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Commentary on the Letters to the Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians and to Philemon; based on the Revised Standard Version of the texts.
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In Rejoice and Sing the following Canticle - a version of Colossians ch.1:15-20 - is taken (with some alterations) from the Canadian Service Book:
- RS-752 Christ is the image of the unseen God
- (A Song of the First-Born)
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The title of successive hymn-books of the World Student Christian Federation, which set out to provide multi-lingual hymn settings for gatherings of Christian students of all nationalities and denominations.
(a) Cantate Domino, W.S.C.F., Geneva 1924 &c.
First edition, containing 64 hymns. The Editor was Mlle Suzanne Bidgrain, who also edited both the 1930 and 1951 editions of the book. Some references to this edition (or possibly to a revision of it) give the date as 1925.
- Xrefs:
- RS-247 Thine be the glory
- RS-273 Fairest Lord Jesus / St Elisabeth
(b) - do - 2nd edition, 1930
Contained 82 hymns. (See the Preface to the 3rd edition, below)
(c) - do - 3rd edition, 1938 (inexplicably contains "Preface to the Fifth Edition")
Contained 95 hymns. This edition is undated, but it was mentioned in the Bulletin of the Hymn Society of G.B.& I. for June 1938 (which announced its expected publication on 1st August 1938) and reviewed in the same Bulletin in July 1939; the review states that the book "was adopted as the official hymn-book at the International Missionary Conference at Madras, December 1938". (Bulletins No.4 and 8)
The reference to `Fifth Edition' in the Preface heading may take into account some reprints or re-issues of one or more of the first three editions; this has not been verified.
(d) - do - 4th edition, 1951
Contained 120 hymns. A review by Kenneth Parry in the G.B.I. Hymn Society Bulletin No.58 (Vol.III No.1, December 1951) names the editors as Helen Morton (USA; editor-in-chief) and Frederic Mathel (Geneva; music). The preface (to a 1957 re-print) confirms this, apart from the spelling of the Music editor's name.
In 1968 the World Council of Churches agreed to take over from the Student organisations the responsibility for compiling and publishing a new edition. In the Editorial Introduction, Erik Routley described it as the `fourth edition', mentioning the dates of three of the previous editions. He seems to have overlooked the 1938 edition - surprisingly, since he was himself an undergraduate in 1938 and likely to have been aware, at least, of Student Christian Movement activities, particularly those involving music. The 1974/80 book's title-page, however, simply describes it as `New Edition'. It contains 202 items, including a number of Rounds and Canons and other short responses. See below, (d) and (e).
(d) - do - 4th (5th) edition (melody) Barenreiter 1974
(e) - do - 4th (5th) edition (full music) O.U.P. 1980
The 1974 edition is multilingual, with (generally) several language versions of each hymn. The 1980 edition, however, includes only an English text (for nearly all items) and a text in (usually at most) one other language.
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- RS-743 The Beatitudes
- RS-486 By gracious powers so wonderfully sheltered
- RS-28 Father in heaven, grant to your children
- RS-746 God, your glory we have seen in your Son
- RS-669 Happy are they who walk in God's wise way
- RS-720 Praise the Lord! Praise, you servants of the Lord
- RS-108 The love of God is broad, like beach and meadow
- RS-453 Linstead Market
- RS-709 Rendez à Dieu
To view (part of) the Editorial Introduction (1974), click here . . .
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Carter, Sydney: Song collections
Sydney Carter's published works - originally Galliard, now Stainer & Bell - include the following:
Several of his songs were also included in the Galliard collections Faith, Folk & Clarity (December 1967) and Faith, Folk & Nativity (November 1968). For extracts from the prefaces to his In the Present Tense collections, click here . . .
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Caswall, E.: Poems & Translations
(Julian p.215a)
Contained 197 translations of hymns from the Roman Breviary, Missal and elsewhere. It was published just two years after he had resigned his Anglican orders and been received into the Roman Catholic Church, and shortly before his ordination as a Catholic priest to serve with J.H.Newman at the Oratory, Edgbaston.
For Caswall's Preface, click here . . .
