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Attend, my people, to my law; Thereto give thou an ear

Author: Thomas Sternhold Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 11 hymnals Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project

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MONORA

Appears in 9 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Wm. B. Bradbury Hymnal Title: Bible Songs Incipit: 55351 15132 13215 Used With Text: Attend my people to my law
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BROWN

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 203 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William Batchelder Bradbury Hymnal Title: The Cyber Hymnal Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 51231 67165 51325 Used With Text: Attend, My People, To My Law
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TALLIS'S ORDINAL

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 221 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Thomas Tallis, c. 1505-1585 Hymnal Title: The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 13455 66551 76651 Used With Text: Attend, my people, to my law

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Hymnal: Bible Songs #158 (1901) Hymnal Title: Bible Songs First Line: Attend my people to my law Topics: Afflictions For sin; Anger of God Righteous; Backsliding; Children instructed; Christ Providences of; Christians Duties of; Church Unfaithful; Covenant False to; Covenant Of God; Families; Glory of God In Creation; God Loving and Merciful; God Works of; Gospel Gracious Fruit of; Gospel Invitations of ; Heart Evil, Hard, and Stubborn; Hope in God; Ingratitude to God; Miracles; Nature A Revelation of God; Parents and Children; The Past; Providence of God Over Saints; Regeneration; Royalty of Christ In His Church; Unbelief; Worship Only as God Appoints Scripture: Psalm 78:1-22 Languages: English Tune Title: [Attend my people to my law]
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Attend my people to my law

Hymnal: Bible Songs #107 (1891) Hymnal Title: Bible Songs Languages: English Tune Title: MONORA
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Attend my people to my law

Hymnal: Bible Songs #107 (1897) Hymnal Title: Bible Songs Languages: English Tune Title: MONORA

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Thomas Sternhold

1449 - 1549 Hymnal Title: The Cyber Hymnal Author of "Attend, My People, To My Law" in The Cyber Hymnal Thomas Sternhold was Groom of the Robes to Henry VIII and Edward VI. With Hopkins, he produced the first English version of the Psalms before alluded to. He completed fifty-one; Hopkins and others composed the remainder. He died in 1549. Thirty-seven of his psalms were edited and published after his death, by his friend Hopkins. The work is entitled "All such Psalms of David as Thomas Sternhold, late Groome of the King's Majestye's Robes, did in his Lyfetime drawe into Englyshe Metre." Of the version annexed to the Prayer Book, Montgomery says: "The merit of faithful adherence to the original has been claimed for this version, and need not to be denied, but it is the resemblance which the dead bear to the living." Wood, in his "Athenae Oxonlenses" (1691, vol. I, p. 62), has the following account of the origin of Sternhold's psalms: "Being a most zealous reformer, and a very strict liver, he became so scandalized at the amorous and obscene songs used in the Court, that he, forsooth, turned into English metre fifty-one of David's psalms, and caused musical notes to be set to them, thinking thereby that the courtiers would sing them instead of their sonnets; but they did not, some few excepted. However, the poetry and music being admirable, and the best that was made and composed in these times, they were thought fit to be sung in all parochial churches." Of Sternhold and Hopkins, old Fuller says: "They were men whose piety was better than their poetry, and they had drunk more of Jordan than of Helicon." Sternhold and Hopkins may be taken as the representatives of the strong tendency to versify Scripture that came with the Reformation into England--a work men eagerly entered on without the talent requisite for its successful accomplishment. The tendency went so far, that even the "Acts of the Apostles" was put into rhyme, and set to music by Dr. Christopher Tye. --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872.

William B. Bradbury

1816 - 1868 Person Name: William Batchelder Bradbury Hymnal Title: The Cyber Hymnal Composer of "BROWN" in The Cyber Hymnal William Bachelder Bradbury USA 1816-1868. Born at York, ME, he was raised on his father's farm, with rainy days spent in a shoe-shop, the custom in those days. He loved music and spent spare hours practicing any music he could find. In 1830 the family moved to Boston, where he first saw and heard an organ and piano, and other instruments. He became an organist at 15. He attended Dr. Lowell Mason's singing classes, and later sang in the Bowdoin Street church choir. Dr. Mason became a good friend. He made $100/yr playing the organ, and was still in Dr. Mason's choir. Dr. Mason gave him a chance to teach singing in Machias, ME, which he accepted. He returned to Boston the following year to marry Adra Esther Fessenden in 1838, then relocated to Saint John, New Brunswick. Where his efforts were not much appreciated, so he returned to Boston. He was offered charge of music and organ at the First Baptist Church of Brooklyn. That led to similar work at the Baptist Tabernacle, New York City, where he also started a singing class. That started singing schools in various parts of the city, and eventually resulted in music festivals, held at the Broadway Tabernacle, a prominent city event. He conducted a 1000 children choir there, which resulted in music being taught as regular study in public schools of the city. He began writing music and publishing it. In 1847 he went with his wife to Europe to study with some of the music masters in London and also Germany. He attended Mendelssohn funeral while there. He went to Switzerland before returning to the states, and upon returning, commenced teaching, conducting conventions, composing, and editing music books. In 1851, with his brother, Edward, he began manufacturring Bradbury pianos, which became popular. Also, he had a small office in one of his warehouses in New York and often went there to spend time in private devotions. As a professor, he edited 59 books of sacred and secular music, much of which he wrote. He attended the Presbyterian church in Bloomfield, NJ, for many years later in life. He contracted tuberculosis the last two years of his life. John Perry

Thomas Tallis

1505 - 1585 Person Name: Thomas Tallis, c. 1505-1585 Hymnal Title: The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook Composer of "TALLIS'S ORDINAL" in The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook Thomas Tallis (b. Leicestershire [?], England, c. 1505; d. Greenwich, Kent, England 1585) was one of the few Tudor musicians who served during the reigns of Henry VIII: Edward VI, Mary, and Elizabeth I and managed to remain in the good favor of both Catholic and Protestant monarchs. He was court organist and composer from 1543 until his death, composing music for Roman Catholic masses and Anglican liturgies (depending on the monarch). With William Byrd, Tallis also enjoyed a long-term monopoly on music printing. Prior to his court connections Tallis had served at Waltham Abbey and Canterbury Cathedral. He composed mostly church music, including Latin motets, English anthems, settings of the liturgy, magnificats, and two sets of lamentations. His most extensive contrapuntal work was the choral composition, "Spem in alium," a work in forty parts for eight five-voice choirs. He also provided nine modal psalm tunes for Matthew Parker's Psalter (c. 1561). Bert Polman