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Author: John Mason Neale (1818-1866) Appears in 220 hymnals Topics: Children and All-Age Worship Lyrics: 1 Good Christians all, rejoice with heart and soul and voice! Listen now to what we say, Jesus Christ is born today; ox and ass before him bow, and he is in the manger now! Christ is born today; Christ is born today! 2 Good Christians all, rejoice with heart and soul and voice! Hear the news of endless bliss, Jesus Christ was born for this: he has opened heaven's door, and we are blessed for evermore! Christ was born for this; Christ was born for this! 3 Good Christians all, rejoice with heart and soul and voice! Now you need not fear the grave; Jesus Christ was born to save: come at his most gracious call to find salvation, one and all! Christ was born to save; Christ was born to save! Used With Tune: IN DULCI JUBILO Text Sources: Latin and German, 14th century

Love divine, all loves excelling

Author: Charles Wesley (1707-1788) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 1,863 hymnals Topics: Children and All-Age Worship Lyrics: 1 Love divine, all loves excelling, joy of heaven, to earth come down, fix in us thy humble dwelling, all thy faithful mercies crown. Jesu, thou art all compassion, pure unbounded love thou art; visit us with thy salvation, enter every trembling heart. 2 Come, almighty to deliver, let us all thy grace receive; suddenly return, and never, never more thy temples leave. Thee we would be always blessing, serve thee as thy hosts above; pray, and praise thee, without ceasing, glory in thy perfect love. 3 Finish then thy new creation: pure and spotless let us be; let us see thy great salvation perfectly restored in thee; Changed from glory into glory till in heaven we take our place, till we cast our crowns before thee, lost in wonder, love, and praise. Scripture: Malachi 3:1-4 Used With Tune: BLAENWERN

Ride on, ride on in majesty!

Author: Henry Hart Milman (1791-1868) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 505 hymnals Topics: Children and All-Age Worship Lyrics: 1 Ride on, ride on in majesty! Hark, all the tribes hosanna cry: O Saviour meek, pursue thy road with palms and scattered garments strowed. 2 Ride on, ride on in majesty! In lowly pomp ride on to die: O Christ, thy triumphs now begin o'er captive death and conquered sin. 3 Ride on, ride on in majesty! The wingèd squadrons of the sky look down with sad and wondering eyes to see the approaching sacrifice. 4 Ride on, ride on in majesty! The last and fiercest strife is nigh: the Father on his sapphire throne awaits his own anointed Son. 5 Ride on, ride on in majesty! In lowly pomp ride on to die; bow thy meek head to mortal pain, then take, O God, thy power, and reign. Scripture: Psalm 45:4 Used With Tune: ST DROSTANE

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AR HYD Y NOS

Meter: 8.4.8.4.8.8.8.4 Appears in 286 hymnals Topics: Children and All-Age Worship Tune Sources: Welsh traditional melody harmonised Compilers of English Hymnal, 1906 Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 17612 17567 71176 Used With Text: God, that madest earth and heaven

NUN DANKET

Meter: 6.7.6.7.6.6.6.6 Appears in 541 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Johann Crüger; Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Topics: Children and All-Age Worship Tune Sources: Praxis Pietatis Melica, 1647; Lobgesang, 1840 Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 55566 53432 32155 Used With Text: Now thank we all our God

IN DULCI JUBILO

Appears in 200 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Stainer; Robert Lucas de Pearsall (1795-1856) Topics: Children and All-Age Worship Tune Sources: Later form of 14th-century German melody Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 11134 56551 13456 Used With Text: Good Christians all, rejoice

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Ye who own the faith of Jesus

Author: Vincent Stuckey Stratton Coles (1845-1929) Hymnal: Ancient and Modern #318 (2013) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 with refrain Topics: Children and All-Age Worship Lyrics: 1 Ye who own the faith of Jesus sing the wonders that were done, when the love of God the Father o'er our sin the victory won, when he made the Virgin Mary Mother of his only Son. Hail Mary, full of grace. 2 Blessèd were the chosen people out of whom the Lord did come, blessèd was the land of promise fashioned for his earthly home; but more blessèd far the Mother she who bare him in her womb. Hail Mary, full of grace. 3 Wherefore let all faithful people tell the honour of her name, let the church in her foreshadowed part in her thanksgiving claim; what Christ's Mother sang in gladness let Christ's people sing the same. Hail Mary, full of grace. 4 Let us weave our supplications, she with us and we with her, for the advancement of the faithful, for each faithful worshipper, for the doubting, for the sinful, for each heedless wanderer. Hail Mary, full of grace. 5 May the Mother's intercessions on our homes a blessing win, that the children all be prospered, strong and fair and pure within, following our Lord's own footsteps, firm in faith and free from sin. Hail Mary, full of grace. 6 For the sick and for the aged, for our dear ones far away, for the hearts that mourn in secret, all who need our prayers today, for the faithful gone before us, may the holy Virgin pray. Hail Mary, full of grace. 7 Praise, O Mary, praise the Father, praise thy Saviour and thy Son, praise the everlasting Spirit, who hath made thee ark and throne; o'er all creatures high exalted, lowly praise the Three in One. Hail Mary, full of grace. Scripture: Luke 1:26-38 Languages: English Tune Title: DAILY DAILY

