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Happy soul, thy days are ended

Appears in 3 hymnals Used With Tune: ALMA

Meter: 9.8.9.8 Appears in 180 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: C. Goudimel Tune Sources: Melody in the Genevan Psalter (1551) Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 11232 43213 43217 Used With Text: Go, Happy Soul

ALMA

Appears in 487 hymnals Incipit: 53165 54567 15533 Used With Text: Happy soul, thy days are ended

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Go, Happy Soul

Author: George Ratcliffe Woodward Hymnal: Rejoice in the Lord #590 (1985) Meter: 9.8.9.8 First Line: Go, happy soul: thy days are ended Lyrics: 1 Go, happy soul: thy days are ended, thy pilgrimage on earth below; go, by angelic guard attended; to God's own Paradise now go. 2 Go, Christ the Shepherd good befriend thee, who gave his life thy soul to win; 'tis even he that shall defend thee, thy going out and coming in. 3 Go forth in peace; farewell to sadness; may rest in Paradise be thine; in Jesus' presence there is gladness, light everlasting on thee shine. Topics: Funerals Scripture: Psalm 121:8 Languages: English Tune Title: COMMANDMENTS

Happy soul, thy days are ended

Hymnal: Salvation Army Music #382 (1880) Languages: English Tune Title: ALMA

We shall meet, we shall meet

Hymnal: Salvation Army Songs #826 (1911) First Line: Happy soul, thy days are ended Languages: English

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George Ratcliffe Woodward

1848 - 1934 Author of "Go, Happy Soul" in Rejoice in the Lord 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

Claude Goudimel

1514 - 1572 Person Name: C. Goudimel Composer (bass) of "COMMANDMENTS" in Rejoice in the Lord The music of Claude Goudimel (b. Besançon, France, c. 1505; d. Lyons, France, 1572) was first published in Paris, and by 1551 he was composing harmonizations for some Genevan psalm tunes-initially for use by both Roman Catholics and Protestants. He became a Calvinist in 1557 while living in the Huguenot community in Metz. When the complete Genevan Psalter with its unison melodies was published in 1562, Goudimel began to compose various polyphonic settings of all the Genevan tunes. He actually composed three complete harmonizations of the Genevan Psalter, usually with the tune in the tenor part: simple hymn-style settings (1564), slightly more complicated harmonizations (1565), and quite elaborate, motet-like settings (1565-1566). The various Goudimel settings became popular throughout Calvinist Europe, both for domestic singing and later for use as organ harmonizations in church. Goudimel was one of the victims of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of Huguenots, which occurred throughout France. Bert Polman