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My shepherd is the King of love
Author: Henry Williams Baker, 1821-1877 Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 675 hymnals Topics: Canticles and Scripture Paraphrases Scripture: Isaiah 43:1 Used With Tune: DOMINUS REGIT ME
My shepherd is the King of love
Come, let us to the Lord our God
Author: John Morison, 1750-1798 Appears in 108 hymnals Topics: Canticles and Scripture Paraphrases Lyrics: 1 Come, let us to the Lord our God
with contrite hearts return;
our God is gracious, nor will leave
the desolate to mourn.
2 God's voice commands the tempest forth
and stills the stormy wave;
God's arm is strong and swift to strike,
but also strong to save.
3 The night of sorrow long has reigned,
but dawn shall bring us light:
God shall appear, and we shall rise
with gladness in God's sight.
4 Then let us know, let us press on
to know our God the Lord,
whose coming is as sure as dawn,
whose name shall be adored.
5 As dew upon the tender grass
diffusing fragrance round,
as rain that ushers in the spring
and cheers the thirsty ground,
6 so shall God's presence bless our souls
and shed a joyful light,
that hallowed morn shall chase away
the sorrows of the night. Scripture: Hosea 6:1-3 Used With Tune: KILMARNOCK Text Sources: Scottish Paraphrase
Come, let us to the Lord our God
Be thou my vision
Author: Mary Byrne, 1880-1931; Eleanor Hull, 1860-1935 Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 159 hymnals Topics: Canticles and Scripture Paraphrases First Line: Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart Lyrics: 1 Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart;
naught be all else to me, save that thou art,
thou my best thought in the day and the night,
waking or sleeping, thy presence my light.
2 Be thou my wisdom; be thou my true word,
I ever with thee and thou with me, Lord;
thou my great Father, thine own may I be,
thou in me dwelling, and I one with thee.
3 Be thou my breastplate, my sword for the fight;
be thou my armour and be thou my might;
thou my soul’s shelter and thou my high tower,
raise thou me heavenward, O Power of my power.
4 Riches I heed not, nor vain earthly praise,
thou mine inheritance, through all my days;
thou and thou only, the first in my heart,
high King of heaven, my treasure thou art!
5 High King of heaven, when the battle is done,
grant heaven’s joy to me, O bright heaven’s Sun;
heart of my own heart, whatever befall,
still be my vision, O ruler of all.
Scripture: Psalm 16:5-6 Used With Tune: SLANE Text Sources: Irish anonymous, 8th century
Be thou my vision
ROCKINGHAM
Appears in 492 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Edward Miller, 1731-1807 Topics: Canticles and Scripture Paraphrases Tune Sources: Psalmody in Miniature, S Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 13421 35655 17655 Used With Text: How blest are they who trust in Christ
ROCKINGHAM
This is the feast of victory
Author: John W. Arthur, 1922-1980 Hymnal: The Book of Praise #246 (1997) Meter: 9.11 with refrain Topics: Canticles and Scripture Paraphrases First Line: Worthy is Christ, the Lamb who was slain Languages: English Tune Title: FESTIVAL CANTICLE
This is the feast of victory
I'm not ashamed to own my Lord
Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Hymnal: The Book of Praise #393 (1997) Topics: Canticles and Scripture Paraphrases Lyrics: 1 I'm not ashamed to own my Lord,
or to defend his cause,
maintain the glory of his cross,
and honour all his laws.
2 Jesus, my Lord! I know his name,
his name is all my boast;
nor will he put my soul to shame,
nor let my hope be lost.
3 I know that safe with him remains,
protected by his power,
what I've committed to his trust
till the decisive hour.
4 Then will he own his servant's name,
before his Father's face,
and in the new Jerusalem
appoint my soul a place. Scripture: Matthew 25:21 Languages: English
I'm not ashamed to own my Lord
Blest be the everlasting God
Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Hymnal: The Book of Praise #454 (1997) Topics: Canticles and Scripture Paraphrases Lyrics: 1 Blest be the everlasting God
the Father of our Lord;
be God's abounding mercy praised,
and majesty adored.
2 When God raised Jesus from the dead,
when Christ arose on high,
God gave our souls a lively hope
that we should never die.
3 To an inheritance divine
God taught our hearts to rise;
'tis uncorrupted, undefiled,
unfading in the skies.