It came upon the midnight clear

Author: Edmund Hamilton Sears (1810-1876) Hymnal: Ancient and Modern #70 (2013) Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Topics: Children and All-Age Worship Lyrics: 1 It came upon the midnight clear, that glorious song of old, from angels bending near the earth to touch their harps of gold: 'Through all the earth, goodwill and peace from heaven's all-gracious king!' The world in solemn stillness lay to hear the angels sing. 2 With sorrow brought by sin and strife the world has suffered long and, since the angels sang, have passed two thousand years of wrong: the nations, still at war, hear not the love-song which they bring: O hush the noise and cease the strife, to hear the angels sing! 3 And those whose journey now is hard, whose hope is burning low, who tread the rocky path of life with painful steps and slow: O listen to the news of love which makes the heavens ring! O rest beside the weary road and hear the angels sing! 4 And still the days are hastening on — by prophets seen of old — towards the fulness of the time when comes the age foretold: then earth and heaven renewed shall see the prince of peace, their king; and all the world repeat the song which now the angels sing. Scripture: Psalm 46:8-10 Languages: English Tune Title: NOEL

Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord!

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Hymnal: Ancient and Modern #394 (2013) Meter: 10.10.10.10 Topics: Children and All-Age Worship Lyrics: 1 Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord! Unnumbered blessings, give my spirit voice; tender to me the promise of his word; in God my Saviour shall my heart rejoice. 2 Tell out, my soul, the greatness of his name! Make known his might, the deeds his arm has done; his mercy sure, from age to age the same; his holy name, the Lord, the mighty one. 3 Tell out, my soul, the greatness of his might! Powers and dominions lay their glory by. Proud hearts and stubborn wills are put to flight, the hungry fed, the humble lifted high. 4 Tell out, my soul, the glories of his word! Firm is his promise, and his mercy sure. Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord to children's children and for evermore! Scripture: Luke 1:46-55 Languages: English Tune Title: WOODLANDS

