How To Use Hymn In A Sentence
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In 1971, the recording centre moved to a beautiful carriage house in Baarn, which was soon christened 'Polyhymnia', after the muse of sublime and sacred hymn.
Audiophile Audition Headlines
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Church of Constantinople was still strong, as is shown by the great work of S. Theodore of the S.udium, famous as a hymn-writer, a liturgiologist, and a defender of the faith.
The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003
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The Stabat Mater has been retained as an optional Sequence for September 15 in the reformed Roman Missal and as the hymn for the Office of Readings, Morning Prayer, and Evening Prayer in the new Liturgy of Hours.
Archive 2009-04-01
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At a time when they were still singing soupy Victorian hymns in churches, this choir performed relatively modem music.
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Could you just sing the tune of the hymn rather than the hundred and fifty-seven little twiddly bits?
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The spirit of a soldier of the Truth entered into me; weary as I was, I rushed from the dusky corner where I had been hidden in the twilight, ran to the altar, and held up my hand with my hymn-book as I began to repeat an address that had often silenced the papistic mummers in England.
In the Wrong Paradise
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Protestant hymnody in particular has a special hold on him.
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There was, of course, a vast amount of music in the U.S. in this period besides symphonic music, Lutheran hymnody, and Wagnerian opera.
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Unfortunately, no details were given as to the criteria for selection of the hymnals nor were the hymnals themselves named.
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Poems and hymns of the Hebrew people are expressed in Psalms.
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As reported at ThinkProgress, Joe the Deacon, had this to say about replacing baby Jesus with a lump of Christmas coal in Silent Night: "I'll put my years as a Sunday school teacher, church deacon and church musician up against just about anybody else when it comes to understanding hymnology and respect for religious traditions.
Justin Callaway: Joe the Deacon and the Church of Clean Coal Carolers: How to Faith-wash Green-washing
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Through such volumes many Americans first encountered hymns that were to become part of the standard repertory.
Christianity Today
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He promoted the Virgin as its protectress, commissioning a hymn in her honour, and incurred criticism from Bruno of Querfurt for ‘favouring the Roman people above all others with money and honours'.
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It is a hymn to the unanticipated and the miraculous and to the sustaining potential of faith and hope in life itself.
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After the battalion commanded by Gyges, there came young boys crowned with myrtle-wreaths, and singing epithalamic hymns after the Lydian manner, accompanying themselves upon lyres of ivory, which they played with bows.
King Candaules
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Hindus were singing hymns in praise of the god Rama.
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To lead a hymn, to facilitate a Sunday School Class discussion, to preach in a tiny chapel, or to listen to a troubled soul, is not at all boring.
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Certain kinds of stories should be avoided like a hymn with eight verses.
Christianity Today
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The hymn is found in a hymnary in Irish script (described by Blume in his
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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Also, he had written a song called ‘Man is the Measure of All Things’, which he claimed was a hymn to individualism and against collectivism.
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Prayer and worship and singing hymns - all silly and useless.
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The air—"translucent as wine," hymned one poet—quickens the heart.
City of Peace—and War
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'As before the pike will fly' in which Coeur-de-Lion's discomfiture of the 'septemvirate of quacks' is hymned; and the finale is quite Attic.
Gryll Grange
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It will be observed that this hymn provided syllables only for the six tones of the _hexachord_ then recognized; when the octave scale was adopted (early in the sixteenth century) the initial letters of the last line (s and i) were combined into a syllable for the seventh tone.
Music Notation and Terminology
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a procession of women bearing small phallic images and singing hymns in honor of a deity whom he calls Dionysos -- probably Khem or Osiris or Bes; such images are mentioned by Plutarch, [721] supposed by him to represent
Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV
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Next to go should be those "We are Jesus" hymns in which the congregation for the first time in two millennia of Christian hymnology pretends that it's Christ.
George Weigel: Heretical Hymns?
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And the little boy who was asked if he thought he should like a hymn-book for his birthday present replied that "he _thought_ he should like a hymn-book, but he _knew_ he should like a squirt.
