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The Son of God Goes Forth to War (1812) is a hymn by Reginald Heber [1] which appears, with reworked lyrics, in the novella The Man Who Would Be King (1888), by Rudyard Kipling and, set to the Irish tune The Moreen / The Minstrel Boy, in the film The Man Who Would Be King (1975), directed by John Huston. [2]
"My Song Is Love Unknown" is a hymn by Samuel Crossman, written in 1664. It is predominantly used as a hymn for Good Friday. [1] The hymn tune to which it is usually sung is called Love Unknown, which is by John Ireland (1879–1962). Ireland composed the melody over lunch one day at the suggestion of organist and fellow-composer Geoffrey Shaw. [2]
"Jesus your King is born, Jesus is born, In excelsis gloria." The earliest moon of wintertime Is not so round and fair As was the ring of glory On the helpless infant there. The chiefs from far before him knelt With gifts of fox and beaver pelt. "Jesus your King is born, Jesus is born, In excelsis gloria." O children of the forest free, O sons ...
" Herr Jesu Christ, wahr Mensch und Gott" (Lord Jesus Christ, true man and God) is a Lutheran hymn by Paul Eber. It is a hymn for the dying. It is a hymn for the dying. One of the hymn's tunes , Zahn No. 423, is also used for "Wir danken dir, Herr Jesu Christ" [ choralwiki ] .
The words may have originated in the Jesuit Order, which came into being after the Crusades. The words were first printed in a Münster Gesangbuch of 1677 , a Roman Catholic hymnbook. It must have become popular, in the manner of a folk-song, because it was recorded in 1839 by August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben in the district of Glaz in ...
Unto us a Boy is born, King of all creation: Came He to a world forlorn, The Lord of every nation. Cradled in a stall was He 'Midst the cows and asses; But the very beasts could see That He all men surpasses. Herod then with fear was filled: "A prince," he said, "in Jewry!" All the little boys he killed At Bethl'em in his fury. Now may Mary's ...
The story contains some miraculous elements, and has its emphasis slightly changed from the more traditionally Jewish to a more popularly Western Christian view of the afterlife. As in other popular renderings of the parable, Dives (Latin for rich or splendid) was considered as a proper name, and the name even was changed to Diverus in variant B.
True Grit is the 15th Coen brothers film scored by long-time collaborator Carter Burwell. The Coens discussed the idea of using 19th-century church music, "something that was severe (sounding). It couldn't be soothing or uplifting, and at the same time it couldn't be outwardly depressing. I spent the summer going through hymn books," Burwell ...