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"Amazing Grace" is a Christian hymn published in 1779, written in 1772 by English Anglican clergyman and poet John Newton (1725–1807). It is possibly the most sung and most recorded hymn in the world, and especially popular in the United States, where it is used for both religious and secular purposes.
Amazing Grace is a live album by American singer Aretha Franklin. It was recorded in January 1972 at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles , with Reverend James Cleveland and the Southern California Community Choir accompanying Franklin in performance.
The hymn "Amazing Grace" exemplifies a standard form, with a four-line stanza, in which lines with four stressed syllables alternate with lines with three stressed syllables; stressed syllables are rendered in bold. Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now am found, was blind, but now I see.
Amazing Grace is a musical with music and lyrics by Christopher Smith and a book by Smith and Arthur Giron. [1] The musical is Smith's first foray as a professional writer or composer. [2] [3] It is based loosely on the life of John Newton, an English slave trader who later became an Anglican priest and eventually an abolitionist.
Perhaps the most famous gospel–based hymns were composed in the 1760s and 1770s by English writers John Newton ("Amazing Grace") and Augustus Toplady ("Rock of Ages"), members of the Anglican Church. Starting out as lyrics only, it took decades for standardized tunes to be added to them.
Amazing Grace: Music Inspired By the Motion Picture is a soundtrack for the movie Amazing Grace starring Ioan Gruffudd.The album features new versions of old hymns recorded by some of Christian music's more prominent artists as well as one of the most popular country artists around today.
The album includes material by Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Jacques Brel and Joan Baez, as well as Collins' top-forty version of "Amazing Grace", [6] and the traditional "Farewell to Tarwathie", on which Collins sang to the accompaniment of humpback whales. [7] In 1971, the album was certified Gold by the RIAA for sales of over 500,000 copies in the ...
The lyrics of John Newton's Amazing Grace are credited to Staunton Burdett's Baptist Harmony (1834). C. M. is common metre. New Britain is a hymn tune which was first published under other names in the early 19th century, including St Mary's, Gallaher, Symphony, Harmony Grove and Solon.