The tune was first published with the Easter text "Lasst uns erfreuen herzlich sehr" in the Jesuit hymnal Ausserlesene Catlwlische Geistliche Kirchengesänge (Cologne, 1623). Go to tune page > LASST UNS ERFREUEN LASST UNS ERFREUEN derives its opening line and several other melodic ideas from GENEVAN 68 (68). Virtually nothing is known about Hatton, its composer,… Helen's, Lancaster, England, 1793) in William Dixon's Euphonia (1805). Go to tune page > DUKE STREET First published anonymously in Henry Boyd's Select Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes (1793), DUKE STREET was credited to John Hatton (b. OLD HUNDREDTH This tune is likely the work of the composer named here, but has also been attributed to others as shown in the instances list below.Īccording to the Handbook to the Baptist Hymnal (1992), Old 100th first appeared in the Genevan Psalter, and "the first half of the tune contains phrases which may ha… John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) This was omitted in the 1875 revised edition of the Wesleyan Hymn Book, in favour of Watts's original text. Ken's doxology, "Praise God from whom all blessings flow," &c. It is composed of Watts's original, four lines from the York Pocket Book text, and Bp. It appeared in the 1830 Supplement to the Wesleyan Hymn Book, No. A third form of the text is also in common use. The cento in this form is in common use in Great Britain and America.ģ. The original, together with these lines from the York book, passed into several collections as a hymn in 4 stanzas of 4 lines.
Wesley reprinted in his Pocket Hymn-book, 1786, Watts's “From all that dwell below the skies," with these additional lines in one stanza:. Spence, 5th edition, 1786.įrom this hymn-book J. The hymn-book here referred to is:- A Pocket Hymn-book designed as a constant Companion for the pious, collected from Various Authors. This I have done in the present volume only with this difference," &c. To cut off all pretence from the Methodists for buying them, our Brethren in the late Conference at Bristol advised me to print the same Hymn-book which had been printed at York. But most of our people were supplied already with the other Hymns. Two years ago I published a Pocket Hymn-book according to my promise. But before I could do this, a Bookseller stepped in, and without my consent or knowledge, extracted such a Hymn-book chiefly from our works, aud spread several editions of it throughout the kingdom. This I promised to do, as soon as I had finished some other business, which was then on my hands. ”A few years ago I was desired by many of our preachers to prepare and publish a small Pocket Hymn-book, to be used in common in our Societies.
John Wesley, in the Preface to his Pocket Hymn-book for the Use of Christians of All Denominations, dated Nov. A second form of the hymn appeared about 1780, under the following circumstances.
It has also been translated into several languages, including Latin, by Bingham, in his Hymnologia Christiana Latina, 1871:-" Magna Creatoris cunctis alturn aethera subter."Ģ. In this its original form this hymn is in extensive use in all English-speaking countries. Thy Praise shall sound from Shore to Shore This paraphrase appeared in his Psalms of David, 1719, as follows:.
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