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Blessed Be the God of Israel

Author: Carl P. Daw Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 18 hymnals First Line: Blessed be the God of Israel, Who comes to set us free Text Sources: Song of Zechariah (para.)

[Blest be the God of Israel]

Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Steven R. Janco Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 12345 16545 14321 Used With Text: Canticle of Zechariah

SONG OF ZACHARIAS

Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Dorothy Howell Sheets (1915-) Tune Key: F Major Used With Text: Blessed Be the God of Israel

Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 14 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Annabeth McClelland Gay (b. 1925) Tune Key: g minor Incipit: 51327 11755 13271 Used With Text: The Song of Zechariah (Benedictus Dominus Deus): Canticle 16 (metrical paraphrase)

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Song of Zechariah (Blessed Be the God of Israel)

Author: Carl P. Daw, Jr. Hymnal: Singing the New Testament #5 (2008) Meter: 8.6.8.6 D First Line: Blessed be the God of Israel, who comes to set us free Lyrics: 1 Blessed be the God of Israel, who comes to set us free and raises up new hope for us: a Branch from David’s tree. So have the prophets long declared that with a mighty arm God would turn back our enemies and all who wish us harm. 2 With promised mercy will God still the covenant recall, the oath once sworn to Abraham, from foes to save us all, that we might worship without fear and offer lives of praise, in holiness and righteousness to serve God all our days. 3 My child, as prophet of the Lord, you will prepare the way, to tell God’s people they are saved from sin’s eternal sway. Then shall God’s mercy from on high shine forth and never cease to drive away the gloom of death and lead us into peace. Topics: Benedictus; Christmas/Birth of Christ; Deliverance; Enemies and Persecution; Presentation of Our Lord Scripture: Luke 1:68-79 Languages: English Tune Title: FOREST GREEN

Song of Zechariah (Blessed Be the God of Israel)

Author: Carl P. Daw, Jr., b. 1944 Hymnal: Sing! A New Creation #104 (2002) Meter: 8.6.8.6 D First Line: Blessed be the God of Israel who comes to set us free Lyrics: 1 Blessed be the God of Israel who comes to set us free and raises up new hope for us: a branch from David’s tree. So have the prophets long declared that with a mighty arm God would turn back our enemies and all who wish us harm. 2 With promised mercy will God still the covenant recall, the oath once sworn to Abraham, from foes to save us all, that we might worship without fear and offer lives of praise, in holiness and righteousness to serve God all our days. 3 My child, as prophet of the Lord you will prepare the way, to tell God’s people they are saved from sin’s eternal sway. Then shall God’s mercy from on high shine forth and never cease to drive away the gloom of death and lead us into peace. Topics: Advent Scripture: Luke 1:68-79 Languages: English Tune Title: FOREST GREEN

Blessed Be the God of Israel

Author: Carl P. Daw, Jr., (1944-) Hymnal: Common Praise (1998) #11 (1998) Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Lyrics: 1 Blessed be the God of Israel who comes to set us free and raises up new hope for us: a Branch from David’s tree. So have the prophets long declared that with a mighty arm God would turn back our enemies and all who wish us harm. 2 With promised mercy will God still the covenant recall, the oath once sworn to Abraham, from foes to save us all; that we might worship without fear and offer lives of praise, in holiness and righteousness before God all our days. 3 My child, as prophet of the Lord you will prepare the way, to tell God’s people they are saved from sin’s eternal sway. Then shall God’s mercy from on high shine forth and never cease to drive away the gloom of death and lead us into peace. Topics: Morning; Advent; John, the Baptist; Salvation/Redemption; Song of Zechariah Scripture: Luke 1:68-79 Languages: English Tune Title: SONG OF ZACHARIAS

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

1872 - 1958 Person Name: Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958 Arranger of "FOREST GREEN" in Sing! A New Creation Through his composing, conducting, collecting, editing, and teaching, Ralph Vaughan Williams (b. Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, England, October 12, 1872; d. Westminster, London, England, August 26, 1958) became the chief figure in the realm of English music and church music in the first half of the twentieth century. His education included instruction at the Royal College of Music in London and Trinity College, Cambridge, as well as additional studies in Berlin and Paris. During World War I he served in the army medical corps in France. Vaughan Williams taught music at the Royal College of Music (1920-1940), conducted the Bach Choir in London (1920-1927), and directed the Leith Hill Music Festival in Dorking (1905-1953). A major influence in his life was the English folk song. A knowledgeable collector of folk songs, he was also a member of the Folksong Society and a supporter of the English Folk Dance Society. Vaughan Williams wrote various articles and books, including National Music (1935), and composed numerous arrangements of folk songs; many of his compositions show the impact of folk rhythms and melodic modes. His original compositions cover nearly all musical genres, from orchestral symphonies and concertos to choral works, from songs to operas, and from chamber music to music for films. Vaughan Williams's church music includes anthems; choral-orchestral works, such as Magnificat (1932), Dona Nobis Pacem (1936), and Hodie (1953); and hymn tune settings for organ. But most important to the history of hymnody, he was music editor of the most influential British hymnal at the beginning of the twentieth century, The English Hymnal (1906), and coeditor (with Martin Shaw) of Songs of Praise (1925, 1931) and the Oxford Book of Carols (1928). Bert Polman

Carl P. Daw Jr.

b. 1944 Person Name: Carl P. Daw, Jr., b. 1944 Author of "Song of Zechariah (Blessed Be the God of Israel)" in Sing! A New Creation Carl P. Daw, Jr. (b. Louisville, KY, 1944) is the son of a Baptist minister. He holds a PhD degree in English (University of Virginia) and taught English from 1970-1979 at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. As an Episcopal priest (MDiv, 1981, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennesee) he served several congregations in Virginia, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. From 1996-2009 he served as the Executive Director of The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada. Carl Daw began to write hymns as a consultant member of the Text committee for The Hymnal 1982, and his many texts often appeared first in several small collections, including A Year of Grace: Hymns for the Church Year (1990); To Sing God’s Praise (1992), New Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1996), Gathered for Worship (2006). Other publications include A Hymntune Psalter (2 volumes, 1988-1989) and Breaking the Word: Essays on the Liturgical Dimensions of Preaching (1994, for which he served as editor and contributed two essays. In 2002 a collection of 25 of his hymns in Japanese was published by the United Church of Christ in Japan. He wrote Glory to God: A Companion (2016) for the 2013 hymnal of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Emily Brink