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With this New Year We Raise New Songs
Author: Johann Steuerlein; Johann C. Jacobi Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 4 hymnals Lyrics: 1 With this new year we raise new songs,
To praise the Lord with hearts and tongues,
For His support in troubles past,
Wherewith our life was overcast.
2 O! grant us, Jesu, Prince of Peace,
Thy constant aid, Thy constant grace,
That we may, thro’ the rolling year,
Serve Thee with filial love and fear.
3 O! may we never lose Thy truth—
The prop of age, the guard of youth—
Keep from us superstitious fears,
Banish false doctrine from our ears.
4 Guard us, oh! guard us from all sin:
And let us be renewed within:
Of errors past the records rend,
O! Thou, whose mercy knows no end.
5 Grant us to lead a holy life.
And when we leave this world of strife,
O! bring us to that joyful day,
When Thou wilt wipe all tears away.
6 Then shall Thy praise anew begin,
Without th’allay of self and sin.
Maintain, O Lord, our faith and love,
Till we behold Thy face above. Used With Tune: VOM HIMMEL HOCH Text Sources: Sieben und Zwantzigk newe geistlich Gesenge, mit vier Stimmen componiiret, Erfurt, Germany, 1588; Tr.: Psalmodia Germanica (London, G. Smith, 1732)
With this New Year We Raise New Songs
VOM HIMMEL HOCH
Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 286 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Johann S. Bach Tune Sources: Geistliche Lieder (Leipzig, Germany: 1539) Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 17675 67111 55345 Used With Text: With this New Year We Raise New Songs
VOM HIMMEL HOCH
With this New Year we raise New Songs
Hymnal: Psalmodia Germanica #9 (1732) Lyrics: I. With this New Year we raise New Songs,
To praise the Lord with Hearts and Tongues,
For his Support in Troubles past,
Wherewith our Life was overcast.
II. O! grant us, Jesu, Prince of Peace,
Thy constant Aid, thy constant Grace,
That we may, thro' the rolling Year,
Serve Thee with filial Love and Fear.
III. O! may we never lose thy Truth
(The Prop of Age, the Guard of Youth)
Keep from us superstitious Fears,
Banish false Doctrine from our Ears.
IV. Guard us, oh! guard us from all Sin:
And let us be renew'd within:
Of Errors past the Records rend,
O! Thou, whose Mercy knows no End.
V. Grant us to lead a holy Life.
And when we leave this World of Strive,
O! bring us to that joyful Day,
When thou wilt wipe all Tears away.
VI. Then shall thy Praise a-new begin,
Without th' Allay of Self and Sin.
Maintain, O Lord, our Faith and Love,
Till we behold thy Face above. Topics: New Year's Day Languages: English Tune Title: [With this New Year we raise New Songs]
With this New Year we raise New Songs
With this New Year We Raise New Songs
Author: Johann Steuerlein; Johann C. Jacobi Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #13282 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Lyrics: 1 With this new year we raise new songs,
To praise the Lord with hearts and tongues,
For His support in troubles past,
Wherewith our life was overcast.
2 O! grant us, Jesu, Prince of Peace,
Thy constant aid, Thy constant grace,
That we may, thro’ the rolling year,
Serve Thee with filial love and fear.
3 O! may we never lose Thy truth—
The prop of age, the guard of youth—
Keep from us superstitious fears,
Banish false doctrine from our ears.
4 Guard us, oh! guard us from all sin:
And let us be renewed within:
Of errors past the records rend,
O! Thou, whose mercy knows no end.
5 Grant us to lead a holy life.
And when we leave this world of strife,
O! bring us to that joyful day,
When Thou wilt wipe all tears away.
6 Then shall Thy praise anew begin,
Without th’allay of self and sin.
