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Hildebrandt & Beckerlegge: Wesley's Works

(for the Wesleys' hymn collections, see separate pages.)

Franz Hildebrandt and Oliver Beckerlegge: The Works of John Wesley, Vol.7 (the 1780 Collection) Abingdon Press / O.U.P 1983

This volume is part of a series planned by a group of American scholars under the general title of `The [ John ] Wesley Works Editorial Project'. It was initiated by the deans of four American Methodist thelogical schools, from the Drew, Duke, Emory, and Southern Methodist Universities; an Editorial Committee was set up, which recruited an international and interdenominational team of scholars, with a view to publishing new editions of all John Wesley's prose writings together with the 1780 Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People Called Methodists.

The series appears to be incomplete at the present date (1994), only 14 of the projected (? 26 or more) volumes being shown in the current List of Books in Print. The O.U.P., which had originally agreed to publish the whole series, was obliged to withdraw from the project in 1983 after completing the 7th Volume (the 1780 Collection), and publication of the remainder has been taken over by the Abingdon Press, Nashville.

A list of the volumes in print (1994) is given on the following page (below). 

The Wesley Works Editorial Project

(O.U.P./Abingdon Press, 1983- ):

Volumes in print, September 1994 

Vol.1 Sermons 1-33, ed. A.C.Outler

Vol.2 Sermons 34-70, ed. A.C.Outler

Vol.3 Sermons 71-114, ed. A.C.Outler

Vol.4 Sermons 115-151, ed. A.C.Outler

Vol.7 Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People Called Methodists, ed. F.Hildebrandt and O.Beckerlegge

Vol.9 The Methodist Societies' History, Nature and Design, ed. R.E.Davies

Vol.11 The Appeals to Men of Reason and Certain Open Letters, ed. G.R.Cragg

Vol.18 Journals and Diaries, 1735-39 }

Vol.19 Journals and Diaries, 1739-43 } ed. W.R.Ward

Vol.20 Journals and Diaries, 1743-54 } and

Vol.21 Journals and Diaries, 1755-64 } R.P.Herzenreiter

Vol.22 Journals and Diaries, 1765-75 }

Vol.25 Letters, 1721-39, ed. F.Baker

Vol.26 Letters, 1740-55, ed. F.Baker 

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Himmels-Lust, 1679

(a) Ahasuerus Fritsch: Himmels-Lust und Welt-Unlust, Jena 1670 

(b) - do - , 2nd edition, 1679

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RS-419 Liebster Immanuel

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Holy Songs &c., Boston 1880

Holy Songs, Carols and Sacred Ballads. Boston 1880

This anonymous collection is assumed to be of American (US) origin, possibly from Baptist sources. The copy seen (in the British Library) includes, in addition to the Printer's name "Roberts Brothers, Boston" (assumed to be Boston Massachusets), a publisher's imprimatur "John Wilson & Son, Cambridge" (which may, of course be Cambridge Mass. or Cambridge England). See also the notes on the hymn referred to below.

For a transcription of the title pages and summary of the contents, click here . . .

Xref:

RS-368 I sought the Lord, and afterward I knew

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Hoppenstedt, A.L.: Volksschulen Lieder

A.L.Hoppenstedt: Lieder für Volksschulen, 2nd edn, Hanover 1800

Described in the Hymnal 1940 Companion, by implication, as Johann Schulz's collection rather than Hoppenstedt's; Schulz (composer of the tune to Wir pflügen may have been a collaborator as well as a contributor. However, he died in June 1800, and there is no indication that he had ever lived or worked in Hanover.

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RS-124 Wir pflügen

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Horder, W.Garrett: Congregational Hymns &c.

(Julian, pp.260b and 1624a)

(See also the Bulletin of the Hymn Society of G.B and I., No.101, Autumn 1964, pp.225-234; article by Erik Routley)

(a) Congregational Hymns, A Hymnal for the Free Churches, ed. W.Garrett Horder, 1884 

Contained 841 hymns, together with prose psalms, canticles and other passages of scripture for chanting.

For a transcription of the Preface, click here >>>

Xrefs:

RS-314 Break thou the bread of life

RS-492 Dear Lord and Father of mankind

RS-623 Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round

RS-495 Father, hear the prayer we offer

RS-411 Now let us see thy beauty, Lord

(b) Hymns Supplemental to Existing Collections, ed. W.Garrett Horder, 1894

A Supplement to Congregational Hymns, containing 242 additional hymns. 

(c) The Treasury of Hymns, 1896

The 1884 Congregational Hymns with the 1894 Supplement.

These two collections (a) and (b) were combined, with some omissions reducing the total number of hymns to 803, into the volumes published as Worship Song in 1898 and 1905.

