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Virgin-born, we bow before thee

Author: Reginald Heber (1783-1826) Meter: Irregular Appears in 30 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Virgin-born, we bow before thee; ... and serve thee best. 4 Virgin-born we bow before thee ... Topics: Blessed Virgin Mary Scripture: Luke 2:39-40 Used With Tune: MON DIEU, PRÊRE-MOI L'OREILLE

The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy

Author: Edric Conner Meter: Irregular Appears in 26 hymnals Refrain First Line: He come from the glory Lyrics: The Virgin Mary had a baby ... Topics: Christmas; Jesus, Name of; Epiphany Scripture: Matthew 1:18-25 Used With Tune: THE VIRGIN MARY Text Sources: West Indian carol in Collection of West Indian Spirituals, 1945

From God the Father, Virgin-Born

Author: John Mason Neale, 1818-66 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 5 hymnals Lyrics: 1 From God the Father, virgin-born To us the only ... Scripture: John 1:14 Used With Tune: DEUS TUORUM MILITUM Text Sources: Latin, c. 5th-10th cent.

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GREENSLEEVES

Composer: John Stainer Meter: 8.7.8.7.6.9.6.7 Appears in 150 hymnals Tune Sources: Traditional English melody Tune Key: e minor Incipit: 13456 54271 23117 Used With Text: What child is this

MARIA, HUN ER EN JOMFRU REEN

Composer: J. C. Gebauer, 1808-84 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.4.7 Appears in 2 hymnals Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 33215 54332 51765 Used With Text: On Mary, Virgin Undefiled

REDEEMER

Composer: J. Walther Meter: 8.7.8.8.4 Appears in 24 hymnals Tune Sources: German chorale: Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ; Ancient Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 55565 12172 32165 Used With Text: Lord Jesus Christ, Of Virgin Born

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The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy

Hymnal: Lead Me, Guide Me (2nd ed.) #268 (2012) Refrain First Line: He come from the glory Lyrics: ... had a baby boy, the virgin Mary had a baby boy ... , the virgin Mary had a baby boy ... Topics: Blessed Virgin Mary Scripture: Matthew 2:1-11 Languages: English Tune Title: [The virgin Mary had a baby boy]

The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy

Hymnal: RitualSong #501 (1996) Refrain First Line: He come from the glory Lyrics: The virgin Mary had a baby ... Topics: Blessed Virgin Mary Scripture: Luke 2:9-21 Languages: English Tune Title: [The virgin Mary had a baby boy]

A Virgin Unspotted

Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #7077 Meter: 11.11.11.11 with refrain First Line: A virgin unspotted, the prophet foretold Refrain First Line: Aye and therefore be merry, set sorrow aside Lyrics: 1. A virgin unspotted, the prophet foretold, Should ... Languages: English Tune Title: [A virgin unspotted, the prophet foretold]

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John Wesley

1703 - 1791 Author of "Ye Virgin Souls, Arise" in The Cyber Hymnal John Wesley, the son of Samuel, and brother of Charles Wesley, was born at Epworth, June 17, 1703. He was educated at the Charterhouse, London, and at Christ Church, Oxford. He became a Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, and graduated M.A. in 1726. At Oxford, he was one of the small band consisting of George Whitefield, Hames Hervey, Charles Wesley, and a few others, who were even then known for their piety; they were deridingly called "Methodists." After his ordination he went, in 1735, on a mission to Georgia. The mission was not successful, and he returned to England in 1738. From that time, his life was one of great labour, preaching the Gospel, and publishing his commentaries and other theological works. He died in London, in 1791, in his eighty-eighth year. His prose works are very numerous, but he did not write many useful hymns. It is to him, however, and not to his brother Charles, that we are indebted for the translations from the German. --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A., 1872 ====================== John Wesley, M.A., was born at Epworth Rectory in 1703, and, like the rest of the family, received his early education from his mother. He narrowly escaped perishing in the fire which destroyed the rectory house in 1709, and his deliverance made a life-long impression upon him. In 1714 he was nominated on the foundation of Charterhouse by his father's patron, the Duke of Buckingham, and remained at that school until 1720, when he went up, with a scholarship, from Charterhouse to Christ Church, Oxford. Having taken his degree, he received Holy Orders from the Bishop of Oxford (Dr. Potter) in 1725. In 1726 he was elected Fellow of Lincoln College, and remained at Oxford until 1727, when he returned into Lincolnshire to assist his father as curate at Epworth and Wroot. In 1729 he was summoned back to Oxford by his firm friend, Dr. Morley, Rector of Lincoln, to assist in the College tuition. There he found already established the little band of "Oxford Methodists" who immediately placed themselves under his direction. In 1735 he went, as a Missionary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, to Georgia, where a new colony had been founded under the governorship of General Oglethorpe. On his voyage out he was deeply impressed with the piety and Christian courage of some German fellow travellers, Moravians. During his short ministry in Georgia he met with many discouragements, and returned home saddened and dissatisfied both with himself and his work; but in London he again fell in with the Moravians, especially with Peter Bohler; and one memorable night (May 24, 1738) he went to a meeting in Aldersgate Street, where some one was reading Luther's preface to the Epistle to the Romans. There, "About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone, for salvation; and an assurance was given me, that He had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death." From that moment his future course was sealed; and for more than half a century he laboured, through evil report and good report, to spread what he believed to be the everlasting Gospel, travelling more miles, preaching more sermons, publishing more books of a practical sort, and making more converts than any man of his day, or perhaps of any day, and dying at last, March 2, 1791, in harness, at the patriarchal age of 88. The popular conception of the division of labour between the two brothers in the Revival, is that John was the preacher, and Charles the hymnwriter. But this is not strictly accurate. On the one hand Charles was also a great preacher, second only to his brother and George Whitefield in the effects which he produced. On the other hand, John by no means relegated to Charles the exclusive task of supplying the people with their hymns. John Wesley was not the sort of man to depute any part of his work entirely to another: and this part was, in his opinion, one of vital importance. With that wonderful instinct for gauging the popular mind, which was one element in his success, he saw at once that hymns might be utilized, not only for raising the devotion, but also for instructing, and establishing the faith of his disciples. He intended the hymns to be not merely a constituent part of public worship, but also a kind of creed in verse. They were to be "a body of experimental and practical divinity." "In what other publication," he asks in his Preface to the Wesleyan Hymn Book, 1780 (Preface, Oct. 20,1779), "have you so distinct and full an account of Scriptural Christianity; such a declaration of the heights and depths of religion, speculative and practical; so strong cautions against the most plausible errors, particularly those now most prevalent; and so clear directions for making your calling and election sure; for perfecting holiness in the fear of God?" The part which he actually took in writing the hymns, it is not easy to ascertain; but it is certain that more than thirty translations from the German, French and Spanish (chiefly from the German) were exclusively his; and there are some original hymns, admittedly his composition, which are not unworthy to stand by the side of his brother's. His translations from the German especially have had a wide circulation. Although somewhat free as translations they embody the fire and energy of the originals. It has been the common practice, however for a hundred years or more to ascribe all translations from the German to John Wesley, as he only of the two brothers knew that language; and to assign to Charles Wesley all the original hymns except such as are traceable to John Wesley through his Journals and other works. The list of 482 original hymns by John and Charles Wesley listed in this Dictionary of Hymnology have formed an important part of Methodist hymnody and show the enormous influence of the Wesleys on the English hymnody of the nineteenth century. -- Excerpts from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) =================== See also in: Hymn Writers of the Church