Collections and Recollections
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Bhandarkar, _Vaishṇ. and Śaivism_, pp. 67-73.] [Footnote 653: The name Kabir seems to me decisive.] [Footnote 654: Dadu who died about 1603 is said to have been fifth in spiritual descent from Kabir.] [Footnote 655: From a hymn in which the spiritual life is represented as a ride.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2
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Gathered about the Cross with St. Macarius and St. Helena are bishops, priests, and hymnographers.
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In an older time, the hymn was frequently sung at priestly ordinations.
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The teacher said they should sing the hymn anyway.
Times, Sunday Times
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Growing up I still remember having hymns in assembly, Bible studies, school nativities etc … They basically made me a better atheist.
Think Progress » $2.2 billion.
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The cardinals on Tuesday filed into the chapel, chanting a Latin hymn to ask for divine guidance and swearing a solemn oath never to reveal the secrets of their deliberations on pain of excommunication.
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And then a miraculous soundscape of snow before the great hymn of victory.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not even works of Methodism's co-founder and greatest hymnodist, Charles Wesley, were spared.
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The gathering participated in the prayer vigil with hymns in English, Sinhalese and Tamil.
Asian Tribune
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In all four Vedas, there are references to women ascetics reciting Vedic hymns and even creating mantras.
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Instead of giving the full title, he only gives a brief quote from the middle of the hymn, which matches that of the Veni, redemptor gentium.
The Christmas Office
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The School are in the process of producing a CD which will contain original hymns to and about St. Attracta and prayers to her and an oral account of her life.
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So the harvest hymn find, on a scrap of liturgical scroll, was a virtual mother lode. When combined with other scroll fragments and translated by professor George J.
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The piece concludes with a passage from the Georgian hymn Upalo Ghmerto - lovely but also undocumented - and clanging bells.
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The late 1960s and early 70s were times of great experimentation and upheaval in hymnody.
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And they reported to me that many of the chanters, to this day, who recite these Vedic or Sanskrit hymns, don't know what they're saying!
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I had opened it at a Gnostic Hymn that told of a certain King’s son who, being exiled, slept in Egypt—a symbol of the natural state—and how an Angel while he slept brought him a royal mantle; and at the bottom of the page I found a footnote saying that the word mantle did not represent the meaning properly, for that which the Angel gave had the exile’s own form and likeness.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies
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Protestants and other Christians have made wide use of secular sources for their hymn tunes and religious music.
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Given the gentle lilt of her voice, it's no wonder slow-burning hymns like ‘Isolada’ and ‘Amdjer de Nos Terra’ are her proven domain.
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The new album incorporates vocal laments from Eastern Europe and a dirge-like hymn from a Croatian church congregation.
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Lord Help" is a secular hymn taken from Mississippi country blueswoman Jessie Mae Hemphill.
Tom Jones
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~ -- The Sutlej is the Shatadru of Vedic hymns and the Zaradros of Greek writers.
The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir
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Widowed, and with a little child, he felt violent pangs of transient remorse, and hymned his dead wife in vintage Nineties poet's minor melody.
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Fr. Rutler's views on liturgical music and hymnography are a reflection of his lifelong service to the Lord.
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In all four Vedas, there are references to women ascetics reciting Vedic hymns and even creating mantras.
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In this verse, it talks about psalms, hymns and spiritual songs.
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The fourth edition of the hymnary is said to be the most Scottish yet with more than 100 hymns by Scottish composers.
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The formal part of the wedding (the vows and rings) came first, and the usual particulars of evensong followed - Rose responses, a psalm to Anglican chant, Gibbons Second Service canticles, and a few hymns.
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It is likely that you will join in the author's song with joy and wholeheartedly endorse the great hymn to eco-feminism with which chapter fifteen concludes.