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Horder, W.Garrett: Worship-Song

Published in 1898, and containing a selection (803) of the hymns in Garrett Horder's Congregational Hymns 1884 and Hymns Supplemental 1894. (See separate notes on these.)

An edition Worship Song with Accompanying Tunes was published in 1905, with which Garrett Horder was assisted by Arthur Berridge, Josiah Booth, Edwin Edwards and L.Morley Horder.

The title of the book is commonly quoted in two words; but the original title appears to have been hyphenated as Worship-Song.

To view (part of) the Preface to the 1905 edition, click here . . . . For a list of the hymns in Worship-Song which also occur in Rejoice and Sing (cross-referenced to notes in the RS Companion or in this Enchiridion), click here . . .

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Housman, L.: Bethlehem

Laurence Housman: Bethlehem (A Nativity play), 1902

After being banned from stage production, the play was re-published in 1927. A copy of a 1936 reprint of this edition exists in the British Library, but this does not contain the verses of "The maker of the sun and moon" usually attributed to this source. See notes on the hymn -

RS-173 The maker of the sun and moon 

For a transcription of the Preface, the Synopsis of the play, and (part of) the text of the hymn beginning "The Maker of the sun and moon", from a 1902 copy in the British Library, click here >>>

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Hull, E.: Poem-Book of the Gael

Eleanor Hull: Poem-Book of the Gael, 1912 

Xref:

RS-489 Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart

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Humphreys, J.D.: Doddridge's Hymns

Scriptural Hymns by the Rev. Philip Doddridge, D.D. New and corrected edition containing many hymns never before printed. Edited from the Original Documents by the Author's great-grandson, John Doddridge Humphreys, Esq. London, Darton & Clark, Holborn Hill 1839

A copy in the Congregational Library, London, rebound in 1895, contains a handwritten note on the fly-leaf, verso title page:

"This edition contains 22 hymns not in Orton's edition; as well as many corrections as explained in the preface. It is scarce, most of the copies having been destroyed by a fire in the printer's or binder's warehouse."

To view J.D.Humphreys' Preface, click here . . .

For notes on Job Orton's edition of Doddridge's hymns (1755/1759), click here . . .

Xrefs:

RS-487 Awake, my soul, stretch every nerve

RS-494 Father of peace, and God of love

RS-63 Great God, we sing that mighty hand

RS-137 Hark, the glad sound! the Saviour comes

RS-535 My gracious Lord, I own thy right

RS-71 O God of Bethel, by whose hand

RS-359 O happy day that fixed my choice

RS-242 Ye humble souls that seek the Lord

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Hundert Arien, 1694

Geist- und Lehr-reiches Kirchen- und Hauss-Buch, Dresden 1694 

The book included Hundert ahnmuthig und sonderbahr geistlicher Arien, with an Appendix containing 35 additional tunes, including Würtemberg. 

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RS-233 Würtemberg

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Hunt, John (Translations fr. German)

(Julian, p.1572b &c.)

(a) Select Poems, 1852

Translations from Goethe, Schiller, Friedrich Rückert, and others.

(b) Spiritual Songs of Martin Luther, 1853

Julian lists 40 translations by John Hunt from Luther's original hymns and versions of Latin and liturgical texts. The collection also included a number of hymns based, rather freely, on German originals by Nicolaus von Zindendorf; and a few original hymns by John Hunt himself. None of the translations is described by Julian as being `in common use', and only one original (`Let all the world rejoice': A&M 1904 edn, No.324) appears to have been included in a hymn-book during this century.

See (however) the notes on

RS-154 From heaven above to earth I come

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Hunter, J.: Hymns of Faith & Life

John Hunter: Hymns of Faith & Life

(a) 1st edn 1889

From the Preface to the 1st edition (transcribed by B.S.Massey in the Bulletin of the Hymn Society of G.B.& I., No. 225 (October 2000), p.111 - but see below **) --

Everything in a hymn-book has to be made subservient to its congregational use. A hymn, as it appears in a church hymnal, is not a poem to be privately read, but an utterance put on the lips of a general congregation as an expression of devout thought and feeling, in direct address to God. Is it reasonable that the worship of the Church of Christ should be deprived of the use of a good hymn because of a line or two that might be altered without detriment? Indeed, the best form of many popular hymns is not their original form. Against useless and foolish alterations we cannot too strongly protest, but fanatical purism is not the true alternative to wanton emendation. Each case ought to be judged on its merits.

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RS-493 Dear Master, in whose life I see

(b) 2nd edn 1896

B.S.Massey, in the same issue of the Bulletin, mentions that

 . . . For the second edition ... the publishers urged Hunter to include a list of alterations and omissions. He refused, as he thought it would distract people in the devotional use of the book.

