Dictionary of Hymnology
Learn hymn terms, meters, forms, and the history behind Christian worship music — curated for hymn lovers, worship leaders, and students.
Are we not sons and heirs of God?
Hymnology
An entry on Isaac Watts's hymn on Christian gravity and decency based on Philippians 4:8.
Are your souls the Saviour seeking?
Hymnology
An entry on an anonymous nineteenth-century hymn on spiritual peace.
Arglwydd arwain trwy'r anialwch
Hymnology
An entry on William Williams's classic Welsh hymn and its famous English translation, Guide me, O Thou great …
Arglwydd arwain trwy'r anialwch. W. Williams. [Strength to pass through the Wilderness.'] This was pub. in the 1st ed. of the author's Alleluia, Bristol, 1745, in 5 st. of 61., as follows:—
Hymnology
An entry on an anonymous seventh-century Latin acrostic poem on the Day of Judgment.
Arise and hail the happy day
Hymnology
An entry on an anonymous eighteenth-century Christmas hymn later attributed to Elizabeth Scott.
Arise, and follow me
Hymnology
An entry on Henry Alford's hymn written for St. Matthew's Day.
Arise, in all Thy splendour, Lord
An entry on Sarah Slinn's missionary hymn and its American revision.
Arise, my soul, arise, Shake off
Hymnology
An entry on Charles Wesley's widely used hymn on Christ the Mediator.
Aute he klete kai hagia hemera
Hymnology
An entry on Ode VIII of the Easter Canon by St. John of Damascus and its use in English hymnals.
Aye moi psycha
History
Hymnological profile of the third Ode of Synesius, Bishop of Ptolemais, written upon his return to Libya and …
Aye phorge, Lygia phorminx
History
Hymnological record of the first Ode of Synesius, Bishop of Ptolemais, detailing its Greek text origins and n…