to the beating of the war drum and chanting of a hymn that appears in Book VI of the Rig Veda and also the Atharva Veda where it is referred to as the " Hymn to the battle drum ".

This imagery is also found in the traditional Catholic Christmas hymn " Gaudete.

It is possible that the kenosis passage in Philippians 2: 5-11 may have been a Christian hymn that Paul quoted.

Sam Fransisku Xaviera is a Konkani hymn, which is sung as the recessional hymn at most of the novenas held at Bom Jesus Basilica, Velha Goa, the place where the relics of St. Francis Xavier are kept.

The omission of the second stanza is consistent with several other loci of textual variation in the hymn in this respect: the passages which are most subject to change tend for the most part to be those that

In the 1960s episodes, the end credits consisted of a variation on the instrumental horn and organ theme-" A Mighty Fortress Is Our God " ( the modern form of which was written by Johann Sebastian Bach for the hymn written earlier by Martin Luther )-over the Lutheran Church logo with the credits being displayed.

A slight variation on the original hymn, also written by Eleanor Farjeon, can be found in the form of a poem contributed to the anthology Children's Bells, under Farjeon's new title, " A Morning Song ( For the First Day of Spring )", published by Oxford University Press in 1957.

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.

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 ):

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.

The ut – re – mi-fa-so-la syllables are taken from the initial syllables of each of the first six half-lines of the first stanza of the hymn Ut queant laxis, whose text is attributed to the Italian monk and scholar Paulus Diaconus ( though the musical line either shares a common ancestor with the earlier setting of Horace's " Ode to Phyllis " ( Odes 4. 11 ) recorded in the Montpellier manuscript H425, or may even have been taken from it.

Rilke had met von Hellingrath a few years earlier and had seen some of the hymn drafts, and the Duino Elegies heralded the beginning of a new appreciation of Hölderlin's late work.

According to MacIntyre, Bishop's account was that he based the song on an earlier hymn he had written for, or in mockery of, a pious brother-in-law, taking from this earlier song the " glory hallelujah " chorus, the phrase " to be a soldier in the army of the Lord ", and the tune.

In one of them, the hymn is in the earlier position.

Halberstam claims he had no knowledge of that earlier use of the term found in the Shelley hymn.

), though it is possible some of the lighter sketches from the Greek ( e. g. I. 10, a hymn to the god Mercury ) are contemporary with Horace's earlier Epodes and Satires.

The earlier English writers tended to paraphrase biblical text, 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.

" John Brown's Body ", the marching song of the American Civil War, was based on the tune of an earlier camp-meeting and revival hymn, and was later fitted with the words " Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord ", by Julia Ward Howe.

The occasion of the both hymns was the Pythian Festival, held only once every ten years, and according to the former assumption of dating the earlier hymn was probably written for the boys ' choir at the Pythian Games in 138 BCE.

He is the earliest known composer in recorded history for a surviving piece of music, or one of the two earliest, or the second-earliest, depending first on whether one accepts Bélis's proposition that the composer of the First Delphic Hymn is named Athenaeus and, second, whether that hymn was composed in the same year as the Second Hymn, or ten years earlier.

The Prologue is a hymn identifying Jesus as the Logos and as God.

As all Federal Presidents but his mentor Heinemann, who had not wished to be seen off in this manner, Rau was honored by a Großer Zapfenstreich which on his wish included the hymn " Jesus bleibet meine Freude " ( Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring ).

A Lutheran Good Friday tenebrae service bulletin with Sayings of Jesus on the cross | The First Word from the Cross and a hymn based on Luke 23: 26-34.

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.

The 2004 Sessions album, which had six previously unreleased Norman songs ( including covers of an old hymn, a traditional folk song, and songs by Bob Dylan, and Emmylou Harris ) that were backed by Mark Lemhouse and Charles Norman's Softcore, as well as rare songs by Jesus Music veterans Dave Mattson, Randy Stonehill, Tom Howard, Keith Green, Steve ' N ' Stonebrooke, and Daniel Amos, was sent to those who contributed $ 100 or more to his medical fund.

* 1719-Isaac Watts writes missionary hymn " Jesus Shall Reign Where ' er the Sun "

The Christian hymn " Be Still, My Soul ", written in German (" Stille meine Wille, dein Jesus hilft siegen ") in 1752 by Katharina Amalia Dorothea von Schlegel ( 1697 – 1768 ) and translated into English in 1855 by Jane Laurie Borthwick ( 1813 – 1897 ), is usually sung to this tune.

* a hymn to Mary, the mother of Jesus

The hymn is interesting in terms of Mormon theology in that it is one of the few direct references to a " Heavenly Mother " in materials published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

* Hymns of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, # 292, " O My Father "-full text of the hymn

* Diadem, the most poplur tune for the hymn All Hail the Power of Jesus ' Name

Stainer's output of sacred music was extensive, including the Passion cantata or oratorio The Crucifixion ( 1887 ), the Sevenfold Amen ( this latter piece especially admired by the lexicographer Sir George Grove ), and numerous hymn tunes, including " Cross of Jesus ", " All for Jesus " ( both from The Crucifixion ), and " Love Divine ".

Written by 30-year music-industry veteran, Isaias Gamboa, the book is the product of three years of exhaustive research and demonstrates in extraordinary detail that We Shall Overcome was in fact derived from a popular copyrighted Baptist hymn entitled, " If My Jesus Wills "-written in 1942 by an African American Baptist choir director named Louise Shropshire.

Of two hymns, Stabat Mater Dolorosa ( about the Sorrows of Mary ) and Stabat Mater Speciosa ( joyfully referring to the Nativity of Jesus ), Stabat Mater usually refers to the first, a 13th-century Catholic hymn to Mary, variously attributed to the Franciscan Jacopone da Todi and to Innocent III.

The Dolorosa hymn, one of the most powerful and immediate of extant medieval poems, meditates on the suffering of Mary, Jesus Christ's mother, during his crucifixion.

Here we can find a hymn called Jezu Kriste, ščedrý kněže (" Jesus Christ Bountiful Prince "), that people would sing during the preaching of the famous John Huss.

In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, she is sung about in one church hymn and briefly discussed in church teaching manuals and sermons.

The Bear dances to a tune ( reminiscent of the hymn Jesus Bids us Shine ) which featured on Rattlebone and Ploughjack, a 1976 LP by Ashley Hutchings, along with a spoken description of the original custom ( which partly inspired the Whittlesey revival ).

While some believe the cause was typhoid fever, Darlene Neptune speculates that it was SIDS, and that Crosby's hymn, " Safe in the Arms of Jesus " was inspired by her daughter's death.

" More Like Jesus Would I Be ", her first hymn written for Doane in June 1867, expressly for the sixth anniversary of the Howard Mission and Home for Little Wanderers, a nondenominational mission at New Bowery, Manhattan.

It was originally published in 1842 in Times and Seasons and is hymn number 284 in the 1985 hymnal for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

: Psalms 69, 142, and the Small Doxology ; then the Canon followed by Axion Estin, the Trisagion, the hymn " O Lord of Hosts, be with us ...", Kyrie eleison ( 40 times ), the Prayer of the Hours, " More honorable than the cherubim ....", the Prayer of St. Ephraim, Trisagion, the Supplicatory Prayer of Paul the Monk, and the Prayer to Jesus Christ of Antiochus the Monk.