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Worse still, some practices which Sacrosanctum Concilium had never even contemplated were allowed into the Liturgy, like Mass “versus populum”, Holy Communion on the hand, altogether giving up on the Latin and Gregorian Chant in favour of the vernacular and songs and hymns without much space for God, and extension beyond any reasonable limits of the faculty to concelebrate at Holy Mass.
Archbishop Ranjith's Foreword to "True Development of the Liturgy"
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They hymned their love of God
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The hill of Sanchi, surrounded by verdant forests with the river gurgling at its feet, resonant with the hymns and chants, must have been one of the most idyllic, spiritual spots.
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I suspect that many more organ chorales were accompaniments for hymn-singing than we now appreciate: hymn books with melody were rare, and somehow the organist had to play and harmonise the tune.
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The universal appeal of the majority of tunes and the simplicity of settings should help this collection find an audience among the ever-expanding number of organists looking for easy voluntaries on well-known hymn tunes.
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The chapel resounds with full-throated hymns.
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Unlike other funerals of known ANC leaders which are dominated by freedom songs, a church choir sang hymns for the activist.
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As you think about Jesus' goodness to you in prayer today, try writing your own hymn or prayer of praise.
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Their traditional music includes work songs, hymns, lullabies, ballads, and healing songs.
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Not two weeks ago these people were composing hymns to the separation of powers.
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He picks up the same musical motif again after his hymn to love.
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_Primo Libra di Messe_ on the _canto fermo_ of the hymn _Conditor alme siderum_ is published in modern notation in the _Anthologie des maîtres religieux primitifs_ of the _Chanteurs de Saint Gervais_.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
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All through the service Ranny's heart was singing a hymn to the blessed little feet that had so fetched him, the blessed little tootsy-woots in the blessed little shoes.
The Combined Maze
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It was in fact a kind of nuptial hymn, which, taking its start from the thought of nature as the universal mother, celebrated the preliminary pairing and mating together of all fresh things, in the hot and genial spring-time -- the immemorial nuptials of the soul of spring itself and the brown earth; and was full of a delighted, mystic sense of what passed between them in that fantastic marriage.
Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1
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Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own affectingly hymns the singer's late father, pulling back from mawkishness.
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The popularity of his hymns made him a cultural touchstone.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Together, heaven and earth offer one hymn, one prayer, one feast, and one doxology.
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You deceiver! the hymn is without the interlineal version for the non-Iranians.
Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities
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There are Books of Hours painted on vellum, intricate hymnals, Psalters, antiphonals, breviaries, bestiaries, herbals, and luminous Bibles for monasteries and kings.
The Memory Palace
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Life , but after that hymn is sung, then it can be Dixieland bands, all the way.
Anne Rice - An interview with author
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Given that strict approach, then, ‘There is no way in the world to prove uninspired hymnody.’
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They were singing hymns and the eight religious advisers in the tent were singing with them.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was a cloudless summer morning, and all Nature, smiling in her felicity, sent up a hymn of adoration to the author of her beauty.
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After all, those who twang guitars together are soon singing from the same hymn sheet.
Times, Sunday Times
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We are all thoroughly enjoying using the new church hymnaries and are beginning our preparations for the Christmas Season.
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Lowell's Psalm 137 allusion, the futility of his song, also has a counterpart in Ginsberg: Tho I am not there for this Prophecy, I am unmarried, I'm hymnless, I'm Heavenless, headless in blisshood I would still adore
Yizkor
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A learned Jesuit hymnographer and patrologist, born 23 July, 1747. at
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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The organist often crackled or whined the Gregorian-chant hymns and the celebrant often hummed, mumbled, or whispered the Latin prayers.
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Plus, any band who produce We Care A Lot, a brutally fun hymn for the apathy generation is bound to grab any world-weary fifteen year old by the scruff of the neck.
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After the elegies and hymns and poems, the retired minister rose to speak on tottering legs but with a voice like a vice.
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I loaded Sigur Rós 'Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (2008) and Gordon Bok's Seal Djiril's Hymn (1972; my thanks to Sonya for this one) onto the iPod.