For transcriptions of the Title Page and the Prefaces to the two editions of the book, click here >>> [ The extract quoted above - as from the Preface to the 1889 edition - does not appear in the copy seen in Dr Williams's Library, from which these transcriptions are taken.]

Husk, W.H.: Songs of the Nativity

William Henry Husk: Songs of the Nativity, 1868

 

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RS-255 Holy Well 

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The Hymnal (1940 &c.)

The Hymnal 1940 (&c.), Protestant Episcopal Church, U.S.A.

The name The Hymnal has been given by the American Episcopal Church to a series of additions to its Book of Common Prayer (1789). Successive editions were:

(a) The Hymnal, 1808

(b) The Hymnal, 1826

(c) The Hymnal, 1871, revised 1874

(d) The Hymnal, 1892

(e) The Hymnal, 1916; music edition The New Hymnal, 1918

From 1940 (if not earlier) a date has commonly been incorporated in the Title of the hymn-book; but this does not necessarily indicate the actual date of the book's first appearance, as shown below.

(f) The Hymnal 1940, published 1943

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RS-750 All praise to thee, for thou, O King divine

RS-212 Alone you once went forth, O Lord

RS-444 Father, we give you thanks, who planted

RS-527 Jesus, our mighty Lord

RS-174 Where is this stupendous stranger

 

RS-632 Bellwoods

RS-288 Conquest

RS-414 Engelberg

RS-226 Sebastian

RS-231 (and 300, 731) Sursum corda

(g) More Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1971

A Supplement to The Hymnal 1940

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RS-452 Let us break bread together

(h) The Hymnal 1982, published 1985

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RS-86 God, who stretched the spangled heavens

RS-580 Lord, you give the great commission

RS-174 Where is this stupendous stranger

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The Hymnal 1940 Companion

(a) The Hymnal 1940 Companion; Protestant Episcopal Church, U.S.A.; Church Pension Fund 1949

(b) - do - 2nd edition, 1951

(c) - do - 3rd edition, 1956

Hymns & Sacred Poems, 1749

A Collection of Hymns & Sacred Poems, S.Powell, Dublin, 1749

The compiler of this collection is unknown; it has been attributed to John Wesley, who was in Dublin in that year, with a possible link to J.F.Lampe who may have had a hand in the music editing. (RCH Handbook,No.153).

The WOV Companion states that the only known surviving copy of the book is in the library of the Western Theological Seminary.

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RS-59 Irish

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Hymns for Celebration

Hymns for Celebration: A Supplement for use at Holy Communion Today, edited by Erik Routley and John Wilson, R.S.C.M. 1974

This was a collection of 28 hymns, some new, others new to some. It was planned for general use and not for any particular denomination. Some of the music was composed or arranged by the editors. Many of the hymns have appeared in subsequent denominational humn-books or supplements, and may owe their introduction to a first appearance in this booklet.

Xrefs:

RS-743 The Beatitudes

RS-438 Folksong

RS-447 (and 655) Winchcombe

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Hymns for the Service of the Church

Hymns for the Service of the Church, St Raphael's Church., Bristol, 1864

St Raphael's Church, Bristol, no longer exists. It is probable that it was the Church with which W.C.Dix's family was connected, Dix himself having been brought up in Bristol.

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RS-53 To thee, O Lord, our hearts we raise

 Hymns for Today's Church

(a) Hymns for Today's Church (1st edn) Hodder & Stoughton 1982

Compiled by an independent group of (mainly Anglican) writers and composers formed in May 1973, and subsequently known as the Jubilate Hymns Team. Michael Baughen, subsequently Bishop of Chester, became `Consultant Editor' to the group; in his Preface to the book he reported that the group adopted as their aim "the production of `the first major new hymn book of the new era'".

The book was one of the first to adopt a policy of wholesale revision of texts, even of previously familiar hymns, in favour of contemporary language and imagery, so that comparatively few of the older hymns in the book appear in their original or previously accepted form. The editors' principles of revision are set out in Hymns in Today's Language?, by Christopher Idle, Grove Books, 1982.

The first edition contained 585 hymns, with an `appendix' of seven so-called `traditional texts' of hymns extensively modernised elsewhere in the book; and 30 items in a section called `Songs'.

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RS-574 Yanworth

(b) A second edition in 1987 contained, in addition to some correction and revisions of material in the first edition, a further 20 hymns and 2 songs. These included the (much altered) words of George Herbert's `King of Glory, King of peace', together with the under-mentioned tune.

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RS-97 Redland

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