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How Can I Keep From Singing

Author: Anonymous; Daris Plenn Appears in 145 hymnals Topics: Singing (or Song) First Line: My life flows on in endless song Used With Tune: [My life flows on in endless song]

Come, Christians, Join to Sing

Author: Christian Henry Bateman Meter: 6.6.6.6 D Appears in 128 hymnals Topics: Music and Singing Lyrics: 1 Come, Christians, join to sing: Alleluia! Amen! Loud praise to Christ we bring: Alleluia! Amen! Let all with heart and voice, before his throne rejoice; praise we with gracious choice: Alleluia! Amen! 2 Come, lift your hearts on high, Alleluia! Amen! Let praises fill the sky: Alleluia! Amen! Christ is our Guide and Friend on whom we can depend; his love shall never end: Alleluia! Amen! 3 Praise yet our Christ again: Alleluia! Amen! Life shall not end the strain: Alleluia! Amen! On heaven's blissful shore his goodness we'll adore, singing for evermore: Alleluia! Amen! Used With Tune: MADRID

My song is love unknown

Author: Samuel Crossman, c.1624-1683 Meter: 6.6.6.6.8.8 Appears in 128 hymnals Topics: Music / Singing / Song Lyrics: 1 My song is love unknown, my Saviour’s love to me, love to the loveless shown, that they might lovely be. Oh who am I, that for my sake my Lord should take frail flesh and die? 2 He came from his blest throne salvation to bestow, but we made strange, and none the longed-for Christ would know. But oh, my Friend, my Friend indeed, who at my need his life did spend. 3 Sometimes they strew his way and his sweet praises sing, resounding all the day hosannas to their King; Then “Crucify” is all their breath, and for his death they thirst and cry. 4 Here might I stay and sing, no story so divine; never was love, dear King, never was grief like thine. This is my friend in whose sweet praise I all my days could gladly spend. Scripture: Mark 11:1-11 Used With Tune: LOVE UNKNOWN

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HYMN TO JOY

Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 491 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Ludwig von Beethoven; Edward Hodges Topics: Music and Singing Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 33455 43211 23322 Used With Text: Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee

HOW GREAT THOU ART

Meter: Irregular with refrain Appears in 147 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Stuart K. Hine Topics: Music and Singing Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 55535 55664 66665 Used With Text: How Great Thou Art

FOREST GREEN

Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 257 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Ralph Vaughan Williams Topics: Music and Singing Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 51112 32345 34312 Used With Text: I Sing the Almighty Power of God

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He Came Singing Love

Author: Colin Gibson Hymnal: Voices United #359 (1996) Meter: 5.6.5.6.6.6.7 Topics: Music and Singing Lyrics: 1 He came singing love and he lived singing love; he died singing love. He arose in silence. For the love to go on we must make it our song; you and I be the singers. 2 He came singing faith and he lived singing faith; he died singing faith. He arose in silence. For the faith to go on we must make it our song; you and I be the singers. 3 He came singing hope and he lived singing hope; he died singing hope. He arose in silence. For the hope to go on we must make it our song; you and I be the singers. 4 He came singing peace and he lived singing peace; he died singing peace. He arose in silence. For the peace to go on we must make it our song; you and I be the singers. Languages: English Tune Title: SINGING LOVE

We Are Singing

Author: Hal H. Hopson; Hal H. Hopson Hymnal: Christian Worship #27D (2021) Meter: 8.7.8.6 with refrain Topics: Singing First Line: The LORD is the strength of our lives Refrain First Line: We are singing, for the LORD is our light Lyrics: Refrain: We are singing, for the LORD is our light, we are singing, for the LORD is our light. We are singing, for the LORD is our light, we are singing for the LORD is our light. We are singing, singing, we are singing, singing, we are singing for the LORD is our light. We are singing, singing, we are singing, singing, we are singing for the LORD is our light. 1 The LORD is the strength of our lives; of whom shall we be afraid? Though foes may be near to destroy, the LORD will be our light. [Refrain] 2 One thing have we asked of the LORD, yes, this is the thing we seek: to dwell in the house of the LORD, to live with God forever. [Refrain] 3 When burdens are heavy to bear, our shelter is God alone. Our feet are lifted high, yes, high upon a rock. [Refrain] 4 We walk in the strength of the LORD; God's love is ever sure. We shout that the world may hear; we sing a joyful song. [Refrain] Scripture: Psalm 27 Languages: English Tune Title: SIYAHAMBA