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C. Hubert H. Parry

1848 - 1918 Person Name: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918) Topics: Children and All-Age Worship Composer of "REPTON" in Ancient and Modern Charles Hubert Hastings Parry KnBch/Brnt BMus United Kingdom 1848-1918. Born at Richmond Hill, Bournemouth, England, son of a wealthy director of the East India Company (also a painter, piano and horn musician, and art collector). His mother died of consumption shortly after his birth. His father remarried when he was three, and his stepmother favored her own children over her stepchildren, so he and two siblings were sometimes left out. He attended a preparatory school in Malvern, then at Twyford in Hampshire. He studied music from 1856-58 and became a pianist and composer. His musical interest was encouraged by the headmaster and by two organists. He gained an enduring love for Bach’s music from S S Wesley and took piano and harmony lessons from Edward Brind, who also took him to the ‘Three Choirs Festival in Hereford in 1861, where Mendelssohn, Mozart, Handel, and Beethoven works were performed. That left a great impression on Hubert. It also sparked the beginning of a lifelong association with the festival. That year, his brother was disgraced at Oxford for drug and alcohol use, and his sister, Lucy, died of consumption as well. Both events saddened Hubert. However, he began study at Eton College and distinguished himself at both sport and music. He also began having heart trouble, that would plague him the rest of his life. Eton was not known for its music program, and although some others had interest in music, there were no teachers there that could help Hubert much. He turned to George Elvey, organist of St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, and started studying with him in 1863. Hubert eventually wrote some anthems for the choir of St George’s Chapel, and eventually earned his music degree. While still at Eton, Hubert sat for the Oxford Bachelor of Music exam, the youngest person ever to have done so. His exam exercise, a cantata: “O Lord, Thou hast cast us out” astonished the Heather Professor of Music, Sir Frederick Ouseley, and was triumphantly performed and published in 1867. In 1867 he left Eton and went to Exeter College, Oxford. He did not study music there, his music concerns taking second place, but read law and modern history. However, he did go to Stuttgart, Germany, at the urging of Henry Hugh Pierson, to learn re-orchestration, leaving him much more critical of Mendelssohn’s works. When he left Exeter College, at his father’s behest, he felt obliged to try insurance work, as his father considered music only a pastime (too uncertain as a profession). He became an underwriter at Lloyd’s of London, 1870-77, but he found the work unappealing to his interests and inclinations. In 1872 he married Elizabeth Maude Herbert, and they had two daughters: Dorothea and Gwendolen. His in-laws agreed with his father that a conventional career was best, but it did not suit him. He began studying advanced piano with W S Bennett, but found it insufficient. He then took lessons with Edward Dannreuther, a wise and sympathetic teacher, who taught him of Wagner’s music. At the same time as Hubert’s compositions were coming to public notice (1875), he became a scholar of George Grove and soon an assistant editor for his new “Dictionary of Music and Musicians”. He contributed 123 articles to it. His own first work appeared in 1880. In 1883 he became professor of composition and musical history at the Royal College of Music (of which Grove was the head). In 1895 Parry succeeded Grove as head of the college, remaining in the post the remainder of his life. He also succeeded John Stainer as Heather Professor of Music at the University of Oxford (1900-1908). His academic duties were considerable and likely prevented him from composing as much as he might have. However, he was rated a very fine composer, nontheless, of orchestrations, overtures, symphonies, and other music. He only attempted one opera, deemed unsuccessful. Edward Elgar learned much of his craft from Parry’s articles in Grove’s Dictionary, and from those who studied under Parry at the Royal College, including Ralph Vaughn Williams, Gustav Holst, Frank Bridge, and John Ireland. Parry had the ability when teaching music to ascertain a student’s potential for creativity and direct it positively. In 1902 he was created a Baronet of Highnam Court in Gloucester. Parry was also an avid sailor and owned several yachts, becoming a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron in 1908, the only composer so honored. He was a Darwinian and a humanist. His daughter reiterated his liberal, non-conventional thinking. On medical advice he resigned his Oxford appointment in 1908 and produced some of his best known works. He and his wife were taken up with the ‘Suffrage Movement’ in 1916. He hated to see the WW1 ravage young potential musical talent from England and Germany. In 1918 he contracted Spanish flu during the global pandemic and died at Knightsscroft, Rustington, West Sussex. In 2015 they found 70 unpublished works of Parry’s hidden away in a family archive. It is thought some may never have been performed in public. The documents were sold at auction for a large sum. Other works he wrote include: “Studies of great composers” (1886), “The art of music” (1893), “The evolution of the art of music” (1896), “The music of the 17th century” (1902). His best known work is probably his 1909 study of “Johann Sebastian Bach”. John Perry

John Goss

1800 - 1880 Person Name: John Goss (1800-1880) Topics: Children and All-Age Worship Composer of "HUMILITY (OXFORD)" in Ancient and Modern John Goss (b. Fareham, Hampshire, England, 1800; d. London, England, 1880). As a boy Goss was a chorister at the Chapel Royal and later sang in the opera chorus of the Covent Garden Theater. He was a professor of music at the Royal Academy of Music (1827-1874) and organist of St. Paul Cathedral, London (1838-1872); in both positions he exerted significant influence on the reform of British cathedral music. Goss published Parochial Psalmody (1826) and Chants, Ancient and Modern (1841); he edited William Mercer's Church Psalter and Hymn Book (1854). With James Turle he published a two-volume collection of anthems and Anglican service music (1854). Bert Polman

Arthur Sullivan

1842 - 1900 Person Name: Arthur Seymour Sullivan (1842-1900) Topics: Children and All-Age Worship Adapter of "NOEL" in Ancient and Modern Arthur Seymour Sullivan (b Lambeth, London. England. 1842; d. Westminster, London, 1900) was born of an Italian mother and an Irish father who was an army bandmaster and a professor of music. Sullivan entered the Chapel Royal as a chorister in 1854. He was elected as the first Mendelssohn scholar in 1856, when he began his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He also studied at the Leipzig Conservatory (1858-1861) and in 1866 was appointed professor of composition at the Royal Academy of Music. Early in his career Sullivan composed oratorios and music for some Shakespeare plays. However, he is best known for writing the music for lyrics by William S. Gilbert, which produced popular operettas such as H.M.S. Pinafore (1878), The Pirates of Penzance (1879), The Mikado (1884), and Yeomen of the Guard (1888). These operettas satirized the court and everyday life in Victorian times. Although he composed some anthems, in the area of church music Sullivan is best remembered for his hymn tunes, written between 1867 and 1874 and published in The Hymnary (1872) and Church Hymns (1874), both of which he edited. He contributed hymns to A Hymnal Chiefly from The Book of Praise (1867) and to the Presbyterian collection Psalms and Hymns for Divine Worship (1867). A complete collection of his hymns and arrangements was published posthumously as Hymn Tunes by Arthur Sullivan (1902). Sullivan steadfastly refused to grant permission to those who wished to make hymn tunes from the popular melodies in his operettas. Bert Polman

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