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The Heavens Declare Thy Glory
Author: T. R. Birks Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 58 hymnals First Line: The heavens declare Thy glory, The firmament Thy power
The Heavens Declare Thy Glory
GRAFENBERG
Appears in 49 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Kugelmann Tune Key: A Major Incipit: 11765 12333 21211 Used With Text: The heavens declare thy glory
GRAFENBERG
The heavens declare Thy glory
Author: T. R. Birks, 1874 Hymnal: The Lutheran Hymnary #8 (1913) Lyrics: 1 The heavens declare Thy glory,
The firmament Thy power;
Day unto day the story
Repeats from hour to hour;
Night unto night replying,
Proclaims in every land,
O Lord, with voice undying,
The wonders of Thy hand.
2 The sun with royal splendor
Goes forth to chant Thy praise;
And moonbeams soft and tender
Their gentler anthem raise;
O’er every tribe and nation
That music strange is poured;
The song of all creation,
To Thee, creation’s Lord.
3 How perfect, just, and holy
The precepts Thou hast given;
Still making wise the lowly,
They lift the thoughts to heaven;
How pure, how soul-restoring
Thy gospel’s heavenly ray,
A brighter radiance pouring
Than noon of brightest day!
4 Thy statutes, Lord, with gladness
Rejoice the humble heart;
And guilty fear and sadness
From contrite souls depart:
Thy word hath richer treasure
Than dwells within the mine,
And sweetness beyond measure
Attends Thy voice divine.
5 O who can make confession
Of every secret sin;
Or keep from all transgression
His spirit pure within?
But let me never boldly
From Thy commands depart,
Or render to Thee coldly
The service of my heart.
6 All heaven on high rejoices
To do its Maker’s will;
The stars with solemn voices
Resound Thy praises still;
So let my whole behavior,
Thoughts, words, and actions be,
O Lord, my Strength, my Savior,
One ceaseless song to Thee. Topics: Worship in General; Worship in General Prayer and Praise; Worship in General Prayer and Praise; Creation; Praise and Prayer Tune Title: [The heavens declare Thy glory]
The heavens declare Thy glory
The Heavens Declare Thy Glory
Author: Thomas R. Birks Hymnal: Psalter Hymnal (Red) #31 (1934) Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Lyrics: 1 The heavens declare Thy glory,
The firmament Thy power;
Day unto day the story
Repeats from hour to hour;
Night unto night replying,
Proclaims in every land,
O Lord, with voice undying,
The wonders of Thy hand.
2 The sun with royal splendor
Goes forth to chant Thy praise,
And moonbeams soft and tender
Their gentler anthem raise;
O’er every tribe and nation
The music strange is poured,
The song of all creation
To Thee, creation’s Lord.
3 All heaven on high rejoices
To do its Maker’s will;
The stars with solemn voices
Resound Thy praises still;
So let my whole behavior,
Thoughts, words, and actions be,
O Lord, my Strength, my Savior,
One ceaseless song to Thee. Topics: Name Of God; God in Nature; Praise for God's Works; Godly Speech Languages: English Tune Title: FAITHFUL
The Heavens Declare Thy Glory
The Heavens Declare Thy Glory
Author: Thomas R. Birks Hymnal: Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.) #113 (1990) Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Lyrics: 1 The heav'ns declare thy glory,
the firmament thy pow'r;
day unto day the story
repeats from hour to hour;
night unto night replying,
proclaims in ev'ry land,
O Lord, with voice undying,
the wonders of thy hand.
2 The sun with royal splendor
goes forth to chant thy praise,
and moonbeams soft and tender
their gentler anthem raise;
o'er every tribe and nation
the music strange is poured,
the song of all creation
to thee, creation's Lord.
3 All heav'n on high rejoices
to do its Maker's will,
the stars with solemn voices
resound thy praises still;
so let my whole behavior,
thoughts, words, and actions be,
O Lord, my Strength, my Savior,
one ceaseless song to thee.
Topics: God's Work Creation; God Glory of; Works of Providence Scripture: Psalm 19 Languages: English Tune Title: FAITHFUL
The Heavens Declare Thy Glory
Melchior Teschner
1584 - 1635 Person Name: M. Teschner Composer of "[The heavens declare Thy glory]" in The Lutheran Hymnary Melchior Teschner (b. Fraustadt [now Wschowa, Poland], Silesia, 1584; d. Oberpritschen, near Fraustadt, 1635) studied philosophy, theology, and music at the University of Frankfurt an-der-Oder and later studied at the universities of Helmstedt and Wittenberg, Germany. From 1609 until 1614 he served as cantor in the Lutheran church in Fraustadt, and from 1614 until his death he was pastor of the church in Oberpritschen.
Bert Polman
Melchior Teschner
Timothy R. Matthews
1826 - 1910 Person Name: Timothy Richard Matthews Composer of "CHENIES" in The Cyber Hymnal Timothy Richard Matthews MusB United Kingdom 1826-1910. Born at Colmworth, England, son of the Colmworth rector, he attended the Bedford and Gonville Schools and Caius College, Cambridge. In 1853 he became a private tutor to the family of Rev Lord Wriothesley Russell, a canon of St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, where he studied under organist, George Elvey, subsequently a lifelong friend. He married Margaret Mary Thompson, and they had 11 children: Norton, Mary, George, Cecil, Evelyn, Eleanor, Anne, Arthur, Wilfred, Stephen, and John. Matthews served as Curate and Curate-in-Charge of St Mary’s Church, Nottingham (1853-1869). While there, he founded the Nottingham Working Men’s Institute. He became Rector at North Coates, Lincolnshire (1869-1907). He retired in 1907 to live with his eldest son, Norton, at Tetney vicarage. He edited the “North Coates supplemental tune book” and “Village organist”. An author, arranger, and editor, he composed morning and evening services, chants, and responses, earning a reputation for simple but effective hymn tunes, writing 100+. On a request he wrote six tunes for a children’s hymnal in one day. He composed a Christmas carol and a few songs. His sons, Norton, and Arthur, were also known as hymn tune composers. He died at Tetney, Lincolnshire, England.
John Perry
Timothy R. Matthews
Johann Sebastian Bach
1685 - 1750 Person Name: Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750 Composer of "FAITHFUL" in Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.) 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
