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Petrie, G. (ed. C.V.Stanford): Irish Music
(a) George Petrie: The Ancient Music of Ireland, Dublin 1855
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- RS-272 (73)Moville
(b) The Complete Petrie Collection of Ancient Irish Music, ed. Charles Villiers Stanford, 1902
- Xref:
- RS-448 (635) St Columba
- RS-36 St Patrick
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Charles Steggall: Hymns for the Church of England with Proper Tunes, 1865
A second, enlarged, edition appeared in 1875.
In a biographical lecture about Charles Steggall, given to the Hymn Society (G.B.& I.) on 23rd Sept.1959 by Allen Blackall (reprinted in HSB No.87; Vol. IV No.14a), the dates of these two editions are said to be 1868 and 1878 respectively.
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Stevenson, A.: 10 Hymns of Synesius
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The Ten Hymns of Synesius, Bishop of Cyrene AD 410; In English Verse; And some occasional Pieces. By Alan Stevenson Ll.B., F.R.S.E.. late Engineer to the Board of Northern Lighthouses. Printed for private circulation, 1865.
The tenth of these is a verse translation of `Mnôeo Christe', dated `Kirkside, Oct.13, 1855'.
See a note about a copy of the Greek text.
- (For Alan Stevenson's translation, see below)
[`Mnôeo Christe', tr. Alan Stevenson]
- Christ! Thou Son of God that reignest
- In the sky, remember me --
- Me, Thy servant, helpless sinner,
- Who these hymns have sung to Thee;
- Free, oh! free me from the bondage
- Of the lusts that dwell within,
- Springing up as weeds envenom'd
- In my soul, debased by sin.
- Jesus! Saviour! make me see Thee,
- In Thy splendour and Thy light;
- Soul and body then shall know Thee,
- The Physician's healing might;
- God the Father - God the SOn,
- Great and glorious, we adore;
- God the Holy Ghost, life-giver, -
- God Triune for evermore.
Kirkside, Oct. 13 1855
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(a) [Birmingham Reference Library, War Poetry Collection ]
"Woodbine Willie": Rough Rhymes of a Padre and More Rough Rhymes, published with this pseudonym during 1914-18; republished 1929 as a combined collection entitled simply Rhymes.
(b) [BRL as above]
G.A.Studdert Kennedy: The Sorrows of God & Other Poems, 1921. Included a number of poems from Rough Rhymes.
For a transcription of part of the poem "The Sorrow of God", click here . . .
(c) Studdert Kennedy, G.A.: The Unutterable Beauty, 1927 An anthology of poems, including "The Unutterable Beauty" and "At a Harvest Festival"
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A Students' Hymnal, S.C.M. / O.U.P. 1923
Hymns of the Kingdom ( = A Students' Hymnal, omitting the Welsh hymns) S.C.M. / O.U.P. 1923
Edited by H.Walford Davies for the Student Christian Movement, as a companion to a Book of Prayers for Students produced some years previously. From 1917 onwards, a small collection of hymns had been published annually for use at the summer Conferences of the S.C.M.; the new book built on the experiences of those occasions.
The project actually began, however, when Walford Davies was commissioned to prepare a School and College hymn-book for the National Council of Music, University of Wales. The S.C.M. and the National Council agreed to co-operate in the production of a book to serve both bodies, and an editorial committee of the latter body supervised the work in consultation with representatives of the S.C.M. In the published book,
Walford Davies is described as "Musical Editor'; a "General Editor', if there was one, is not identified.
The English edition Hymns of the Kingdom contained 200 hymns, with a supplement of six hymns. (Four of the six supplementary hymns appear in the main part of the book to different tunes; there is no apparent reason why all six were not included with the rest.) [*Note]
Walford Davies's Preface begins with a lengthy and trenchant argument "On the need of placing the written melody before all singers". With the honourable exception of the 1931 Songs of Praise, it has taken many years for his views to be adopted by other hymn-book compilers.
A transcription of the Preface is not yet included, and awaits copyright permission.
[* Note: The six hymns in the Supplement are
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(Julian, p.1241b; DNB under Guthrie; Waugh)
The Sunday Magazine was ( ? founded by and ) first edited by Thomas Guthrie (1803-73), minister of the Free Church (of Scotland) and a keen advocate of Ragged Schools and of the Temperance movement. His tenure of the Editorship extended from 1864, when he ceased to be minister of St.John's Church, Edinburgh, until his death in 1873. He was succeeded as editor by Benjamin Waugh, who remained in charge until 1896.
During his editorship Benjamin Waugh published a number of his own hymns in its pages.
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The Sunday School Chronicle for 19th Sept. 1946
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(a) Sunday School Hymnary, Sunday School Union 1905
(b) - do - 9th edition, 1912
Edited by Carey Bonner, who at the time was Secretary of the S.S.U. The book was intended for, and used primarily by, the Sunday Schools of non-conformist churches during the first half of the 20th century. It contained 612 hymns and 14 "supplemental tunes". The arrangement of hymns followed carefully the principles of the "Graded School" which was then coming into favour; the book is divided into sections of "Hymns for Infants", "Hymns for the General School" (each sub-section being further split into "Junior" and "Middle" groups), "Hymns for the Senior School or Institute", and finally "Hymns for Teachers". The last section begins, touchingly, with the heading "Pleading for the Scholars", and ends with a hymn on "The Death of a Teacher" and a "closing hymn of praise" - the last from George Herbert, commendably.
Much of the contents would today be almost unsingable by any age-group; but in its day it provided a framework of disciplined worship without which there might not now be a generation capable of worship of any kind.
To view the Preface, click here . . .
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A 16th cent. copy of the Greek text of the Ten Hymns is in the `Elias' library at Westminster College, Cambridge. It contains, in addition to ten hymns by Synesius, forty poems by Gregory Nazianzus and one hymn by John of Damascus. For a transcription of the Title Page, click here >> ...
The book is inscribed
The hymns were translated by Alan Stevenson in The Ten Hymns of Synesius, 1865
Charles Kingsley's novel Hypatia includes a scene which features Synesius, among other quasi-historical characters. For an extract in which Synesius is mentioned, click here > > .
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