hymn metre (US: meter) indicates the number of syllables for the lines in each stanza (verse) of a hymn. This provides a means of marrying the hymn's...

or by its shorthand abbreviation "CM". Common metre has been used for ballads such as "Tam Lin" and hymns such as "Amazing Grace" and the Christmas carol...

unconventionally timed rhythm figures cycling over a 4 4 base. Metre (hymn) Metre (poetry) Hymn tune List of musical works in unusual time signatures Scholes...

area of hymn metres. When the poem is used as a sung hymn, the metre of the text is denoted by the syllable count of each line; for long metre, the count...

mother goddess Metre (hymn), the syllable patterns in hymn stanzas Metre (music), the regular underlying temporal grid of music Metre (poetry), the regular...

Metre might be sung to any hymn tune in Long Metre, but the tunes might be as different as those tunes that have been used for centuries with hymns such...

A hymn is a type of song, and partially synonymous with devotional song, specifically written for the purpose of adoration or prayer, and typically addressed...

metrics Line (poetry) List of classical metres Metre (hymn) Metre (music) Scansion Cummings, Michael J. (2006). "metre in Poetry and Verse: A Study Guide"...

multiple level). Composite rhythm Metre (hymn) Metre (poetry) Triple metre Duple and quadruple metre Sextuple metre Counting (music) Fitch, W. Tecumseh...

rhymed couplets, in which case they may be seen as ballad stanza or common metre hymn quatrains in two rather than four lines. The term may also be used as...

" Foot (prosody) Hymn tune Hymnal Hymn Society in the United States and Canada Hymnographer Hymns and hymn tunes Metre (hymn) Metre (poetry) Hymnody of...

which is in compound sextuple time (18 8). Metre (hymn) Metre (poetry) Triple metre Duple and quadruple metre Composite rhythm Counting (music) Read 1964...

The Delphic Hymns are two musical compositions from Ancient Greece, which survive in substantial fragments. They were long regarded as being dated c. 138 BC...

Christian hymn published in 1779, written in 1772 by English Anglican clergyman and poet John Newton (1725–1807). It is an immensely popular hymn, particularly...

quadruple metre Metre (hymn) Metre (poetry) Metric modulation List of musical works in unusual time signatures Schaffel Sextuple metre Triple metre Humphries...

hymns are a collection of early hymns of the Latin liturgical rites, whose core of four hymns were by Ambrose of Milan in the 4th century. The hymns of...

Press) in 1931. The hymn is used in liturgy, at weddings and at the beginning of funeral services, and is one of the most popular hymns in the United Kingdom...

E. V. Arnold classified the hymns of the Rigveda into four periods, partly on the grounds of language and partly of metre. In the earliest period, which...

Cædmon's Hymn is a short Old English poem attributed to Cædmon, a supposedly illiterate and unmusical cow-herder who was, according to the Northumbrian...

terminum ('To Thee before the close of day') is an old Latin hymn in long metre. It is the hymn at Compline in the Roman Breviary. S.-G. Pimont argued for...

help. "The Lord's My Shepherd" is in common metre (a metre of 8.6.8.6) and it is most commonly sung to the hymn tune Crimond, named after Crimond Church...

are arranged in five different modes or metres. The Avestan term gāθā (𐬔𐬁𐬚𐬁 "hymn", but also "mode, metre") is cognate with Sanskrit gāthā (गाथा)...

Lutheran, Anglican and other Protestant liturgies. It was paraphrased to a metred hymn in German, "Straf mich nicht in deinem Zorn" by Johann Georg Albinus...

The Olney Hymns /ˈoʊni/ were first published in February 1779 and are the combined work of curate John Newton (1725–1807) and his poet friend William...

and Hymn Tunes and it was published in 1861 in Hymns Ancient and Modern. For this publication the editor, William Henry Monk, changed the metre from...

believes that it is probably not by Mesomedes. The metre of the hymn is known as the apokroton, a metre of anapaestic character popular in the 2nd and 3rd...

metron could optionally be long instead of short. An example in Latin is the hymn Aeterne rerum conditor composed in the 4th century by St Ambrose, which begins:...

as a metre for Christian hymns. The same metre, with stress-rhythm replacing quantitative metre, has continued to be used, especially for hymns and anthems...

type Mensural notation Mensurstrich Messa di voce Method (music) Metre (hymn) Metre (music) Metric modulation Metronome Mezzo-soprano Micropolyphony Microsound...

Hymnals, also called hymnbooks (or hymn books) and occasionally hymnaries, are books of hymns sung by religious congregations. The following is a list...