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The ancient law departs
Author: Abbé Sebastien Besnault Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 47 hymnals Lyrics:
The ancient law departs
And all its terrors cease;
For Jesus makes with faithful hearts
A covenant of peace.
The Light of Light divine,
True Brightness undefiled,
He bears for us the shame of sin,
A holy, spotless Child.
Today the Name is thine,
At which we bend the knee;
They call the Jesus, Child divine!
Our Jesus deign to be.
Amen.
Topics: Circumcision Used With Tune: ST. MICHAEL Text Sources: Tr. Compilers of Hymns Ancient & Modern
The ancient law departs
ST. MICHAEL
Appears in 346 hymnals Tune Sources: Daye's Psalter Tune Key: G Major or modal Incipit: 51322 35432 21176 Used With Text: The ancient law departs
ST. MICHAEL
The ancient law departs
Author: Abbe Bernault 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 #148 (1894) Meter: 6.6.8.6 First Line: The ancient law departs Lyrics: 1 The ancient law departs
And all its terrors cease;
For Jesus makes with faithful hearts
A covenant of peace.
2 The Light of Light divine,
True Brightness undefiled,
He bears for us the shame of sin,
A holy, spotless Child.
3 Today the Name is Thine,
At which we bend the knee;
They call Thee Jesus, Child divine!
Our Jesus deign to be.
Amen. Topics: Other Feasts and Fasts The Circumcision Languages: English Tune Title: [The ancient law departs]
The ancient law departs
The Ancient Law Departs
Author: Sebastien Besnault Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #165 Meter: 6.6.8.6 Lyrics: 1. The ancient law departs,
And all its terrors cease;
For Jesus makes with faithful hearts
A covenant of peace.
2. The light of light divine,
True brightness undefiled,
He bears for us the shame of sin,
A holy, spotless child.
3. His infant body now
Begins our pains to feel;
Those precious drops of blood that flow
For death the victim seal.
4. Today the name is Thine,
At which we bend the knee;
They call Thee Jesus, child divine!
Our Jesus deign to be. Languages: English Tune Title: ST. MICHAEL
The Ancient Law Departs
The Ancient Law Departs
Author: Sebastien Besnault Hymnal: The Lutheran Hymnal #117 (1941) Meter: 6.6.8.6 Lyrics: 1 The ancient Law departs,
And all its fears remove,
For Jesus makes with faithful hearts
A covenant of love.
2 The Light of Light Divine,
True brightness undefiled,
He bears for us the pain of sin
A holy, spotless Child.
3 His infant body now
Begins the cross to feel:
Those precious drops of blood that flow
For death the Victim seal.
4 Today the name is Thine
At which we bend the knee.
They call Thee Jesus, Child Divine;
Our Jesus deign to be.
5 All praise, eternal Son,
For Thy redeeming love,
With Father, Spirit, ever One
In glorious might above.
Amen. Topics: The Church Year New Year Scripture: Luke 2:21 Languages: English Tune Title: POTSDAM
The Ancient Law Departs
Louis Bourgeois
1510 - 1561 Composer of "ST. MICHAEL" in The Cyber Hymnal 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
Anonymous
Person Name: Anon. Composer of "ST. MICHAEL" in Church Hymnal 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
Johann Sebastian Bach
1685 - 1750 Person Name: J. S. Bach, 1685-1704 Composer of "POTSDAM" in Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary 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)
Johann Sebastian Bach
