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Author: John Bowring Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 1,515 hymnals Topics: Cross of Christ; Christ Cross of; Christ Passion; Christ Sacrifice; Cross of Christ; Passion; Sacrifice First Line: In the cross of Christ I glory, Towering over the wrecks of time Lyrics: 1 In the cross of Christ I glory, towering o'er the wrecks of time; all the light of sacred story gathers round its head sublime. 2 When the woes of life o'ertake me, hopes deceive, and fears annoy, never shall the cross forsake me. Lo! it glows with peace and joy. 3 When the sun of bliss is beaming light and love upon my way, from the cross the radiance streaming adds more luster to the day. 4 Bane and blessing, pain and pleasure, by the cross are sanctified; peace is there that knows no measure, joys that through all time abide. 5 In the cross of Christ I glory, towering o'er the wrecks of time; all the light of sacred story gathers round its head sublime. United Methodist Hymnal, 1989

It is finished!

Author: Jonathan Evans (1749-1809) Appears in 549 hymnals Topics: Christ Passion of First Line: Hark, the voice of love and mercy Scripture: Hebrews 10:1-14 Used With Tune: BREST

All Glory, Laud and Honour

Author: John Mason Neale; Theodulph of Orleans Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 601 hymnals Topics: The Christian Year Palm Sunday; Adoration and Praise; Angels; Biblical Characters David; Choruses and Refrains; Christian Year Passion/Palm Sunday; Exultation; Jesus Christ Adoration and Praise; Jesus Christ Kingship, Conqueror; Jesus Christ Lord of Life; Jesus Christ Son of God/Man (David); Joy; Music and Singing; Pilgrimage and Conflict; Prayer; Processionals (Opening of Worship); Recessionals; Redemption; Worship; Palm/Passion Sunday Year A; Palm/Passion Sunday Year B; Palm/Passion Sunday Year C First Line: You are the King of Israel Lyrics: [Refrain:] All glory, laud and honour to you, Redeemer, King, to whom the lips of children made sweet hosannas ring. 1 You are the King of Israel, and David’s royal Son, now in the Lord’s name coming, our King and blessèd one. [Refrain] 2 The multitude of pilgrims with palms before you went; our praise and prayer and anthems before you we present: [Refrain] 3 To you, before your passion, they sang their hymns of praise; to you, now high exalted, our melody we raise: [Refrain] 4 Their praises you accepted, accept the prayers we bring, great author of all goodness, O good and gracious king. [Refrain] Used With Tune: ST THEODULPH (VALET WILL ICH DIR GEBEN)

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WONDROUS LOVE

Meter: 12.9.12.12.9 Appears in 126 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Carlton R. Young Topics: Adoration; Atonement; Christian Year Palm Sunday; Christian Year Maundy Thursday; Christian Year Good Friday; Eternal Life; Jesus Christ Passion and Death; Love of God for Us Tune Sources: Walker’s Southern Harmony, 1835 Tune Key: d minor or modal Incipit: 11724 54211 72576 Used With Text: What Wondrous Love Is This

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Meter: 6.6.8.6 D Appears in 700 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: George J. Elvey, 1816-1893 Topics: Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord; Domingo de Ramos en la Pasión del Señor; Easter Season; Tiempo de Pascua; Ascension of the Lord; Ascensión del Señor; Solemnities of the Lord Christ the King; Solemnidades del Señor Jesucristo, Rey del Universo; Alabanza; Praise; Canción; Song; Cordero de Dios; Lamb of God; Despedida; Sending Forth; Gathering; Reunión, Entrada; Life; Vida; Majestad y Poder; Majesty and Power; Mesiánico; Messianic; Misterio Pascual; Paschal Mystery; Paz; Peace; Salvación; Salvation; Second Coming; Segunda Venida Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 11133 66514 32235 Used With Text: Crown Him with Many Crowns (Al Salvador Jesús)

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: Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord; Good Friday; Jesus Christ; Love of God for Us; Paschal Mystery; Petition/Prayer; Shepherd; Suffering; Trust Tune Key: a minor Incipit: 51765 45233 2121 Used With Text: O Sacred Head Surrounded (Oh, Rostro Ensangrentado)

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Christ, thy sacred Wounds and Passion

