{"id":5215,"date":"2016-11-15T19:55:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T01:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/?p=5215"},"modified":"2016-11-16T09:50:37","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T15:50:37","slug":"mount-calvary-music-commentary-november-20-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/mount-calvary-music-commentary-november-20-2016-5215.htm","title":{"rendered":"Mount Calvary Music Commentary, November 20, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><em>Crown Him with Many Crown<\/em>s, 1851: \u00a0Anglican Matthew Bridges (1800-1894) wrote six verses of this hymn, which is based on Rev: 1: 12: \u201cand on His head were many crowns.\u201d But Bridges converted to Catholicism, and Godfrey Thring \u00a0(1823-1903) thought the hymn was too Catholic, and wrote six more verses, so hymnals, depending on their leanings, use different selections of verses.\u00a0 In the 1940 Hymnal the first and last verses are by Bridges, the middle three by Thring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Matthew Bridges was born at Malden, Essex, on July 14, 1800. He began his literary career with the publication of a poem, &#8220;Jerusalem Regained,&#8221; in 1825; followed by a book entitled T<em>he Roman Empire under Constantine the Grea<\/em>t, in 1828, its purpose being to examine &#8220;the real origin of certain papal superstitions.&#8221; As a result of the influence of John Henry Newman and the Oxford Movement, Bridges became a Roman Catholic in 1848, and spent the latter part of his life in Canada. He returned to England to live in a small villa at the Convent of the Assumption at Sidmouth, Devon, where he died in 1894.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Bridges&#8217; stanzas:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Crown Him with many crowns,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">The Lamb upon His throne;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Hark! how the heavenly anthems drowns<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">All music but its own:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Awake, my soul, and sing<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Of Him who died for thee,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">And hail Him as thy matchless King<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Through all eternity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Crown Him the Virgin\u2019s Son!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">The God Incarnate born,\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Whose arm those crimson trophies won<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Which now His brow adorn!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Fruit of the mystic Rose<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">As of that Rose the Stem:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">The Root, whence mercy ever flows,\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">The Babe of Bethlehem!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Crown Him the Lord of peace!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Whose power a scepter sways,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">From pole to pole,\u2014that wars may cease,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Absorbed in prayer and praise:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">His reign shall know no end,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">And round His pierced feet<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Fair flowers of paradise extend<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Their fragrance ever sweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Crown Him the Lord of love!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Behold His hands and side,\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Rich wounds, yet visible above,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">In beauty glorified:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">No angel in the sky<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Can fully bear that sight,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">But downward bends his burning eye<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">At mysteries so bright!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Crown Him the Lord of years!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">The Potentate of time,\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Creator of the rolling spheres,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Ineffably sublime!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Glassed in a sea of light,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Where everlasting waves<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Reflect His throne,\u2014the Infinite!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Who lives,\u2014and loves\u2014and saves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Crown Him the Lord of heaven!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">One with the Father known,\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">And the blest Spirit, through Him given<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">From yonder triune throne!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">All hail! Redeemer,\u2014Hail!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">For Thou hast died for me;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Thy praise shall never, never fail<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Throughout eternity!