Dictionary of Hymnology
Learn hymn terms, meters, forms, and the history behind Christian worship music — curated for hymn lovers, worship leaders, and students.
Wilhelm Erasmus Arends
Hymnology
A biographical entry on German pastor and hymn writer Wilhelm Erasmus Arends.
Are your souls the Saviour seeking?
Hymnology
An entry on an anonymous nineteenth-century hymn on spiritual peace.
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 we doing as we should do?
Hymnology
An entry on Thomas Kelly's missionary examination hymn.
Are there not in the labourer's day?
Hymnology
An entry on Charles Wesley's hymn regarding duty and spiritual safety.
St. Thomas Aquinas
Hymnology
A cross-reference entry for Thomas of Aquino (St. Thomas Aquinas) in hymnody.
Approach, my soul, the mercy seat
Hymnology
An entry on John Newton's popular Lenten hymn of penitence and prayer.
Sarah Miles Appleton
Hymnology
A cross-reference entry for hymn writer Sarah Miles Appleton.
Apparuit benignitas
Hymnology
An entry on a fifteenth-century Latin Christmas poem and its famous English hymn translation.
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.
Apostles of the risen Christ, go forth
Hymnology
An entry on Horatius Bonar's missionary hymn published in Hymns of Faith and Hope.
Apostle of our own dear home
Hymnology
An entry on James Elwin Millard's festival hymn for Saint Augustine of Canterbury.
Aphraston thauma
Hymnology
An entry on Saint Cosmas's eighth-century Greek Easter Eve canon ode and its English translation by Richard F…
Anton Ulrich of Brunswick
Hymnology
A biographical entry on Duke Anton Ulrich of Brunswick, German ruler, poet, and author of devotional hymns.
Antiphonarium
Hymnology
An entry on the traditional liturgical service book containing antiphons, responsories, and hymns.
The Great Advent Antiphons
Hymnology
An entry on the seven greater Advent antiphons, their liturgical usage, and their prose and metrical English …
Antiphon
Hymnology
An entry on the liturgical definition, historical origins, and forms of the antiphon in Christian worship.
Anthologia Davidica
Hymnology
An entry on Henry Latham's 1846 compiled metrical Psalter and psalmody anthology.
Joseph Anstice
Hymnology
A biographical entry on Joseph Anstice, professor of classical literature and English hymn writer.
Another year is dawning
Hymnology
An entry on Frances Ridley Havergal's famous New Year hymn of devotion and trust.