The Whore's Daughter
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A perfect Christmas morning record with its angelic singing and gentle melancholy hymns.
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In this expanded form the legend is first found in a hymn (canon) of the Greek hymnographer
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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The church is without an organist and the congregation sings along to taped recordings of hymns, which is fine when the right tapes are inserted.
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As an instance we may quote _Conditor alme siderum_ (_Hymns A. and M. _ 45).
The Prayer Book Explained
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Women participated in the singing of hymns, preaching in religious gatherings without any distinction.
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Start your library by researching other denominational hymnals.
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The hymn "O Church, arise" was sung in Mason's tune of "Dort" until
The Story of the Hymns and Tunes
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Western Hymn is no slouch either.
The Sun
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In the Hymn to Hermes we find for the first time the expression δίκην διδόναι καὶ δέχεσθαι to describe the claim and counterclaim which is to be submitted to adjudication, and which is, in this case, to be weighed on Zeus '“scales of dikē” (312, 324).
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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Their converts included even the ‘harlots and publicans and thieves’ addressed in one of the famous hymns by Wesley's brother Charles and prominent among the convict settlers of Australia.
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The English index covers topics and authors; as a sample I give four consecutive entries: hunting, Hyginus, hymn-language and hypallage.
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If you listen to the old hymns the lyrics are powerful.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sanskrit is _S_ruti, which means hearing; and this title distinguishes the Vedic hymns and, at a later time, the Brâhma_n_as also, from all other works, which, however sacred, and authoritative to the Hindu mind, are admitted to have been composed by human authors.
Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion
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The hymn was written by an obscure Greek composer for the 1896 Athens Olympics.
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Happily, there are many fine new hymns and hymn books now available, including those compiled by the Jubilate Group.
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She also includes excellent hymn suggestions for vespers.
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a psalm (like our antiphons), which introduces a sticheron, or hymn sung at Matins and Vespers.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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How can we acknowledge the majesty and awesomeness of God with our nose stuck in a hymn book or liturgical program?
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The verses of this hymn became the favored marching song of the Union forces during the Civil War.
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We're singing off the same hymn sheet.
The Sun
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Meanwhile the land forces of the Peloponnesians who were with the Chians and of the allies on the spot, moved alongshore for Clazomenae and Cuma, under the command of Eualas, a Spartan; while the fleet under Diniadas, one of the Perioeci, first sailed up to Methymna and caused it to revolt, and, leaving four ships there, with the rest procured the revolt of Mitylene.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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Selected stanzas of this hymn can be sung antiphonally.
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December 14, 2007 at 12:51 am in short, hymn neads yore komplete attenshuns and devoshuns.
Melodrama kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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The first hymn listed by LLPB for Christmas Day is Come, Thou Redeemer of the Earth, sung here in English; this hymn is listed at TPL as Veni, redemptor gentium, English translation by J.M.
Archive 2008-01-01
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Te lucis ante terminum, the first verse of the hymn in the last part of the sacred office, termed complin.
Purgatory. Canto VIII
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The choir, made up of more than 100 children from four north Manchester primary schools in ankle socks and pigtails and cardies, sing sweetly, if not with the soaring transcendence of the 1929 recording, but their big moment – a re-creation of the occasion when the nymphs and shepherds were triumphantly hymned – is muffled: it needs to stand on its own pinnacle, away from the beguiling story of late love.
That Day We Sang; The Crash of the Elysium; The Village Bike – review
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His great love of hymn singing is obvious and he talks about that often.
CELEBRATING SECOMBE: A Tribute to Sir Harry Secombe
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The country folk in the train spoke a language I was unfamiliar with, but their open, guileless speech and laughter was more beautiful to me than any hymn.
