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Creator of the starry height
Author: Anon. Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 91 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Creator of the starry height,
Thy people's everlasting light,
Jesus, Redeemer of us all,
Hear Thou Thy servants when they call.
2 Thou, sorrowing at the helpless cry
Of all creation doomed to die,
didst save our lost and guilty race,
By healing gifts of heavenly grace.
3 Love drew Thee down, the world to win
From common stain of common sin;
Proceeding from a virgin shrine
The spotless victim all divine.
4 At Thy great name, exalted now,
All knees in lowly homage bow;
All things in heaven and earth adore,
And own thee King for evermore.
5 To Thee, O holy One, we pray,
Our Judge in that tremendous day,
Ward off, while yet we dwell below,
The weapons of our crafty foe.
6 To God the Father, God the Son
And God the Spirit, Three in One,
Praise, honor, might, and glory be
From age to age eternally. Topics: The Church Year Fourth Sunday in Advent; Jesus Christ Our Redeemer Used With Tune: [Creator of the starry height] Text Sources: Latin, 10th Century
Creator of the starry height
CONDITOR ALME SIDERUM
Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 98 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Charles Winfred Douglas Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 31355 64556 45432 Used With Text: Creator of the Stars of Night
CONDITOR ALME SIDERUM
ST. GREGORY
Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 41 hymnals Tune Sources: König's Choralbuch, 1738 Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 53561 54351 34321 Used With Text: Creator of the stars of night
ST. GREGORY
Creator of the Stars of Night
Author: J. M. Neale, 1818-1866; Anon. Hymnal: Hymnal of Christian Unity #4 (1964) Languages: English Tune Title: [Creator of the stars of night]
Creator of the Stars of Night
Creator of the Stars of Night
Hymnal: Lead Me, Guide Me (2nd ed.) #239 (2012) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Advent Season; Evening, Night; Freedom; God the Father, Creator; Holy Name of Jesus; Incarnation; Light; Redemption; Refuge, Security Scripture: Wisdom of Solomon 18:14-15 Languages: English Tune Title: CONDITOR ALME SIDERUM
Creator of the Stars of Night
Creator of the stars of night
Hymnal: Catholic Church Hymnal with Music #2 (1905) Tune Title: [Creator of the stars of night] (Farmer)
Creator of the stars of night
George Ratcliffe Woodward
1848 - 1934 Person Name: George R. Woodward, 1848-1934 Harmonizer of "PUER NOBIS NASCITUR" in Hymnbook for Christian Worship Educated at Caius College in Cambridge, England, George R. Woodward (b. Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, 1848; d. Highgate, London, England, 1934) was ordained in the Church of England in 1874. He served in six parishes in London, Norfolk, and Suffolk. He was a gifted linguist and translator of a large number of hymns from Greek, Latin, and German. But Woodward's theory of translation was a rigid one–he held that the translation ought to reproduce the meter and rhyme scheme of the original as well as its contents. This practice did not always produce singable hymns; his translations are therefore used more often today as valuable resources than as congregational hymns. With Charles Wood he published three series of The Cowley Carol Book (1901, 1902, 1919), two editions of Songs of Syon (1904, 1910), An Italian Carol Book (1920), and the Cambridge Carol Book
George Ratcliffe Woodward
Johann Hermann Schein
1586 - 1630 Person Name: J. H. Schein Composer of "EISENACH (LEIPSIC)" in The Book of Common Praise Schein, Johann Hermann, son of Hieronymus Schein, pastor at Griinhain, near Annaberg, in Saxony, was born at Grünhain, Jan. 20,1586. He matriculated at the University of Leipzig in 1607, and studied there for four years. Thereafter he acted for some time as a private tutor, including two years with a family at Weissenfels. On May 21, 1615, he was appointed Capellmeister, at the court of Duke Johann Ernst, of Sachse-Weimar; and in 1616 he became cantor of I3t. Thomas's Church, and music director at Leipzig, in succession to Seth Calvisius (d. Nov. 24, 1615). This post he held till his death, at Leipzig, Nov. 19, 1630.
Schein was one of the most distinguished musicians of his time, both as an original composer, and as a harmoniser of the works of others. As a hymnwriter he was not so prolific, or so noteworthy. Most of his hymns were written on the deaths of his children or friends, e.g. on seven of his children, and on his first wife. They appeared mostly in broadsheet form, and were included, along with his original melodies, in his Cantional oder Gesang-Buch Augspurgischer Confession, Leipzig, 1627; 2nd ed., 1645. [Both in Wernigerode Library.]
Those of Schein's hymns which have passed into English are:—
i. Machs mit mir, Gott, nach deiner Güt. For the Dying. First published, as a broadsheet, at Leipzig, 1628, as a Trost-Liedlein á 5 (i.e. for 5 voices), &c. [Berlin Library.] The words, the melody, and the five-part setting, are all by Schein. It was written for, and first used at, the funeral, on Dec. 15, 1628, of Margarita, wife of Caspar Werner, a builder and town councillor at Leipzig, and a churchwarden of St. Thomas's. It is in 6 stanzas of 6 lines; the initial letters of 11. 1, 3, in st. i.-iv., forming the name Margarita; and the W of st. v. 1. 1 standing for Werner. In Schein's Cantional, 1645, No. 303 (marked as Trost-Liedlein, Joh. Herm. Scheins, á 5), and later hymn-books, as e.g. the Unverfäschter Liedersegen, 1851, No. 830, st. vi. was omitted. It is Schein's finest production, and one of the best German hymns for the sick and dying. Translated as:—
Deal with me, God, in mercy now. This is a good and full translation by Miss Winkworth, in her Chorale Book for England, 1863, No. 191, set to Schein's melody of 1628.
ii. Mein Gott und Herr, ach sei nicht fern. For the Dying. First published, with his name, in his Cantional, 1627, No. 262, in 9 stanzas of 6 lines. The initial letters of the stanzas give the name Margarita, probably one of the daughters who predeceased him. It is included, in 5 st., in the 164-8, and later eds., of Crüger's Praxis. The translation in common use is:—
My Lord and God, go not away. A good tr. of st. i., ii., iv., v., vii., by A. T. Russell, as No. 254, in his Psalms & Hymns, 1851. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
--Excerpts from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Johann Hermann Schein
Louis Bourgeois
1510 - 1561 Person Name: L. Bourgeois Composer of "[Creator of the starry height]" in The Lutheran Hymnary 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
Louis Bourgeois
