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TRANSYLVANIA
Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 8 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Robert L. Sanders Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 33542 31255 51766 Used With Text: Lord of all being, throned afar
TRANSYLVANIA
Thou Who Canst Never Change Nor Fail
Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 3 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Thou who canst never change nor fail,
Guiding the hours as they roll by,
Brightening with beams the morning pale
And glowing warm in the midday sky.
2 Quench Thou the fire of hate and strife,
The wasting fever of the heart;
From perils guard our feeble life
And to our souls Thy peace impart.
3 Grant this, O Father, only Son,
And Holy Spirit, God of grace,
To whom all glory, Three in One,
Be giv’n in every time and place. Used With Tune: GREEN MOUNTAINS Text Sources: Adapted from the daily hymn for the midday office of Sext in the Roman Breviary and in the Benedictine Rite (Rector Potens, Verax Deus).
Thou Who Canst Never Change Nor Fail
Lord of all being, throned afar
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 433 hymnals Topics: Worship and Praise Used With Tune: TRANSYLVANIA
Lord of all being, throned afar
Not always on the mount may we Rapt in the heavenly vision be
Author: Frederick Lucian Hosmer Appears in 40 hymnals Used With Tune: TRANSYLVANIA
Not always on the mount may we Rapt in the heavenly vision be
Thanks Be for These
Author: Richard Seward Gilbert, 1936-; Joyce Timmerman Gilbert, 1936 Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #322 (1993) Meter: 8.8.8.8 First Line: Thanks be for these, life's holy times Topics: Humanist Teachings Humanity: Women and Men; The Arts; Celebration and Praise; Dedication of a Building; Gratitude Languages: English Tune Title: TRANSYLVANIA
Thanks Be for These
Lord of all being, throned afar
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Hymnal: Hymns of the Spirit for Use in the Free Churches of America #16 (1937) Languages: English Tune Title: TRANSYLVANIA
Lord of all being, throned afar
Lord of all being, throned afar
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Hymnal: The Beacon Song and Service book #24 (1935) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Worship and Praise Languages: English Tune Title: TRANSYLVANIA
Lord of all being, throned afar
Robert L. Sanders
1906 - 1974 Arranger of "TRANSYLVANIA" in The Beacon Song and Service book
Robert L. Sanders
Catherine Winkworth
1827 - 1878 Translator of "Thee will I love, my Lord, my tower" in The Hymnal Catherine Winkworth (b. Holborn, London, England, 1827; d. Monnetier, Savoy, France, 1878) is well known for her English translations of German hymns; her translations were polished and yet remained close to the original. Educated initially by her mother, she lived with relatives in Dresden, Germany, in 1845, where she acquired her knowledge of German and interest in German hymnody. After residing near Manchester until 1862, she moved to Clifton, near Bristol. A pioneer in promoting women's rights, Winkworth put much of her energy into the encouragement of higher education for women. She translated a large number of German hymn texts from hymnals owned by a friend, Baron Bunsen. Though often altered, these translations continue to be used in many modern hymnals. Her work was published in two series of Lyra Germanica (1855, 1858) and in The Chorale Book for England (1863), which included the appropriate German tune with each text as provided by Sterndale Bennett and Otto Goldschmidt. Winkworth also translated biographies of German Christians who promoted ministries to the poor and sick and compiled a handbook of biographies of German hymn authors, Christian Singers of Germany (1869).
Bert Polman
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Winkworth, Catherine, daughter of Henry Winkworth, of Alderley Edge, Cheshire, was born in London, Sep. 13, 1829. Most of her early life was spent in the neighbourhood of Manchester. Subsequently she removed with the family to Clifton, near Bristol. She died suddenly of heart disease, at Monnetier, in Savoy, in July, 1878. Miss Winkworth published:—
Translations from the German of the Life of Pastor Fliedner, the Founder of the Sisterhood of Protestant Deaconesses at Kaiserworth, 1861; and of the Life of Amelia Sieveking, 1863.
Her sympathy with practical efforts for the benefit of women, and with a pure devotional life, as seen in these translations, received from her the most practical illustration possible in the deep and active interest which she took in educational work in connection with the Clifton Association for the Higher Education of Women, and kindred societies there and elsewhere. Our interest, however, is mainly centred in her hymnological work as embodied in her:—
(1) Lyra Germanica, 1st Ser., 1855. (2) Lyra Germanica, 2nd Ser., 1858. (3) The Chorale Book for England (containing translations from the German, together with music), 1863; and (4) her charming biographical work, the Christian Singers of Germany, 1869.
In a sympathetic article on Miss Winkworth in the Inquirer of July 20, 1878, Dr. Martineau says:—
"The translations contained in these volumes are invariably faithful, and for the most part both terse and delicate; and an admirable art is applied to the management of complex and difficult versification. They have not quite the fire of John Wesley's versions of Moravian hymns, or the wonderful fusion and reproduction of thought which may be found in Coleridge. But if less flowing they are more conscientious than either, and attain a result as poetical as severe exactitude admits, being only a little short of ‘native music'"
Dr. Percival, then Principal of Clifton College, also wrote concerning her (in the Bristol Times and Mirror), in July, 1878:—
"She was a person of remarkable intellectual and social gifts, and very unusual attainments; but what specially distinguished her was her combination of rare ability and great knowledge with a certain tender and sympathetic refinement which constitutes the special charm of the true womanly character."
Dr. Martineau (as above) says her religious life afforded "a happy example of the piety which the Church of England discipline may implant.....The fast hold she retained of her discipleship of Christ was no example of ‘feminine simplicity,' carrying on the childish mind into maturer years, but the clear allegiance of a firm mind, familiar with the pretensions of non-Christian schools, well able to test them, and undiverted by them from her first love."
Miss Winkworth, although not the earliest of modern translators from the German into English, is certainly the foremost in rank and popularity. Her translations are the most widely used of any from that language, and have had more to do with the modern revival of the English use of German hymns than the versions of any other writer.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Anonymous
Composer of "GREEN MOUNTAINS" in The Cyber Hymnal In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.
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