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Men, whose boast it is that ye
Author: James Russell Lowell, 1819-1891 Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Appears in 61 hymnals Topics: Courage and Heroism Used With Tune: SALZBURG
Men, whose boast it is that ye
MENDELSSOHN
Appears in 641 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Felix Mendelssohn; William H. Cummings Incipit: 51171 33255 54323 Used With Text: Stanzas on Freedom
MENDELSSOHN
[Men, whose boast it is, that ye]
Appears in 4 hymnals Tune Sources: Based on Sephardic "Az Yasheer" Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 12323 43234 5342 Used With Text: True Freedom
[Men, whose boast it is, that ye]
Men, whose boast it is that ye
Author: James Russell Lowell, 1819-1891 Hymnal: The Beacon Song and Service book #114 (1935) Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Topics: Courage and Heroism Languages: English Tune Title: SALZBURG
Men, whose boast it is that ye
Men! whose boast it is, that ye
Author: Lowell Hymnal: The Voice of Praise #799 (1873) Lyrics: Men! whose boast it is, that ye
Come of fathers brave and free,
If there breathe on earth a slave,
Are ye truly free and brave?
If ye do not feel the chain,
When it works a brother's pain,
Are ye not base slaves, indeed--
Slaves unworthy to be freed?
2 Is true freedom but to break
Fetters for our own dear sake,
And with leathern hearts forget
That we owe mankind a debt?
No! true freedom is to share
All the chains our brothers wear,
And with heart and hand to be
Earnest to make others free!
3 They are slaves, who fear to speak
For the fallen and the weak;
They are slaves, who will not choose
Hatred, scoffing, and abuse,
Rather than in silence shrink
From the truth they needs must think;
They are slaves, who dare not be
In the right with two or three.
Topics: The Christian Nation Freedom; True Liberty
Men! whose boast it is, that ye
Men, Whose Boast It Is
Author: James Russell Lowell, 1819-1891 Hymnal: Pilgrim Hymnal #425 (1958) First Line: Men, whose boast it is that ye Languages: English Tune Title: IVES
Men, Whose Boast It Is
James Russell Lowell
1819 - 1891 Person Name: James Russell Lowell, 1819-1891 Author of "Men, whose boast it is that ye" in The Beacon Song and Service book Lowell, James Russell, LL.D., was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 22, 1819; graduated at Harvard College, 1838, and was called to the Bar in 1840. Professor of Modern Languages and Literature (succeeding the Poet Longfellow) in Harvard, 1855; American Minister to Spain, also to England in 1881. He was editor of the Atlantic Monthly, from 1857 to 1862; and of the North American Review from 1863 to 1872. Professor Lowell is the most intellectual of American poets, and first of her art critics and humorists. He has written much admirable moral and sacred poetry, but no hymns. One piece, “Men, whose boast it is that ye" (Against Slavery), is part of an Anti-Slavery poem, and in its present form is found in Hymns of the Spirit, 1864. Part of this is given in Songs for the Sanctuary, N.Y., 1865, as "They are slaves who will not choose.” [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
James Russell Lowell
Johann Sebastian Bach
1685 - 1750 Person Name: Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750 Harmonizer of "SALZBURG" in The Beacon Song and Service book 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
George J. Elvey
1816 - 1893 Composer of "ST. GEORGE'S, WINDSOR" in The Pilgrim Hymnal George Job Elvey (b. Canterbury, England, 1816; d. Windlesham, Surrey, England, 1893) As a young boy, Elvey was a chorister in Canterbury Cathedral. Living and studying with his brother Stephen, he was educated at Oxford and at the Royal Academy of Music. At age nineteen Elvey became organist and master of the boys' choir at St. George Chapel, Windsor, where he remained until his retirement in 1882. He was frequently called upon to provide music for royal ceremonies such as Princess Louise's wedding in 1871 (after which he was knighted). Elvey also composed hymn tunes, anthems, oratorios, and service music.
Bert Polman
George J. Elvey