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(canon 30): "Et quia convenit ordinem ecclesiae ab omnibus aequaliter custodiri studendum est ut ubique fit et post antiphonas collectiones per ordinem ab episcopis vel presbyteris dicantur et hymni matutini vel vesperenti diebus omnibus decantentur et in conclusione matutinarum vel vespertinarum missarum post hymnos, capitella de psalmis dicantur et plebs collecta oratione ad vesperam ab Episcopo cum benedictione dimittatur".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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Her surviving hymn to the goddess, arranged by La Motte, serves as the sung text underlying the sacred ritual of the minuet.
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This great Lenten hymn should be made a model for personal reassessment during Lent.
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Here's what I mean: in spite of being well within reasonable range for a decent SATB choir, "Epiphany" is simultaneously too high and too low to get into hymnals.
Archive 2009-01-01
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And hymns in the cozy parlor, the tinkling piano our guide.
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Catherine hummed and sang a hymn that faded quickly from a cheery ode to a mournful dirge.
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Psalm 104 is an extended hymn about the Maker of heaven and earth, the Creator and provider of all.
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I am the Sullivan that trumpeting tramp, from Suffering Duf-ferin the Sit of her Style, from Kathleen May Vernon her Mebbe fair efforts, from Fillthepot Curran his scotchlove machree-ther, from hymn Op.
Finnegans Wake
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Almost 200 of his works survive, including 84 songs, eight complete masses, 13 isorhythmic motets, and numerous hymn settings, single mass movements, and works in honour of the Virgin Mary and various saints and liturgical feasts.
Archive 2009-04-01
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Each hymn at the funeral service was chosen because it was a favourite which Mr Ryder would play on his trumpet.
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Author of five books, he has also compiled an equal number, including ‘Arul Maalai’, containing devotional hymns and articles on religion.
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The language of hymnology has often been strongly biblical, especially in the compositions of John and Charles Wesley and Isaac Watts.
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Similarly, Protestant hymnody used in various missionary contexts has undergone transformations in which new meanings yielded the power to indigenize and resist.
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A dialogue follows between Adriano and Rienzi, and then the various bands disappear singing the ritornelle of the hymn.
The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers
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- The long offertory hymn, `The Church's One Foundation", had barely enough verses to enable the sidesmen to take the collection.
GOODBYE CURATE
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Do Thou that wast born of the Virgin, drown in the depth of impassivity the triformity of my soul -- those mighty strongholds, I implore Thee, that in the mortification of flesh as on a tymbal I may melodize a triumphant hymn unto Thee.
The General Menaion or the Book of Services Common to the Festivals of our Lord Jesus of the Holy Virgin and of Different Orders of Saints
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The first half ended with the Ives Sonata No. 4, an unruly pastiche of hymns, marches and folk songs in a polytonal texture, which simply stopped mid-phrase.
Virtuoso violinist Hilary Hahn holds her audience rapt but adds some irritants
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Vibraphone and bass sketch the hymnal melody, joined by lush violin figures and soft digital crackle.
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Our favorite hymn is “I love you conditionally, get off my property”
Think Progress » VIDEO: House Conservatives Reveal What God Thinks About Gay Marriage Amendment
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Hymns with a military theme used to be a staple in the musical diet of Christians in North America.
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The Greek Nine are: Clio, muse of history; Thalia, muse of comedy and bucolic poetry; Terpsichore, muse of dance; Euterpe, muse of lyric song; Polyhymnia, muse of sacred song; Calliope, muse of epic song; Erato, muse of erotic poetry; Urania, muse of astronomy; Melpomene, muse of tragedy.
Muses Through the Years
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Outside the cathedral, the words of the Battle Hymn of the Republic echoed over London.
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I was vested in riassa, epitrachelion, and phelonian (in other words: long black robe, decorative stole and sort of a liturgical cape); I'm saying the words: "By the sprinkling of this Holy Water, may every evil action and demon be put to flight …" and the choir and parishioners are chanting the Theophany hymn.
ORTHODIXIE ... Southern, Orthodox, Convert, Etc.
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Both sat weeping with their heads bowed when after a service of hymns, prayers and poems, Robbie Williams's song Angels was performed.
