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O 'twas a joyful sound to hear
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 118 hymnals Topics: Church General Assembly or Synod; Corner-stone, Laying of; Dedication Of a Church; General Assembly or Synod Scripture: Psalm 122 Used With Tune: HUMMEL Text Sources: Tate and Brady's "New Version," 1696, 1698
O 'twas a joyful sound to hear
COLCHESTER
Appears in 8 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: A. Williams Incipit: 11654 31556 12715 Used With Text: Oh 'twas a joyful sound to hear
COLCHESTER
O 'twas a joyful sound to hear Our tribes devoutly say
Hymnal: Selections from the Psalms of David in Metre #99 (1865)
O 'twas a joyful sound to hear Our tribes devoutly say
O 'twas a joyful sound to hear Our tribes devoutly say
Hymnal: The New York Choralist #101c (1847)
O 'twas a joyful sound to hear Our tribes devoutly say
O 'twas a joyful sound to hear Our tribes devoutly say
Hymnal: Psalms and Hymns #P122c (1872)
O 'twas a joyful sound to hear Our tribes devoutly say
Nahum Tate
1652 - 1715 Person Name: N. Tate Author of "Oh, 'twas a joyful sound to hear" in The Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged, as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892 Nahum Tate was born in Dublin and graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, B.A. 1672. He lacked great talent but wrote much for the stage, adapting other men's work, really successful only in a version of King Lear. Although he collaborated with Dryden on several occasions, he was never fully in step with the intellectual life of his times, and spent most of his life in a futile pursuit of popular favor. Nonetheless, he was appointed poet laureate in 1692 and royal historiographer in 1702. He is now known only for the New Version of the Psalms of David, 1696, which he produced in collaboration with Nicholas Brady. Poverty stricken throughout much of his life, he died in the Mint at Southwark, where he had taken refuge from his creditors, on August 12, 1715.
--The Hymnal 1940 Companion
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Nicholas Brady
1659 - 1726 Person Name: N. Brady Author of "Oh, 'twas a joyful sound to hear" in The Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged, as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892 Nicholas Brady, the son of an officer in the Royalist army, was born in Brandon, Ireland, 1659. He studied at Westminster School, and at Christ Church College, oxford, and graduated at Trinity College, Dublin. He held several positions in the ministry, but later in life retired to Richmond Surrey, where he established a school. Here he translated some of the Psalms. Several volumes of his sermons and smaller works were published, but his chief work, like that of his co-colabourer Tate, was the "Metrical Version of Psalms."
This version was authorized by King William in 1696, and has, since that time, taken the place of the earlier translation by Sternhold and Hopkins, which was published in 1562. The whole of the Psalms, with tunes, appeared in 1698, and a Supplement of Church Hymns in 1703. Of this version, which has little poetic merit, Montgomery says "It is nearly as inanimate as the former, though a little more refined." None of the "Metrical Psalms" are to be compared with the Psalms of the Prayer Book Psalter, and very few of them are worthy a place in a collection of hymns.
--Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, 1872.
Nicholas Brady
Charles Zeuner
1795 - 1857 Person Name: Heinrich C. Zeuner Composer of "HUMMEL" in The Hymnal Also:
Zeuner, Heinrich Christoph, 1795-1857
Zeuner, Heinrich Christopher, 1795-1857
Charles Zeuner
