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Browse piano sheets by Misc Praise Songs on Zen Virtual Piano. Misc Praise Songs is a mixed set of hymns and sacred songs. “Amazing Grace” is a Christian hymn published in 1779 by the English clergyman John Newton, with a message of forgiveness and redemption through the mercy of God. It was written to illustrate a sermon on New Year’s Day of 1773. Although it has been associated with more than 20 melodies, in 1835 it was joined to the tune “New Britain,” to which it is most frequently sung today. A hymn written to illustrate a sermon and later sung to more than twenty tunes, suggests how much of a hymn’s life can happen after its words are written. “How Great Thou Art” is based on a Swedish hymn, “O Store Gud”, written in 1885 by the Swedish poet Carl Boberg. Boberg published it in 1886, and the poem was matched to an old Swedish folk tune and sung in public for the first known time in a church in the province of Värmland in 1888. The English version and its title are a loose translation from 1949 by the English missionary Stuart K. Hine. A Swedish poem matched to an old folk tune, then given a loose English version decades later, shows a hymn changing hands more than once. “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing” was written by the pastor Robert Robinson, who penned the words in 1757 at age 22. In the United States it is usually set to an American folk tune known as “Nettleton,” which first appears in Wyeth’s Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second (1813). Words written at twenty-two and an American folk tune first printed more than fifty years later suggest that a hymn’s text and tune can have separate histories. The words of the Doxology, “Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow,” were written in 1674 by Thomas Ken, a bishop in the Church of England, and are commonly sung to the tune Old 100th. The Doxology was originally the final verse of a longer hymn, “Awake, My Soul, and With the Sun,” though it is most commonly sung by itself. “Alma Redemptoris Mater” (“Loving Mother of our Redeemer”) is a Marian hymn written in Latin hexameter and one of four seasonal liturgical Marian antiphons sung at the end of Compline. Since the 13th century it has been part of Compline, and it was formerly recited at the end of the canonical hours only from the first Sunday in Advent until the Feast of the Purification on 2 February. An antiphon sung at the end of Compline since the 13th century, and once recited only from Advent to the beginning of February, points to a liturgy that fitted its words to the calendar.
Browse piano sheets by Misc Praise Songs on Zen Virtual Piano.
Misc Praise Songs is a mixed set of hymns and sacred songs. “Amazing Grace” is a Christian hymn published in 1779 by the English clergyman John Newton, with a message of forgiveness and redemption through the mercy of God. It was written to illustrate a sermon on New Year’s Day of 1773. Although it has been associated with more than 20 melodies, in 1835 it was joined to the tune “New Britain,” to which it is most frequently sung today. A hymn written to illustrate a sermon and later sung to more than twenty tunes, suggests how much of a hymn’s life can happen after its words are written.
“How Great Thou Art” is based on a Swedish hymn, “O Store Gud”, written in 1885 by the Swedish poet Carl Boberg. Boberg published it in 1886, and the poem was matched to an old Swedish folk tune and sung in public for the first known time in a church in the province of Värmland in 1888. The English version and its title are a loose translation from 1949 by the English missionary Stuart K. Hine. A Swedish poem matched to an old folk tune, then given a loose English version decades later, shows a hymn changing hands more than once.
“Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing” was written by the pastor Robert Robinson, who penned the words in 1757 at age 22. In the United States it is usually set to an American folk tune known as “Nettleton,” which first appears in Wyeth’s Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second (1813). Words written at twenty-two and an American folk tune first printed more than fifty years later suggest that a hymn’s text and tune can have separate histories. The words of the Doxology, “Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow,” were written in 1674 by Thomas Ken, a bishop in the Church of England, and are commonly sung to the tune Old 100th. The Doxology was originally the final verse of a longer hymn, “Awake, My Soul, and With the Sun,” though it is most commonly sung by itself.
“Alma Redemptoris Mater” (“Loving Mother of our Redeemer”) is a Marian hymn written in Latin hexameter and one of four seasonal liturgical Marian antiphons sung at the end of Compline. Since the 13th century it has been part of Compline, and it was formerly recited at the end of the canonical hours only from the first Sunday in Advent until the Feast of the Purification on 2 February. An antiphon sung at the end of Compline since the 13th century, and once recited only from Advent to the beginning of February, points to a liturgy that fitted its words to the calendar.
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The English clergyman John Newton published it in 1779; it was written to illustrate a sermon on New Year’s Day of 1773.
It is based on the Swedish hymn “O Store Gud,” written in 1885 by Carl Boberg; the English version is a loose translation made in 1949 by the missionary Stuart K. Hine.
The words “Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow,” written in 1674 by Thomas Ken, a bishop in the Church of England; the text was originally the final verse of a longer hymn.