Angels Are Singing (Singing Redemption's Song)

Author: Tillit S. Teddlie Hymnal: Praise for the Lord (Expanded Edition) #39 (1997) Topics: Singing First Line: Angels are singing redemption's sweet song Lyrics: 1 Angels are singing redemption's sweet song, Wonderful theme, glorious theme! Shout the glad message and join in the throng, Singing redemption's song! Refrain: Sing the sweet story-redemption's sweet song; Over and over the chorus prolong; Shout the glad message and join with the throng Ever we'll sing praise to the King, Singing redemption's song. 2 Over and over the melodies ring, Wonderful theme, glorious theme! Heaven resounds with the tribute they bring, Singing redemption's song! [Refrain] 3 Joy beyond measure awaits us up there, Wonderful theme, glorious theme! Soon we shall join with the angels so fair, Singing redemption's song! [Refrain] Scripture: Ephesians 1:7 Languages: English Tune Title: [Angels are singing redemption's sweet song]

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Hal H. Hopson

b. 1933 Person Name: Hal Hopson Topics: Music and Singing Composer (descant) of "HYMN TO JOY" in Voices United Hal H. Hopson (b. Texas, 1933) is a prolific composer, arranger, clinician, teacher and promoter of congregational song, with more than 1300 published works, especially of hymn and psalm arrangements, choir anthems, and creative ideas for choral and organ music in worship. Born in Texas, with degrees from Baylor University (BA, 1954), and Southern Baptist Seminary (MSM, 1956), he served churches in Nashville, TN, and most recently at Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church in Dallas, Texas. He has served on national boards of the Presbyterian Association of Musicians and the Choristers Guild, and taught numerous workshops at various national conferences. In 2009, a collection of sixty four of his hymn tunes were published in Hymns for Our Time: The Collected Tunes of Hal H. Hopson. Emily Brink

Phoebe Palmer Knapp

1839 - 1908 Topics: Music and Singing Composer of "ASSURANCE" in Voices United As a young girl Phoebe Palmer Knapp (b. New York, NY, 1839; d. Poland Springs, ME, 1908) displayed great musical talent; she composed and sang children’s song at an early age. The daughter of the Methodist evangelist Walter C. Palmer, she was married to John Fairfield Knapp at the age of sixteen. Her husband was a founder of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and after his death, she shared her considerable inherited wealth with various charitable organizations. She composed over five hundred gospel songs, of which the tunes for “Blessed Assurance” and “Open the Gates of the Temple” are still popular today. Bert Polman

Maltbie D. Babcock

1858 - 1901 Person Name: Maltbie Davenport Babcock Topics: Music and Singing Author of "This Is God's Wondrous World" in Voices United Maltbie D. Babcock (b. Syracuse, NY, 1858; d. Naples, Italy, 1901) graduated from Syracuse University, New York, and Auburn Theological Seminary (now associated with Union Theological Seminary in New York) and became a Presbyterian minister. He served the Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Maryland, and the Brick Presbyterian Church in New York City. In Baltimore he was especially popular with students from Johns Hopkins University, but he ministered to people from all walks of life. Babcock wrote hymn texts and devotional, poems, some of which were published in The School Hymnal (1899). Bert Polman =================== Babcock, Maltbie Davenport, D.D., was born at Syracuse, N.Y., Aug. 3, 1858. Graduating from Syracuse University, he was ordained to the Presbyterian Ministry and was pastor of churches in Lockport, N.Y., Baltimore, and N.Y. City. He died at Naples, Italy, May 18th, 1901. He was richly gifted, and his short career was memorable for the extraordinary influence of his personality and his preaching. Extracts from his sermons and poems were published in 1901 as Thoughts for Every Day Living; and his Biography by Dr. C. E. Robinson in 1904. He contributed to the Presbyterian School Hymnal, 1899, the following hymns:— 1. Gaily the bells are ringing. Faster. 2. O blessed Saviour, Lord of love. Unto Me. 3. Shining Sun, shining sun. Child's Hymn. The tunes to these hymns were of his own composing. In The Pilgrim Hymnal, 1904, there is:— 4. Rest in the Lord, my soul. Trust and Peace and in the American Methodist Hymnal, 1905:— 5. Be strong: we are not here to play. Activity in God's Service. Nos. 4 and 5 are from Thoughts for Every Day Living, 1901; but undated. [Rev. L. F. Benson, D.D.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

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