Hymnal: Psalmodia Germanica #27 (1732) Topics: Passion of Christ Lyrics: I. Christ, thy sacred Wounds and Passion, Bloody Sweat, Cross, Death, and tomb, Be my daily Meditation, Till I to thy Presence come. When a sinful Thought shall start, Ready to seduce my heart; Shew me, that my own Pollution Caus'd thy bloody Execution. II. Should my Bosom with lewd Passion Be enflam'd, and burn to Sin, Let the Thoughts of thine Oblation Quench that spreading Hell within. When the Serpent makes his Way To my Heart, Lord grant I may With thy Cross, and Crown of Briar, Chace from thence that grand Destroyer. III. Would the world, with gay Temptation Draw me in its own brad Way; Let me then think on thy Passion, And the Load which on Thee lay. Sure the Sweat, and precious Blood Of my dear expiring God Will create in me a Passion To oppose and shun Temptation. IV. Lord, in ev'ry sore Oppression, Let thy Wounds be my Relief. When I seek thine Intercession, And new Strength to my Belief. In thy bloody Hands and Feet All my greatest Comforts meet. This imprinted Demonstration Of thy Love, be my Salvation. V. All my Hope and Consolation, Christ, is in thy bitter Death. In the Hour of Expiration, Lord, receive my dying Breath. By thine Agony and Sweat, Grant me, Lord, a safe Retreat. By thy glorious Resurrection, Raise thy Servant to Perfection. VI. Christ, thy sacred Wounds and Passion, Bloody Sweat, Cross, Death and Tomb, Be my daily Meditation, Till I to thy Presence come; Most of all, when I go hence, Let this be my Confidence, That thy deep humiliation Was to purchase my Salvation. Languages: English

Lord Jesus, by Thy passion

Author: Richard F. Littledale Hymnal: Book of Worship with Hymns and Tunes #236 (1899) Topics: Christ Passion of Lyrics: 1 Lord Jesus, by Thy Passion, To Thee I make my prayer; Thou who in mercy smitest, Have mercy, Lord, and spare: Oh, wash me in the fountain That floweth from Thy side; Oh, clothe me in the raiment Thy blood hath purified. 2 Oh, hold Thou up my goings, And lead from strength to strength, That unto Thee in Zion I may appear at length. Oh, make my spirit worthy To join that ransomed throng; Oh, teach my lips to utter That everlasting song. 3 Oh, give that last, best blessing That even saints can know, To follow in Thy footsteps Wherever Thou dost go. Not wisdom, might, or glory, I ask to win above; I ask for Thee, Thee only, O Thou eternal Love! Amen. Languages: English Tune Title: CRUX CHRISTI

O sacred Head! now wounded

Author: Paul Gerhardt; James W. Alexander; Bernard of Clairvaux Hymnal: Book of Worship with Hymns and Tunes #243a (1899) Topics: Christ Passion of Lyrics: 1 O sacred Head! now wounded, With grief and shame bowed down, Now scornfully surrounded With thorns, Thine only crown; O sacred Head! what glory, What bliss. till now, was Thine! Yet, though despised and gory, I joy to call Thee mine. 2 How art Thou pale with anguish, With sore abuse and scorn; How does that visage languish Which once was bright as morn! What Thou, my Lord, hast suffered, Was all for sinners' gain; Mine, mine was the transgression, But Thine the deadly pain. 3 What language shall I borrow To thank Thee, dearest Friend, For this Thy dying sorrow, Thy pity without end? Lord, make me Thine for ever, Nor let me faithless prove; Oh, let me never, never Abuse such dying love! 4 Forbid that I should leave Thee; O Jesus, leave not me; By faith I would receive Thee; Thy blood can make me free; When strength and comfort languish, And I must hence depart, Release me then from anguish, By Thine own wounded heart. Amen. Languages: English Tune Title: PASSION CHORALE

