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572. Now All the Woods Are Sleeping

Text Information
First Line: Now all the woods are sleeping
Title: Now All the Woods Are Sleeping
Author: Paul Gerhardt (1653)
Author (st. 3): Robert Bridges (1899)
Meter: 7.7.6.7.7.8.
Language: English
Publication Date: 1995
Topic: Morning and Evening; Evening hymns; God--Creator (2 more...)
Source: paraphrased in the Lutheran Book of Worship (1978)
Copyright: © 1978 by Lutheran Book of Worship. Reprinted by permission of Augsburg Fortress.
Tune Information
Name: INNSBRUCK
Composer: Heinrich Issak, c. 1450-1517
Adapter: Johann Sebastian Bach (1729)
Meter: 7.7.6.7.7.8.
Key: G Major
Notes: Alternate setting, hymn 738 79 A in 1891 Offices of Worship and Hymns



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