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Most of the workers were churchgoers and it was strategic to use church "hymns" but we put in lyrics, which, have aworking class message.
Union Songs in South Africa
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Urania is represented by the armillary sphere, Euterpe by flutes, Thalia by the rebec, Melpomene by the hunting horn, Terpsichore by the cittern, Erato by the jingle ring, and Polyhymnia by the organ.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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Meanwhile, out-of-doors, you could hear the stamping and roaring of the crowd, goaded into a frenzy by repeated hymns, enfevered by its earnest desire for the Divine interposition, and growing more and more enervated by the delay.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 2
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He has long been deafened by amplified hymns in his temple, leaving no scope for boons and prayers.
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In many hymns (but not all) we have substituted second person plural pronouns and verbal inflections for second person singular ones, but only where this leaves the poetic and rhyming schemes of the hymns unaltered.
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A few feet away, a group of priests, nuns and Protestant ministers sang hymns while they waited to be removed.
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St Maximus the Confessor also wrote three hymns in the finest traditions of church hymnography, following the example of St Gregory the Theologian.
Orrologion
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Certain kinds of stories should be avoided like a hymn with eight verses.
Christianity Today
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That passage is said in the context of a hymn of praise.
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More interesting, to the social historian, than the peace they hymned is the account of the various motives that drove women, when Buddhism had arisen, from the world to embrace the an-agāriyā or homeless life.
Psalms of the Sisters
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It was a dignified service, the hymns sung by the congregation with increasing emotion.
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This particular hymn 28 celebrates the paradox of the incarnation, alluding to the feasts of Easter and the Ascension.
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Only 290 of the 825 entries remain from the old hymnary which was last updated in 1973.
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In addition to the seven devotions, the CD has Scripture readings, prayers, hymns and church information.
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Where should we stand with church architecture, hymnody, liturgical elements and the like?
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[13] I passed thro that city & should like to see his hymn upon the occasion & if there be any good in it, put it in a note. how mortifying is this confinement of yours — I had planned so many pleasant walks to be made so much more pleasant by conversation. for I have much to tell thee. much to say of the odd things we saw upon our journey Much of the dirt & vermin that annoyd us.
Letter 165
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Western Hymn is no slouch either.
The Sun
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It began when a band struck up the opening hymn and a huge screen unfurled with a little bouncy ball popping across the words so everyone could sing along.
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That is, the new survey also shows that Americans aren't all singing from the same hymnbook on the related issue of the morality and efficacy of torture of suspected terrorists.
Robert P. Jones, Ph.D.: Bin Laden's Death: When Bad Things Happen To Bad People
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By combining Horatian meter with a simple but passionate invocation of the Christian God, Johnson moves from the world of classical Latin to the prayers and hymns of the early Church Fathers.
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Greek hymnography, accompanied by numerous Greek hymns in honour of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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The video also shows McCovery, eyes tightly closed, singing hymns in church or dripping wet after her baptism last August.
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In the Christian tradition, hymns are songs of worship, sung by congregation and choir.
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Habitat in rhymno et mari Cafpio nttn* qvani in terram egrejfus, fubtripedalisj, anr? toea nigri - cantf mucrone gemino minutiffmo y uno fupra. altenim, terminata.
Caroli a Linné. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae : secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis
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As I note-bashed hymns, psalms, responses, and anthems for Sunday, I called at times for more sound.
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The songs are very much of their time -- a bit hymnlike, a bit marchlike.
A musical journey into Washington, D.C., history
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There was a kind of green silence to our clearing, interrupted only by the sleepy buzz of insects and the occasional hymn from a passing bird.
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His comment on the hymn itself traces its wording to several passages of Revelation and notes how the antiphon relates the hymn to the Eucharistic banquet of which it is a part.
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During World War I he wrote a jingoist poem “Hymn of Hate against England” that swept Germany.
Bloodlust
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The tune of "Dort," by Lowell Mason, has long been the popular melody for this hymn.
