Praise the Savior, Now and Ever

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Praise the Savior, now and ever (Service Book and Hymnal)

Author: Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus
Tune: UPP, MIN TUNGA
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	Four Hymns of Rejoicing

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Author: Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus

Venantius Honorius Clematianus Fortunatus (b. Cenada, near Treviso, Italy, c. 530; d. Poitiers, France, 609) was educated at Ravenna and Milan and was converted to the Christian faith at an early age. Legend has it that while a student at Ravenna he contracted a disease of the eye and became nearly blind. But he was miraculously healed after anointing his eyes with oil from a lamp burning before the altar of St. Martin of Tours. In gratitude Fortunatus made a pilgrimage to that saint's shrine in Tours and spent the rest of his life in Gaul (France), at first traveling and composing love songs. He developed a platonic affection for Queen Rhadegonda, joined her Abbey of St. Croix in Poitiers, and became its bishop in 599. His Hymns far all th… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Praise the Savior, now and ever (Service Book and Hymnal)
Title:	Praise the Savior, Now and Ever
Author:	Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus
Meter:	8.7.8.7.8.7
Source:	Tr.. Service Book and Hymnal, 1958, alt.
Language:	English
Publication Date:	1978
Copyright:	Tr. © 1958 Service Book and Hymnal

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UPP, MIN TUNGA

UPP, MIN TUNGA was published anonymously in the 1697 edition of the Swenska Psalmboken in dotted rhythms rather than the present isorhythmic form (all equal rhythms). A bar form (AAB) tune, UPP, MIN TUNGA consists of three long lines. Avoid turning the initial phrases of these lines into choppy phra…

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