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We Three Kings of Orient Are
Author: John H. Hopkins, Jr., 1820-1891 Meter: 8.8.4.4.6 with refrain Appears in 311 hymnals Topics: Paschal Mystery Refrain First Line: O star of wonder, star of night Lyrics: 1 We three kings of Orient are;
Bearing gifts, we traverse afar
Field and fountain,
Moor and mountain,
Following yonder star.
Refrain:
O star of wonder, star of night,
Star with royal beauty bright,
Westward leading, still proceeding,
Guide us to the perfect Light.
2 Born a King on Bethlehem’s plain,
Gold I bring to crown him again;
King forever,
Ceasing never,
Over us all to reign. [Refrain]
3 Frankincense to offer have I;
Incense owns a Deity nigh;
Prayer and praising,
Gladly raising,
Worshiping God on high. [Refrain]
4 Myrrh is mine: its bitter perfume
Breathes a life of gathering gloom;
Sorrowing, sighing,
Bleeding, dying,
Sealed in the stone-cold tomb. [Refrain]
5 Glorious now behold him arise,
King and God and Sacrifice;
"Alleluia, Alleluia!"
Sounds through the earth and skies. [Refrain] Scripture: Matthew 2:1-12 Used With Tune: KINGS OF ORIENT
We Three Kings of Orient Are
There Is a Balm in Gilead
Meter: Irregular Appears in 107 hymnals Topics: Paschal Mystery First Line: Sometimes I feel discouraged Lyrics: Refrain:
There is a balm in Gilead
To make the wounded whole,
There is a balm in Gilead
To heal the sin-sick soul.
1 Sometimes I feel discouraged
And think my work’s in vain,
But then the Holy Spirit
Revives my soul again. [Refrain]
2 If you cannot preach like Peter,
If you cannot pray like Paul,
You can tell the love of Jesus,
And say, “He died for all!” [Refrain]
3 Don’t ever feel discouraged,
For Jesus is your friend;
And if you lack for knowledge
He’ll ne'er refuse to lend. [Refrain] Scripture: Jeremiah 8:22 Used With Tune: BALM IN GILEAD Text Sources: African-American spiritual
There Is a Balm in Gilead
I Know That My Redeemer Lives!
Author: Samuel Medley, 1738-1799 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 470 hymnals Topics: Paschal Mystery Lyrics: 1 I know that my Redeemer lives!
What joy this blest assurance gives!
He lives, he lives who once was dead;
He lives, my ever-living Head!
2 He lives to bless me with his love;
He lives to plead for me above;
He lives my hungry soul to feed;
He lives to help in time of need.
3 He lives and grants me daily breath;
He lives, and I shall conquer death;
He lives my mansion to prepare;
He lives to bring me safely there.
4 He lives, all glory to his name;
He lives, my Savior, still the same;
What joy this blest assurance gives:
I know that my Redeemer lives! Scripture: Job 19:25 Used With Tune: DUKE STREET
I Know That My Redeemer Lives!
PASSION CHORALE
Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 513 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Hans Leo Hassler, 1564-1612; J. S. Bach, 1685-1750 Topics: Paschal Mystery Tune Key: a minor Incipit: 51765 45233 2121 Used With Text: O Sacred Head Surrounded (Oh, Rostro Ensangrentado)
PASSION CHORALE
Worthy Is the Lamb
Author: Ricky Manalo, CSP, b. 1965 Hymnal: Journeysongs (2nd ed.) #682 (2003) Topics: Paschal Mystery; Paschal Mystery; Paschal Mystery First Line: Worthy are you, O Paschal Lamb Refrain First Line: Worthy is the Lamb that was slain Languages: English Tune Title: [Worthy are you, O Paschal Lamb]
Worthy Is the Lamb
Christ, the Lord, Is Risen Again
Author: Michael Weisse, ca. 1480-1534; Catherine Winkworth, 1827-1878 Hymnal: Journeysongs (2nd ed.) #442 (2003) Meter: 7.7.7.7 with alleluias Topics: Paschal Mystery; Paschal Mystery; Paschal Mystery First Line: Christ, the Lord, is ris'n again Lyrics: 1 Christ, the Lord, is ris'n again,
Christ has broken ev'ry chain!
Hark, the angels shout for joy,
Singing evermore on high:
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Alleluia! Alleluia!
2 Christ who gave for us his life,
Who for us endured the strife,
Is our Paschal Lamb today.
We, too, sing for joy and say:
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Alleluia! Alleluia!
3 Christ who bore all pain and loss
Comfortless upon the cross,
Lives in glory now on high,
Pleads for us and hears our cry:
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Alleluia! Alleluia!
