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Amen Siakudumisa
Appears in 38 hymnals Scripture: Nehemiah 8:6 First Line: Amen siakudumisa (Amen sing praises to the Lord) Used With Tune: [Amen, siakudumisa] Text Sources: South African traditional (Xhosa); English text, Hymnal Version
Amen Siakudumisa
Once to Every Man and Nation
Author: James Russell Lowell, 1819-1891 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 199 hymnals Scripture: Nehemiah 8:1-10 Topics: Justice; Martyrs; Nation and City; Peace Used With Tune: EBENEZER Text Sources: Adapt. W. Garret Horder, Hymns, Supplement to Existing Collections , 1894
Once to Every Man and Nation
God has spoken – by his prophets
Author: George Wallace Briggs, 1875-1959 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 52 hymnals Scripture: Nehemiah 8:1-12 Topics: The Holy Scriptures Used With Tune: HYFRYDOL
God has spoken – by his prophets
[Amen, siakudumisa]
Appears in 40 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: S. C. Molefe; George Mxadana; John L. Bell, b. 1949 Scripture: Nehemiah 8:6 Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 33333 21244 44432 Used With Text: Amen Siakudumisa
[Amen, siakudumisa]
Once to Every Man and Nation
Author: James Russell Lowell, 1819-1891 Hymnal: Common Praise (1998) #587 (1998) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Scripture: Nehemiah 8:1-10 Topics: Justice; Martyrs; Nation and City; Peace Languages: English Tune Title: EBENEZER
Once to Every Man and Nation
God has spoken – by his prophets
Author: George Wallace Briggs, 1875-1959 Hymnal: Singing the Faith #157 (2011) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Scripture: Nehemiah 8:1-12 Topics: The Holy Scriptures Languages: English Tune Title: HYFRYDOL
God has spoken – by his prophets
Masithi: Amen (Sing Amen)
Hymnal: Voices Together #90 (2020) Meter: Irregular Scripture: Nehemiah 8:6 First Line: Masithi: amen siakudumisa (Sing amen: Amen, we praise your name, O God) Lyrics: Masithi: amen siakudumisa.
Masithi: amen siakudumisa.
Masithi: amen bawo,
amen bawo,
amen siakudumisa.
Sing amen: Amen, we praise your name, O God.
Sing amen: Amen, we praise your name, O God.
Sing amen: Amen, amen,
amen, amen,
amen, we praise your name, O God. Topics: Amen Languages: Xhosa Tune Title: AMEN SIAKUDUMISA
Masithi: Amen (Sing Amen)
S. C. Molefe
1917 - 1987 Scripture: Nehemiah 8:6 Composer (attributed to) of "[Amen, siakudumisa]" in African American Heritage Hymnal Stephen Cuthbert Molefe (1917-1987)--
Since most African languages are tonal, a melodic shape emerges directly from speaking the text. Stephen Molefe was among the first South African musicians that Fr. Dargie worked with in these workshops.
Molefe was born of Sotho descent in the Transkei area of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. A choirmaster at the Catholic Church, he was not only a skilled musician but also fluent in a variety of South African languages including Sotho, Xhosa, Zulu, Tswana, Afrikaans and English.
Fr. Dargie met Molefe in 1977 at a composition workshop and transcribed a number of his works into staff notation. They include a wide variety of musical styles, “Masithi-Amen” being among the simplest.
The 1977 workshop netted 53 new songs, 14 of which were composed by Molefe. The original version was “Sive-sithi Amen, siyakudumisa” (“Hear us we say, Amen, we praise you”). Designed to be sung as the “Amen” at the conclusion of the Great Thanksgiving (the Eucharist liturgy), it was an instant hit, with the whole parish singing it at Holy Week services. “Amen, Siakudumisa” is included very often in Western hymnal collections alongside famous South African freedom songs like “Siyahamba.”
In 1978, Molefe was attacked, robbed and struck with a brick to the head. He started to go blind after that, and was unable to work again. Molefe died in 1987.
--www.gbod.org/lead-your-church/history-of-hymns/
S. C. Molefe
John L. Bell
b. 1949 Person Name: John L. Bell, b. 1949 Scripture: Nehemiah 8:6 Arranger of "[Amen, siakudumisa]" in African American Heritage Hymnal John Bell (b. 1949) was born in the Scottish town of Kilmarnock in Ayrshire, intending to be a music teacher when he felt the call to the ministry. But in frustration with his classes, he did volunteer work in a deprived neighborhood in London for a time and also served for two years as an associate pastor at the English Reformed Church in Amsterdam. After graduating he worked for five years as a youth pastor for the Church of Scotland, serving a large region that included about 500 churches. He then took a similar position with the Iona Community, and with his colleague Graham Maule, began to broaden the youth ministry to focus on renewal of the church’s worship. His approach soon turned to composing songs within the identifiable traditions of hymnody that began to address concerns missing from the current Scottish hymnal:
"I discovered that seldom did our hymns represent the plight of poor people to God. There was nothing that dealt with unemployment, nothing that dealt with living in a multicultural society and feeling disenfranchised. There was nothing about child abuse…,that reflected concern for the developing world, nothing that helped see ourselves as brothers and sisters to those who are suffering from poverty or persecution." [from an interview in Reformed Worship (March 1993)]
That concern not only led to writing many songs, but increasingly to introducing them internationally in many conferences, while also gathering songs from around the world. He was convener for the fourth edition of the Church of Scotland’s Church Hymnary (2005), a very different collection from the previous 1973 edition. His books, The Singing Thing and The Singing Thing Too, as well as the many collections of songs and worship resources produced by John Bell—some together with other members of the Iona Community’s “Wild Goose Resource Group,” —are available in North America from GIA Publications.
Emily Brink
John L. Bell
James Russell Lowell
1819 - 1891 Person Name: James Russell Lowell, 1819-1891 Scripture: Nehemiah 8:1-10 Author of "Once to Every Man and Nation" in Common Praise (1998) Lowell, James Russell, LL.D., was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 22, 1819; graduated at Harvard College, 1838, and was called to the Bar in 1840. Professor of Modern Languages and Literature (succeeding the Poet Longfellow) in Harvard, 1855; American Minister to Spain, also to England in 1881. He was editor of the Atlantic Monthly, from 1857 to 1862; and of the North American Review from 1863 to 1872. Professor Lowell is the most intellectual of American poets, and first of her art critics and humorists. He has written much admirable moral and sacred poetry, but no hymns. One piece, “Men, whose boast it is that ye" (Against Slavery), is part of an Anti-Slavery poem, and in its present form is found in Hymns of the Spirit, 1864. Part of this is given in Songs for the Sanctuary, N.Y., 1865, as "They are slaves who will not choose.” [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
James Russell Lowell
