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How lovely are Thy dwellings fair
Author: John Milton Appears in 57 hymnals First Line: How lovely are Thy dwellings fair! Topics: The Church The Lord's House Scripture: Psalm 84 Used With Tune: WINCHESTER OLD
How lovely are Thy dwellings fair
[How lovely are Thy dwellings fair]
Appears in 221 hymnals Tune Key: G Major or modal Incipit: 53351 32136 53453 Used With Text: Yearning for God
[How lovely are Thy dwellings fair]
TALLIS' ORDINAL ('9TH TUNE')
Appears in 232 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Thomas Tallis, c. 1505-85; Elizabeth Poston, 1905- Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 13455 66551 76651 Used With Text: How lovely are thy dwellings fair!
TALLIS' ORDINAL ('9TH TUNE')
How Lovely are Thy Dwellings Fair
Author: John Milton Hymnal: Glad Tidings #22 (1899) First Line: How lovely are Thy dwellings fair! Languages: English Tune Title: [How lovely are Thy dwellings fair!]
How Lovely are Thy Dwellings Fair
How Lovely Are Thy Dwellings Fair
Author: John Milton Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #2462 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Lyrics: 1. How lovely are Thy dwellings fair,
O Lord of hosts; how dear
The pleasant tabernacles are
Where Thou dost dwell so near!
2. Happy, who in Thy house reside,
Where Thee they ever praise!
Happy, whose strength in Thee doth bide,
And in their hearts Thy ways!
3. They journey on from strength to strength
With joy and gladsome cheer,
Till all before our God at length
In Zion doth appear.
4. Lord God of hosts that reign’st on high,
That man is truly blest
Who only on Thee doth rely,
And in Thee only rest. Languages: English Tune Title: BISHOPTHORPE
How Lovely Are Thy Dwellings Fair
How Lovely are Thy Dwellings
Author: John Milton Hymnal: Union Hymnal, Songs and Prayers for Jewish Worship. 3rd ed. Revised and enlarged. #3 (1948) First Line: How lovely are Thy dwellings fair Topics: Call to Worship Scripture: Psalm 84 Languages: English Tune Title: [How lovely are Thy dwellings fair]
How Lovely are Thy Dwellings
Anonymous
Person Name: Anon. Composer of "MEAR" in Services for Congregational Worship. The New Hymn and Tune Book In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.
Anonymous
William Gardiner
1770 - 1853 Composer of "BELMONT" in The Pilgrim Hymnal William Gardiner (b. Leicester, England, 1770; d. Leicester, 1853) The son of an English hosiery manufacturer, Gardiner took up his father's trade in addition to writing about music, composing, and editing. Having met Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven on his business travels, Gardiner then proceeded to help popularize their compositions, especially Beethoven's, in England. He recorded his memories of various musicians in Music and Friends (3 volumes, 1838-1853). In the first two volumes of Sacred Melodies (1812, 1815), Gardiner turned melodies from composers such as Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven into hymn tunes in an attempt to rejuvenate the singing of psalms. His work became an important model for American editors like Lowell Mason (see Mason's Boston Handel and Haydn Collection, 1822), and later hymnbook editors often turned to Gardiner as a source of tunes derived from classical music.
Bert Polman
William Gardiner
John Milton
1608 - 1674 Author of "How lovely are Thy dwellings fair" in The Mennonite Hymnal Milton, John, was born in London, Dec. 9, 1608, and died there Nov. 8, 1674. His poetical excellences and his literary fame are matters apart from hymnology, and are fully dealt with in numerous memoirs. His influence on English hymn-writing has been very slight, his 19 versions of various Psalms having lain for the most part unused by hymnal compilers. The dates of his paraphrases are:—
Ps. cxiv. and cxxxvi., 1623, when he was 15 years of ago. These were given in his Poems in English and Latin 1645.
Ps. lxxx.-lxxxviii., written in 1648, and published as Nine Psalmes done into Metre, 1645.
Ps. i., 1653; ii., “Done August 8, 1653;" iii., Aug. 9, 1653; iv. Aug. 10, 1653; v., Aug. 12, 1653; vi., Aug. 13, 1653; vii.Aug. 14, 1653; viii., Aug. 14, 1653.
These 19 versions were all included in the 2nd ed. of his Poems in English and Latin, 1673. From these, mainly in the form of centos, the following have come into common use:—
1. Cause us to see Thy goodness, Lord. Ps. lxxxv.
2. Defend the poor and desolate. Ps. lxxxii.
3. God in the great assembly stands. Ps. lxxxii.
4. How lovely are Thy dwellings fair. Ps. lxxxiv. From this, "They pass refreshed the thirsty vale," is taken.
5. Let us with a gladsome [joyful] mind. Ps. cxxxvi.
6. O let us with a joyful mind. Ps. cxxxvi.
7. The Lord will come and not be slow. Ps. lxxxv.
Of these centos Nos. 4 and 5 are in extensive use. The rest are mostly in Unitarian collections. There are also centos from his hymn on the Nativity, "This is the month, and this the happy morn" (q.v.).
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
John Milton
