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Harp, awake, tell out the story
Author: Henry Downton Appears in 8 hymnals
Harp, awake, tell out the story
[Harp, awake, tell out the story]
Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: W. S. Hoyte Incipit: 55134 21712 31761 Used With Text: Harp, awake, tell out the story
[Harp, awake, tell out the story]
Harp, awake, tell out the story
Author: Henry Downton Hymnal: The Westminster Abbey Hymn-Book #74 (1897) Languages: English Tune Title: [Harp, awake, tell out the story]
Harp, awake, tell out the story
Hark, Awake! Tell Out The Story
Author: Henry Downton Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #16090 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D First Line: Harp, awake! tell out the story Lyrics: 1 Harp, awake! tell out the story
Of our love and joy and praise;
Lute, awake! awake our glory!
Join a thankful song to raise!
Join we, brethren faithful-hearted,
Lift the solemn voice again
O’er another year departed
Of our threescore years and ten!
2 Lo! a theme for deepest sadness,
In ourselves with sin defiled;
Lo! a theme for holiest gladness,
In our Father reconciled!
In the dust we bend before Thee,
Lord of sinless hosts above;
Yet in lowliest joy adore Thee,
God of mercy, grace, and love!
3 Gracious Savior! Thou hast lengthened
And hast blest our mortal span,
And in our weak hearts hast strengthened
What Thy grace alone began!
Still, when danger shall betide us,
Be Thy warning whisper heard;
Keep us at Thy feet, and guide us
By Thy Spirit and Thy Word!
4 Let Thy favor and Thy blessing
Crown the year we now begin;
Let us all, Thy strength possessing,
Grow in grace, and vanquish sin!
Storms are round us, hearts are quailing,
Signs in heav’n and earth and sea;
But, when heav’n and earth are failing,
Savior! we will trust in Thee! Languages: English Tune Title: EVERTON
Hark, Awake! Tell Out The Story
Harp, awake, tell out the story
Hymnal: Anglican Hymn Book #57 (1868) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Languages: English
Harp, awake, tell out the story
Henry Thomas Smart
1813 - 1879 Composer of "EVERTON" in The Cyber Hymnal Henry Smart (b. Marylebone, London, England, 1813; d. Hampstead, London, 1879), a capable composer of church music who wrote some very fine hymn tunes (REGENT SQUARE, 354, is the best-known).
Smart gave up a career in the legal profession for one in music. Although largely self taught, he became proficient in organ playing and composition, and he was a music teacher and critic. Organist in a number of London churches, including St. Luke's, Old Street (1844-1864), and St. Pancras (1864-1869), Smart was famous for his extemporizations and for his accompaniment of congregational singing. He became completely blind at the age of fifty-two, but his remarkable memory enabled him to continue playing the organ. Fascinated by organs as a youth, Smart designed organs for important places such as St. Andrew Hall in Glasgow and the Town Hall in Leeds. He composed an opera, oratorios, part-songs, some instrumental music, and many hymn tunes, as well as a large number of works for organ and choir. He edited the Choralebook (1858), the English Presbyterian Psalms and Hymns for Divine Worship (1867), and the Scottish Presbyterian Hymnal (1875). Some of his hymn tunes were first published in Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861).
Bert Polman
Henry Thomas Smart
Henry Downton
1818 - 1885 Author of "Hark, Awake! Tell Out The Story" in The Cyber Hymnal Downton, Henry, M.A, son of Mr. John Downton, Sub-Librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge, was born at Pulverbatch, Shropshire, Feb. 12, 1818, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. 1840, and M.A. 1843. Taking Holy Orders in 1843, he became Curate of Bembridge, Isle of Wight, 1843, and of Holy Trinity, Cambridge, 1847. In 1849 he was preferred to the Incumbency of St. John's, Chatham. He went to Geneva as English Chaplain in 1857; and was appointed Rector of Hopton in 1873. He was also for some time Domestic Chaplain to the late Lord Monson. He died at Hopton, June 8, 1885. Mr. Downton published a translation of Professor Ernest Naville's Lectures on Modern Atheism, 1865; and Holy Scripture and the Temperance Question, 1878. His hymns were chiefly contributed to the Church of England Magazine; A. T. Russell's Psalms & Hymns, 1851; Barry's Psalms & Hymns, 1862; and the Sunday Magazine. In 1873 he collected these and published them as Hymns and Verses. His translations from the French of Alexandre Vinet are also in the volume. His best known hymns are "Another year, another year" (given anonymously in the Harrow School Hymns, 1855); "For Thy mercy, and Thy grace"; and " Harp awake, tell out the story." These have attained to great popularity, and are in extensive use.
- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Henry Downton
W. S. Hoyte
1844 - 1917 Composer of "[Harp, awake, tell out the story]" in The Westminster Abbey Hymn-Book Born: September 22, 1844, Sidmouth, England.
Died: July 2, 1917.
Buried: Sidmouth, England.
Hoyte studied under John Goss and George Cooper. He played the organ at various locations, finally at All Saints, Margaret Street, London (1868-1907). He was also a professor of organ at the Royal College of Music (1888), and at the Royal Academy of Music (1893), and professor of the pianoforte at the Guildhall School. He was a member of the Philharmonic Society, and received his DMus degree from the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1904.
--www.hymntime.com/tch
W. S. Hoyte
