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MOUNT SION
Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 24 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Horatio Parker Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 55556 71321 56667 Used With Text: O 'twas a joyful sound to hear
MOUNT SION
O 'twas a joyful sound to hear
Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 117 hymnals Topics: Easter III The Holy Communion Closing; The Church Militant; The Church as God's gift; Trinity V The Holy Communion Closing Scripture: Psalm 122 Used With Tune: MOUNT SION Text Sources: Tate and Brady, 1698
O 'twas a joyful sound to hear
Come, let us join with faithful souls
Author: William G. Tarrant Appears in 60 hymnals Used With Tune: MOUNT ZION
Come, let us join with faithful souls
Clear is the call that bids us
Author: Howard Bement, 1875-1936 Appears in 5 hymnals Used With Tune: MOUNT SION
Clear is the call that bids us
O 'twas a joyful sound to hear
Hymnal: The Hymnal #19 (1950) Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Lyrics: 1 O 'twas a joyful sound to hear
Our tribes devoutly say,
Up, Israel! to the temple haste,
And keep your festal day.
At Salem's courts we must appear,
With our assembled powers,
In strong and beauteous order ranged,
Like her united towers.
2 O ever pray for Salem's peace;
For they shall prosperous be,
Thou holy city of our God,
Who bear true love to thee.
May peace within thy sacred walls
A constant guest be found;
With plenty and prosperity
Thy palaces be crowned.
3 For my dear brethren's sake, and friends'
No less than brethren dear,
I'll pray, "May peace in Salem's towers
A constant guest appear."
But most of all I'll seek thy good,
And ever wish thee well,
For Sion and the temple's sake,
Where God vouchsafes to dwell.
Amen. Topics: Times of Worship The Lord's Day; Fellowship; Lord's Day, The; Processionals; Worship The Lord's Day Scripture: Psalm 122 Tune Title: MOUNT SION
O 'twas a joyful sound to hear
O 'twas a joyful sound to hear
Hymnal: The Hymnal #307 (1916) Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Lyrics:
O 'twas a joyful sound to hear
Our tribes devoutly say,
Up, Israel! to the temple haste,
And keep your festal day.
At Salem's courts we must appear,
With our assembled powers,
In strong and beauteous order ranged,
Like her united towers.
O ever pray for Salem's peace;
For they shall prosperous be,
Thou holy city of our God,
Who bear true love to thee.
May peace within thy sacred walls
A constant guest be found;
With plenty and prosperity
Thy palaces be crowned.
For my dear brethren's sake, and friends
No less than brethren dear,
I'll pray, May peace in Salem's towers
A constant guest appear.
But most of all I'll seek thy good,
And ever wish thee well,
For Sion and the temple's sake,
Where God vouchsafes to dwell.
O Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
The God whom we adore,
Be glory, as it was, is now,
And shall be evermore.
Amen.
Topics: The Lord's Day; Holy Communion Introits; Brotherhood and Service Scripture: Psalm 122 Languages: English Tune Title: MOUNT SION
O 'twas a joyful sound to hear
O 'twas a joyful sound to hear
Author: Tate; Brady Hymnal: The Church Hymnal #451 (1920) Lyrics: 1 O 'twas a joyful sound to hear,
Our tribes exulting say,
Up Israel! to the temple haste,
And keep your festal day.
2 At Salem's courts we must appear,
With our assembled powers,
In strong and beauteous order ranged,
Like her united towers.
3 O ever pray for Salem's peace;
For they shall prosperous be,
Thou holy city of our God,
Who bear true love to thee.
4 May peace within thy sacred walls
A constant guest be found;
With plenty and prosperity
Thy palaces be crowned.
5 For my dear brethren's sake, and friends
No less than brethren dear,
I'll pray, May peace in Salem's towers
A constant guest appear.
6 But most of all I'll seek thy good,
And ever wish thee well,
For Sion and the temple's sake,
Where God vouchsafes to dwell.
Topics: General Languages: English Tune Title: MOUNT SION
O 'twas a joyful sound to hear
Nahum Tate
1652 - 1715 Person Name: Tate Author of "O 'twas a joyful sound to hear " in The Church Hymnal Nahum Tate was born in Dublin and graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, B.A. 1672. He lacked great talent but wrote much for the stage, adapting other men's work, really successful only in a version of King Lear. Although he collaborated with Dryden on several occasions, he was never fully in step with the intellectual life of his times, and spent most of his life in a futile pursuit of popular favor. Nonetheless, he was appointed poet laureate in 1692 and royal historiographer in 1702. He is now known only for the New Version of the Psalms of David, 1696, which he produced in collaboration with Nicholas Brady. Poverty stricken throughout much of his life, he died in the Mint at Southwark, where he had taken refuge from his creditors, on August 12, 1715.
--The Hymnal 1940 Companion
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Nicholas Brady
1659 - 1726 Person Name: Brady Author of "O 'twas a joyful sound to hear " in The Church Hymnal Nicholas Brady, the son of an officer in the Royalist army, was born in Brandon, Ireland, 1659. He studied at Westminster School, and at Christ Church College, oxford, and graduated at Trinity College, Dublin. He held several positions in the ministry, but later in life retired to Richmond Surrey, where he established a school. Here he translated some of the Psalms. Several volumes of his sermons and smaller works were published, but his chief work, like that of his co-colabourer Tate, was the "Metrical Version of Psalms."
This version was authorized by King William in 1696, and has, since that time, taken the place of the earlier translation by Sternhold and Hopkins, which was published in 1562. The whole of the Psalms, with tunes, appeared in 1698, and a Supplement of Church Hymns in 1703. Of this version, which has little poetic merit, Montgomery says "It is nearly as inanimate as the former, though a little more refined." None of the "Metrical Psalms" are to be compared with the Psalms of the Prayer Book Psalter, and very few of them are worthy a place in a collection of hymns.
--Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, 1872.
Nicholas Brady
W. G. Tarrant
1853 - 1928 Person Name: William G. Tarrant Author of "The Company of the Faithful" in The Pilgrim Hymnal Tarrant, William George, B.A., b. 1853. Since 1883 Minister of the Wandsworth Unitarian Christian Church. Editor of The Inquirer, 1888-97. One of the editors of the Essex Hall Hymnal. 1890, and of the Revised ed., 1902.
1. Come, let us Join with faithful souls. The Faithful.
2. Draw nigh to God; He will draw nigh to you. The Divine Helper.
3. Long ago the lilies faded. The Constant Presence.
4. The Light along the ages. Easter.
5. With happy voices ringing. Children's Praise.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
W. G. Tarrant
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