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My Soul, There Is A Country
Author: Henry Vaughan, 1622-1695 Meter: 7.6.7.6 Appears in 39 hymnals Used With Tune: CHRISTUS, DER IST MEIN LEBEN
My Soul, There Is A Country
CHRISTUS DER IST MEIN LEBEN
Meter: 7.6.7.6 Appears in 335 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. S. Bach, 1685-1750 Tune Sources: Melchior Vulpius's Gesangbuch, Weimar, 1609 Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 13234 53654 32356 Used With Text: My soul there is a country
CHRISTUS DER IST MEIN LEBEN
PASSION CHORALE
Appears in 533 hymnals Incipit: 51765 45233 2121 Used With Text: My soul, there is a country
PASSION CHORALE
ST. GEORGE'S, BOLTON
Appears in 83 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: James Walsh, 1837- Incipit: 33257 21561 765 Used With Text: My soul, there is a country
ST. GEORGE'S, BOLTON
My soul, there is a country
Author: Henry Vaughan, 1622-1695 Hymnal: Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New #464 (2000) Meter: 7.6.7.6 Lyrics: 1 My soul, there is a country
far beyond the stars,
where stands a wingèd sentry
all skilful in the wars.
2 There above noise, and danger,
sweet peace sits crowned with smiles,
and one born in a manger
commands the beauteous files.
3 He is thy gracious Friend,
and — O my soul, awake!
did in pure love descend,
to die here for thy sake.
4 If thou canst get but thither,
there grows the flow'r of peace,
the Rose that cannot wither,
thy fortress and thy ease.
5 Leave then thy foolish ranges,
for none can thee secure
but one, who never changes,
thy God, thy life, thy cure. Topics: Funerals; Healing; Remembrance; The Witnessing Community Scripture: James 1:17 Languages: English Tune Title: CHRISTUS DER IST MEIN LEBEN
My soul, there is a country
My Soul, There Is a Country
Author: Henry Vaughan Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #4377 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Lyrics: 1. My soul, there is a country,
Afar beyond the stars,
Where stands a wingèd sentry,
All skillful in the wars.
2. There, above noise and danger,
Sweet Peace sits crowned with smiles,
And One born in a manger
Commands the beauteous files.
3. He is thy gracious friend
And (O my soul, awake!)
Did in pure love descend,
To die here for thy sake.
4. If thou canst get but thither,
There grows the flower of peace,
The rose that cannot wither,
Thy fortress, and thy ease.
5. Leave, then, thy foolish ranges;
For none can thee secure
But One, who never changes,
Thy God, thy life, thy cure. Languages: English Tune Title: VULPIUS
My Soul, There Is a Country
My Soul, There Is A Country
Author: Henry Vaughan, 1622-1695 Hymnal: The Hymn Book of the Anglican Church of Canada and the United Church of Canada #181 (1971) Meter: 7.6.7.6 Tune Title: CHRISTUS, DER IST MEIN LEBEN
My Soul, There Is A Country
Johann Sebastian Bach
1685 - 1750 Person Name: Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750 Arranger of "CHRISTUS, DER IST MEIN LEBEN" in The Hymn Book of the Anglican Church of Canada and the United Church of Canada 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
Hans Leo Hassler
1564 - 1612 Composer of "O HAUPT VOLL BLUT UND WUNDEN (Passion Chorale)" in The Harvard University Hymn Book Hans Leo Hassler Germany 1564-1612. Born at Nuremberg, Germany, he came from a family of famous musicians and received early education from his father. He then studied in Venice, Italy, with Andrea Gabrieli, uncle of Giovanni Gabrieli, his friend, with whom he composed a wedding motet. The uncle taught him to play the organ. He learned the polychoral style and took it back to Germany after Andrea Gabrieli's death. He served as organist and composer for Octavian Fugger, the princely art patron of Augsburg (1585-1601). He was a prolific composer but found his influence limited, as he was Protestant in a still heavily Catholic region. In 1602 he became director of town music and organist in the Frauenkirche in Nuremberg until 1608. He married Cordula Claus in 1604. He was finally court musician for the Elector of Saxony in Dresden, Germany, evenually becoming Kapellmeister (1608-1612). A Lutheran, he composed both for Roman Catholic liturgy and for Lutheran churches. He produced two volumns of motets, a famous collection of court songs, and a volume of simpler hymn settings. He published both secular and religious music, managing to compose much for the Catholic church that was also usable in Lutheran settings. He was also a consultant to organ builders. In 1596 he, with 53 other organists, had the opportunity to examine a new instrument with 59 stops at the Schlosskirche, Groningen. He was recognized for his expertise in organ design and often was called on to examine new instruments. He entered the world of mechanical instrument construction, developing a clockwork organ that was later sold to Emperor Rudolf II. He died of tuberculosis in Frankfurt, Germany.
John Perry
Hans Leo Hassler
Melchior Vulpius
1570 - 1615 Person Name: Melchior Vulpius, c. 1570-1615 Composer of "CHRISTUS, DER IST MEIN LEBEN" in The Hymn Book of the Anglican Church of Canada and the United Church of Canada Born into a poor family named Fuchs, Melchior Vulpius (b. Wasungen, Henneberg, Germany, c. 1570; d. Weimar, Germany, 1615) had only limited educational opportunities and did not attend the university. He taught Latin in the school in Schleusingen, where he Latinized his surname, and from 1596 until his death served as a Lutheran cantor and teacher in Weimar. A distinguished composer, Vulpius wrote a St. Matthew Passion (1613), nearly two hundred motets in German and Latin, and over four hundred hymn tunes, many of which became popular in Lutheran churches, and some of which introduced the lively Italian balletto rhythms into the German hymn tunes. His music was published in Cantiones Sacrae (1602, 1604), Kirchengesangund Geistliche Lieder (1604, enlarged as Ein schon geistlich Gesanglmch, 1609), and posthumously in Cantionale Sacrum (1646).
Bert Polman
Melchior Vulpius
