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"Palms of Victory" has been published in several "standard" hymnals, between 1900 and 1966: the Methodist Cokesbury Worship Hymnal of 1923 (hymn no. 142, as "Deliverance Will Come"), [8] the Mennonite Church and Sunday-school Hymnal of 1902 (hymn no. 132), [9] the Nazarene Glorious Gospel Hymns of 1931 (hymn no. 132, as "The Bloodwashed Pilgrim"), [10] the African Methodist Episcopal hymnal of ...
Hevenu shalom aleichem" (Hebrew: הבאנו שלום עליכם "We brought peace upon you" [1]) is a Hebrew-language folk song based on the greeting Shalom aleichem. While perceived to be an Israeli folk song, the melody of "Hevenu shalom aleichem" pre-dates the current state of Israel and is of Hasidic origin.
For illustrious men have the whole earth for their tomb. Pericles' Funeral Oration from Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.43.3 Julius Caesar paused on the banks of the Rubicon. Ἀνεῤῥίφθω κύβος. Anerrhíphthō kúbos. Alea iacta est. Latin: "The die has been cast"; Greek: "Let the die be cast."
The "Hymn to Liberty", [a] also known as the "Hymn to Freedom", [b] is a Greek poem written by Dionysios Solomos in 1823 and set to music by Nikolaos Mantzaros in 1828. It officially became the national anthem of Greece in 1864 and Cyprus in 1966. Consisting of 158 stanzas in total, is the longest national anthem in the world by length of text. [3]
The Hymn of Aris or Aris Niketes (Ares Victorious) is the anthem of the Greek multi-sport club Aris, based in Thessaloniki. [1] It was written in 1926. The lyrics were written by Georgios Kitsos and the music by Secondo Poselli (son of Vitaliano Poselli). The orchestration was made by the famous classic composer of Thessaloniki Emilios Riadis.
The Oxyrhynchus hymn is the only surviving fragment of notated Christian Greek music from the first four hundred years of the Christian period, [8] although historian and musician Kenneth Levy has argued that the Sanctus melody best preserved in the Western medieval Requiem mass dates from around the fourth century. [9]
The song was composed in Asia Minor in the 9th century, [1] [2] during the time of the Byzantine Empire.. The Dead Brother's Song was widespread in the Greek-speaking world during the High and Late Middle Ages, as it can be seen by the many variants that have survived in various places of Greece, of which seventeen were published in 1885. [3]
"Famous Macedonia" («Μακεδονία ξακουστή») is a Greek military march that is derived from a traditional Greek folk song written in 1910. It is often regarded as the regional anthem of Greek Macedonia , [ 1 ] and had been used as the marching song of the Hellenic Army since the Balkan Wars .