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Printable version; In other projects ... Regent Square may refer to: Places. Regent Square (London), ... Regent Square (hymn tune), a hymn tune written by Henry Smart
While originally an unaccompanied plainsong melody, the hymn is now commonly sung to either the tune of "Westminster Abbey", adapted from the final section of Henry Purcell's anthem "O God, Thou Art My God'" Z35; or the tune of "Regent Square", composed by Henry Smart. The texts of modern versions of the hymn vary substantially from Neale's ...
Harry Emerson Fosdick greatly admired "Regent Square", and wrote his own "God of Grace and God of Glory" specifically in the hope that it would be generally sung to that tune. He was horrified when, in 1935, The Methodist Hymnal instead set the lyrics to John Hughes' "Cwm Rhondda". [5] In the last 15 years of his life, Smart was practically ...
A variation of this tune, "Gloria", is used for the American carol Angels We Have Heard on High. Sometimes the original "Gloria in excelsis Deo" refrain from the French carol is sung in place of Montgomery's lyric: "Come and worship Christ the new-born King". In the United States, "Regent Square" is the most common tune for this carol. [1]
German tune / N.F.S. Grundtvig: Ca. 1600 / 1820 Based on a medieval Latin hymn "Puer natus in Bethlehem", publ. in Danish in the hymn books of Hans Tausen and Hans Thomissøn in 1553 and 1569, resp. A children's favourite. "Et lidet barn så lysteligt" C. Balle / N.F.S. Grundtvig: 1855 / 1843 "Hjerte, løft din glædes vinger" Joh.
A hymn tune is the melody of a musical composition to which a hymn text is sung. Musically speaking, a hymn is generally understood to have four-part (or more) harmony , a fast harmonic rhythm (chords change frequently), with or without refrain or chorus.
Investigators are trying to determine how a woman got past multiple security checkpoints this week at New York’s JFK International Airport and boarded a plane to Paris, apparently hiding in the ...
Methodist Hymn and Tune Book: [489] official hymn book of the Methodist Church [490] (1917) [491] Methodist Church of Canada. Canadian Sabbath-School Hymn Book [492] (1866) [493] A Collection of Hymns, for the Use of the People Called Methodists, with a Supplement [494] (1874) [495] The Wave of Sunday School Song [496] (1878) [497] [498]