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Two thousand troubled years
Author: Alfred Hayes Appears in 6 hymnals Used With Tune: SWAINSTHORPE
Two thousand troubled years
ST. ANDREW
Appears in 242 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Sir J. Barnby Incipit: 33452 33365 43517 Used With Text: Two thousand troubled years
ST. ANDREW
SWAINSTHORPE
Appears in 11 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Josiah Booth Incipit: 11324 43235 46551 Used With Text: Two thousand troubled years
SWAINSTHORPE
Two Thousand Troubled Years
Author: Alfred Hayes Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #12910 Meter: 6.6.8.6 Lyrics: 1 Two thousand troubled years
Time’s weary brow have worn,
Since that strange star to shepherds told
The Prince of Peace was born.
2 Two thousand years of gloom,
Of groping toward the light,
Of prophets scorned and martyrs slain,
And battle done for right.
3 But year by year the bells
The old glad tidings bring,
And men forget their strife, to keep
The birthday of the King.
4 Christ’s kingdom yet will come,
And good prevail o’er ill,
Though often with a crown of thorns
We mock the Master still.
5 But He will not forsake
The world for which He died,
Till all mankind be gathered home
At the great Christmastide. Languages: English Tune Title: POTSDAM
Two Thousand Troubled Years
Two thousand troubled years
Author: A. Hayes Hymnal: Worship Song #96 (1905) Topics: The Lord Jesus Christ His Advent Languages: English Tune Title: ST. ANDREW
Two thousand troubled years
Two thousand troubled years
Author: Alfred Hayes Hymnal: Songs of the Christian Life #98 (1912) Languages: English Tune Title: SWAINSTHORPE
Two thousand troubled years
Johann Sebastian Bach
1685 - 1750 Composer of "POTSDAM" in The Cyber Hymnal 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
Joseph Barnby
1838 - 1896 Person Name: Sir J. Barnby Composer of "ST. ANDREW" in Worship Song Joseph Barnby (b. York, England, 1838; d. London, England, 1896) An accomplished and popular choral director in England, Barnby showed his musical genius early: he was an organist and choirmaster at the age of twelve. He became organist at St. Andrews, Wells Street, London, where he developed an outstanding choral program (at times nicknamed "the Sunday Opera"). Barnby introduced annual performances of J. S. Bach's St. John Passion in St. Anne's, Soho, and directed the first performance in an English church of the St. Matthew Passion. He was also active in regional music festivals, conducted the Royal Choral Society, and composed and edited music (mainly for Novello and Company). In 1892 he was knighted by Queen Victoria. His compositions include many anthems and service music for the Anglican liturgy, as well as 246 hymn tunes (published posthumously in 1897). He edited four hymnals, including The Hymnary (1872) and The Congregational Sunday School Hymnal (1891), and coedited The Cathedral Psalter (1873).
Bert Polman
Joseph Barnby
Josiah Booth
1852 - 1930 Composer of "SWAINSTHORPE" in Songs of the Christian Life Josiah Booth (27 March 1852 – 29 December 1929) was an English organist and composer, known chiefly for his hymn-tunes.
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