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This is the name given to a series of editions of the Psalter printed in Geneva from 1556 to c.1569 and compiled by English and Scottish Protestant exiles, notably John Knox and (q.v.) William Whittingham.
The Psalters included a substantial number of Metrical Psalms in the versions of Sternhold and Hopkins, which were being published in England during the same period.
See extended note on the Old Version . [ not yet included ]
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Some hymns and tunes are indexed herein as "Traditional", where the source, though unidentifiable, is likely to be in the `oral tradition' of a community rather than simply the work of an unnamed individual. Others, listed below as "Anonymous", are more likely to belong to the latter category. However, consistency is not guaranteed.
Anonymous non-English texts are listed elsewhere under the appropriate language or country.
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Matthew Arnold's sixth essay in this volume - "Pagan and Mediaeval Religious Sentiment" - includes a prose translation of St Francis's "Cantico di fratre Sole". This is reproduced, with some omissions, in Paul Sabatier's Life of St Francis of Assisi, 1883.
For the text of Arnold's version of the hymn, click here . . .
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A note by Erik Routley, in the Hymn Society GBI Bulletin V.98, p.159, offered an explanation for the title of this book. (In the transcription below, the symbol ô represents the greek omega - in this case with an iota subscript.)
"The three words seem to carry the meanings that follow:SACER - a well-known Latin adjective meaning `sacred'
HYMNODUS - a Latinisation of the Greek <hymnôidos>, an adjective found in Euripides once, meaning `hymn-singing' (the Latin form is not found at all in classical Latin).
AS - a Latin word derived from the Greek <as> (Doric <ais> ), and originally meaning `a whole': its commonest meaning is the smallest coin in the Roman currency. But from it is derived the English word `Ace'.
The expression used in the title is then a noun followed by two uncoupled adjectives (itself a non-classical, indeed a barbarous, Latin usage), and it appears to mean `A Compendium of sacred song' or `The Complete hymn-singer'. The authority we consulted expressed reservations about this interpretation, in case perhaps `As' was an abbreviation and not the Latin word we here suppose it to be. But unless anybody can supply a better interpretation, we offer this one. Not all Latin inscriptions by non-Latinist authors show faultless sense of Latin syntax."
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A New England literary magazine, founded 1857 and still current (1985, OCEL). Editor, 1857-61: J.R.Lowell. J.G.Whittier was one of the co-founders and a regular contributor. It published several series of articles by Oliver Wendell Holmes, including The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1857-8) and The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1860).
Click here . . . to see O.W.Holmes's introduction, headed "The Autocrat's Autobiography" and dated "Boston, Nov.1st 1858" to a volume (undated) containing the first of these series of articles. This volume, together with two others containing respectively "The Professor at the Breakfast Table" and "The Poet at the Breakfast "Table" was published by (? inter alia) Walter Scott Ltd, London (all undated).
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(Julian, p.90b & 921a)
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Australian Hymn Book / With One Voice
(a) Australian Hymn Book,1977; published in the U.K. as With One Voice, Collins 1979
This hymn-book was prepared jointly by representatives of the Anglican, Roman Catholic, and Uniting Church (Congregational, Methodist and Presbyterian) in Australia, under the chairmanship of The Rev.Dr A.H.Wood. The original Committee was formed in 1968, and Roman Catholic representatives joined it in 1974. Professor Wesley Milgate became Executive Editor on 1975, and after seeing the book through publication he wrote the "Companion" subsequently issued as Songs of the People of God.
The book was originally intended for use in the participating churches in Australia - hence its name on publication in 1977. With the prospect of wider use outside Australia, a U.K. edition was published in 1979 entitled With One Voice. A Supplement Sing Alleluia; More Hymns to Sing With One Voice was published in 1987, with a supplementary "Companion" (also by Wesley Milgate) in 1988. By this time the chairmanship of the project had passed to Canon Lawrence Bartlett, one of the original members of the editorial committee; he subsequently presided over the preparation of a new hymnal to replace the 1977 volume. (The new hymnal, Together in Song, was published in 1999).
There is an approximately 60% overlap between With One Voice and Rejoice and Sing in respect of the hymn texts included; and in a number of cases of minor modernisation of words, the versions in RS are partly or wholly derived from the Australian book.
For (extracts from) the Preface, click here . . . [ not yet included (awaiting copyright permission) ]
(b) Sing Alleluia, Collins 1987
(Supplement to Australian Hymn Book / With One Voice )
Contained 98 hymns and other musical items, and 28 settings of responses for use during a Communion service. Most of the contents is of 20th century origin; but the Foreword suggests that, although the collection was intended for use with the parent book and could be used to supplement any other hymn-book, " ... there will be times and places where it can be used on its own because of the balance of its contents, albeit on a small scale".
For (extracts from) the Foreword and Introduction, click here . . . [ not yet included (awaiting copyright permission) ]
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Milgate, W.: Hymn-book Companions
(a) Wesley Milgate: Songs of the People of God
Companion to The Australian Hymn Book / With One Voice, Collins 1982
(b) A Companion to "Sing Alleluia!", The Australian Hymn Book Pty & Collins Dove, Sydney, 1988
Includes some corrections and additions to the notes in (a), as well as notes on the hymns in Sing Alleluia! and on the authors and composers represented therein.
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