The Chosen Three, on Mountain Height

Top Media Text Author Text Info Tune Timeline Arrangements Page Scans Instances

The chosen three, on mountain height

Author: David Hough Ela
Tune: BOARDMAN
Published in 11 hymnals

Printable scores: PDF, MusicXML
Audio files: MIDI

Piano/Organ
	The Eucharist (Practical Organ Music for…

Representative Text

1 The chosen three, on mountain hight,
While Jesus bowed in prayer,
Beheld His vesture glow with light,
His face shine wondrous fair.

2 And lo! with the transfigured Lord,
Leader and seer they saw;
With Carmel's hoary prophet stood
The giver of the law.

3 From the low-bending cloud above,
Whence radiant brightness shone,
Spake out the Father's voice of love,
"Hear my beloved Son!"

4 Lord, lead us to the mountain hight;
To prayer's transfiguring glow;
And clothe us with the Spirit's might,
For grander work below.

Source: The A.M.E. Zion Hymnal: official hymnal of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church #252

All representative texts • Compare texts ^ top

Author: David Hough Ela

Ela, David Hough, D.D., was born in Maine in 1831. In 1860 he entered the ministry of the American Methodist Episcopal Church. His hymn: "The chosen three, on mountain height" (Transfiguration), was written in 1877 and published in the Methodist Episcopal Hymnal, 1878. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)… Go to person page >

^ top

First Line:	The chosen three, on mountain height
Title:	The Chosen Three, on Mountain Height
Author:	David Hough Ela
Meter:	8.6.8.6
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

Matthew 17:2
(hymns)

^ top

Tune

BOARDMAN

NOEL (Mason)

EVAN (Havergal)

This tune [EVAN], "the popularity of which in Scotland, America, and the Colonies is quite unprecedented" (Tonic Sol Fa Reporter, May 15, 1870), consists of the 1st, 2nd, 7th, and 8th strains of "O Thou dread Power" a sacred song by the Rev. W.H. Havergal, the melody being unaltered. EVAN II is the…

Go to tune page >

All tunes published with 'The Chosen Three, on Mountain Height'^ top