Hymnody

However good its tune, the real problem about I Vow to Thee My Country, like all aggressive and male-oriented hymnody, is that, in an age which has effectively relegated the second verses heavenly ways of gentleness and peaceful paths to a fairly painless insurance policy, an emasculated dreamlike world is wheeled out to sanctify whatever current war effort. ❋ Laban (2004)

Germany for so long has been an incentive to the development of English hymnody, the interest in German hymnody has at the same time been quickened by the good work done in [98] Frances E. Cox's Sacred Hymns from the German (1841) and [99] Henry J. Buckoll's Hymns translated from the German (1842). ❋ Unknown (1976)

The work of this group of translators which has secured so firm a place in English hymnody for a number of German hymns and more particularly those of Paul Gerhardt will be discussed in the following chapter. ❋ Unknown (1976)

His success inspired St. Gregory of Nazianzus (d. 397) composed Latin hymns although the productions of his forerunner in Latin hymnody, ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Of these 132 poems a large proportion have become embodied in church music of Germany and many of them may be counted among the most beautiful in German hymnody. ❋ Unknown (1976)

The decisive verdict of the Krumbacher on Greek hymnody, which is of great importance for the right valuation of Christian hymnody, is as follows: "None could reach the heart of the people with tones that found no echo in their living speech. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

It does provide food for thought for when I come to teach on the Magnificat, the idea of a close connection between meditation and hymnody. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He also explains, in the second lecture, how the sources of Christian hymnody arise from meditation, and the offhand comments he makes on Christian songs and hymns make me wish I knew more of his ideas on such. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Far from having newly permitted vernacular hymnody to replace the propers, the consilium claimed that the old permission for vernacular hymns to replace propers was no longer operative. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Vernacular hymnody in place of propers cheats people because it means that the Mass itself is not being sung. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Each year I turn to the devotional book The Advent Sourcebook, a collection of poems, quotes, scripture and hymnody that helps me orient my thoughts and actions towards God and my neighbor each day. ❋ Rev. Amy Ziettlow (2011)

A Di Lasso Mass provided the ordinary parts, as sung by semi-professionals, providing a balanced blend between chant, polyphony, organ, and hymnody. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Weinberg's use of hymnody and song, whether to express love or sorrow or more usually both, shows him at his most affecting, though not necessarily at his most original. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I am astonished at the number of clergy and professional musicians in the service of Catholic churches who are ignorant of the proper place of hymnody in the Catholic liturgy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He was too a devoted student of hymnody, metre and of the ancient Latin hymns of the Church which he edited for the use of his congregation at St. Hugh a very attractive volume. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He is speaking here of hymnody used in Vespers and Benediction and other occasions, and not so much and often at Mass itself. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The melodies are great, the best that hymnody has to offer. ❋ Unknown (2009)

No, these are the things that inflame the Protestant soul; the things we have fought over; the things we have left other churches and started new denominations to uphold; the things we teach our children; the things we sing of in our hymnody; the things about which we write books and hold theological debates; the things that compel us to do good on behalf of our neighbors. ❋ Unknown (2010)

An alternative model would be something akin to a "concert of prayer," in which a diverse array of religious voices could engage in prayer that authentically represents the multiple religious traditions in the United States--Quaker silence, Zen meditation, Pentecostal glossalalia, Methodist hymnody, Anglican collects, Muslim hours of prayer--during the course of a full day. ❋ Unknown (2010)