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Johann Crüger

1598 - 1662 Person Name: J. Crüger, 1598-1662 Topics: Passion of Christ Composer of "HERZLIEBSTER JESU" in Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary Johann Crüger (b. Grossbriesen, near Guben, Prussia, Germany, 1598; d. Berlin, Germany, 1662) Crüger attended the Jesuit College at Olmutz and the Poets' School in Regensburg, and later studied theology at the University of Wittenberg. He moved to Berlin in 1615, where he published music for the rest of his life. In 1622 he became the Lutheran cantor at the St. Nicholas Church and a teacher for the Gray Cloister. He wrote music instruction manuals, the best known of which is Synopsis musica (1630), and tirelessly promoted congregational singing. With his tunes he often included elaborate accompaniment for various instruments. Crüger's hymn collection, Neues vollkomliches Gesangbuch (1640), was one of the first hymnals to include figured bass accompaniment (musical shorthand) with the chorale melody rather than full harmonization written out. It included eighteen of Crüger's tunes. His next publication, Praxis Pietatis Melica (1644), is considered one of the most important collections of German hymnody in the seventeenth century. It was reprinted forty-four times in the following hundred years. Another of his publications, Geistliche Kirchen Melodien (1649), is a collection arranged for four voices, two descanting instruments, and keyboard and bass accompaniment. Crüger also published a complete psalter, Psalmodia sacra (1657), which included the Lobwasser translation set to all the Genevan tunes. Bert Polman =============================== Crüger, Johann, was born April 9, 1598, at Gross-Breese, near Guben, Brandenburg. After passing through the schools at Guben, Sorau and Breslau, the Jesuit College at Olmütz, and the Poets' school at Regensburg, he made a tour in Austria, and, in 1615, settled at Berlin. There, save for a short residence at the University of Wittenberg, in 1620, he employed himself as a private tutor till 1622. In 1622 he was appointed Cantor of St. Nicholas's Church at Berlin, and also one of the masters of the Greyfriars Gymnasium. He died at Berlin Feb. 23, 1662. Crüger wrote no hymns, although in some American hymnals he appears as "Johann Krüger, 1610,” as the author of the supposed original of C. Wesley's "Hearts of stone relent, relent" (q.v.). He was one of the most distinguished musicians of his time. Of his hymn tunes, which are generally noble and simple in style, some 20 are still in use, the best known probably being that to "Nun danket alle Gott" (q.v.), which is set to No. 379 in Hymns Ancient & Modern, ed. 1875. His claim to notice in this work is as editor and contributor to several of the most important German hymnological works of the 16th century, and these are most conveniently treated of under his name. (The principal authorities on his works are Dr. J. F. Bachmann's Zur Geschichte der Berliner Gesangbücher 1857; his Vortrag on P. Gerhard, 1863; and his edition of Gerhardt's Geistliche Lieder, 1866. Besides these there are the notices in Bode, and in R. Eitner's Monatshefte für Musik-Geschichte, 1873 and 1880). These works are:— 1. Newes vollkömmliches Gesangbuch, Augspur-gischer Confession, &c, Berlin, 1640 [Library of St. Nicholas's Church, Berlin], with 248 hymns, very few being published for the first time. 2. Praxis pietatis melica. Das ist: Ubung der Gottseligkeit in Christlichen und trostreichen Gesängen. The history of this, the most important work of the century, is still obscure. The 1st edition has been variously dated 1640 and 1644, while Crüger, in the preface to No. 3, says that the 3rd edition appeared in 1648. A considerable correspondence with German collectors and librarians has failed to bring to light any of the editions which Koch, iv. 102, 103, quotes as 1644, 1647, 1649, 1650, 1651, 1652, 1653. The imperfect edition noted below as probably that of 1648 is the earliest Berlin edition we have been able to find. The imperfect edition, probably ix. of 1659, formerly in the hands of Dr. Schneider of Schleswig [see Mützell, 1858, No. 264] was inaccessible. The earliest perfect Berlin edition we have found is 1653. The edition printed at Frankfurt in 1656 by Caspar Röteln was probably a reprint of a Berlin edition, c. 1656. The editions printed at Frankfurt-am-Main by B. C. Wust (of which the 1666 is in the preface described as the 3rd) are in considerable measure independent works. In the forty-five Berlin and over a dozen Frankfurt editions of this work many of the hymns of P. Gerhardt, J. Franck, P. J. Spener, and others, appear for the first time, and therein also appear many of the best melodies of the period. 3. Geistliche Kirchen-Melodien, &c, Leipzig, 1649 [Library of St. Katherine's Church, Brandenburg]. This contains the first stanzas only of 161 hymns, with music in four vocal and two instrumental parts. It is the earliest source of the first stanzas of various hymns by Gerhardt, Franck, &c. 4. D. M. Luther's und anderer vornehmen geisU reichen und gelehrten Manner Geistliche Lieder und Psalmen, &c, Berlin, 1653 [Hamburg Town Library], with 375 hymns. This was edited by C. Runge, the publisher, and to it Crüger contributed some 37 melodies. It was prepared at the request of Luise Henriette (q.v.), as a book for the joint use of the Lutherans and the Re¬formed, and is the earliest source of the hymns ascribed to her, and of the complete versions of many hymns by Gerhardt and Franck. 5. Psalmodia Sacra, &c, Berlin, 1658 [Royal Library, Berlin]. The first section of this work is in an ed. of A. Lobwasser's German Psalter; the second, with a similar title to No. 4, and the date 1657, is practically a recast of No. 4,146 of those in 1653 being omitted, and the rest of the 319 hymns principally taken from the Praxis of 1656 and the hymn-books of the Bohemian Brethren. New eds. appeared in 1676, 1700, 1704, 1711, and 1736. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] -- Excerpt from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ======================= Crüger, Johann, p. 271, ii. Dr. J. Zahn, now of Neuendettelsau, in Bavaria, has recently acquired a copy of the 5th ed., Berlin, 1653, of the Praxis. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Hans Leo Hassler

