Rebels, Who Had Dared to Show

Top Media Text Text Info Tune Timeline Arrangements Page Scans Instances

Rebels, who had dared to show

Tune: DIX (Kocher)
Published in 5 hymnals

Printable scores: PDF, MusicXML
Audio files: MIDI

Piano/Organ
	Six Hymn Settings for Epiphany

Instrumental
	Flexible Hymn Accompaniments for Handbel…

Handbells
	Hymns of Love and Praise (Distinctive Se…

Representative Text

1 Rebels, who had dared to show
Proud contempt of God Most High,
Bound in iron and in woe,
Shades of death and darkness night,
Humbled low with toil and pain,
Fell, and looked for help in vain.

2 To Jehovah then they cried
In their trouble and He saved,
Threw the prison open wide
Where they lay to death enslaved,
Bade the gloomy shadows flee,
Broke their bonds and set them free.

3 Sons of men, awake to praise
God the Lord who reigns above,
Gracious in His works and ways,
Wondrous in redeeming love;
Iron bars He breaks like clay,
And the brazen gates give way.

Source: Psalter Hymnal (Red): doctrinal standards and liturgy of the Christian Reformed Church #226

All representative texts • Compare texts ^ top

First Line:	Rebels, who had dared to show
Title:	Rebels, Who Had Dared to Show
Meter:	7.7.7.7.7.7
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

Psalm 107
(hymns)

^ top

Tune

DIX (Kocher)

An early form of the tune DIX was composed by Conrad Kocher (b. Ditzingen, Wurttemberg, Germany, 1786; d. Stuttgart, Germany, 1872). Trained as a teacher, Kocher moved to St. Petersburg, Russia, to work as a tutor at the age of seventeen. But his love for the music of Haydn and Mozart impelled him t…

Go to tune page >

All tunes published with 'Rebels, Who Had Dared to Show'^ top