The Story of the Hymns and Tunes
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The martial beat of ‘Onward, Christian Soldiers’ (a hymn I stopped singing decades ago) concludes the service.
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Combined with Anglican church hymnody, this had led to the distinctive vocal harmonic style known as mbube, practiced in many communities by "evening" or "night" choirs of enthusiastic amateurs.
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Yet, as on ‘Children's Waltz’ and ‘Lullaby’, the wave of pastel, hymnal harmonies are hard to deny on aesthetic grounds.
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The rite involves incense, candles, litanies and novenas, and set hymns, often in Latin.
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Polyhymnia, which is celebrated above the rest for an expression of melancholy pensiveness not usually found among the ancients.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century
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The term hymn has a less definite meaning than those of antiphon or responsory, and in the primitive liturgies its use is somewhat uncertain.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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The arrangement of ecclesiastical chanting into tones was entirely the work of the famous hymnographer St. John of Damascus.
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This pericope includes the most majestic hymn in the Book of Revelation.
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Next in order come the Homeric Hymns, poems written to honor various gods.
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I cherished the symbols of dominion so soon to be objects of ridicule or subjects of parody - the plonk of the cricket ball, the stamp of the sentry's boot, the hymns and the silly rituals that spoke of old certitudes.
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The two armies were perfectly silent, save here and there the bray of a single trumpet, or beat of a naker drum in one or the other, and the continuous hum of the hymns and chants from the three Russian chapel - tents.
A Book of Golden Deeds
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Dick Morris, the president's political adviser and hymnist to "" family values, '' got caught in a humiliating sexual scandal and was back in business as a successful independent contractor almost at once.
Just Send Us The Bill
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The hymn was written by an obscure Greek composer for the 1896 Athens Olympics.
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Kaye said,'I think it's a terrific idea, but I'm just wondering how you're gonna look, singing hymns in sequinned revers?
MR STARLIGHT
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My church life has consisted of Hymns: Ancient and Modern, acolytes, incense and sermons.
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Everything I've ever written could be said to be a hymn to the feminine.
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The speaker in the ode is singing a displaced hymn, we are writing an interpretation.
Hermeneutics for Sophomores
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Latin hymnody and hymnography, appealing to the popular ear and heart, had gradually substituted accent for quantity in verse; for the common people could never be moved by a Christian song in the prosody of the classics.
The Story of the Hymns and Tunes
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To the 'ploughshare' and the 'plough' the Rig Veda has an hymn (IV.
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow
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Act I opened, not at the harbour side but with the assembled populace sitting singing a hymn as if in church.
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But some officiants I spoke to sternly discourage inclusion of anything which might smack of religion - even a fondly remembered hymn.
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They were singing hymns and the eight religious advisers in the tent were singing with them.
Times, Sunday Times
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Poulenc ends his opera with a grand chorus, which alternates between a sultry waltz and a kick of satyr's heels, a hymn to ‘make babies!’
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I totally understand what he means by wanting to sing these hymns "wholeheartedly" - but being unable to do so as they were originally written; I run into that problem all the time.
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His verse is both metrically and formally experimental, ranging from satire to love lyric, from sonnet to verse epistle, from elegy to hymn.
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This meant that the new hymn book did not pass without criticism.
Times, Sunday Times
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Father John went on to become one of the two best hymnodists among the Greek Fathers.
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In the 1812 Overture, Karajan has a famous Russian choir intone the Russian Orthodox hymn normally given to violas and cellos.
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From the tenth century, the pipes of an organ were commonly called "muses," an evocative detail consistent with the placement of the Castellano organ in the "contemplative" niche of the east wall. 224 Polyhymnia, the muse of sacred song, is traditionally represented by the organ.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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After all, those who twang guitars together are soon singing from the same hymn sheet.
Times, Sunday Times
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Both a superbly subtle character study and a poignant hymn to Japan's lost past, Twilight Samurai is one of those rarest of cinematic creatures, a film that also qualifies as a genuine work of art.
