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When in Our Music God Is Glorified
Author: Fred Pratt Green Meter: 10.10.10.4 Appears in 84 hymnals Scripture: Mark 14:26 Lyrics: 1 When in our music God is glorified,
and adoration leaves no room for pride,
it is as though the whole creation cried,
"Alleluia!"
2 How often, making music, we have found
a new dimension in the world of sound,
as worship moved us to a more profound
alleluia!
3 So has the church, in liturgy and song,
in faith and love, through centuries of wrong,
borne witness to the truth in every tongue:
alleluia!
4 And did not Jesus sing a psalm that night
when utmost evil strove against the Light?
Then let us sing, for whom he won the fight:
alleluia!
5 Let every instrument be tuned for praise!
Let all rejoice who have a voice to raise!
And may God give us faith to sing always,
"Alleluia!"
Topics: Doxologies; Praise & Adoration; Church and Mission; Alleluias; Church; Doxologies; Majesty of God; Music; Opening of Worship; Praise & Adoration; Witness Used With Tune: ENGELBERG
When in Our Music God Is Glorified
O Sacred Head, Now Wounded
Author: Paul Gerhardt; James W. Alexander Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6 Appears in 725 hymnals Scripture: Mark 15:17-18 Lyrics: 1 O sacred head, now wounded,
with grief and shame weighed down,
now scornfully surrounded
with thorns, your only crown.
O sacred head, what glory
and blessing you have known!
Yet, though despised and gory,
I claim you as my own.
2 My Lord, what you did suffer
was all for sinners' gain;
mine, mine was the transgression,
but yours the deadly pain.
So here I kneel, my Savior,
for I deserve your place;
look on me with your favor
and save me by your grace.
3 What language shall I borrow
to thank you, dearest Friend,
for this, your dying sorrow,
your mercy without end?
Lord, make me yours forever,
a loyal servant true,
and let me never, never
outlive my love for you.
Topics: Cross of Christ; Epiphany & Ministry of Christ; Love Our Love to God; Suffering of Christ; Lent; Atonement; Blood of Christ; Confession of Sin; Cross of Christ; Epiphany & Ministry of Christ; Love Our Love to God; Suffering of Christ; Thanksgiving & Gratitude Used With Tune: HERZLICH TUT MICH VERLANGEN Text Sources: Latin, medieval
O Sacred Head, Now Wounded
Were You There?
Meter: Irregular Appears in 218 hymnals Scripture: Mark 15:25 First Line: Were you there when they crucified my Lord Lyrics: 1 Were you there when they crucified my Lord? (Were you there?)
Were you there when they crucified my Lord? (Were you there?)
Oh! Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.
Were you there when they crucified my Lord? (Were you there?)
2 Were you there when they nailed him to the tree? (Were you there?)
Were you there when they nailed him to the tree? (Were you there?)
Oh! Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.
Were you there when they nailed him to the tree? (Were you there?)
3 Were you there when they pierced him in the side? (Were you there?)
Were you there when they pierced him in the side? (Were you there?)
Oh! Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.
Were you there when they pierced him in the side? (Were you there?)
4 Were you there when they laid him in the tomb? (Were you there?)
Were you there when they laid him in the tomb? (Were you there?)
Oh! Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.
Were you there when they laid him in the tomb? (Were you there?)
5 Were you there when he rose up from the dead? (Were you there?)
Were you there when he rose up from the dead? (Were you there?)
Oh! Sometimes I feel like shouting glory, glory, glory!
Were you there when he rose up from the dead? (Were you there?)
Topics: Jesus Christ His Death; Christ Resurrection of Used With Tune: WERE YOU THERE? Text Sources: Spiritual
Were You There?
HERZLICH TUT MICH VERLANGEN
Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6 Appears in 512 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Hans L. Hassler; Johann S. Bach Scripture: Mark 15:17-18 Tune Sources: St. Matthew's Passion, 1729, in Tune Key: a minor Incipit: 51765 45233 2121 Used With Text: O Sacred Head, Now Wounded
HERZLICH TUT MICH VERLANGEN
WERE YOU THERE?
Meter: Irregular Appears in 170 hymnals Scripture: Mark 15:25 Tune Sources: Spiritual Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 51333 21321 13555 Used With Text: Were You There?
WERE YOU THERE?
Before the Cross
Author: Isaac Watts (1674-1748) Hymnal: Songs of Praise with Tunes #111 (1889) Scripture: Mark 15:33 First Line: Alas, and did my Savior bleed? Topics: Christ Atonement of; Christ Passion of; Christ Sacrifice; Consecration Of Self; Contrition; Cross At the Cross; Imputation; Penitential; Sin Hatred of; Sinners Penitent Tune Title: AVON
Before the Cross
Alas! and Did My Saviour Bleed?
Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Hymnal: The Hymnal and Order of Service #111 (1926) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Scripture: Mark 15:33 Lyrics: 1 Alas! and did my Saviour bleed?
And did my Sov'reign die?
Would He devote that sacred head
For such a worm as I?
2 Was it for crimes that I had done
He groaned upon the tree?
Amazing pity! grace unknown!
And love beyond degree!
3 Well might the sun in darkness hide
And shut his glories in,
When Christ the mighty Maker died
For man the creature's sin!
4 Thus might I hide my blushing face
While His dear cross appears;
Dissolve my heart in thankfulness
And melt mine eyes to tears.
5 But drops of grief can ne'er repay
The debt of love I owe;
Here, Lord, I give myself away,
'Tis all that I can do.
Amen. Topics: Church Year Holy Week; Lenten Hymns; Good Friday; Blood of Christ; Names and Office of Christ Savior; Names and Office of Christ Substitute; Consecration; Sin Forgiveness of Languages: English Tune Title: MARTYRDOM
Alas! and Did My Saviour Bleed?
Before the Cross
Author: Rev. Isaac Watts (1674-1748) Hymnal: Many Voices; or, Carmina Sanctorum, Evangelistic Edition with Tunes #116 (1891) Scripture: Mark 15:33 First Line: Alas, and did my Saviour bleed? Topics: Christ Atonement of; Christ Passion; Christ Sacrifice; Consecration Of Self; Contrition; Cross At the Cross; Imputation; Penitential; Sin Hatred of; Sinners Penitent Languages: English Tune Title: AVON
Before the Cross
Fred Pratt Green
1903 - 2000 Scripture: Mark 14:26 Author of "When in Our Music God Is Glorified" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) The name of the Rev. F. Pratt Green is one of the best-known of the contemporary school of hymnwriters in the British Isles. His name and writings appear in practically every new hymnal and "hymn supplement" wherever English is spoken and sung. And now they are appearing in American hymnals, poetry magazines, and anthologies.
Mr. Green was born in Liverpool, England, in 1903. Ordained in the British Methodist ministry, he has been pastor and district superintendent in Brighton and York, and now served in Norwich. There he continued to write new hymns "that fill the gap between the hymns of the first part of this century and the 'far-out' compositions that have crowded into some churches in the last decade or more."
--Seven New Hymns of Hope , 1971. Used by permission.
Fred Pratt Green
Johann Sebastian Bach
1685 - 1750 Person Name: Johann S. Bach Scripture: Mark 15:17-18 Adapter and Harmonizer of "HERZLICH TUT MICH VERLANGEN" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) 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)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Hans Leo Hassler
1564 - 1612 Person Name: Hans L. Hassler Scripture: Mark 15:17-18 Composer of "HERZLICH TUT MICH VERLANGEN" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Hans Leo Hassler Germany 1564-1612. Born at Nuremberg, Germany, he came from a family of famous musicians and received early education from his father. He then studied in Venice, Italy, with Andrea Gabrieli, uncle of Giovanni Gabrieli, his friend, with whom he composed a wedding motet. The uncle taught him to play the organ. He learned the polychoral style and took it back to Germany after Andrea Gabrieli's death. He served as organist and composer for Octavian Fugger, the princely art patron of Augsburg (1585-1601). He was a prolific composer but found his influence limited, as he was Protestant in a still heavily Catholic region. In 1602 he became director of town music and organist in the Frauenkirche in Nuremberg until 1608. He married Cordula Claus in 1604. He was finally court musician for the Elector of Saxony in Dresden, Germany, evenually becoming Kapellmeister (1608-1612). A Lutheran, he composed both for Roman Catholic liturgy and for Lutheran churches. He produced two volumns of motets, a famous collection of court songs, and a volume of simpler hymn settings. He published both secular and religious music, managing to compose much for the Catholic church that was also usable in Lutheran settings. He was also a consultant to organ builders. In 1596 he, with 53 other organists, had the opportunity to examine a new instrument with 59 stops at the Schlosskirche, Groningen. He was recognized for his expertise in organ design and often was called on to examine new instruments. He entered the world of mechanical instrument construction, developing a clockwork organ that was later sold to Emperor Rudolf II. He died of tuberculosis in Frankfurt, Germany.
John Perry
Hans Leo Hassler
