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(a) Reginald Heber: Hymns written and adapted to the Weekly Church Service of the Year (publ. posthumously, 1827).
The collection was based on the MS hymns compiled, and partly composed, by Heber for the parish Church at Hodnet where he was vicar until 1823. On his appointment as Bishop of Calcutta he apparently had intended to publish the collection soon after taking up the post; but the pressure of episcopal duties followed by his early death in 1826, prevented this. Publication of the first posthumous edition was arranged by his widow, Amelia Heber.
In addition to the large number of hymns (57) by Heber himself, the collection also contained hymns by others, including 12 (or possibly 13) by H.H.Milman (see note on Milman's own Selection of 1837.
Several of the hymns had previous appeared in `The Christian Observer' during the period 1811-16.
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- RS-443 Bread of the world, in mercy broken
- RS-183 Brightest and best of the Sons of the Morning
- RS-34 Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty
- RS-209 Ride on, ride on in majesty
(b) - do - , Tenth edition 1834
Xrefs: see the above-mentioned hymns.
For the original Dedication Page, and the Title Page and an extract from the Preface in the Tenth edition, click here . . . .
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(Julian, pp.1149-51)
The Yigdal is a metrical setting of the thirteen articles of the Jewish Creed, believed to have been composed c.1400 A.D., but based on a credal formulation some 200 years earlier. It is read, sung, or chanted responsively on the Sabbath eve (Friday evening) in Jewish Synagogues and family worship.
For a literal English translation, see the Hymnoptikon.
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Hedge, F.H.: Hymns for the Church of Christ
Hymns for the Church of Christ, ed. Frederick H.Hedge and Frederic D.Huntington, Boston Mass., 1853
One of several leading American Unitarian hymn-books of its period. It included four original hymns and three translations by F.H.Hedge and three hymns by F.D.Huntington.
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(a) Johann Heerman: Devoti Musica Cordis, Hauss- und Hertz-Musica, Leipzig and Breslau, 1630
Contained 49 hymns by Heerman. The first section was headed (inaccurately) `Hymns of Penitence and Consolation from the words of the Ancient Fathers of the Church', but most of the hymns in it were based on mediaeval prose Meditationes, some of which were wrongly ascribed to St Augustine.
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- RS-215 Ah, holy Jesus, how hast thou offended
(b) - do - , 2nd edition 1636 (54 hymns)
(c) - do - , 3rd edition 1644 (59 hymns)
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(a) Johann Scheffler: Heilige Seelenlust, oder geistliche Hirten-Lieder, der in ihren Jesum verliebten Psyche, gesungen von Johann Angelo Silesio, und von Herrn Georgio Josepho mit aussbündig schönen Melodeyen geziert, &c. ... , Breslau, 1657
Published in four books containing altogether 155* hymns (with music). `Angelo Silesio' was the name adopted by Scheffler when he left the Lutheran Church to become a Roman Catholic (12th June 1653); Georgio Joseph was his music editor. (* See note below re 2nd edition)
The settings are for solo voice and continuo (usually unfigured). According to the preface to the first edition, the intention was that the hymns would be furnished `with beautiful symphonies and complete instrumental parts for public performance in church'. There is no evidence, however, that this plan (presumably Joseph's) was ever carried out.
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- RS-644 (653) Angelus
(b) - do - , 2nd edition, 1668
This contained, in addition to the four books of the 1st edition, a fifth book with hymns written by Scheffler between 1656 and 1668. These are described by Julian (p.1005b) as numbered 166-205; either this should be 156-205, or the figure given above for the 1st edition (also from Julian's article) should be 165, not 155.
There is a copy of this edition in the British Library.
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Hensley, L.: Hymns for . . . Minor Sundays
Lewis Hensley: Hymns for the Minor Sundays from Advent to Whitsuntide, 1867
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Herberger, V.: Gebet . . . , 1615
Valerius Herberger: Ein andaechtiges Gebet ... so wol ein frommes trostlicher Gesang, darinnen ein frommes Herz dieser Welt Valet gebet, Leipzig 1614 (or 1615)
(Julian, p.511)
This was a `broadsheet' containing the hymn `Valet will ich dir geben' and its accompanying tune (now familiar under the name St Theodulph ). The broadsheet (of six `leaves') was entitled
"A devout prayer with which the Evangelical citizens of Frawenstadt in the autumn of the year 1613 moved the heart of God the Lord so that He mercifully laid down His sharp rod of wrath under which nearly two thousand fell on sleep. And also a hymn of consolation in which a pious heart bids farewell [ Valet ] to this world. Both composed by Valerius Herberger, preacher at the Kripplein Christi". Leipzig, 1614.
The reference is to a plague which devastated much of Eastern Germany during the years 1613-30.
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George Herbert: The Temple, 1633
Published by Nicholas Ferrar, George Herbert's friend and executor, to whom Herbert sent an unordered collection of his poems shortly before his death, and in the knowledge that it was imminent, with instructions to publish them, if he thought they `might turn to the advantage of any dejected soul', and otherwise to burn them. (Fortunately, Nicholas Ferrar did think so.)
Izaac Walton, in his Life of George Herbert (1670), gave an account of the commission given by George Herbert to his friend Edmund Duncon, Vicar of Friern Barnet, who visited Herbert at Nicholas Ferrar's request during Herbert's final illness:
"Sir, I pray, deliver this little book to my dear brother Ferrar, and tell him he shall find in it a picture of the many spiritual conflicts that have passed betwixt God and my soul, before I could subject mine to the will of Jesus my Master, in whose service I have now found perfect freedom."
Some attempts were made subsequently to adapt poems from The Temple for use as hymns:
(i) (An unnamed Editor) Select Hymns Taken out of Mr Herbert's Temple & turned into the Common Metre To Be Sung In The Tunes Ordinarily us'd in Churches. London, Parkhurst, 1697(ii) John & Charles Wesley: about 40 hymns adapted from The Temple were included in their Hymns & Sacred Poems, 1739
(iii) George Rawson, one of the co-editors of the Leeds Hymn Book, 1853, included in it some of Herbert's poems, altered and adapted by himself.
None of these adaptations has survived in common use.
An edition of George Herbert's Poems, containing all the poems in The Temple together with his extended polemic `The Church Militant' and five shorter poems, was published in the 19th/20th century by The Gresham Publishing Co., London (undated), with an Introduction by William, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland [William Alexander (husband of Cecil Frances Alexander; Anglican Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland 1893-1911)]. To view the Introduction to this edition, click here . . . .
Further details about George Herbert and about the Church of St Andrew, Bemerton, where he ministered, are contained in leaflets for Visitors to the Bemerton Church (found during a visit in the early 1940s but possibly no longer available). For transcriptions of these leaflets, click here . . . .
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Hewitt, E.E.: &c.: Christmas Verses
E.E.Hewitt, J.R.Sweeney & W.J.Kirkpatrick: Around the World with Christmas: a Christmas Exercise. (USA) 1895
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