<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Thring&#8217;s stanzas:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Crown Him with crowns of gold,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">All nations great and small,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Crown Him, ye martyred saints of old,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">The Lamb once slain for all;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">The Lamb once slain for them<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Who bring their praises now,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">As jewels for the diadem<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">That girds His sacred brow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Crown Him the Son of God<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Before the worlds began,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">And ye, who tread where He hath trod,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Crown Him the Son of man;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Who every grief hath known<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">That wrings the human breast,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">And takes and bears them for His own,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">That all in Him may rest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Crown Him the Lord of light,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Who o\u2019er a darkened world<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">In robes of glory infinite<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">His fiery flag unfurled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">And bore it raised on high,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">In heaven-in earth-beneath,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">To all the sign of victory<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">O\u2019er Satan, sin, and death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Crown Him the Lord of life<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Who triumphed o\u2019er the grave,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">And rose victorious in the strife<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">For those He came to save;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">His glories now we sing<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Who died, and rose on high.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Who died, eternal life to bring<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">And lives that death may die.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Crown Him of lords the Lord,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Who over all doth reign<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Who once on earth, the incarnate Word,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">For ransomed sinners slain,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Now lives in realms of light,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Where saints with angels sing<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Their songs before Him day and night,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Their God, Redeemer, King.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Crown Him the Lord of heaven,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Enthroned in worlds above;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Crown Him the King, to whom is given<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">The wondrous name of Love,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Crown Him with many crowns,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">As thrones before Him fall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Crown Him, ye kings, with many crowns,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">For He is King of all.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">As Benjamim Kolodziej explains:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Thring has eliminated that which most reflects Roman Catholic doctrine. Gone are the references to the Mystic Rose, the stanza extolling Christ&#8217;s glorious wounds, and the entire tenor of the hymn is reduced in its triumphalism. Thring personalizes that Christ whom Bridges describes as &#8220;The God Incarnate born&#8221; when Thring writes of Christ &#8220;who every grief hath known that wrings the human breast.&#8221; Whereas Bridges&#8217;s text bears an almost creedal hallmark, Thring&#8217;s exhibits a personal response to this credo. Although both hymns are Christocentric and refer to Christ&#8217;s salvific atonement in specific ways, Thring includes a stanza which very specifically elucidates the atonement. The fourth stanza, which most modern hymnals incorporate into their setting of the hymn, sings of the &#8220;Lord of Life&#8221; &#8220;who died-Eternal Life to bring, and lives that death may die.&#8221; Thring continues noting &#8220;th&#8217;Incarnate Word for ransomed sinners slain,&#8221; employing not only Biblical language but also terminology which would have been a bit more pedestrian to Victorian sensibilities. Bridges&#8217;s hymn refers to the atonement only thrice-when he sings &#8220;Of Him who died for thee,&#8221; when he notes Christ &#8220;lives, and loves, and saves&#8221; and when his final doxology proclaims, &#8220;For Thou hast died for me.