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Author: Robert Lowry (1826-1899) Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Appears in 762 hymnals First Line: Shall we gather at the river Where bright angel feet have trod Refrain First Line: Yes, we’ll gather at the river, Lyrics: ... at the river, where bright angel feet have trod, with its ... Topics: Doctrines Eternal Life Used With Tune: [Shall we gather at the river Where bright angel feet have trod]

Angels from the Realms of Glory

Author: James Montgomery Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 771 hymnals Refrain First Line: Come and worship, come and worship Lyrics: 1 Angels from the realms of glory, ... Topics: Christ's Gracious Life Birth and Baptism; Christian Year Christmas; Christian Year Epiphany; Christ's Gracious Life Birth and Baptism; Christian Year Christmas; Christian Year Epiphany; Jesus Christ; Opening Hymns; Responses, Antiphonal Scripture: Malachi 3:1 Used With Tune: REGENT SQUARE

Angels We Have Heard on High

Meter: 7.7.7.7 with refain Appears in 258 hymnals Refrain First Line: Gloria Lyrics: 1 Angels we have heard on high ... see Christ whose birth the angels sing; come, adore on bended ... laid, whom the choirs of angels praise; Mary, Joseph, lend your ... Topics: Christ's Gracious Life Birth and Baptism; Christian Year Christmas; Christian Year Epiphany; Christ's Gracious Life Birth and Baptism; Christian Year Christmas; Christian Year Epiphany; Glory; Jesus Christ; Responses, Antiphonal Scripture: Luke 2:6-20 Used With Tune: GLORIA Text Sources: Traditional French carol; trans. Crown of Jesus,1852, alt.

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CAROL

Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 502 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Richard Storrs Willis Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 53221 65655 67112 Used With Text: It Came upon the Midnight Clear

KINGSFOLD

Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 287 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: R. Vaughn Williams Tune Key: e minor Incipit: 32111 73343 45543 Used With Text: O Sing a Song of Bethlehem

CORONATION

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,301 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Oliver Holden Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 51133 21232 13212 Used With Text: All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name

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John Stainer

1840 - 1901 Arranger of "THE FIRST NOEL" in The Worshiping Church

Catherine Winkworth

1827 - 1878 Translator of "Good news from heaven the angels bring" in Common Service Book of the Lutheran Church Catherine Winkworth (b. Holborn, London, England, 1827; d. Monnetier, Savoy, France, 1878) is well known for her English translations of German hymns; her translations were polished and yet remained close to the original. Educated initially by her mother, she lived with relatives in Dresden, Germany, in 1845, where she acquired her knowledge of German and interest in German hymnody. After residing near Manchester until 1862, she moved to Clifton, near Bristol. A pioneer in promoting women's rights, Winkworth put much of her energy into the encouragement of higher education for women. She translated a large number of German hymn texts from hymnals owned by a friend, Baron Bunsen. Though often altered, these translations continue to be used in many modern hymnals. Her work was published in two series of Lyra Germanica (1855, 1858) and in The Chorale Book for England (1863), which included the appropriate German tune with each text as provided by Sterndale Bennett and Otto Goldschmidt. Winkworth also translated biographies of German Christians who promoted ministries to the poor and sick and compiled a handbook of biographies of German hymn authors, Christian Singers of Germany (1869). Bert Polman ======================== Winkworth, Catherine, daughter of Henry Winkworth, of Alderley Edge, Cheshire, was born in London, Sep. 13, 1829. Most of her early life was spent in the neighbourhood of Manchester. Subsequently she removed with the family to Clifton, near Bristol. She died suddenly of heart disease, at Monnetier, in Savoy, in July, 1878. Miss Winkworth published:— Translations from the German of the Life of Pastor Fliedner, the Founder of the Sisterhood of Protestant Deaconesses at Kaiserworth, 1861; and of the Life of Amelia Sieveking, 1863. Her sympathy with practical efforts for the benefit of women, and with a pure devotional life, as seen in these translations, received from her the most practical illustration possible in the deep and active interest which she took in educational work in connection with the Clifton Association for the Higher Education of Women, and kindred societies there and elsewhere. Our interest, however, is mainly centred in her hymnological work as embodied in her:— (1) Lyra Germanica, 1st Ser., 1855. (2) Lyra Germanica, 2nd Ser., 1858. (3) The Chorale Book for England (containing translations from the German, together with music), 1863; and (4) her charming biographical work, the Christian Singers of Germany, 1869. In a sympathetic article on Miss Winkworth in the Inquirer of July 20, 1878, Dr. Martineau says:— "The translations contained in these volumes are invariably faithful, and for the most part both terse and delicate; and an admirable art is applied to the management of complex and difficult versification. They have not quite the fire of John Wesley's versions of Moravian hymns, or the wonderful fusion and reproduction of thought which may be found in Coleridge. But if less flowing they are more conscientious than either, and attain a result as poetical as severe exactitude admits, being only a little short of ‘native music'" Dr. Percival, then Principal of Clifton College, also wrote concerning her (in the Bristol Times and Mirror), in July, 1878:— "She was a person of remarkable intellectual and social gifts, and very unusual attainments; but what specially distinguished her was her combination of rare ability and great knowledge with a certain tender and sympathetic refinement which constitutes the special charm of the true womanly character." Dr. Martineau (as above) says her religious life afforded "a happy example of the piety which the Church of England discipline may implant.....The fast hold she retained of her discipleship of Christ was no example of ‘feminine simplicity,' carrying on the childish mind into maturer years, but the clear allegiance of a firm mind, familiar with the pretensions of non-Christian schools, well able to test them, and undiverted by them from her first love." Miss Winkworth, although not the earliest of modern translators from the German into English, is certainly the foremost in rank and popularity. Her translations are the most widely used of any from that language, and have had more to do with the modern revival of the English use of German hymns than the versions of any other writer. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ============================ See also in: Hymn Writers of the Church

John W. Peterson

1921 - 2006 Person Name: John W. Peterson, 1921- Arranger of "GLORIA" in Revival Hymns and Choruses

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Instances

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Joy Among the Angels

Author: D. O. T. Hymnal: Timeless Truths #617 Meter: 10.5.10.5.6.5.8.10 First Line: There is joy, glad joy among the angels Lyrics: ... joy, glad joy among the angels, Joy in heav’n above ... love. Refrain: Joy among the angels, Joy in heav’n above ... joy, more joy among the angels, When the lost is found ... Scripture: Luke 15:10 Tune Title: [There is joy, glad joy among the angels]

Ángele Cantando Están

Author: George P. Simmonds Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #13615 First Line: Ángeles cantando están Refrain First Line: Gloria a Dios en lo alto Lyrics: 1 Ángeles cantando están Tan dulcísima canción; ... Languages: Spanish Tune Title: [Ángeles cantando están]

Angel of Easter

Author: Lizzie DeArmond Hymnal: The Voice of Praise #218 (1904) First Line: Angel of Easter, speed down thro' the night Refrain First Line: Come, bright Easter angel Lyrics: 1 Angel of Easter, speed down thro' ... illume. Chorus: Come, bright Easter angel, on wings of love; Tell ... glad Easter time. [Chorus] 3 Angel of Easter, so strong and ... Tune Title: [Angel of Easter, speed down thro' the night]