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The Oxyrhynchus hymn (or P. Oxy. XV 1786) is the earliest known manuscript of a Christian Greek hymn to contain both lyrics and musical notation. The papyrus on which the hymn was written dates from around the end of the 3rd century AD. [1] It is on Papyrus 1786 of the Oxyrhynchus papyri, now kept at the Papyrology Rooms of the Sackler Library ...
As such, since the earliest times, Christians have sung "psalms and hymns and spiritual songs", both in private devotions and in corporate worship. [17] [18] Non-scriptural hymns (i.e. not psalms or canticles) from the Early Church still sung today include 'Phos Hilaron', 'Sub tuum praesidium', and 'Te Deum'. [19] [20] [21]
The Hymns of the Primitive Church (1837) by John Chandler [128] Old church Psalmody (1849) [129] [130] Lyra Catholica: Containing All the Hymns of the Roman Breviary and Missal (1850) [131] Hymnal Noted (1851) by John Mason Neale [132] Mediæval Hymns and Sequences (1851) [133] Hymns and Introits (1852) [134]
A hymnal or hymnary is a collection of hymns, usually in the form of a book, called a hymnbook (or hymn book). They are used in congregational singing. A hymnal may contain only hymn texts (normal for most hymnals for most centuries of Christian history); written melodies are extra, and more recently harmony parts have also been provided.
In "Funeral For a Ford", the series 3 finale episode of the British motoring television series The Grand Tour, the song is performed in Lincoln Cathedral at a "funeral" for the Ford Mondeo. The first lyric is also sung as, "Dear Ford and Father of mankind". [6] The hymn is sung by one of the characters in the 1998 Whit Stillman film The Last ...
This is a list of original Roman Catholic hymns. The list does not contain hymns originating from other Christian traditions despite occasional usage in Roman Catholic churches. The list has hymns in Latin and English.
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Porcelain image of John Barleycorn, c .1761. The first song to personify Barley was called Allan-a-Maut ('Alan of the malt'), a Scottish song written prior to 1568; [3]. Allan is also the subject of "Quhy Sowld Nocht Allane Honorit Be", a fifteenth or sixteenth century Scots poem included in the Bannatyne Manuscript of 1568 and 17th century English broadsides.