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My Soul, There Is A Country

Author: Henry Vaughan, 1622-1695 Meter: 7.6.7.6 Appears in 39 hymnals Used With Tune: CHRISTUS, DER IST MEIN LEBEN

Meter: 7.6.7.6 Appears in 312 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. S. Bach, 1685-1750 Tune Sources: Melchior Vulpius's Gesangbuch, Weimar, 1609 Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 13234 53654 32356 Used With Text: My soul there is a country

PASSION CHORALE

Appears in 511 hymnals Incipit: 51765 45233 2121 Used With Text: My soul, there is a country

ST. GEORGE'S, BOLTON

Appears in 83 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: James Walsh, 1837- Incipit: 33257 21561 765 Used With Text: My soul, there is a country

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My soul, there is a country

Author: Henry Vaughan, 1622-1695 Hymnal: Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New #464 (2000) Meter: 7.6.7.6 Lyrics: 1 My soul, there is a country far beyond the stars, where stands a wingèd sentry all skilful in the wars. 2 There above noise, and danger, sweet peace sits crowned with smiles, and one born in a manger commands the beauteous files. 3 He is thy gracious Friend, and — O my soul, awake! did in pure love descend, to die here for thy sake. 4 If thou canst get but thither, there grows the flow'r of peace, the Rose that cannot wither, thy fortress and thy ease. 5 Leave then thy foolish ranges, for none can thee secure but one, who never changes, thy God, thy life, thy cure. Topics: Funerals; Healing; Remembrance; The Witnessing Community Scripture: James 1:17 Languages: English Tune Title: CHRISTUS DER IST MEIN LEBEN

My Soul, There Is a Country

Author: Henry Vaughan Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #4377 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Lyrics: 1. My soul, there is a country, Afar beyond the stars, Where stands a wingèd sentry, All skillful in the wars. 2. There, above noise and danger, Sweet Peace sits crowned with smiles, And One born in a manger Commands the beauteous files. 3. He is thy gracious friend And (O my soul, awake!) Did in pure love descend, To die here for thy sake. 4. If thou canst get but thither, There grows the flower of peace, The rose that cannot wither, Thy fortress, and thy ease. 5. Leave, then, thy foolish ranges; For none can thee secure But One, who never changes, Thy God, thy life, thy cure. Languages: English Tune Title: VULPIUS

My Soul, There Is A Country

Author: Henry Vaughan, 1622-1695 Hymnal: The Hymn Book of the Anglican Church of Canada and the United Church of Canada #181 (1971) Meter: 7.6.7.6 Tune Title: CHRISTUS, DER IST MEIN LEBEN

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Johann Sebastian Bach

1685 - 1750 Person Name: Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750 Arranger of "CHRISTUS, DER IST MEIN LEBEN" in The Hymn Book of the Anglican Church of Canada and the United Church of Canada Johann Sebastian Bach was born at Eisenach into a musical family and in a town steeped in Reformation history, he received early musical training from his father and older brother, and elementary education in the classical school Luther had earlier attended. Throughout his life he made extraordinary efforts to learn from other musicians. At 15 he walked to Lüneburg to work as a chorister and study at the convent school of St. Michael. From there he walked 30 miles to Hamburg to hear Johann Reinken, and 60 miles to Celle to become familiar with French composition and performance traditions. Once he obtained a month's leave from his job to hear Buxtehude, but stayed nearly four months. He arranged compositions from Vivaldi and other Italian masters. His own compositions spanned almost every musical form then known (Opera was the notable exception). In his own time, Bach was highly regarded as organist and teacher, his compositions being circulated as models of contrapuntal technique. Four of his children achieved careers as composers; Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Chopin are only a few of the best known of the musicians that confessed a major debt to Bach's work in their own musical development. Mendelssohn began re-introducing Bach's music into the concert repertoire, where it has come to attract admiration and even veneration for its own sake. After 20 years of successful work in several posts, Bach became cantor of the Thomas-schule in Leipzig, and remained there for the remaining 27 years of his life, concentrating on church music for the Lutheran service: over 200 cantatas, four passion settings, a Mass, and hundreds of chorale settings, harmonizations, preludes, and arrangements. He edited the tunes for Schemelli's Musicalisches Gesangbuch, contributing 16 original tunes. His choral harmonizations remain a staple for studies of composition and harmony. Additional melodies from his works have been adapted as hymn tunes. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Melchior Vulpius

1570 - 1615 Person Name: Melchior Vulpius, c. 1570-1615 Composer of "CHRISTUS, DER IST MEIN LEBEN" in The Hymn Book of the Anglican Church of Canada and the United Church of Canada Born into a poor family named Fuchs, Melchior Vulpius (b. Wasungen, Henneberg, Germany, c. 1570; d. Weimar, Germany, 1615) had only limited educational opportunities and did not attend the university. He taught Latin in the school in Schleusingen, where he Latinized his surname, and from 1596 until his death served as a Lutheran cantor and teacher in Weimar. A distinguished composer, Vulpius wrote a St. Matthew Passion (1613), nearly two hundred motets in German and Latin, and over four hundred hymn tunes, many of which became popular in Lutheran churches, and some of which introduced the lively Italian balletto rhythms into the German hymn tunes. His music was published in Cantiones Sacrae (1602, 1604), Kirchengesangund Geistliche Lieder (1604, enlarged as Ein schon geistlich Gesanglmch, 1609), and posthumously in Cantionale Sacrum (1646). Bert Polman