hymn metre (US: meter) indicates the number of syllables for the lines in each stanza (verse) of a hymn. This provides a means of marrying the hymn's...
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or by its shorthand abbreviation "CM". Common metre has been used for ballads such as "Tam Lin" and hymns such as "Amazing Grace" and the Christmas carol...
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unconventionally timed rhythm figures cycling over a 4 4 base. Metre (hymn) Metre (poetry) Hymn tune List of musical works in unusual time signatures Scholes...
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Meter (disambiguation) (redirect from Metre (disambiguation))
mother goddess Metre (hymn), the syllable patterns in hymn stanzas Metre (music), the regular underlying temporal grid of music Metre (poetry), the regular...
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area of hymn metres. When the poem is used as a sung hymn, the metre of the text is denoted by the syllable count of each line; for long metre, the count...
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multiple level). Composite rhythm Metre (hymn) Metre (poetry) Triple metre Duple and quadruple metre Sextuple metre Counting (music) Fitch, W. Tecumseh...
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Metre might be sung to any hymn tune in Long Metre, but the tunes might be as different as those tunes that have been used for centuries with hymns such...
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A hymn is a type of song, and partially synonymous with devotional song, specifically written for the purpose of adoration or prayer, and typically addressed...
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The Delphic Hymns are two musical compositions from Ancient Greece, which survive in substantial fragments. They were long regarded as being dated c. 138 BC...
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metrics Line (poetry) List of classical metres Metre (hymn) Metre (music) Scansion Cummings, Michael J. (2006). "metre in Poetry and Verse: A Study Guide"...
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Homeric Hymns (Ancient Greek: Ὁμηρικοὶ ὕμνοι, romanized: Homērikoì húmnoi) are a collection of thirty-three ancient Greek hymns and one epigram. The hymns praise...
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Fourteener (poetry) (redirect from Fourteen-syllable metre)
rhymed couplets, in which case they may be seen as ballad stanza or common metre hymn quatrains in two rather than four lines. The term may also be used as...
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Hymnology (redirect from Great Four Anglican Hymns)
" Foot (prosody) Hymn tune Hymnal Hymn Society in the United States and Canada Hymnographer Hymns and hymn tunes Metre (hymn) Metre (poetry) Hymnody of...
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which is in compound sextuple time (18 8). Metre (hymn) Metre (poetry) Triple metre Duple and quadruple metre Composite rhythm Counting (music) Read 1964...
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Amazing Grace (redirect from Amazing Grace (hymn))
Christian hymn published in 1779, written in 1772 by English Anglican clergyman and poet John Newton (1725–1807). It is an immensely popular hymn, particularly...
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quadruple metre Metre (hymn) Metre (poetry) Metric modulation List of musical works in unusual time signatures Schaffel Sextuple metre Triple metre Humphries...
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Tell Out, My Soul (category English Christian hymns)
Soul" Extract of Greatorex's hymn tune Woodlands Problems playing this file? See media help. "Tell Out, My Soul" fits the metre 10.10.10.10, and it was originally...
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hymns are a collection of early hymns of the Latin liturgical rites, whose core of four hymns were by Ambrose of Milan in the 4th century. The hymns of...
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Cædmon's Hymn is a short Old English poem attributed to Cædmon, a supposedly illiterate and unmusical cow-herder who was, according to the Northumbrian...
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E. V. Arnold classified the hymns of the Rigveda into four periods, partly on the grounds of language and partly of metre. In the earliest period, which...
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Lord of All Hopefulness (category English Christian hymns)
Press) in 1931. The hymn is used in liturgy, at weddings and at the beginning of funeral services, and is one of the most popular hymns in the United Kingdom...
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The Lord's My Shepherd (category English Christian hymns)
help. "The Lord's My Shepherd" is in common metre (a metre of 8.6.8.6) and it is most commonly sung to the hymn tune Crimond, named after Crimond Church...
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Te lucis ante terminum (category Christian hymns in Latin)
terminum ('To Thee before the close of day') is an old Latin hymn in long metre. It is the hymn at Compline in the Roman Breviary. S.-G. Pimont argued for...
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The Olney Hymns /ˈoʊni/ were first published in February 1779 and are the combined work of curate John Newton (1725–1807) and his poet friend William...
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Gatha (Zoroaster) (redirect from Hymns of Zarathustra)
are arranged in five different modes or metres. The Avestan term gāθā (𐬔𐬁𐬚𐬁 "hymn", but also "mode, metre") is cognate with Sanskrit gāthā (गाथा)...
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Mesomedes (section Hymn to the Sun)
believes that it is probably not by Mesomedes. The metre of the hymn is known as the apokroton, a metre of anapaestic character popular in the 2nd and 3rd...
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and Hymn Tunes and it was published in 1861 in Hymns Ancient and Modern. For this publication the editor, William Henry Monk, changed the metre from...
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type Mensural notation Mensurstrich Messa di voce Method (music) Metre (hymn) Metre (music) Metric modulation Metronome Mezzo-soprano Micropolyphony Microsound...
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I Know That My Redeemer Lives (category Easter hymns)
"I Know That My Redeemer Lives" is an English Christian Easter hymn in long metre by Samuel Medley. It was published in 1775 and is written for Easter...
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Verbum supernum prodiens (category Christian hymns in Latin)
prodiens" (literally: The word [descending] from above) is a Catholic hymn in long metre by St Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274). It was written for the Hour of Lauds...
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