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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 ...
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
English-speaking Lutherans in America began singing the metrical translations of German chorales by Catherine Winkworth and Jane Laurie Borthwick, and rediscovered their heritage. Although closely associated with the Church of England , Hymns Ancient and Modern was a private venture by a committee, called the Proprietors, chaired by Sir Henry ...
Fragments of both hymns in the Delphi Archaeological Museum. The Delphic Hymns are two musical compositions from Ancient Greece, which survive in substantial fragments.They were long regarded as being dated c. 138 BC and 128 BC, respectively, but recent scholarship has shown it likely they were both written for performance at the Athenian Pythaids in 128 BC. [1]
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A canon (Greek: κανών, romanized: kanōn) is a structured hymn used in a number of Eastern Orthodox services. It consists of nine odes , based on the Biblical canticles . Most of these are found in the Old Testament , but the final ode is taken from the Magnificat and Song of Zechariah from the New Testament .
The Oxford English Dictionary considers it a "fanciful" coinage, but an 1893 speculation reported in the Chicago Tribune as to the origin of the word as one of its early attestations: A writer in the March Atlantic gives this as the origin of the slang word "socdollager", which was current some time ago. "Socdollager" was the uneducated man's ...
There exist official English translations of the Missal and Breviary of the Dominican Rite, but not of the other distinctive monastic usages. It has been the practice to publish hymnals of songs in the vernacular language for more than 400 years, and many of these now contain some Latin Gregorian chants. They include the following: