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A Great and Mighty Wonder
Author: John M. Neale, 1818-66; St. Germanus, c. 634-c. 734 Meter: 7.6.7.6 with refrain Appears in 104 hymnals Refrain First Line: Repeat the hymn again Lyrics: 1 A great and mighty wonder,
A full and holy cure:
The virgin bears the infant
With virgin honor pure!
Refrain:
Repeat the hymn again:
"To God on high be glory
And peace on earth to men!"
2 The Word becomes incarnate
And yet remains on high,
And cherubim sing anthems
To shepherds from the sky. [Refrain]
3 While thus they sing your monarch,
Those bright angelic bands,
Rejoice, O vales and mountains,
And oceans, clap your hands. [Refrain]
4 Since all he comes to ransom,
By all be he adored,
The infant born in Bethl'em,
The Savior and the Lord. [Refrain]
5 All idol forms shall perish,
And error's arguing,
And Christ shall wield his scepter,
Our Lord, our God, our King! [Refrain] Topics: Christmas Used With Tune: ES IST EIN ROS
A Great and Mighty Wonder
A Hymn of Glory Let Us Sing
Author: The Venerable Bede, 673-735 Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 with alleluias Appears in 46 hymnals First Line: A hymn of glory let us sing! Refrain First Line: Alleluia, alleluia! Topics: Ascension Used With Tune: LASST UNS ERFREUEN Text Sources: Tr. Lutheran Book of Worship, 1978
A Hymn of Glory Let Us Sing
A Lamb Alone Bears Willingly
Author: Paul Gerhardt, 1607-76; Henry L. Lettermann, b. 1932 Meter: Irregular Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Passion Week Used With Tune: AN WASSERFLÜSSEN BABYLON
A Lamb Alone Bears Willingly
ES IST EIN ROS
Meter: 7.6.7.6 with refrain Appears in 168 hymnals First Line: A great and mighty wonder Tune Sources: Alte Catholische Geistliche Kirchengesäng, Köln, 1599 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 55565 53432 17155 Used With Text: A Great and Mighty Wonder
ES IST EIN ROS
AN WASSERFLÜSSEN BABYLON
Meter: Irregular Appears in 39 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Wolfgang Dachstein, c. 1487-1553 First Line: A lamb alone bears willingly Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 56535 44323 45432 Used With Text: A Lamb Alone Bears Willingly
AN WASSERFLÜSSEN BABYLON
EIN FESTE BURG
Meter: 8.7.8.7.6.6.6.6.7 Appears in 636 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Martin Luther, 1483-1546 First Line: A mighty fortress is our God Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 11156 71765 17656 Used With Text: A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
EIN FESTE BURG
A Great and Mighty Wonder
Author: John M. Neale, 1818-66; St. Germanus, c. 634-c. 734 Hymnal: LW1982 #51 (1982) Meter: 7.6.7.6 with refrain Refrain First Line: Repeat the hymn again Lyrics: 1 A great and mighty wonder,
A full and holy cure:
The virgin bears the infant
With virgin honor pure!
Refrain:
Repeat the hymn again:
"To God on high be glory
And peace on earth to men!"
2 The Word becomes incarnate
And yet remains on high,
And cherubim sing anthems
To shepherds from the sky. [Refrain]
3 While thus they sing your monarch,
Those bright angelic bands,
Rejoice, O vales and mountains,
And oceans, clap your hands. [Refrain]
4 Since all he comes to ransom,
By all be he adored,
The infant born in Bethl'em,
The Savior and the Lord. [Refrain]
5 All idol forms shall perish,
And error's arguing,
And Christ shall wield his scepter,
Our Lord, our God, our King! [Refrain] Topics: Christmas Languages: English Tune Title: ES IST EIN ROS
A Great and Mighty Wonder
A Hymn of Glory Let Us Sing
Author: The Venerable Bede, 673-735 Hymnal: LW1982 #149 (1982) Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 with alleluias First Line: A hymn of glory let us sing! Refrain First Line: Alleluia, alleluia! Topics: Ascension Languages: English Tune Title: LASST UNS ERFREUEN
A Hymn of Glory Let Us Sing
A Lamb Alone Bears Willingly
Author: Paul Gerhardt, 1607-76; Henry L. Lettermann, b. 1932 Hymnal: LW1982 #111 (1982) Meter: Irregular Topics: Passion Week Languages: English Tune Title: AN WASSERFLÜSSEN BABYLON
A Lamb Alone Bears Willingly
St. Germanus
634 - 733 Person Name: St. Germanus, c. 634-c. 734 First Line: A great and mighty wonder Hymnal Number: 51 Author of "A Great and Mighty Wonder" in Lutheran Worship See Germanus I, Patriarch of Constantinople, d. ca. 733
St. Germanus
The Venerable Bede
673 - 735 Person Name: The Venerable Bede, 673-735 First Line: A hymn of glory let us sing! Hymnal Number: 149 Author of "A Hymn of Glory Let Us Sing" in Lutheran Worship Bede (b. circa 672-673; d. May 26, 735), also known as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede, was an English monk at Northumbrian monastery at Monkwearmouth (now Jarrow). Sent to the monastery at the young age of seven, he became deacon very early on, and then a priest at the age of thirty. An author and scholar, he is particularly known for his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, which gained him the title “Father of English History.” He also wrote many scientific and theological works, as well as poetry and music. Bede is the only native of Great Britain to have ever been made a Doctor of the Church. He died on Ascension Day, May 26, 735, and was buried in Durham Cathedral.
