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Author: Fred Pratt Green Meter: 11.11.11.6 Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Now shall the church, this time of celebration Lyrics: Now shall the church, this time of celebration, give thanks to God for each new revelation, for gospel truth and promise of salvation: to God be endless praise! Christmastide: This is the time, when he was born to save us, who set us free from sins that would enslave us; for Mary's Child and all his coming gave us; to God be endless praise! Eastertide: On Easter Day, how joyfully they greeted their risen Lord, whom death had not defeated. What is begun shall surely be completed. To God be endless praise! Ascensiontide: This is the time, Christ's earthly mission ended, he left his friends, that all may be befriended: so close he is, our Lord who is ascended. To God be endless praise! Pentecost: This is the time when God the Spirit showered his gifts on those he challenged and empowered. See how the Church sprang up and quickly flowered! To God be endless praise! Trinity Sunday: Blessed Three-in-One, help us this day to ponder how to unite what nations but asunder, deepen our sense of mystery and wonder: To God be endless praise! Topics: Service Music; Christian year--Ascension; Christian year--Christmas; Christian year--Easter; Service music--Introits Scripture: Hebrews 8 Used With Tune: EAST HILLS

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EAST HILLS

Meter: 11.11.11.6 Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Brian Henkelmann Tune Key: D Major Used With Text: Now Shall the Church

O HERZENSANGST

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: J. S. Bach Tune Sources: From the four-part chorale (BWV 400), J. S. Bach Tune Key: D Major Used With Text: Two-Stanza Introits for the Chief Festivals of the Christian Year

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Now Shall the Church

Author: Fred Pratt Green Hymnal: Moravian Book of Worship #830 (1995) Meter: 11.11.11.6 First Line: Now shall the church, this time of celebration Lyrics: Now shall the church, this time of celebration, give thanks to God for each new revelation, for gospel truth and promise of salvation: to God be endless praise! Christmastide: This is the time, when he was born to save us, who set us free from sins that would enslave us; for Mary's Child and all his coming gave us; to God be endless praise! Eastertide: On Easter Day, how joyfully they greeted their risen Lord, whom death had not defeated. What is begun shall surely be completed. To God be endless praise! Ascensiontide: This is the time, Christ's earthly mission ended, he left his friends, that all may be befriended: so close he is, our Lord who is ascended. To God be endless praise! Pentecost: This is the time when God the Spirit showered his gifts on those he challenged and empowered. See how the Church sprang up and quickly flowered! To God be endless praise! Trinity Sunday: Blessed Three-in-One, help us this day to ponder how to unite what nations but asunder, deepen our sense of mystery and wonder: To God be endless praise! Topics: Service Music; Christian year--Ascension; Christian year--Christmas; Christian year--Easter; Service music--Introits Scripture: Hebrews 8 Languages: English Tune Title: EAST HILLS

Two-Stanza Introits for the Chief Festivals of the Christian Year

Author: Fred Pratt Green Hymnal: Hymnal Supplement II #81 (1987) First Line: Now shall the Church, this time of celebration Refrain First Line: To God be endless praise! Lyrics: Now shall the Church, this time of celebration, give thanks to God for each new revelation,for gospel truth and promise of salvation:To God be endless praise!CHRISTMASTIDEThis is the time when he was born to save us,who set us free from sins that would enslave us;for Mary's Child and all his coming gave us;To God be endless praise!EASTERTIDEOn Easter Day, how joyfully they greetedtheir Risen Lord, whom death had not defeated.What he began shall surely be completed.To God be endless praise!ASCENSIONTIDEThis is the time, Christ's earthly mission ended,he left his friends, that all may be befriended:so close he is, our Lord who is ascended.To God be endless praise!WHITSUNTIDEThis is the time when God the Spirit showered his gifts on those he challenged and empowered.See how the Church sprang up and quickly flowered!To God be endless praise!TRINITY SUNDAYBlest Three-in-one, help us this day to ponderhow to unite what nations but asunder,deepen our sense of mystery and wonder:To God be endless praise! Languages: English Tune Title: O HERZENSANGST

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Fred Pratt Green

1903 - 2000 Author of "Two-Stanza Introits for the Chief Festivals of the Christian Year" in Hymnal Supplement II The name of the Rev. F. Pratt Green is one of the best-known of the contemporary school of hymnwriters in the British Isles. His name and writings appear in practically every new hymnal and "hymn supplement" wherever English is spoken and sung. And now they are appearing in American hymnals, poetry magazines, and anthologies. Mr. Green was born in Liverpool, England, in 1903. Ordained in the British Methodist ministry, he has been pastor and district superintendent in Brighton and York, and now served in Norwich. There he continued to write new hymns "that fill the gap between the hymns of the first part of this century and the 'far-out' compositions that have crowded into some churches in the last decade or more." --Seven New Hymns of Hope , 1971. Used by permission.

Johann Sebastian Bach

1685 - 1750 Person Name: J. S. Bach Composer of "O HERZENSANGST" in Hymnal Supplement II Johann Sebastian Bach was born at Eisenach into a musical family and in a town steeped in Reformation history, he received early musical training from his father and older brother, and elementary education in the classical school Luther had earlier attended. Throughout his life he made extraordinary efforts to learn from other musicians. At 15 he walked to Lüneburg to work as a chorister and study at the convent school of St. Michael. From there he walked 30 miles to Hamburg to hear Johann Reinken, and 60 miles to Celle to become familiar with French composition and performance traditions. Once he obtained a month's leave from his job to hear Buxtehude, but stayed nearly four months. He arranged compositions from Vivaldi and other Italian masters. His own compositions spanned almost every musical form then known (Opera was the notable exception). In his own time, Bach was highly regarded as organist and teacher, his compositions being circulated as models of contrapuntal technique. Four of his children achieved careers as composers; Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Chopin are only a few of the best known of the musicians that confessed a major debt to Bach's work in their own musical development. Mendelssohn began re-introducing Bach's music into the concert repertoire, where it has come to attract admiration and even veneration for its own sake. After 20 years of successful work in several posts, Bach became cantor of the Thomas-schule in Leipzig, and remained there for the remaining 27 years of his life, concentrating on church music for the Lutheran service: over 200 cantatas, four passion settings, a Mass, and hundreds of chorale settings, harmonizations, preludes, and arrangements. He edited the tunes for Schemelli's Musicalisches Gesangbuch, contributing 16 original tunes. His choral harmonizations remain a staple for studies of composition and harmony. Additional melodies from his works have been adapted as hymn tunes. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)