Dictionary of Hymnology
Learn hymn terms, meters, forms, and the history behind Christian worship music — curated for hymn lovers, worship leaders, and students.
American Hymnody
History
Comprehensive survey of the history, development, denominational collections, and principal hymnists of Ameri…
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…
Anastaseose Hemera
Hymnology
An entry on the Golden Canon of St. John of Damascus, detailing its eight Easter odes, liturgical context in …
And can my heart aspire so high
Hymnology
An entry on Anne Steele's hymn on filial submission based on Hebrews 12:7.
And dost Thou fast, and may I feast?
Hymnology
An entry on John Samuel Bewley Monsell's Lenten and Communion hymn.
And have I, Christ, no love for Thee
Hymnology
An entry on Samuel Stennett's 1787 hymn on holy anxiety.
And is the gospel peace and love?
Hymnology
An entry on Anne Steele's hymn on the example of Christ.
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.
Apostles of the risen Christ, go forth
Hymnology
An entry on Horatius Bonar's missionary hymn published in Hymns of Faith and Hope.
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.
Cantemus cuncti melodum nunc
Hymnology
A publication, authorship, and text-critical overview of the celebrated Alleluiatic Sequence, examining its S…
Heinrich Alberti
History
Biographical account and publication history of seventeenth-century organist and composer Heinrich Alberti, c…
Henry Allon
Hymnology
Biography of Dr. Henry Allon, Independent minister, editor of the British Quarterly Review, and prominent con…
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…
Marion Paul Aird
History
Biographical summary of Scottish devotional writer Marion Paul Aird, author of Home of the Heart and the hymn…
O heavenly love, arise, arise
Hymn
An historical account of the hymn 'O heavenly love, arise, arise,' tracing its origins to a nineteenth-centur…
O paidas ek kaminou
Hymnology
An entry on Ode VII of the Easter Canon of St. John of Damascus and its English translations.