Laura de Jong
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Bede, Beda, or Baeda, the Venerable. This eminent and early scholar, grammarian, philosopher, poet, biographer, historian, and divine, was born in 673, near the place where, shortly afterwards, Benedict Biscop founded the sister monasteries of Wearmouth and Jarrow, on an estate conferred upon him by Ecgfrith, or Ecgfrid, king of Northumbria, possibly, as the Rev. S. Baring-Gould, Lives of the Saints (May), p. 399, suggests, "in the parish of Monkton, which appears to have been one of the earliest endowments of the monastery." His education was carried on at one or other of the monasteries under the care of Benedict Biscop until his death, and then of Ceolfrith, Benedict's successor, to such effect that at the early age of nineteen he was deemed worthy, for his learning and piety's sake, to be ordained deacon by St. John of Beverley, who was then bishop of Hexham, in 691 or 692. From the same prelate he received priest's orders ten years afterwards, in or about 702. The whole of his after-life he spent in study, dividing his time between the two monasteries, which were the only home he was ever to know, and in one of which (that of Jarrow) he died on May 26th, 735, and where his remains reposed until the 11th century, when they were removed to Durham, and re-interred in the same coffin as those of St. Cuthbett, where they were discovered in 1104.
He was a voluminous author upon almost every subject, and as an historian his contribution to English history in the shape of his Historia Ecclesiastica is invaluable. But it is with him as a hymnist that we have to do here.
I. In the list of his works, which Bede gives at the end of his Ecclesiastical History, he enumerates a Liber Hymnorum, containing hymns in “several sorts of metre or rhyme." The extant editions of this work are:—
(1) Edited by Cassander, and published at Cologne, 1556; (2) in Wernsdorf's Poetae Latin Min., vol. ii. pp.239-244.
II. Bede's contributions to the stores of hymnology were not large, consisting principally of 11 or at most 12 hymns; his authorship of some of these even is questioned by many good authorities.
While we cannot look for the refined and mellifluous beauty of later Latin hymnists in the works of one who, like the Venerable Bede, lived in the infancy of ecclesiastical poetry; and while we must acknowledge the loss that such poetry sustains by the absence of rhyme from so many of the hymns, and the presence in some of what Dr. Neale calls such "frigid conceits" as the epanalepsis (as grammarians term it) where the first line of each stanza, as in "Hymnum canentes Martyrum," is repeated as the last; still the hymns with which we are dealing are not without their peculiar attractions. They are full of Scripture, and Bede was very fond of introducing the actual words of Scripture as part of his own composition, and often with great effect.
That Bede was not free from the superstition of his time is certain, not only from his prose writings, but from such poems as his elegiac "Hymn on Virginity," written in praise and honour of Queen Etheldrida, the wife of King Ecgfrith, and inserted in his Ecclesiastical History, bk. iv., cap. xx. [Rev. Digby S. Wrangham, M.A.]
-- Excerpts from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
The Venerable Bede
Wolfgang Dachstein
1487 - 1553 Person Name: Wolfgang Dachstein, c. 1487-1553 First Line: A lamb alone bears willingly Hymnal Number: 111 Composer of "AN WASSERFLÜSSEN BABYLON" in Lutheran Worship Dachstein, Wolfgang, was, prior to the Reformation, a monk at Strassburg, and organist of the Cathedral. In 1524 he espoused the cause of the Reformation, and in 1525 was appointed organist and assistant preacher at St. Thomas's Church, which offices he held till at least 1530 (Koch, ii. 103-104).Along with his friend M. Greitter (q.v.) he edited the first Strassburg Hymnbook, the Kirchen ampt, published in 1525. Two of his Psalm versions have been translated into English, but he is best known as author of the melody which is set to the first of these.
i. An Wasserflüssen Babylon. [Ps. cxxxvii.] 1st pub. 1525, pt. iii, as above, and thence in Wackernage, iii. p. 98, in 5 st. of 10 1. The translations, almost identical, are : (1) “ At the ryvers of Babilon," by Bp. Coverdale, 1539 (Remains, 1846, p. 571). (2) "At the Rivers of Babylon," in the Gude and Godly Ballates (ed. 1568, folio 58, ed. 1868, p. 99).
ii. O Herr, wer würt sein Wohnung han. [Ps. xv.] 1st published 1525 as above, and thence in Wackernagel, iii. p. 98, in 3 st. of 7 1. Translated as " O Lord, quha sail in hevin dwell with the," in the Gude and Godly Ballates, (ed. 1568, folio 46, ed. 1868, p. 78). [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Wolfgang Dachstein
