Christian Singers of Germany

About this book

Lives of German hymn writers

Text from Christian Classics Ethereal Library; in the public domain.

Contents

1. Preface
2. A Preface to all good Hymn-Books
3. 800-900: The Early Dawn.
4. Ambrosian Church Music
5. Gregorian Church Music
6. A Benedictine Monastery
7. Notker's Sequences
8. The Heliand
9. Otfried of Weissenburg
10. Now warneth us the Wise Men's fare
11. 900-1100: A Long Twilight
12. Early Hymns
13. St. Peter
14. Thou Heavenly Lord of Light
15. God, it is Thy property
16. 1100-1250: The Morning
17. German Sequences
18. All growth of the forest
19. He is full of power and might
20. The Minne-Singers
21. The Beauty of This World
22. Crusader's Hymn
23. Pilgrim's Song
24. Unruly Thoughts
25. Lament
26. Walter von der Vogelweide
27. When the flowers out of the grass are springing
28. May Miracles
29. Walter von der Vogelweide: Serious Poems
30. The Praise of Germany
31. A Morning Prayer
32. Equality Before God
33. Repentance
34. In the Holy Land
35. Narrative Poems
36. Sir Percival
37. 1253-1500: Dark and Bright Times
38. Tauler
39. What I Must Do
40. Only Jesus
41. The Master-Singers
42. Death Will Conquer
43. No More Despair
44. The Drama
45. Christmas Carol
46. A spotless Rose is blowing
47. The Three Maries
48. Rejoice, dear Christendom, to-day
49. So holy is this day of days
50. Easter Song
51. O World, I must forsake thee
52. Henry of Loufenburg
53. I would I were at last at home
54. Cradle Song
55. In dulci jubilo
56. Earliest Hymn-Books
57. Hymns to the Virgin
58. 1500-1580: Luther and His Friends
59. Ulrich von Hutten
60. Ulrich von Hutten's Song
61. The Reformation
62. Martin Luther
63. A sure stronghold our God is He
64. Dear Christian people, now rejoice!
65. In peace and joy I now depart
66. Justus Jonas
67. If God were not upon our side
68. Paul Eber
69. I fall asleep in Jesu's arms
70. 1520-1600: Hymns of the Reformation
71. Many Voices
72. What pleaseth God, that pleaseth me
73. Margrave George of Brandenburg's Song
74. Hans Sachs
75. Awake, my heart's delight, awake
76. O Christ, true Son of God most high
77. Bohemian Brethren
78. Praise, glory, thanks, be ever paid
79. Lord, to Thy chosen ones appear
80. Now God be with us, for the night is closing
81. Johann Matthesius
82. Nicolas Hermann
83. When my last hour is close at hand
84. O Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
85. 1560-1616: An Interval
86. Bartholomew Ringwaldt
87. Lord Jesu Christ, my Highest Good
88. Nicholas Selnecker
89. Lord Jesu Christ, with us abide
90. Make me Thine own and keep me Thine
91. Louis Helmboldt
92. From God shall nought divide me
93. Weingartner
94. In God my faithful God
95. Thou burning Love, Thou holy Flame
96. Philip Nicolai
97. O Morning-Star, how fair and bright
98. Church Music
99. 1618-1650: The Thirty Years' War
100. Martin Opitz von Bobersfeld
101. O Light, who out of Light wast born
102. Paul Flemming
103. To Myself
104. So Hath God Loved the World
105. Andreas Gryphius
106. Passing Away
107. Sonnet
108. Hymn Writers
109. Now thank we all our God
110. Martin Rinkart
111. The Königsberg Circle
112. Heinrich Albert
113. Simon Dach
114. O ye halls of Heaven
115. Robert Roberthin
116. May-Time in War
117. Johann von Rist
118. O darkest woe!
119. Now God be praised, and God alone!
120. Johann Heermann
121. Ah! Lord our God, let them not be confounded
122. Zion mourns in fear and anguish
123. Heerman's “Sighs” and “Laments”
124. In Distress of Mind
125. In Bodily Pain
126. In Temptation
127. At the Approach of Death
128. Paul Gerhardt
129. Hence, my heart, with such a thought
130. To God's all-gracious heart and mind
131. Full of wonder, full of art
132. Louisa Henrietta, Electress of Brandenburg
133. I will return unto the Lord
134. George Neumarck
135. Anton Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick
136. Patience and Humility
137. Albinus
138. Johann Frank
139. Jesu, priceless treasure
140. 1635-1700: The New School
141. Friedrich von Logau
142. Aphorisms
143. Epitaph on his Wife
144. Johann Valentin Andrea
145. Forgotten Love
146. Olearius
147. Friedrich von Spee
148. A Love-Song of the Bride of Christ, in Early Summertime
149. Johann Scheffler (Angelus Silesius)
150. O Good beyond compare!
151. Morning Star in darksome night
152. Aphorisms
153. The Second Silesian School
154. Jesu be ne'er forgot
155. Why is it that life is no longer sad
156. 1660-1750: The Pietists
157. Philip Jacob Spener
158. August Herrmann Franke
159. Anastasius Freylinghausen
160. Thou art First and Best
161. Spener (continued)
162. Shall I o'er the future fret
163. Later Pietists
164. Carl Heinrich von Bogatsky
165. Jehovah, God of boundless strength and might
166. Benjamin Schmolck
167. Courage, my heart, press cheerly on
168. Albert Bengel
169. Philip Frederick Hiller
170. Thou fathomless Abyss of Love
171. He Maketh all our Bed in our Sickness
172. Joachim Neander
173. O Thou true God alone
174. 1690-1760: The Mystics and Separatists
175. Gottfried Arnold
176. Anoint us with Thy blessed love
177. Full many a way, full many a path
178. I leave Him not, who came to save
179. Gerhard Tersteegen
180. Lost in darkness, girt with dangers
181. Gerhard Tersteegen (continued)
182. The Mote in the Sunbeam
183. Within and Without
184. At Evening
185. The Cross
186. The Tired Child
187. The Moravians (Nicolaus von Zinzendorf)
188. Jesu, day by day
189. Such the King will stoop to and embrace
190. Other Moravian Hymn-Writers (Albertini)
191. Lamp within me! brightly burn and glow
192. Descendents of Pietism
193. 1750-1850: Modern Times
194. Roman Catholic Hymns
195. Christian Fürchtegott Gellert
196. When these brief trial-days are spent
197. Johann Andreas Cramer
198. The Duty of the Scholar
199. Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
200. The Vision of God
201. Psalm
202. Rise again! yes, rise again wilt thou
203. Modern Hymns
204. Friedrich Rückert
205. Midnight
206. Bethlehem and Calvary
207. Colophon