1564 - 1612 Topics: Christ Passion of Composer of "PASSION CHORALE" in Book of Worship with Hymns and Tunes 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

Robert Grant

1779 - 1838 Person Name: R. Grant, 1779-1838 Topics: Passion of Christ Author of "Savior, When in Dust to Thee" in Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary Robert Grant (b. Bengal, India, 1779; d. Dalpoorie, India, 1838) was influenced in writing this text by William Kethe’s paraphrase of Psalm 104 in the Anglo-Genevan Psalter (1561). Grant’s text was first published in Edward Bickersteth’s Christian Psalmody (1833) with several unauthorized alterations. In 1835 his original six-stanza text was published in Henry Elliott’s Psalm and Hymns (The original stanza 3 was omitted in Lift Up Your Hearts). Of Scottish ancestry, Grant was born in India, where his father was a director of the East India Company. He attended Magdalen College, Cambridge, and was called to the bar in 1807. He had a distinguished public career a Governor of Bombay and as a member of the British Parliament, where he sponsored a bill to remove civil restrictions on Jews. Grant was knighted in 1834. His hymn texts were published in the Christian Observer (1806-1815), in Elliot’s Psalms and Hymns (1835), and posthumously by his brother as Sacred Poems (1839). Bert Polman ======================== Grant, Sir Robert, second son of Mr. Charles Grant, sometime Member of Parliament for Inverness, and a Director of the East India Company, was born in 1785, and educated at Cambridge, where he graduated in 1806. Called to the English Bar in 1807, he became Member of Parliament for Inverness in 1826; a Privy Councillor in 1831; and Governor of Bombay, 1834. He died at Dapoorie, in Western India, July 9, 1838. As a hymnwriter of great merit he is well and favourably known. His hymns, "O worship the King"; "Saviour, when in dust to Thee"; and "When gathering clouds around I view," are widely used in all English-speaking countries. Some of those which are less known are marked by the same graceful versification and deep and tender feeling. The best of his hymns were contributed to the Christian Observer, 1806-1815, under the signature of "E—y, D. R."; and to Elliott's Psalms & Hymns, Brighton, 1835. In the Psalms & Hymns those which were taken from the Christian Observer were rewritten by the author. The year following his death his brother, Lord Glenelg, gathered 12 of his hymns and poems together, and published them as:— Sacred Poems. By the late Eight Hon. Sir Robert Grant. London, Saunders & Otley, Conduit Street, 1839. It was reprinted in 1844 and in 1868. This volume is accompanied by a short "Notice," dated "London, Juno 18, 1839." ===================== Grant, Sir R., p. 450, i. Other hymns are:— 1. From Olivet's sequester'd scats. Palm Sunday. 2. How deep the joy, Almighty Lord. Ps. lxxxiv. 3. Wherefore do the nations wage. Ps. ii. These are all from his posthumous sacred Poems, 1839. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

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