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Sacred Harmony &c. (Thompson/Smith)
(a) Sacred Harmony, for the Use of St George's Edinburgh; compiled by Andrew Mitchell Thompson (minister) and R.A.Smith (later precentor); 1820
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- RS-681 [680] St George's, Edinburgh
(b) Sacred Music, consisting of Tunes, Sanctuses, Doxologies, Thanksgivings, etc., sung in St George's Church, Edinburgh; ed. R.A.Smith (precentor): 2nd edn 1825
[ ? 2nd edn of (a) ? ]
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- RS-81 Martyrdom
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St George's Windsor, Ps. & Hymn Tunes
A Selection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, edited and arranged by E.H.Thorne, 1858 (Organist, St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle 1835-82)
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St Paul's Cathedral Chant Book
The St Paul's Cathedral Chant Book, revised edition 1909; ed. G.C.Martin
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(Julian, p.994a)
(a) A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David, and upon the Hymns dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments. London, at the Bell in St Paul's Churchyard. M.DCXXXVI (1636)
(b) A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems by George Sandys. London, at the Bell in St Paul's Churchyard. M.DCXXXVIII (1638)
Included the Psalms, (parts of) Job, Ecclesiates, Lamentations, and other OT and NT Songs. The music included 24 tunes by Henry Lawes.
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- RS-333: Lawes' Psalm XXXII
- RS-202: Lawes' Psalm XLVII
(c) A Paraphrase of the Song of Solomon, 1642.
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The earliest collection published by Sankey consisted, according to the WOV Companion, of a set of 24 pages, published in England in 1873. Numerous editions followed, both in Britain and in the United States, with ever-increasing numbers of hymns and songs included.
A copy of an edition c.1896 in the Enchiridion editor's possession has the following Title page and Preface note:
SONGS AND SOLOS
WITH
STANDARD HYMNS,
COMBINED.
This Volume contains all of the original 441 Pieces, together with the 309 "ADDITIONAL SACRED SONGS AND SOLOS: WITH STANDARD HYMNS" - making in all 750 Pieces numbered in consecutive order.We believe that the introduction of these Standard Hymns and Tunes will meet a long-felt want in connection with the use of "SACRED SONGS AND SOLOS." And we trust that a great blessing may still accompany their use in special Evangelistic meetings and in the homes of the people.
This collection of 750 items is undated, but is earlier than the volume seen, which is bound in with a separate collection (also undated) entitled New Hymns and Solos. Compiled and sung by Ira D.Sankey. This is given in a British Library catalogue as published in 1892. It contained 138 pieces (of which the last is simply a single chant setting of the `Gloria Patri', which also occurred as No.434 of the earlier set of 441 items). No.5 of the 138 is a hymn and chorus by E.A.Hoffman - `What a wonderful Saviour!' (see notes on RS-105: Thailand ).
Items continued to be added, and in c.1900 a combined volume was issued entitled Hymns and Sacred Solos: Revised and Enlarged: 1200 pieces.
Wesley Milgate in the WOV Companion pointed out that even the enlarged set of 1200 pieces contained only one of which the words were by Sankey himself. (This may be No.104 "For Me! For me!", written to commemorate the sad death of a young girl in a train accident in Scotland.) However, he did include a number of his own tunes, several of these to unattributed words; although some of these are marked `Words arr.' or `Words arr. by I.D.S.', it is possible that they also include some of his own authorship.
A wide range of authors is represented, including many whose hymns are to be found in most main hymn-books. The collections draw heavily, however, on the works of Philip Bliss and Fanny Crosby, the former for music as well as words.
Although the hymn genre is frequently represented by the phrase `Sankey and Moody', Sankey's fellow-evangelist Dwight L.Moody appears not to have contributed words or music, his role being mainly that of preacher and missioner in their evangelistic campaigns.
Sankey himself published, towards the end of his life, an autobiography to which he appended a somewhat autobiographical "Companion" to Sacred Songs and Solos. This contained notes on the hymns in an (? earlier and shorter) edition of Sacred Songs, mainly anecdotal and describing the circumstances in which Sankey himself found or used the hymns in public meetings.
For extracts from Sankey's autobiography and commentary, click on this reference.
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The Sarum Hymnal, ed. Horatio, Lord Nelson; J.R.Woodford; with E.A.Dayman as Music Editor
The three editors were appointed by the Bishop of Salisbury to compile a successor to The Salisbury Hymn Book. The general principles, and most of the contents, were apparently determined by `a large committee' set up to review the earlier collection.
For the Title page (1869 edition) and part of the General Preface, click here . . .
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[ Photocopies of the title-page and pp.178-83, from which transcriptions are given elsewhere (see hymn references below), were obtained from Chicago University Library via Andover Newton Theological School, Ma., USA. This edition is undated on the title-page, which adds the line A New Edition, Revised and Enlarged ]
In 1870, shortly after the publication of the 1st edition of Christ in Song, Dr Schaff, previously Professor at the German Reformed Theological Seminary at Mercersburg, Pa., was appointed Professor of Sacred Literature at Union Theological Seminary, New York. Other works edited by him were
Deutsche Kirchenfreund, 1848- ?Deutches Gesangbuch, 1860
Hymns & Songs of Praise for Public & Social Worship, 1874
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Deutsche Kirchenfreund was a monthly periodical founded and edited by Philip Schaff for the expatriate German Lutheran Church in America. It contained a mixture of articles on theological and hymnological topics, together with reviews of contemporary events in the Lutheran Evangelical Church both in Germany and in the U.S.A.
Vol.2 (Jan.-Dec. 1849) contained an article (probably by Philip Schaff) on translating German hymns for use in English-speaking expatriate German congregations; the article is based on J.W.Alexander's translation of `O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden', and is followed by the German text and the translation of Gerhardt's hymn.
For the article itself (transcribed from a copy in the Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Cambridge, Mass.) and a rough English translation of it by the present editor, click here >> ... .
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- RS-220: O sacred head, sore wounded
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