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    The English Hymnal is a hymn book which was published in 1906 for the Church of England by Oxford University Press. It was edited by the clergyman and...
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  • The New English Hymnal is a hymn book and liturgical source aimed towards the Church of England. First published in 1986, it is a successor to, and published...
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  • hymns sung by religious congregations. The following is a list of English-language hymnals by denomination. See note below. Anglican Church of Canada A Selection...
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    A hymnal or hymnary is a collection of hymns, usually in the form of a book, called a hymnbook (or hymn book). They are used in congregational singing...
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    The Hymnal 1982 is the primary hymnal of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. It is one in a series of seven official hymnals of the...
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    10.10, while a paraphrased version that is used in English books (such as the New English Hymnal) is suitable to an anacrucial metre 10.11.11.11. Rop...
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    In 1906, the composer Gustav Holst composed a setting of Rossetti's words (titled "Cranham") in The English Hymnal which is sung throughout the world. An...
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    Hymns Ancient and Modern (category Anglican hymnals)
    is a hymnal in common use within the Church of England, a result of the efforts of the Oxford Movement. The hymnal was first published in 1861. The organization...
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    O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (category Hymns in The English Hymnal)
    the Hymnal of the Episcopal Church. Contemporary English hymnals print various versions ranging from four to eight verses. The version included in the Hymnal...
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  • The Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal is the official hymnal of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and is widely used by English-speaking Adventist congregations...
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    To Be a Pilgrim (category Hymns in The New English Hymnal)
    Pilgrim's Progress, written in 1684. The words were modified extensively by Percy Dearmer for the 1906 The English Hymnal. At the same time it was given a new...
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  • Descant (redirect from English discant)
    higher pitch than the main melody. Typically they are sung in the final or penultimate verse of a hymn. Although the English Hymnal of 1906 did not include...
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    All Creatures of Our God and King (category Hymns in The New English Hymnal)
    The Hymnal 1982. The Episcopal Church. New York: Church Hymnal Corp. #400. New English Hymnal (1986). Norwich: Canterbury Press. #263 Chalice Hymnal....
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    or "traditional; earliest known version by John Bull (1562–1628)". The English Hymnal (musical editor Ralph Vaughan Williams) gives no attribution, stating...
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  • throughout the original text of 1864, especially the last two lines which had replaced the Refrain in verse 8. This is how it appears in the 'English Hymnal' of...
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    Come Down, O Love Divine (category Hymns in The English Hymnal)
    publication in The English Hymnal of 1906, the hymnal's editor Ralph Vaughan Williams composed a tune, "Down Ampney", which he named after the Gloucestershire...
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    Alleluia! Sing to Jesus (category Hymns in The English Hymnal)
    hymnals lacked sufficient Eucharistic hymns. It is most commonly sung to "Hyfrydol" by Rowland Prichard though Samuel Sebastian Wesley composed the tune...
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    Love Divine, All Loves Excelling (category Hymns in The New English Hymnal)
    Thompson Brothers, 1896); The English Hymnal (1906 and rev. ed., 1933); Hymns ancient and modern, std. ed. (London, 1924); The Presbyterian and Reformed...
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    particularly rich in these and several are to be found in the Sarum Processional. In The English Hymnal nos. 613 to 640 are described as "Processional" and...
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    The United Methodist Hymnal is the hymnal used by The United Methodist Church. It was first published in 1989 as the first hymnal for The United Methodist...
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    Commonwealth hymnals, first being associated with the text in the seminal Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861), and appearing again in the 1906 English Hymnal: "Hamburg"...
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    set in sung harmony. The tune appears in this forms in most English hymnbooks (for example English Hymnal (641), New English Hymnal (197), Common Praise...
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    Onward, Christian Soldiers (category Hymns in The New English Hymnal)
    1980s to strip "Onward, Christian Soldiers" from the United Methodist Hymnal and the Episcopal Hymnal 1982 due to perceived militarism. Outrage among church-goers...
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  • Crown Him with Many Crowns (category Hymns in The New English Hymnal)
    Thring and sung to the tune 'Diademata' by Sir George Job Elvey. The hymn appears in many hymnals. The full twelve verses of the song (which has two...
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  • The traditional Irish tune "St. Columba". The tune was first paired with the text in The English Hymnal (1906), harmonised by Charles Villiers Stanford...
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    Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty (category Hymns in The New English Hymnal)
    the Anglican tradition, having appeared in the influential Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861) as well as The English Hymnal (1906) and The New English Hymnal...
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  • O Come, All Ye Faithful (category Hymns in The English Hymnal)
    modern English hymnals, the text is usually credited to John Francis Wade, whose name appears on the earliest printed versions. Wade, an English Catholic...
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    Lasst uns erfreuen (category Pages using the Score extension)
    found widespread popularity after The English Hymnal published a 1906 version in strong triple meter with new lyrics. The triumphant melody and repeated...
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  • included it in The English Hymnal, and the hymn was retained in the successor volume, The New English Hymnal (1986). In North America, the hymn is also...
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  • Saint Patrick's Breastplate (category Hymns in The New English Hymnal)
    Synod), the English Hymnal, the Irish Church Hymnal and The Hymnal (1982) of the US Episcopal Church. It is often sung during the celebration of the Feast...
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