Search Results

Switch back to the old search page.Advanced Search

This is the truth sent from above

Appears in 2 hymnals Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 10 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958 Hymnal Title: Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New Tune Sources: Traditional English melody collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams Tune Key: g minor Incipit: 51232 17152 33217 Used With Text: This is the truth sent from above

Instances

Published text-tune combinations (hymns) from specific hymnals

This is the truth sent from above

Hymnal: Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New #678 (2000) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Hymnal Title: Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New Lyrics: 1 This is the truth sent from above, the truth of God, the God of love; therefore don't turn me from the door but hearken all, both rich and poor. 2 The first thing that I will relate, that God at first did man create; the next thing which to you I tell - woman was made with him to dwell. 3 Then after that 'twas God's own choice to place them both in paradise, there to remain from evil free except they ate of such a tree. 4 But they did eat, which was a sin, and thus their ruin did begin - ruined themselves, both you and me, and all of our posterity. 5 Thus we were heirs to endless woes till God the Lord did interpose; and so a promise soon did run: that he'd redeem us by his Son. 6 At at this season of the year our blest Redeemer did appear, and here did live, and here did preach, and many thousands he did teach. 7 Thus he in love to us behaved, to show us how we must be saved; and if you want to know the way, be pleased to hear what he did say: 8 'Go preach the gospel,' now he said, 'to all the nations that are made! And those that do believe on me, from all their sins I'll set them free.' 9 O seek! O seek of God above that saving faith that works by love! And, if he's pleased to grant thee this, thou't sure to have eternal bliss. 10 God grant to all within this place true saving faith, that special grace which to his people doth belong: and thus I chose my Christmas song. Topics: Advent; Christmas Scripture: Genesis 1:3 Languages: English Tune Title: THE TRUTH FROM ABOVE

The Truth from Above

Hymnal: Oxford Book of Carols #68 (1928) Hymnal Title: Oxford Book of Carols First Line: This is the truth sent from above

People

Authors, composers, editors, etc.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

1872 - 1958 Person Name: Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958 Hymnal Title: Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New Composer of "THE TRUTH FROM ABOVE" in Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New 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