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ROCKING

Meter: Irregular Appears in 14 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Martin Shaw Tune Sources: Czech carol Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 13556 64566 45 Used With Text: Rock-a-Bye, My Dear Little Boy

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Little Jesus, Sweetly Sleep

Author: Percy Dearmer, 1867-1936 Meter: 10.7.8.8.7.7 Appears in 18 hymnals First Line: Little Jesus, sweetly sleep, do not stir Used With Tune: ROCKING Text Sources: Traditional Czech carol
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Rock-a-Bye, My Dear Little Boy

Author: Jaroslav J. Vajda Meter: Irregular Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Christ's Gracious Life Birth and Baptism; Christian Year Christmas; Christian Year Epiphany; Christ's Gracious Life Birth and Baptism; Children's Choir Selections; Christian Year Christmas; Christian Year Epiphany; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ Atonement; Jesus Christ Incarnation Used With Tune: ROCKING Text Sources: Czech carol

Little Jesus, sleep away

Author: Christopher Massey, b. 1956 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Little Jesus, sleep away, in the hay Topics: Christmas Children's Hymns and Songs Used With Tune: ROCKING

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Rocking

Hymnal: The Oxford Book of Carols #87 (1928) First Line: Little Jesus, sweetly sleep, do not stir Tune Title: [Little Jesus, sweetly sleep, do not stir]
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Rocking Carol

Hymnal: When the Little Child Wants to Sing #43 (1935) First Line: Little Jesus, sweetly sleep, do not stir Languages: English Tune Title: HAJEJ NYNJEJ
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Rock-a-Bye, My Dear Little Boy

Author: Jaroslav J. Vajda Hymnal: The United Methodist Hymnal #235 (1989) Meter: Irregular Topics: Christ's Gracious Life Birth and Baptism; Christian Year Christmas; Christian Year Epiphany; Christ's Gracious Life Birth and Baptism; Children's Choir Selections; Christian Year Christmas; Christian Year Epiphany; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ Atonement; Jesus Christ Incarnation Languages: English Tune Title: ROCKING

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Martin Shaw

1875 - 1958 Person Name: Martin Shaw, 1875- Arranger of "ROCKING" in Pilgrim Hymnal Martin F. Shaw was educated at the Royal College of Music in London and was organist and choirmaster at St. Mary's, Primrose Hill (1908-1920), St. Martin's in the Fields (1920-1924), and the Eccleston Guild House (1924-1935). From 1935 to 1945 he served as music director for the diocese of Chelmsford. He established the Purcell Operatic Society and was a founder of the Plainsong and Medieval Society and what later became the Royal Society of Church Music. Author of The Principles of English Church Music Composition (1921), Shaw was a notable reformer of English church music. He worked with Percy Dearmer (his rector at St. Mary's in Primrose Hill); Ralph Vaughan Williams, and his brother Geoffrey Shaw in publishing hymnals such as Songs of Praise (1925, 1931) and the Oxford Book of Carols (1928). A leader in the revival of English opera and folk music scholarship, Shaw composed some one hundred songs as well as anthems and service music; some of his best hymn tunes were published in his Additional Tunes in Use at St. Mary's (1915). Bert Polman

Jaroslav J. Vajda

1919 - 2008 Translator of "Rock-a-Bye, My Dear Little Boy" in The United Methodist Hymnal Jaroslav J. Vajda (b. Lorain, Ohio, 1919; d. 2008) Born of Czechoslovakian parents, Vajda was educated at Concordia College in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Concordia Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. Ordained as a Lutheran pastor in 1944, he served congregations in Pennsylvania and Indiana until 1963. He was editor of the periodicals The Lutheran Beacon (1959-1963) and This Day (1963-1971) and book editor and developer for Concordia Publishing House in St. Louis from 1971 until his retirement in 1986. Working mainly with hymn texts, Vajda served on several Lutheran commissions of worship. A writer of original poetry since his teens, he was the author of They Followed the King (1965) and Follow the King (1977). His translations from Slovak include Bloody Sonnets (1950), Slovak Christmas (1960), An Anthology of Slovak Literature (1977), and contributions to the Lutheran Worship Supplement (1969) and the Lutheran Book of Worship (1978). A collection of his hymn texts, carols, and hymn translations was issued as Now the Joyful Celebration (1987); its sequel is So Much to Sing About (1991). Vajda's hymns are included in many modern hymnals, and he was honored as a Fellow of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada in 1988. Bert Polman

Jennie Pruner Smith

Arranger of "ROCKING" in The United Methodist Hymnal Music Supplement

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Small Church Music

Description: History The SmallChurchMusic site was launched in 2006, growing out of the requests from those struggling to provide suitable music for their services and meetings. Rev. Clyde McLennan was ordained in mid 1960’s and was a pastor in many small Australian country areas, and therefore was acutely aware of this music problem. Having also been trained as a Pipe Organist, recordings on site (which are a subset of the smallchurchmusic.com site) are all actually played by Clyde, and also include piano and piano with organ versions. About the Recordings All recordings are in MP3 format. Churches all around the world use the recordings, with downloads averaging over 60,000 per month. The recordings normally have an introduction, several verses and a slowdown on the last verse. Users are encouraged to use software: Audacity (http://www.audacityteam.org) or Song Surgeon (http://songsurgeon.com) to adjust the MP3 number of verses, tempo and pitch to suit their local needs. Mobile App We have partnered with the developer of the popular NetTracks mobile app to offer the Small Church Music collection as a convenient mobile app. Experience the beloved Small Church Music collection through this iOS app featuring nearly 10,000 high-quality hymn recordings that can be organized into custom setlists and downloaded for offline use—ideal for worship services without musicians, congregational practice, and personal devotion. The app requires a small fee to cover maintenance costs. Please note: While Hymnary.org hosts this music collection, technical support for the app is provided exclusively by the app developer, not by Hymnary.org staff. LicensingCopyright notice: Rev. Clyde McLennan, performer in this collection, has assigned his performer rights in this collection to Hymnary.org. Non-commercial use of these recordings is permitted. For permission to use them for any other purposes, please contact manager@hymnary.org. Home/Music(smallchurchmusic.com) List SongsAlphabetically List Songsby Meter List Songs byTune Name About  
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