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Song of Songs (Cantique des Cantiques) by Gustave Moreau, 1893. The Song of Songs (Biblical Hebrew: שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים , romanized: Šīr hašŠīrīm), also called the Canticle of Canticles or the Song of Solomon, is a biblical poem, one of the five megillot ("scrolls") in the Ketuvim ('writings'), the last section of the Tanakh.
"Song for Athene", which has a performance time of about seven minutes, is an elegy consisting of the Hebrew word alleluia ("let us praise the Lord") sung monophonically six times as an introduction to texts excerpted and modified from the funeral service of the Eastern Orthodox Church and from Shakespeare's Hamlet (probably 1599–1601). [4]
"Solomon" is mentioned twice in this chapter (verses 1 and 5); Solomon's name also appears in two other passages (3 times in 3:6–11 and twice in the final chapter 8:10–12), a total of seven times in the whole book. Female: Longing for her lover (1:2–7) Heart shaped shadow cast by a ring on the pages of the Bible. Song of Solomon chapter 1 ...
As the Deer. "' As the Deer " is a praise and worship hymn song by Martin J. Nystrom, [1] a native of Seattle. Written in 1984, this song is based on Psalm 42:1; [2][3][4][5] "As the deer panteth for the water, so my soul longeth after Thee; You alone are my heart's desire, and I long to worship Thee" [6]
'a song on the ascents'). They are also variously called Gradual Psalms, Fifteen Psalms, Songs of Degrees, Songs of Steps, songs for going up to worship or Pilgrim Songs. Four of them (Psalms 122, 124, 131, and 133) are linked in their ascriptions to David, and one to Solomon. Three of them (Psalms 131, 133, and 134) have only three verses. [1]
Song of Songs 6 (abbreviated [where?] as Song 6) is the sixth chapter of the Song of Songs in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] [2] This book is one of the Five Megillot, a collection of short books, together with Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes and Esther, within the Ketuvim, the third and the last part of the Hebrew Bible. [3]
Symphoniae sacrae I (literally: Sacred Symphonies, Book One) is a collection of different pieces of vocal sacred music on Latin texts, composed by Heinrich Schütz, published in 1629. He set mostly psalms and excerpts from the Song of Solomon for one to three voices, with various instruments and continuo. Its twenty pieces were assigned 257 to ...
It was also played at the funeral of William Gladstone. [13] In his book Hymns That Have Helped, W. T. Stead reported "when the SS London went down in the Bay of Biscay, 11 January 1866, the last thing which the last man who left the ship heard as the boat pushed off from the doomed vessel was the voices of the passengers singing 'Rock of Ages ...