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Behold, the great Creator makes
Author: Thomas Pestel 1584-1659 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 24 hymnals Topics: The Son His Life and Ministry Scripture: Matthew 2:1-16 Used With Tune: GREEN HILL
Behold, the great Creator makes
KILMARNOCK
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 83 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Neil Dougall, 1776-1862 Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 13565 33216 51651 Used With Text: Behold, the great Creator makes
KILMARNOCK
THIS ENDRIS NYGHT
Appears in 57 hymnals Tune Sources: Ancient English Carol. 15th cent. Incipit: 13455 67655 17656 Used With Text: Behold, the great Creator makes
THIS ENDRIS NYGHT
Behold the Great Creator Makes
Author: Thomas Pestel, 1584-1659 Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #445 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Lyrics: 1. Behold the great Creator makes
Himself a house of clay,
A robe of virgin flesh He takes
Which He will wear for ay.
2. Hark, hark, the wise eternal Word,
Like a weak infant cries!
In form of servant is the Lord,
And God in cradle lies.
3. This wonder struck the world amazed,
It shook the starry frame;
Squadrons of spirits stood and gazed,
Then down in troops they came.
4. Glad shepherds ran to view this sight;
A choir of angels sings,
And eastern sages with delight
Adore this King of kings.
5. Join then, all hearts that are not stone,
And all our voices prove,
To celebrate this holy One
The God of peace and love. Languages: English Tune Title: THIS ENDRIS NYGHT
Behold the Great Creator Makes
Behold, the great Creator makes
Author: T. Pestel, 1584-1659 Hymnal: The English Hymnal #20 (1906) Lyrics: 1 Behold the great Creator makes
Himself a house of clay,
A robe of Virgin flesh he takes
Which he will wear for ay.
2 Hark, hark, the wise eternal Word
Like a weak infant cries!
In form of servant is the Lord,
And God in cradle lies.
3 This wonder struck the world amazed,
It shook the starry frame;
Squadrons of spirits stood and gazed,
Then down in Troops they came.
4 Glad shepherds ran to view this sight;
A choir of Angels sings,
And eastern sages with delight
Adore this King of kings.
5 Join then, all hearts that are not stone,
And all our voices prove,
To celebrate this Holy One,
The God of peace and love. Languages: English Tune Title: THIS ENDRIS NYGHT
Behold, the great Creator makes
Behold, the great Creator makes
Author: Thomas Pestel, 1585-1659 Hymnal: Common Praise #46a (2000) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Lyrics: 1 Behold, the great Creator makes
himself a house of clay,
a robe of virgin flesh he takes
which he will wear for aye.
2 Hark, hark! the wise eternal Word
like a weak infant cries;
in form of servant is the Lord,
and God in cradle lies.
3 This wonder struck the world amazed,
it shook the starry frame;
squadrons of spirits stood and gazed,
then down in troops they came.
4 Glad shepherds ran to view this sight;
a choir of angels sings,
and eastern sages with delight
adore this King of kings.
5 Join then, all hearts that are not stone,
and all our voices prove,
to celebrate this Holy One,
the God of peace and love. Topics: Christmas II Scripture: John 1:14 Languages: English Tune Title: THIS ENDRIS NYGHT
Behold, the great Creator makes
A. L. Peace
1844 - 1912 Person Name: A L Peace 1844-1912 Composer of "GREEN HILL" in Praise! psalms hymns and songs for Christian worship Albert Lister Peace DMus United Kingdom 1844-1912. Born at Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, son of a warehouseman and woolstapler, he was extremely gifted as a musician, largely self-taught, playing the organ at Holmfirth Parish Church near Huddersfield at age nine. He married Margaret Martin Steel Gilchrist, and they had three children: Lister, Archibald, and Margaret. In 1865 he was appointed organist of Trinity Congregational Church in Glasgow, Scotland. He obtained his doctorate degree from the University of Oxford in 1875. He became organist at Glasgow Cathedral in 1879. In 1897 he succeeded William Best as organist at St George’s Hall, Liverpool. In later years he was in much demand to play the organ in recitals. He did so at Canterbury Cathedral (1886), Victoria Hall, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent (1888), and Newcastle Cathedral (1891). He composed orchestrations, sonatas, cantatas, and concert and church service anthems. He was an arranger, author, and editor. He died at Blundelsands, Liverpool, England.
John Perry
A. L. Peace
Thomas Pestel
1584 - 1659 Person Name: Thomas Pestel, 1584-1659 Author of "Behold, the Great Creator" in The Christian Hymnary Pestel, Thomas, one of the chaplains to King Charles I., was Rector of Packington, Leics., until he was sequestrated from it by the Westminster Assembly in 1646. His hymns appeared in his Sermons and Devotions old and new. Revived and published as an obligation of gratitude to all such of the nobility, gentry and clergy as retain the noble conscience of having ministered to the weak condition of the Author, now aged 73 .... by Thomas Pestel, the meanest among his late Majesties Chaplains in Ordinary , London, 1659 (B. M. copy is 4452. am.). He seems to have died soon after the publication of this work. The Sermons are of 1638 and other years. Of the poetical pieces two have come into use:—
1. Fairest of Morning Lights appear. [Christmas.] In 1659, as above, as "A Psalm for Christmas Day Morning." The English Hymnal, 1906, gives sts. v.-ix., beginning "Behold, the great Creator makes," as No. 20.
2. Come, ravisht Souls with high Delight. [Praise to God.] In 1659, as above, as "A Psalm for Sunday Nights." Of this stanzas ii.-iv., vi., vii., beginning "O sing the glories of our Lord," are in Horder's Hymns Supplemental, 1894, No. 1016.
Two other pieces are in W. T. Brooke's edition of Giles Fletcher's Christ's Victory and Triumph , 1888, pp. 193, 195. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
Thomas Pestel
Ralph Vaughan Williams
1872 - 1958 Person Name: R. Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) Arranger of "THIS ENDRIS NYGHT" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) Through his composing, conducting, collecting, editing, and teaching, Ralph Vaughan Williams (b. Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, England, October 12, 1872; d. Westminster, London, England, August 26, 1958) became the chief figure in the realm of English music and church music in the first half of the twentieth century. His education included instruction at the Royal College of Music in London and Trinity College, Cambridge, as well as additional studies in Berlin and Paris. During World War I he served in the army medical corps in France. Vaughan Williams taught music at the Royal College of Music (1920-1940), conducted the Bach Choir in London (1920-1927), and directed the Leith Hill Music Festival in Dorking (1905-1953). A major influence in his life was the English folk song. A knowledgeable collector of folk songs, he was also a member of the Folksong Society and a supporter of the English Folk Dance Society. Vaughan Williams wrote various articles and books, including National Music (1935), and composed numerous arrangements of folk songs; many of his compositions show the impact of folk rhythms and melodic modes. His original compositions cover nearly all musical genres, from orchestral symphonies and concertos to choral works, from songs to operas, and from chamber music to music for films. Vaughan Williams's church music includes anthems; choral-orchestral works, such as Magnificat (1932), Dona Nobis Pacem (1936), and Hodie (1953); and hymn tune settings for organ. But most important to the history of hymnody, he was music editor of the most influential British hymnal at the beginning of the twentieth century, The English Hymnal (1906), and coeditor (with Martin Shaw) of Songs of Praise (1925, 1931) and the Oxford Book of Carols (1928).
Bert Polman
Ralph Vaughan Williams