(b) Edward Caswall: The Masque of Mary, and Other Poems, 1858
Contained, in addition to the "Masque" and a number of other poems, 51 "Hymns and Meditative Pieces" and 49 translations of mainly Latin hymns. Some of the translations (including that of `Jesu dulcis memoria') had already appeared in Lyra Catholica. They include also Caswall's extended version of `Beim frühen Morgenlicht' (`When morning gilds the skies'), part of which had previously been published in H.Formby's Catholic Hymns (1854).
The "Masque of Angels before Our Lady in the Temple" is a quasi-dramatic presentation of the story of the Fall and Redemption of humankind, told on the basis that the original sin was that of Eve, and redemption achieved through the `Immaculate' Mary. It is narrated by a cast of Angels, representing the protagonists, in the presence of a seven-year-old Mary who is (implausibly) asleep at the time in the cloisters of the Temple of Jerusalem. The structure of the Masque is Miltonian; the literary level is closer to that of William McGonagall, except that the scansion is better.
The "Masque" is followed by two shorter narrative poems, `The Easter Ship' and `St Kenelm's Well'. The first of these celebrates the return of protestant England to the True Faith (as Caswall, newly converted to Roman Catholicism, evidently believed). The text of `The Easter Ship', which may illustrate the emotions of some of those involved in this phemomenon of the time, may be seen in the file Casweast.txt.
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(a) The Cathedral Psalter, 1878
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- RS-676 J.Barnby: Double Chant in F# minor
- RS-756 H.Smart: Double Chant in G
(b) The New Cathedral Psalter, 1909
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- RS-749 (also 700, in A flat) G.C.Martin: Double Chant in A
- RS-756 C.V.Stanford: Double Chant in A flat
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Geistliche Kirchengesäng, 1623
Ausserlesene, Catholische, Geistliche Kirchengesäng, von Pfingsten, bis zum Advent, &c. Weinacht Jubel &c. Fastengesäng, &c. Oster Jubel, &c. Wallieder, &c. Und Allerley durch das gantze Jahr zu singen. Gedruckt zu Cölln, Bey Peter von Brachel ... , Cologne, 1623
[ Cf. an article on Lasst uns erfreuen by John Wilson in the Bulletin of the Hymn Society, No 150, pp. 194-5 ]
[ The 1625 collection entitled Catholische Kirchen Gesäng, also printed by Peter von Brachel, may or may not have been part of the series.]
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Catholische Kirchen Gesäng, 1625
Catholische Kirchen Gesäng, auff die Fürnembste Fest des gantzen Jahrs, wie man dieselbe zu Cölln, und anderstwo, bey allen Christlichen Catholischen Lehren pflegt zu singen ... Gedruckt zu Cölln, Bey Peter von Brachel ... IHS ... , Cologne 1625.
The third in a series of Jesuit hymnals for the archdiocese of Cologne, others being dated 1607, 1619 and 1634. The 1625 book contained 248 hymns with melodies.
[ The 1623 collection entitled Ausserlesene Catholische Geistliche Kirchengesäng ... , also printed by Peter von Brachel, may or may not have been part of the series.]
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(a) Celebration Hymnal, Part 1, Mayhew-McCrimmon 1977
(b) - do - Part 2, 198_
(c) Complete Celebration Hymnal, 1984
(d) New Songs of Celebration, 1989
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(Julian, p.216a)
(a) John Cennick Sacred Hymns for the Children of God in the Days of their Pilgrimage, J.Lewis, London (undated)
(b) - do - 2nd edition, part (i), 1741
The Preface to this edition describes "his religious experiences". (Julian)
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- RS-57 Ere I sleep, for every favour
(c) - do - 2nd edition, parts (ii) & (iii), 1742
All the above were published while he was working for George Whitefield (as a lay preacher), after he had left John Wesley "on doctrinal grounds" but before he joined the Moravian Brethren (1745).
(d) John Cennick: Collection of Sacred Hymns, 3rd edn (? of the above), 1749
(e) - do - 5th edn, 1752
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- RS-656 Lo, he comes with clouds descending
(f) John Cennick: Hymns for the honour of Jesus Christ, composed for such Little Children as desire to be saved, 1754
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