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Hymnology (from Greek ὕμνος hymnos, "song of praise" and -λογία -logia, "study of") is the scholarly study of religious song, or the hymn, in its many aspects, with particular focus on choral and congregational song. It may be more or less clearly distinguished from hymnody, the creation and practice of such song.
A Dictionary of Hymnology (or, more completely, A Dictionary of Hymnology: Origin and History of Christian Hymns and Hymnwriters of All Ages and Nations, Together with Biographical and Critical Notices of Their Authors and Translators) by John D. Julian, first published in 1892, was for over 100 years a standard historical reference for early Christian hymns, with more than 40,000 entries.
Ancient Eastern hymns include the Egyptian Great Hymn to the Aten, composed by Pharaoh Akhenaten; [6] the Hurrian Hymn to Nikkal; [7] the Rigveda, an Indian collection of Vedic hymns; [8] hymns from the Classic of Poetry (Shijing), a collection of Chinese poems from 11th to 7th centuries BC; [9] the Gathas—Avestan hymns believed to have been composed by Zoroaster; [10] and the Biblical Book ...
Logeion is an open-access database of Latin and Ancient Greek dictionaries. [1] Developed by Josh Goldenberg and Matt Shanahan in 2011, it is hosted by the University of Chicago . Apart from simultaneous search capabilities across different dictionaries and reference works, Logeion offers access to frequency and collocation data from the ...
Since the twentieth century, singer-songwriter hymns have become common, but in previous centuries, generally poets wrote the words, and musicians wrote the tunes. The texts are known and indexed by their first lines ("incipits") and the hymn tunes are given names, sometimes geographical (the tune "New Britain" for the incipit "Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound").
It provides the largest scale picture of the Greek language after the demise of diglossia, offering a plethora of invaluable information about the multiple resources of Greek. Its breadth and scope render it a useful tool for teachers of Greek, for learners, translators, creative writers, and—generally—anyone who uses the language with some ...
The ancient Greeks came up with seven different words for the types of love. Experts break down what they mean and how to foster the types of love in your life. Yup, There Are A Total Of *Seven ...
In the following centuries, many more Greek Aljamiado literary works were produced. These include catechisms, Greek translation of famous Islamic texts, and Islamic poems from Grecophone Muslims of Epirus, personal items, language materials, word lists, and rhyming dictionaries, political poetry, as well as religious texts from Cretan Muslims.