4 Saints by the power of God are kept
until salvation come;
we walk by faith as strangers here,
but Christ shall call us home. Scripture: 1 Peter 1:3-9 Languages: English Tune Title: ABRIDGE
Blest be the everlasting God
Michael Haydn
1737 - 1806 Person Name: Johann Michael Haydn, 1737-1806 Topics: Canticles and Scripture Paraphrases Composer of "SALZBURG (HAYDN)" in The Book of Praise Johann Michael Haydn Austria 1737-1806. Born at Rohrau, Austria, the son of a wheelwright and town mayor (a very religious man who also played the harp and was a great influence on his sons' religious thinking), and the younger brother of Franz Joseph Haydn, he became a choirboy in his youth at the Cathedral of St. Stephen in Vienna, as did his brother, Joseph, an exceptional singer. For that reason boys both were taken into the church choir. Michael was a brighter student than Joseph, but was expelled from music school when his voice broke at age 17. The brothers remained close all their lives, and Joseph regarded Michael's religious works superior to his own. Michael played harpsichord, violin, and organ, earning a precarious living as a freelance musician in his early years. In 1757 he became kapellmeister to Archbishop, Sigismund of Grosswardein, in Hungary, and in 1762 concertmaster to Archbishop, Hieronymous of Salzburg, where he remained the rest of his life (over 40 years), also assuming the duties of organist at the Church of St. Peter in Salzburg, presided over by the Benedictines. He also taught violin at the court. He married the court singer, Maria Magdalena Lipp in 1768, daughter of the cathedral choir-master, who was a very pious women, and had such an affect on her husband, trending his inertia and slothfulness into wonderful activity. They had one daughter, Aloysia Josepha, in 1770, but she died within a year. He succeeded Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, an intimate friend, as cathedral organist in 1781. He also taught music to Carl Maria von Weber. His musical reputation was not recognized fully until after World War II. He was a prolific composer of music, considered better than his well-known brother at composing religious works. He produced some 43 symphonies,12 concertos, 21 serenades, 6 quintets, 19 quartets, 10 trio sonatas, 4 due sonatas, 2 solo sonatas, 19 keyboard compositions, 3 ballets, 15 collections of minuets (English and German dances), 15 marches and miscellaneous secular music. He is best known for his religious works (well over 400 pieces), which include 47 antiphons, 5 cantatas, 65 canticles, 130 graduals, 16 hymns, 47 masses, 7 motets, 65 offertories, 7 oratorios, 19 Psalms settings, 2 requiems, and 42 other compositions. He also composed 253 secular vocals of various types. He did not like seeing his works in print, and kept most in manuscript form. He never compiled or cataloged his works, but others did it later, after his death. Lothar Perger catalogued his orchestral works in 1807 and Nikolaus Lang did a biographical sketch in 1808. In 1815 Anton Maria Klafsky cataloged his sacred music. More complete cataloging has been done in the 1980s and 1990s by Charles H Sherman and T Donley Thomas. Several of Michael Haydn's works influenced Mozart. Haydn died at Salzburg, Austria.
John Perry
Michael Haydn
William Henry Monk
1823 - 1889 Person Name: William Henry Monk, 1823-1889 Topics: Canticles and Scripture Paraphrases Composer of "EVENTIDE" in The Book of Praise William H. Monk (b. Brompton, London, England, 1823; d. London, 1889) is best known for his music editing of Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861, 1868; 1875, and 1889 editions). He also adapted music from plainsong and added accompaniments for Introits for Use Throughout the Year, a book issued with that famous hymnal. Beginning in his teenage years, Monk held a number of musical positions. He became choirmaster at King's College in London in 1847 and was organist and choirmaster at St. Matthias, Stoke Newington, from 1852 to 1889, where he was influenced by the Oxford Movement. At St. Matthias, Monk also began daily choral services with the choir leading the congregation in music chosen according to the church year, including psalms chanted to plainsong. He composed over fifty hymn tunes and edited The Scottish Hymnal (1872 edition) and Wordsworth's Hymns for the Holy Year (1862) as well as the periodical Parish Choir (1840-1851).
Bert Polman
William Henry Monk
Frederic Henry Hedge
1805 - 1890 Person Name: Frederick H. Hedge, 1805-1890 Topics: Canticles and Scripture Paraphrases Translator of "A mighty fortress is our God" in The Book of Praise Hedge, Frederick Henry, D.D., son of Professor Hedge of Harvard College, was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1805, and educated in Germany and at Harvard. In 1829 he became pastor of the Unitarian Church, West Cambridge. In 1835 he removed to Bangor, Maine; in 1850 to Providence, and in 1856 to Brookline, Mass. He was appointed in 1857, Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge (U.S.), and in 1872, Professor of German Literature at Harvard. Dr. Hedge is one of the editors of the Christian Examiner, and the author of The Prose Writers of Germany, and other works. In 1853 he edited, with Dr. F. D. Huntington, the Unitarian Hymns for the Church of Christ, Boston Crosby, Nichols & Co. To that collection and the supplement (1853) he contributed the following translations from the German:—
1. A mighty fortress is our God. (Ein feste Burg.)
2. Christ hath arisen! joy to, &c. (Goethe's Faust.)
3. The sun is still for ever sounding. (Goethe's Faust.)
There is also in the Unitarian Hymn [& Tune] Book for The Church & Home, Boston, 1868, a translation from the Latin.
4. Holy Spirit, Fire divine. (“Veni Sancte Spiritus.")
Dr. Hedge's original hymns, given in the Hymns for the Church, 1853, are:—
5. Beneath Thine hammer, Lord, I lie. Resignation.
6. Sovereign and transforming grace. Ordination. Written for the Ordination of H. D. Barlow at Lynn, Mass., Dec. 9, 1829. It is given in several collections.
7. 'Twas in the East, the mystic East. Christmas.
8. 'Twas the day when God's anointed. Good Friday. Written originally for a Confirmation at Bangor, Maine, held on Good Friday, 1843. The hymn "It is finished, Man of Sorrows! From Thy cross, &c," in a few collections, including Martineau's Hymns, &c, 1873, is composed of st. iv.-vi. of this hymn. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Frederic Henry Hedge
