Dictionary of Hymnology

Learn hymn terms, meters, forms, and the history behind Christian worship music — curated for hymn lovers, worship leaders, and students.

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All ye who faithful servants are History Overview of Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady's Communion hymn "All ye who faithful servants are," based on Revel… Almighty God, the pure and just History Details on Edward Osler's Lenten hymn "Almighty God, the pure and just." Amidst the mighty, where is he Hymnology An entry on John Morison's metrical paraphrase of Lamentations 3:37–40 from the 1781 Scottish Translations an… Another week has passed away Hymnology An entry on William Hiley Bathurst's Saturday evening hymn and its Latin translation. Another year hath fled, renew Hymnology An entry on Arthur Tozer Russell's New Year hymn and its textual revisions. Auctor beate saeculi Hymnology An entry on the anonymous Latin hymn for the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Auferstehn, ja auferstehn wirst du Hymnology An entry on Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock's resurrection poem and its English translations. Awake, again the Gospel trump is blown History An Advent hymn by John Keble, written in 1823 and published in The Christian Year (1827). Awake, my soul, to grateful praise History An anonymous or attributed morning hymn first published in J. H. Gurney's 1838 collection. Awake, our souls, and bless His name History Philip Doddridge's hymn on Christ the Door, based on John 10:9 and published in 1755. Christoph Carl Julius Aschenfeldt Hymnology A biography of the German pastor, superintendent, and hymn writer Christoph Carl Julius Aschenfeldt. Heinrich Alberti History Biographical account and publication history of seventeenth-century organist and composer Heinrich Alberti, c… Hymnum canentes martyrum Hymnology A publication, structural, and translation history of the Venerable Bede's hymn for the Holy Innocents, notin… I give immortal praise Hymnology A publication, structural, and textual history of Isaac Watts's famous trinitarian doxology, charting its shi… Jerusalem, thy joys divine Hymnology A publication and textual history of the seventeenth-century poem on the Heavenly Jerusalem, tracking its rec… O heavenly love, arise, arise Hymn An historical account of the hymn 'O heavenly love, arise, arise,' tracing its origins to a nineteenth-centur…