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Church Hymns: with tunes (1903) [169] Additional Hymns with Tunes for use with any other church Hymnal (1903) [170] The English Hymnal (1906, 1933) – edited by Percy Dearmer, used in Anglo-Catholic churches; Church Hymnal for the Christian Year (1917) – an evangelical collection, replaced by the Anglican Hymn Book in 1965 [171] Songs of ...
The lyrics to the hymn were written by Johnson in 1853, five years after Brigham Young preached on Ensign Peak as the Mormon pioneers first arrived in the Salt Lake Valley. [2] Even though Johnson's journal contains more than 700 hymns, "High on the Mountain Top" is his most notable contribution to LDS music.
The book contains a table of contents, followed by a preface with a message from the church's first presidency, which encourages church members to use the hymn book at meetings and in their homes to invite the spirit and to teach doctrine. The hymn section is divided into thematic groups:
According to the tradition of the King's College Choir, the soloist of this hymn is usually chosen right before the performance, when the choirmaster decides whose voice is the strongest on the day, prior to the start of the broadcast. [6] This carol was the first recording that the King's College Choir under Boris Ord made for EMI in 1948. [7]
The preface to the hymnal describes itself as "a collection of the best hymns in the English language." [2] Much of the contents was used for the first time at St Mary's, Primrose Hill, in north London [3] [4] and the hymnbook could be considered a musical companion to The Parson's Handbook, Dearmer's 1899 manifesto on English church ceremonial, vestments and furnishings.
The hymn is most commonly set to [17] and was made famous by [18] the tune "St Fulbert" by Henry John Gauntlett, which first appeared in The Church Hymn and Tune Book (London, 1852). There it was used for the hymn "Now Christ, our Passover, is slain" and was known as "St Leofred". The editors of Hymns Ancient and Modern set Campbell's altered ...
The hymn was published with the current music (the "Winter Quarters" tune) for the first time in the 1889 edition of the Latter-day Saints' Psalmody. The hymn was renamed "Come, Come, Ye Saints" and is hymn number 30 in the current LDS Church hymnal. A men's arrangement of the hymn is number 326 of the same hymnal. [3]
"All Glory, Laud and Honour" is an English translation by the Anglican clergyman John Mason Neale of the Latin hymn "Gloria, laus et honor", which was written by Theodulf of Orléans in 820. [1] It is a Palm Sunday hymn, based on Matthew 21:1–11 and the occasion of Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem. [2]