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Brief life is here our portion
Author: Bernard of Cluny; John Mason Neale, 1818 - 1866 Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 249 hymnals Topics: The Church of God The Communion of Saints; The Life in Christ Death, Resurrection, and the Life Everlasting Used With Tune: EWING
Brief life is here our portion
[Brief life is her our portion]
Appears in 438 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: F. C. Maker Incipit: 55546 53123 443 Used With Text: Life That Knows No Ending
[Brief life is her our portion]
Brief life is here our portion
Author: Rev. J. M. Neale Hymnal: The Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged, as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892 #406a (1894) Lyrics: 1 Brief life is here our portion,
Brief sorrow, short-lived care;
The life that knows no ending,
The tearless life is there!
O happy retribution!
Short toil, eternal rest,
For mortals and for sinners,
A mansion with the blest!
2 There grief is turned to pleasure;
Such pleasure as below
No human voice can utter,
No human heart can know;
And after fleshly weakness,
And after this world's night,
And after storm and whirlwind,
Are calm,and joy, and light.
3 And now we fight the battle,
But then shall wear the crown
Of full and everlasting
And passionless renown;
But He Whom now we trust in,
Shall then be seen and known,
And they that know and see Him,
Shall have Him for their own.
4 And now we watch and struggle,
And now we live in hope,
And Sion in her anguish,
With Babylon must cope;
But there is David's fountain,
And life in fullest glory;
And there the light is golden,
And milk and honey flow.
5 The morning shall awaken,
And shadows flee away,
And each true-hearted servant
Shall shine as doth the day;
For God, our King and Portion,
In fullness of His grace,
We then shall see forever,
And worship face to face.
Amen.
Topics: Burial of the Dead; General Tune Title: [Brief life is here our portion]
Brief life is here our portion
Brief life is here our portion
Author: Rev. J. M. Neale Hymnal: The Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged, as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892 #406c (1894) Meter: 7.6 D First Line: Brief life is here our protion Lyrics: 1 Brief life is here our portion,
Brief sorrow, short-lived care;
The life that knows no ending,
The tearless life is there!
O happy retribution!
Short toil, eternal rest,
For mortals and for sinners,
A mansion with the blest!
2 There grief is turned to pleasure;
Such pleasure as below
No human voice can utter,
No human heart can know;
And after fleshly weakness,
And after this world's night,
And after storm and whirlwind,
Are calm,and joy, and light.
3 And now we fight the battle,
But then shall wear the crown
Of full and everlasting
And passionless renown;
But He Whom now we trust in,
Shall then be seen and known,
And they that know and see Him,
Shall have Him for their own.
4 And now we watch and struggle,
And now we live in hope,
And Sion in her anguish,
With Babylon must cope;
But there is David's fountain,
And life in fullest glory;
And there the light is golden,
And milk and honey flow.
5 The morning shall awaken,
And shadows flee away,
And each true-hearted servant
Shall shine as doth the day;
For God, our King and Portion,
In fullness of His grace,
We then shall see forever,
And worship face to face.
Amen. Topics: General Languages: English Tune Title: [Brief life is here our portion]
Brief life is here our portion
Brief Life is Here our Portion
Author: J. M. Neale Hymnal: Songs of the Covenant #94 (1892) Languages: English Tune Title: [Brief life is here our portion]
Brief Life is Here our Portion
Hans Leo Hassler
1564 - 1612 Person Name: Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612) Composer of "PASSION CHORALE" in Hymnal Amore Dei 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
Arthur Sullivan
1842 - 1900 Person Name: A. Sullivan Composer of "LUX MUNDI" in The Westminster Abbey Hymn-Book Arthur Seymour Sullivan (b Lambeth, London. England. 1842; d. Westminster, London, 1900) was born of an Italian mother and an Irish father who was an army bandmaster and a professor of music. Sullivan entered the Chapel Royal as a chorister in 1854. He was elected as the first Mendelssohn scholar in 1856, when he began his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He also studied at the Leipzig Conservatory (1858-1861) and in 1866 was appointed professor of composition at the Royal Academy of Music. Early in his career Sullivan composed oratorios and music for some Shakespeare plays. However, he is best known for writing the music for lyrics by William S. Gilbert, which produced popular operettas such as H.M.S. Pinafore (1878), The Pirates of Penzance (1879), The Mikado (1884), and Yeomen of the Guard (1888). These operettas satirized the court and everyday life in Victorian times. Although he composed some anthems, in the area of church music Sullivan is best remembered for his hymn tunes, written between 1867 and 1874 and published in The Hymnary (1872) and Church Hymns (1874), both of which he edited. He contributed hymns to A Hymnal Chiefly from The Book of Praise (1867) and to the Presbyterian collection Psalms and Hymns for Divine Worship (1867). A complete collection of his hymns and arrangements was published posthumously as Hymn Tunes by Arthur Sullivan (1902). Sullivan steadfastly refused to grant permission to those who wished to make hymn tunes from the popular melodies in his operettas.
Bert Polman
Arthur Sullivan
Melchior Vulpius
1570 - 1615 Person Name: Melchior Vulpius, 1560-1616 Composer of "WEIMAR" in Hymns and Chorales Born into a poor family named Fuchs, Melchior Vulpius (b. Wasungen, Henneberg, Germany, c. 1570; d. Weimar, Germany, 1615) had only limited educational opportunities and did not attend the university. He taught Latin in the school in Schleusingen, where he Latinized his surname, and from 1596 until his death served as a Lutheran cantor and teacher in Weimar. A distinguished composer, Vulpius wrote a St. Matthew Passion (1613), nearly two hundred motets in German and Latin, and over four hundred hymn tunes, many of which became popular in Lutheran churches, and some of which introduced the lively Italian balletto rhythms into the German hymn tunes. His music was published in Cantiones Sacrae (1602, 1604), Kirchengesangund Geistliche Lieder (1604, enlarged as Ein schon geistlich Gesanglmch, 1609), and posthumously in Cantionale Sacrum (1646).
Bert Polman
Melchior Vulpius
