Hymns

I must say that it brings me great joy to read that the issue of the privatization of prayers and hymns is becoming a source of controversy. ❋ 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)

It contains a number of English and Latin hymns, while also containing Latin chant settings for the Ordinary. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This is what happens when choosing music for Mass is reduced to selecting hymns from a list. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Especially he cursed the phonograph that in the cool twilights ground out gospel hymns from the deck of the Rattler. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The presence of the first and fourth scale degrees push it past the basic V-I found in hymns, but its resolute diatonicism keeps it from sounding like straight-up jazz. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2007)

They are currently recording an album of classic hymns from the Latin Mass but you can find them on their website and even on youtube If you like what you hear it would be great if you could help them become better known to the public by mentioning them in one of your blog posts one day. ❋ Michelle (2008)

The translator of this Christmas hymn has, however, been a notable exception; choosing from Gerhardt's discursive strophes the most significant ideas, he has developed a poem of seven stanzas superior to most contemporary hymns from the German. ❋ Unknown (1976)

Cox, Frances Elizabeth, born at Oxford, well known as the translator of hymns from the German. ❋ Unknown (1976)

With such influences as we have mentioned the more recent collections have evidenced an improved standard of taste, and there has been a larger and more liberal admission of good hymns from the German. ❋ Unknown (1976)

The one distinguishing characteristic of this selection of hymns is that they employ the "our" of the Lord's Prayer rather than the "my" of so many individualistic, but otherwise, excellent hymns of the older psalmody. ❋ Unknown (1925)

In the seventeen quarto volumes which contain the Greek Offices, there must be material of one kind or another for many thousands of hymns; yet when hymnal compilers ask for hymns from the Greek for their collections, they are not to be had save in the few renderings made by ❋ Unknown (1902)

After sunset the burghers again gathered in groups around camp-fires, and made the countryside re-echo with the sound of their deep, bass voices united in Dutch hymns and psalms of praise and thanksgiving. ❋ Howard C. Hillegas (1895)

Often and often I led the music, instructing my festive flock in English hymns, which, however, I adapted to gay and artless melodies, such as "There's some one in de house wid Dinah!" or "Old Joe kicking up behind and afore!" ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

The singing of psalms and hymns is a gospel ordinance: it is an ordinance of God, and appointed for his glory. ❋ Unknown (1721)

The greatest religious literature of India, the Vedic hymns, which were composed by the early Indo-Eurasian Indians which were settled in those parts-those hymns strike you as being strangely familiar; and yet when you read the English translation of those Sanscrit hymns from the Vedas you will be struck by the similarity they bear to some of the Psalms of David-indicating in a very clear manner that the early civilization of the people of India was of a deeply spiritual nature. ❋ Unknown (1921)

Also, I've seen posts on the MDN "vs." the Anglican Breviary on various threads that suggest the MDN has the more original forms of the hymns, which is attractive to me. ❋ Bls (2008)

The oldest Roman prayers we possess are usually called hymns, because the Latin word for them was _carmen_, viz. the _Carmen Saliare_, which is too obscure and fragmentary to be of use to us, and the _Carmen_ of the Arval Brethren, which is preserved on stone and is quite intelligible. [ ❋ W. Warde Fowler (1884)