&#8221; Bridges&#8217;s text is couched in poetic grandeur and eschatological mystagogy before it proclaims redemption, while Thring&#8217;s text only manages to evoke heavenly splendor after firmly grounding the text within human terms, &#8220;all nations great and small.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Godfrey-Thring.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[5215]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5217\" src=\"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Godfrey-Thring.jpg\" alt=\"godfrey-thring\" width=\"126\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Godfrey Thring<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Godfrey Thring was born at Alford, Somerset, the son of the rector, Rev. John Gale Dalton Thring and Sarah n\u00e9e Jenkyns. He was brother of Theodore Thring (1816\u201391), Henry, Lord Thring (1818\u20131907) (a noted jurist and Parliamentary Counsel to the Treasury), Edward Thring (headmaster of Uppingham School) and Rev. John Charles Thring (a master at Uppingham School and deviser of the Uppingham or Cambridge Rules of football), and two sisters. The family is commemorated in Alford Church by carved choir seats in the chancel and two memorial windows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">He was educated at Shrewsbury School and graduated in 1845 from Balliol College, Oxford with a BA. He was ordained in the Anglican Church. In 1858 his father united the benefices of Alford and Hornblotton by an Act of Parliament styled the &#8220;Thrings Estate Bill&#8221; and Godfrey became his father&#8217;s curate. He built Hornblotton Rectory for Godfrey in 1867.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Godfrey commissioned the architect Thomas Graham Jackson to build new churches at Hornblotton and Lottisham, and became, in Jackson&#8217;s words, &#8220;one of my best and most valued friends&#8221;. Jackson created for him a remarkable little church, rich in the Arts and Crafts style and strikingly decorated in sgraffito work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Thring died in 1903 and was buried in Shamley Green, Surrey, England.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">His hymnography did not impress all his contemporaries. One wrote that\u00a0<\/span>Thring&#8217;s <em>A Church of England Hymn Book <\/em>(1880) amounted to little more than &#8220;thick, squat book, in a sadcoloured green cloth binding,&#8221; the only laudatory comment being the final sentence, &#8220;The book is well indexed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hornblotton-chiuch-ext.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[5215]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5219\" src=\"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hornblotton-chiuch-ext-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"hornblotton-chiuch-ext\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hornblotton-chiuch-ext-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hornblotton-chiuch-ext-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hornblotton-chiuch-ext.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Thring\u2019s church at Hornblotton<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">(I did not make up any of these names)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Queen-Elizabth-50th-an.png\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[5215]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5220\" src=\"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Queen-Elizabth-50th-an-300x246.png\" alt=\"queen-elizabth-50th-an\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Queen-Elizabth-50th-an-300x246.png 300w, https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Queen-Elizabth-50th-an.png 743w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">The hymn was sung in Westminster Abbey at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3kPkjghup8E\">50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth<\/a>. The announcer misinforms the British public that the words are by George Eliot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">One person commented:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">I always like the looks on the Royals&#8217; faces as they look around when those sopranos are reaching those high notes at the top of their lungs. It&#8217;s kind of funny.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anthem: <em>O Jesus, King Most Wonderful<\/em> is a contrafactum: a piece of music in which one text has been substituted for another. The text is an English translation of a hymn of Bernard of Clairvaux (<em>Jesu Rex Admirabilis<\/em>, circa 1153) by Edward Caswall (circa 1848). Caswall was an Oxford graduate and Anglican priest that was received into the Catholic church in the 1840s and joined the Birmingham Oratory. The hymn depicts Jesus as a King and conqueror but also as the source of light and life. The music by Christopher Tye (1500-1573) was originally set to a different sacred English text in a simple, clear, and primarily homophonic texture so typical of the English Reformation.<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>IESU, Rex admirabilis<\/p>\n<p>et triumphator nobilis,<\/p>\n<p>dulcedo ineffabilis,<\/p>\n<p>totus desiderabilis.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>O JESUS, King most wonderful!<\/p>\n<p>Thou Conqueror renowned!<\/p>\n<p>Thou Sweetness most ineffable!<\/p>\n<p>in whom all joys are found!