Louis Bourgeois

1510 - 1561 Person Name: Louis Bourgeois, c. 1510-1561 Composer (attributed to) of "MON DIEU PRETE MOI L'OREILLE" in Worship (3rd ed.) Louis Bourgeois (b. Paris, France, c. 1510; d. Paris, 1561). In both his early and later years Bourgeois wrote French songs to entertain the rich, but in the history of church music he is known especially for his contribution to the Genevan Psalter. Apparently moving to Geneva in 1541, the same year John Calvin returned to Geneva from Strasbourg, Bourgeois served as cantor and master of the choristers at both St. Pierre and St. Gervais, which is to say he was music director there under the pastoral leadership of Calvin. Bourgeois used the choristers to teach the new psalm tunes to the congregation. The extent of Bourgeois's involvement in the Genevan Psalter is a matter of scholarly debate. Calvin had published several partial psalters, including one in Strasbourg in 1539 and another in Geneva in 1542, with melodies by unknown composers. In 1551 another French psalter appeared in Geneva, Eighty-three Psalms of David, with texts by Marot and de Beze, and with most of the melodies by Bourgeois, who supplied thirty four original tunes and thirty-six revisions of older tunes. This edition was republished repeatedly, and later Bourgeois's tunes were incorporated into the complete Genevan Psalter (1562). However, his revision of some older tunes was not uniformly appreciated by those who were familiar with the original versions; he was actually imprisoned overnight for some of his musical arrangements but freed after Calvin's intervention. In addition to his contribution to the 1551 Psalter, Bourgeois produced a four-part harmonization of fifty psalms, published in Lyons (1547, enlarged 1554), and wrote a textbook on singing and sight-reading, La Droit Chemin de Musique (1550). He left Geneva in 1552 and lived in Lyons and Paris for the remainder of his life. Bert Polman

Russell Kelso Carter

1849 - 1928 Person Name: R. K. C. Arranger of "Ready and Waiting" in Hymns of the Christian Life Russel Kelso Carter was a professor in the Pennsylvania Military College of Chester. While there he was licensed to preach by the Methodist Episcopal Church. He became very active in leading camp meetings and revivals. After failing health forced him to abandon this work, he studied and became a medical doctor as well as a writer. He wrote novels as well as hymns. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

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Small Church Music

Editors: Henry Ramsden Bramley Description: The SmallChurchMusic site was launched in 2006, growing out of the requests from those struggling to provide suitable music for their services and meetings. Rev. Clyde McLennan was ordained in mid 1960’s and was a pastor in many small Australian country areas, and therefore was acutely aware of this music problem. Having also been trained as a Pipe Organist, recordings on site (which are a subset of the smallchurchmusic.com site) are all actually played by Clyde, and also include piano and piano with organ versions. All recordings are in MP3 format. Churches all around the world use the recordings, with downloads averaging over 60,000 per month. The recordings normally have an introduction, several verses and a slowdown on the last verse. Users are encouraged to use software: Audacity (http://www.audacityteam.org) or Song Surgeon (http://songsurgeon.com) (see http://scm-audacity.weebly.com for more information) to adjust the MP3 number of verses, tempo and pitch to suit their local needs. Copyright notice: Rev. Clyde McLennan, performer in this collection, has assigned his performer rights in this collection to Hymnary.org. Non-commercial use of these recordings is permitted. For permission to use them for any other purposes, please contact manager@hymnary.org. Home/Music(smallchurchmusic.com) List SongsAlphabetically List Songsby Meter List Songs byTune Name About