Maintain, O Lord, our faith and love,
Till we behold Thy face above. Languages: English Tune Title: VOM HIMMEL HOCH
With this New Year We Raise New Songs
With this New Year we raise new songs
Author: Johann Steuerlein Hymnal: A Hymn and Prayer-Book #16 (1795) Languages: English
With this New Year we raise new songs
Johann Sebastian Bach
1685 - 1750 Person Name: Johann S. Bach Harmonizer of "VOM HIMMEL HOCH" in The Cyber Hymnal Johann Sebastian Bach was born at Eisenach into a musical family and in a town steeped in Reformation history, he received early musical training from his father and older brother, and elementary education in the classical school Luther had earlier attended.
Throughout his life he made extraordinary efforts to learn from other musicians. At 15 he walked to Lüneburg to work as a chorister and study at the convent school of St. Michael. From there he walked 30 miles to Hamburg to hear Johann Reinken, and 60 miles to Celle to become familiar with French composition and performance traditions. Once he obtained a month's leave from his job to hear Buxtehude, but stayed nearly four months. He arranged compositions from Vivaldi and other Italian masters. His own compositions spanned almost every musical form then known (Opera was the notable exception).
In his own time, Bach was highly regarded as organist and teacher, his compositions being circulated as models of contrapuntal technique. Four of his children achieved careers as composers; Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Chopin are only a few of the best known of the musicians that confessed a major debt to Bach's work in their own musical development. Mendelssohn began re-introducing Bach's music into the concert repertoire, where it has come to attract admiration and even veneration for its own sake.
After 20 years of successful work in several posts, Bach became cantor of the Thomas-schule in Leipzig, and remained there for the remaining 27 years of his life, concentrating on church music for the Lutheran service: over 200 cantatas, four passion settings, a Mass, and hundreds of chorale settings, harmonizations, preludes, and arrangements. He edited the tunes for Schemelli's Musicalisches Gesangbuch, contributing 16 original tunes. His choral harmonizations remain a staple for studies of composition and harmony. Additional melodies from his works have been adapted as hymn tunes.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Christian Jacobi
1670 - 1750 Person Name: Johann C. Jacobi Translator of "With this New Year We Raise New Songs" in The Cyber Hymnal Jacobi, John Christian, a native of Germany, was born in 1670, and appointed Keeper of the Royal German Chapel, St. James's Palace, London, about 1708. He held that post for 42 years, and died Dec. 14, 1750. He was buried in the Church of St. Paul's, Covent Garden. His publications included :—
(1) A Collection of Divine Hymns, Translated from the High Dutch. Together with their Proper Tunes and Thorough Bass. London: Printed and Sold by J. Young, in St. Paul’s Churchyard; . . . 1720. This edition contains 15 hymns. Two years later this collection, with a few changes in the text and much enlarged, was republished as (2) Psalmodia Germanica; or a Specimen of Divine Hymns. Translated from the High Dutch. Together with their Proper Tunes and Thorough Bass. London: J. Young . 1722. This edition contained 62 hymns, of which 3 ("He reigns, the Lord our Saviour reigns"; "Is God withdrawing"? "Shepherds rejoice") and the first stanza of another ("Raise your devotion, mortal tongues," from "Hosannah to the Prince of Life") were taken from I. Watts. A second part was added in 1725, and was incorporated with the former part in 1732. London, G. Smith. After Jacobi's death the Psalmodia Germanica was republished, in 1765, by John Haberkorn, with a Supplement of 32 pieces.
[George Arthur Crawford, M.A.]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Johann Christian Jacobi
Johann Steuerlein
1546 - 1613 Author of "With this New Year We Raise New Songs" in The Cyber Hymnal Johann Steuerlein (b. Schmalkalden, Thuringia, Germany, 1546; d. Meiningen, Germany, 1613) studied law at the University of Wittenberg. From 1569 to 1589 he lived in Wasungen near Meiningen, where he served as town clerk as well as cantor and organist in the Lutheran church. From 1589 until his death he lived in Meiningen, where at various times he served as notary public, mayor, and secretary to the Elector of Saxony. A gifted poet and musician, Steurlein rhymed both the Old and New Testaments in German. A number of his hymn tunes and harmonizations were published in Geistliche Lieder (1575) and Sieben und Zwantzig Neue Geistliche Gesenge (1588).
Bert Polman
Johann Steuerlein