4 He who slumbered in the grave
is exalted now to save;
Now through Christendom it rings
That the Lamb is King of kings.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Alleluia! Alleluia!
5 Now he bids us tell abroad
How the lost may be restored,
How the penitent forgiv'n,
How we, too, may enter heav'n.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Alleluia! Alleluia!
6 You, our Paschal Lamb indeed,
Christ, today your people feed;
Take our sins and guilt away,
That we all may sing for joy:
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Alleluia! Alleluia! Languages: English Tune Title: CHRIST IST ERSTANDEN
Christ, the Lord, Is Risen Again
Three Days
Author: M. D. Ridge Hymnal: Journeysongs (2nd ed.) #423 (2003) Meter: 13.13.13.11.13.13 Topics: Paschal Mystery; Paschal Mystery; Paschal Mystery First Line: Three days our world was broken; the Lord of life lay dead Languages: English Tune Title: THAXTED
Three Days
Anonymous
Person Name: Anon. Topics: Paschal Mystery; Paschal Mystery; Paschal Mystery Author of "What Wondrous Love Is This" in Journeysongs (2nd ed.) In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.
Anonymous
Hans Leo Hassler
1564 - 1612 Person Name: Hans Leo Hassler, 1564-1612 Topics: Paschal Mystery; Paschal Mystery; Paschal Mystery Composer of "PASSION CHORALE" in Journeysongs (2nd ed.) Hans Leo Hassler Germany 1564-1612. Born at Nuremberg, Germany, he came from a family of famous musicians and received early education from his father. He then studied in Venice, Italy, with Andrea Gabrieli, uncle of Giovanni Gabrieli, his friend, with whom he composed a wedding motet. The uncle taught him to play the organ. He learned the polychoral style and took it back to Germany after Andrea Gabrieli's death. He served as organist and composer for Octavian Fugger, the princely art patron of Augsburg (1585-1601). He was a prolific composer but found his influence limited, as he was Protestant in a still heavily Catholic region. In 1602 he became director of town music and organist in the Frauenkirche in Nuremberg until 1608. He married Cordula Claus in 1604. He was finally court musician for the Elector of Saxony in Dresden, Germany, evenually becoming Kapellmeister (1608-1612). A Lutheran, he composed both for Roman Catholic liturgy and for Lutheran churches. He produced two volumns of motets, a famous collection of court songs, and a volume of simpler hymn settings. He published both secular and religious music, managing to compose much for the Catholic church that was also usable in Lutheran settings. He was also a consultant to organ builders. In 1596 he, with 53 other organists, had the opportunity to examine a new instrument with 59 stops at the Schlosskirche, Groningen. He was recognized for his expertise in organ design and often was called on to examine new instruments. He entered the world of mechanical instrument construction, developing a clockwork organ that was later sold to Emperor Rudolf II. He died of tuberculosis in Frankfurt, Germany.
John Perry
Hans Leo Hassler
Johann Sebastian Bach
1685 - 1750 Person Name: Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750 Topics: Paschal Mystery; Paschal Mystery; Paschal Mystery Adapter of "PASSION CHORALE" in Journeysongs (2nd ed.) Johann Sebastian Bach was born at Eisenach into a musical family and in a town steeped in Reformation history, he received early musical training from his father and older brother, and elementary education in the classical school Luther had earlier attended.
Throughout his life he made extraordinary efforts to learn from other musicians. At 15 he walked to Lüneburg to work as a chorister and study at the convent school of St. Michael. From there he walked 30 miles to Hamburg to hear Johann Reinken, and 60 miles to Celle to become familiar with French composition and performance traditions. Once he obtained a month's leave from his job to hear Buxtehude, but stayed nearly four months. He arranged compositions from Vivaldi and other Italian masters. His own compositions spanned almost every musical form then known (Opera was the notable exception).
In his own time, Bach was highly regarded as organist and teacher, his compositions being circulated as models of contrapuntal technique. Four of his children achieved careers as composers; Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Chopin are only a few of the best known of the musicians that confessed a major debt to Bach's work in their own musical development. Mendelssohn began re-introducing Bach's music into the concert repertoire, where it has come to attract admiration and even veneration for its own sake.
After 20 years of successful work in several posts, Bach became cantor of the Thomas-schule in Leipzig, and remained there for the remaining 27 years of his life, concentrating on church music for the Lutheran service: over 200 cantatas, four passion settings, a Mass, and hundreds of chorale settings, harmonizations, preludes, and arrangements. He edited the tunes for Schemelli's Musicalisches Gesangbuch, contributing 16 original tunes. His choral harmonizations remain a staple for studies of composition and harmony. Additional melodies from his works have been adapted as hymn tunes.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Johann Sebastian Bach
