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The starry firmament on high
Author: Robert Grant Appears in 79 hymnals Hymnal Title: The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book Lyrics: 1 The starry firmament on high,
And all the glories of the sky,
Yet shine not to thy praise, O Lord,
So brightly as thy written word.
2 The hopes that holy word supplies,
Its truths divine and precepts wise,
In each a heavenly beam I see,
And every beam conducts to thee.
3 Almighty Lord, the sun shall fail,
The moon her borrowed glory veil,
And deepest reverence hush on high
The joyful chorus of the sky.
4 But fixed for everlasting years,
Unmoved amid the wreck of spheres,
Thy word shall shine in cloudless day,
When heaven and earth have passed away. Topics: Worship Holy Scriptures Used With Tune: HAMBURG
The starry firmament on high
WINCHESTER NEW
Appears in 385 hymnals Hymnal Title: Christian Science Hymnal (Rev. and enl.) Tune Sources: Musikalisches Handbuch, 1690 Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 51566 54334 32554 Used With Text: The starry firmament on high
WINCHESTER NEW
ALL SAINTS
Appears in 515 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Wm. Knapp Hymnal Title: Song-Hymnal of Praise and Joy Incipit: 11765 12171 23217 Used With Text: The starry firmament on high
ALL SAINTS
The starry firmament on high
Hymnal: A Collection of Hymns #2 (1859) Hymnal Title: A Collection of Hymns Languages: English
The starry firmament on high
The starry firmament on high
Hymnal: A Collection of Hymns and Sacred Songs #187 (1882) Hymnal Title: A Collection of Hymns and Sacred Songs Languages: English
The starry firmament on high
The starry firmament on high
Author: R. Grant Hymnal: A Selection of Spiritual Songs #161 (1878) Hymnal Title: A Selection of Spiritual Songs Languages: English
The starry firmament on high
Bartholomäus Crasselius
1667 - 1724 Person Name: B. Crasselius Hymnal Title: Cân a Mawl Composer of "WINCHESTER" in Cân a Mawl Crasselius, Bartholomäus, son of Johannes Crasselt, sheepmaster at Wemsdorf near Glauchau, Saxony; was born at Wernsdorf, Feb. 21, 1667. After studying at Halle, under A. H. Francke, he became, in 1701, pastor at Nidda, in Wetteravia, Hesse. In 1708 he was appointed Lutheran pastor at Düsseldorf, where he died Nov. 30, 1724, after a somewhat troubled pastorate, during which he felt called upon to testify strongly and somewhat bitterly against the shortcomings of the place and of the times (Koch, iv. 418-421; Allg. Deutsche Biographie, iv. 566-67; Bode, p. 55; manuscript from Pastor Baltzer, Wernsdorf; the second dating his call to Dusseldorf 1706). Of the 9 hymns by him which Freylinghausen included in his Geistreiches Gesang-Buch, 1704, two have been translated:—
i. Dir, dir, Jehovah, will ich singen. Prayer. A hymn of supplication for the spirit of grace rightly to praise and worship God, founded on St. John, xvi. 23-28, the Gospel for Rogation Sunday. First published in the Geistreiches Gesang-Buch &., Halle, 1697, p. 587, in 8 stanzas of 6 lines. Repeated as No. 291 in Freylinghausen's Gesang-Buch, 1704, and since in almost all collections, as in the Berlin Geistliche Liedersegen. ed. 1863, No. 936.
The well-known tune (known in England as Winchester New as reduced to L. M. in Hymns Ancient & Modern, No. 50) which appeared with this hymn in Freylinghausen, 1704, is altered from a melody to “Wer nur den lieben Gott lasst walten," in the Musicalisch Handbuch der Geistlichen Melodien, Hamburg, 1690. See L. Erk's Choralbuch, 1863, No. 63, and p. 247; also No. 261. The common, but erroneous ascription of this tune to Crasselius arose from confusion between the authorship of the tune and the words. There is no evidence that Crasselius wrote any tunes.
Translations in common use:—
1. Jehovah, let me now adore Thee, a good and full translation by Miss Winkworth, as No. 117, in her Chorale Buch for England, 1863, set to the 1704 melody.
2. To Thee, 0 Lord, will I sing praises, in full, by Dr. M. Loy, in the Evangelical Review, Gettysburg, July 1861, and as No. 216 in the Ohio Lutheran Hymnal, 1880.
Other translations are:—
(i) "To Thee, Jehovah, I'll be singing," in the Supplement to German Psalmody, ed. 1765, p. 41, and in Select Hymns from German Psaltery, Tranquebar, 1754, p. 72. (2) "Draw me, O Father, to the Son," a translation of stanza ii., by P. H. Molther, as No. 185 in the Moravian Hymn Book, 1789. In the ed. of 1886 it is enlarged to 3 stanzas by the addition of the translation of stanzas i. and viii., and in this form it begins:—“To Thee, Jehovah, will I sing." (3) "To Thee, O Lord, I come with singing," by Miss Burlingham, in the British Herald, April, 1866, p. 248, repeated as No. 402 in Reid's Praise Book, 1872.
ii. Erwach, 0 Mensch, erwache. Lent. Appeared in Freylinghausen's Gesang-Buch, 1704, No. 266, in 4 stanzas of 9 lines. Included in Bunsen's Versuch, 1833, No. 298, and Allgemeine Gesang-Buch 1846, No. 13. Translated as "Awake, O man, and from thee shake," by Miss Winkworth, 1855, p. 61.
The hymn, "Heiligster Jesu, Heiligungsquelle," ascribed to Crasselius, is noted under J. v. Lodenstein. See also "Hallelujah! Lob, Preis und Ehr." [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Bartholomäus Crasselius
William Knapp
1698 - 1768 Person Name: Wm. Knapp Hymnal Title: Song-Hymnal of Praise and Joy Composer of "ALL SAINTS" in Song-Hymnal of Praise and Joy Born: 1698, Wareham, Dorsetshire, England.
Died: September 26, 1768, Poole, Dorsetshire, England.
Buried: Poole, Dorsetshire, England.
William Knapp
Joseph Barnby
1838 - 1896 Person Name: J. Barnby Hymnal Title: The Choral Hymnal Composer of "HAMMERSMITH" in The Choral Hymnal Joseph Barnby (b. York, England, 1838; d. London, England, 1896) An accomplished and popular choral director in England, Barby showed his musical genius early: he was an organist and choirmaster at the age of twelve. He became organist at St. Andrews, Wells Street, London, where he developed an outstanding choral program (at times nicknamed "the Sunday Opera"). Barnby introduced annual performances of J. S. Bach's St. John Passion in St. Anne's, Soho, and directed the first performance in an English church of the St. Matthew Passion. He was also active in regional music festivals, conducted the Royal Choral Society, and composed and edited music (mainly for Novello and Company). In 1892 he was knighted by Queen Victoria. His compositions include many anthems and service music for the Anglican liturgy, as well as 246 hymn tunes (published posthumously in 1897). He edited four hymnals, including The Hymnary (1872) and The Congregational Sunday School Hymnal (1891), and coedited The Cathedral Psalter (1873).
Bert Polman
Joseph Barnby