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Quando cor nostrum visitas,<\/p>\n<p>tunc lucet ei veritas,<\/p>\n<p>mundi vilescit vanitas,<\/p>\n<p>et intus fervet caritas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When once Thou visitest the heart,<\/p>\n<p>then truth begins to shine;<\/p>\n<p>then earthly vanities depart;<\/p>\n<p>then kindles love divine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Iesu, dulcedo cordium,<\/p>\n<p>fons vivus, lumen mentium,<\/p>\n<p>excedens omne gaudium<\/p>\n<p>et omne desiderium.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>O Jesu! Light of all below!<\/p>\n<p>Thou font of life and fire!<\/p>\n<p>surpassing all the joys we know,<\/p>\n<p>and all we can desire.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Iesum omnes agnoscite,<\/p>\n<p>amorem eius poscite;<\/p>\n<p>Iesum ardenter quaerite,<\/p>\n<p>quaerendo inardescite.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>May every heart confess Thy name,<\/p>\n<p>and ever Thee adore;<\/p>\n<p>and seeking Thee, itself inflame<\/p>\n<p>to seek Thee more and more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Te nostra, Iesu, vox sonet,<\/p>\n<p>nostri te mores exprimant;<\/p>\n<p>te corda nostra diligant<\/p>\n<p>et nunc, et in perpetuum<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Head that Once was Crowned with Thorns<\/em>.\u00a0 Thomas Kelly (1769-1854) based this hymn on Hebrews 2: 9-10 which speaks of Christ\u2019s glory and the universal message of grace that is available because of Christ\u2019s suffering: &#8220;But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kelly employs the poetic device of hypotyposis \u2013 a vivid description of a scene or events in words \u2013 that provides the singer with a glimpse of the splendor of heaven, which is contrasted with the suffering of the cross and the suffering of all who follow Christ on earth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thomas-Kelly.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[5215]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5222\" src=\"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thomas-Kelly-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"thomas-kelly\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Thomas Kelly<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Son of a judge, Kelly attended Trinity College (BA 1789) and planned to be a lawyer. After converting to Christ, though, his career plans changed to the ministry. He became an Anglican priest in 1792, but eventually became one of the famous dissenting ministers. He wrote over 760 hymns. Miller\u2019s Singers of the Church (1869) says of him:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Kelly was a man of great and varied learning, skilled in the Oriental tongues, and an excellent Bible critic. He was possessed also of musical talent, and composed and published a work that was received with favour, consisting of music adapted to every form of metre in his hymn-book. Naturally of an amiable disposition and thorough in his Christian piety, Mr. Kelly became the friend of good men, and the advocate of every worthy, benevolent, and religious cause. He was admired alike for his zeal and his humility; and his liberality found ample scope in Ireland, especially during the year of famine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anthem: <em>O God the King of Glory<\/em> is an anthem by Henry Purcell (1659 &#8211; 1695), the most famous of the few Englishmen who composed in the baroque style.\u00a0 Purcell composed music for the stage and had a keen sense of drama. This piece implores God, the King of Glory, who exalted Christ to heaven, not to leave us comfortless. The first few measures introduce the King with a nod to the French baroque overture, then uses rising phrases to convey the sense of exaltation, then arrives in heaven on a high D major chord. It then turns to striking chromatic harmonies that convey the sense of pleading for the comfort and companionship of the Holy Ghost. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qzzaeBlJ9dk\">Here<\/a> it is sung by Voces XII.<\/p>\n<p><em>Alleluia! Sing to Jesus<\/em>. William Dix (1837-1898), an Anglican High Churchman, wrote this deeply Catholic Eucharistic hymn. Jesus is King and High Priest, who, wearing \u201crobes of flesh,\u201d our human nature, has entered \u201cwithin the veil\u201d in the heavenly Temple. He is high priest both there and at the altar, where he offers himself to His Father and unites us to Himself in that offering when we receive His sacrificed body and blood in faith.<\/p>\n<p>J. R. Watson&#8217;s analysis:<\/p>\n<p class=\"3text\" align=\"left\"><span id=\"hlt52\">What <\/span><span id=\"hlt53\" class=\"searchWithInHL\">Dix <\/span><span id=\"hlt54\">has <\/span><span id=\"hlt55\">done <\/span><span id=\"hlt56\">is <\/span><span id=\"hlt57\">to <\/span><span id=\"hlt58\">allude <\/span><span id=\"hlt59\">to <\/span><span id=\"hlt60\">different <\/span><span id=\"hlt61\">passages <\/span><span id=\"hlt62\">of <\/span><span id=\"hlt63\">scripture <\/span><span id=\"hlt64\">in <\/span><span id=\"hlt65\">a <\/span><span id=\"hlt66\">dense <\/span><span id=\"hlt67\">interlocking <\/span><span id=\"hlt68\">weave, <\/span><span id=\"hlt69\">in\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"hlt70\">a <\/span><span id=\"hlt71\">manner <\/span><span id=\"hlt72\">that <\/span><span id=\"hlt73\">had <\/span><span id=\"hlt74\">not <\/span><span id=\"hlt75\">been <\/span><span id=\"hlt76\">practised <\/span><span id=\"hlt77\">since <\/span><span id=\"hlt78\">the <\/span><span id=\"hlt79\">work <\/span><span id=\"hlt80\">of <\/span><span id=\"hlt81\">Charles <\/span><span id=\"hlt82\">Wesley. <\/span><span id=\"hlt83\">In <\/span><span id=\"hlt84\">this <\/span><span id=\"hlt85\">hymn, <\/span><span id=\"hlt86\" class=\"searchWithInHL\">Dix\u2014<\/span><span id=\"hlt87\">perhaps <\/span><span id=\"hlt88\">unconsciously\u2014<\/span><span id=\"hlt89\">picks <\/span><span id=\"hlt90\">up <\/span><span id=\"hlt91\">Wesley&#8217;s <\/span><span id=\"hlt92\">intertextual <\/span><span id=\"hlt93\">method <\/span><span id=\"hlt94\">and <\/span><span id=\"hlt95\">applies <\/span><span id=\"hlt96\">it, <\/span><span id=\"hlt97\">using <\/span><span id=\"hlt98\">the\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"hlt99\">Gospels, <\/span><span id=\"hlt100\">the <\/span><span id=\"hlt101\">Epistles, <\/span><span id=\"hlt102\">and <\/span><span id=\"hlt103\">Revelation:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"3text\" align=\"left\"><span id=\"hlt104\">Intercessor, <\/span><span id=\"hlt105\">friend <\/span><span id=\"hlt106\">of <\/span><span id=\"hlt107\">sinners,<\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"hlt108\">Earth&#8217;s <\/span><span id=\"hlt109\">Redeemer, <\/span><span id=\"hlt110\">plead <\/span><span id=\"hlt111\">for <\/span><span id=\"hlt112\">me,<\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"hlt113\">Where <\/span><span id=\"hlt114\">the <\/span><span id=\"hlt115\">songs <\/span><span id=\"hlt116\">of <\/span><span id=\"hlt117\">all <\/span><span id=\"hlt118\">the <\/span><span id=\"hlt119\">sinless<\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"hlt120\">Sweep <\/span><span id=\"hlt121\">across <\/span><span id=\"hlt122\">the <\/span><span id=\"hlt123\">crystal <\/span><span id=\"hlt124\">sea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"3text\" align=\"left\"><span id=\"hlt125\">The <\/span><span id=\"hlt126\">rhetoric <\/span><span id=\"hlt127\">of <\/span><span id=\"hlt128\">the <\/span><span id=\"hlt129\">first <\/span><span id=\"hlt130\">verse <\/span><span id=\"hlt131\">(&#8216;His <\/span><span id=\"hlt132\">the <\/span><span id=\"hlt133\">sceptre <\/span><span id=\"hlt134\">&#8230; <\/span><span id=\"hlt135\">his <\/span><span id=\"hlt136\">the <\/span><span id=\"hlt137\">triumph&#8217;) <\/span><span id=\"hlt138\">gives <\/span><span id=\"hlt139\">way <\/span><span id=\"hlt140\">to <\/span><span id=\"hlt141\">a <\/span><span id=\"hlt142\">sudden <\/span><span id=\"hlt143\">cry, <\/span><span id=\"hlt144\">as\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"hlt145\">though <\/span><span id=\"hlt146\">the <\/span><span id=\"hlt147\">spirit <\/span><span id=\"hlt148\">of <\/span><span id=\"hlt149\">Neale <\/span><span id=\"hlt150\">was <\/span><span id=\"hlt151\">married <\/span><span id=\"hlt152\">to <\/span><span id=\"hlt153\">the <\/span><span id=\"hlt154\">spirit <\/span><span id=\"hlt155\">of <\/span><span id=\"hlt156\">Toplady; <\/span><span id=\"hlt157\">and <\/span><span id=\"hlt158\">the <\/span><span id=\"hlt159\">hymn <\/span><span id=\"hlt160\">then <\/span><span id=\"hlt161\">swings <\/span><span id=\"hlt162\">into <\/span><span id=\"hlt163\">its\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"hlt164\">vision <\/span><span id=\"hlt165\">of <\/span><span id=\"hlt166\">the <\/span><span id=\"hlt167\">crystal <\/span><span id=\"hlt168\">sea, <\/span><span id=\"hlt169\">from <\/span><span id=\"hlt170\">Revelation <\/span><span id=\"hlt171\">4. <\/span><span id=\"hlt172\" class=\"searchWithInHL\">Dix <\/span><span id=\"hlt173\">then <\/span><span id=\"hlt174\">brings <\/span><span id=\"hlt175\">it <\/span><span id=\"hlt176\">back <\/span><span id=\"hlt177\">to <\/span><span id=\"hlt178\">earth <\/span><span id=\"hlt179\">with <\/span><span id=\"hlt180\">a <\/span><span id=\"hlt181\">final <\/span><span id=\"hlt182\">reference\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"hlt183\">to <\/span><span id=\"hlt184\">the <\/span><span id=\"hlt185\">Holy <\/span><span id=\"hlt186\">Communion:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"3text\" align=\"left\"><span id=\"hlt187\">Thou <\/span><span id=\"hlt188\">on <\/span><span id=\"hlt189\">earth <\/span><span id=\"hlt190\">both <\/span><span id=\"hlt191\">priest <\/span><span id=\"hlt192\">and <\/span><span id=\"hlt193\">victim,<\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"hlt194\">In <\/span><span id=\"hlt195\">the <\/span><span id=\"hlt196\">eucharistic <\/span><span id=\"hlt197\">feast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"3text\" align=\"left\"><span id=\"hlt198\">Jesus <\/span><span id=\"hlt199\">is <\/span><span id=\"hlt200\">&#8216;the <\/span><span id=\"hlt201\">great <\/span><span id=\"hlt202\">high <\/span><span id=\"hlt203\">priest&#8217;, <\/span><span id=\"hlt204\">and <\/span><span id=\"hlt205\">the <\/span><span id=\"hlt206\">figures <\/span><span id=\"hlt207\">of <\/span><span id=\"hlt208\">Aaron <\/span><span id=\"hlt209\">and <\/span><span id=\"hlt210\">Melchisedec <\/span><span id=\"hlt211\">are <\/span><span id=\"hlt212\">blended <\/span><span id=\"hlt213\">with <\/span><span id=\"hlt214\">the\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"hlt215\">figure <\/span><span id=\"hlt216\">of <\/span><span id=\"hlt217\">the <\/span><span id=\"hlt218\">crucified <\/span><span id=\"hlt219\">Saviour. <\/span><span id=\"hlt220\" class=\"searchWithInHL\">Dix <\/span><span id=\"hlt221\">compresses <\/span><span id=\"hlt222\">volumes <\/span><span id=\"hlt223\">of <\/span><span id=\"hlt224\">systematic <\/span><span id=\"hlt225\">theology <\/span><span id=\"hlt226\">into <\/span><span id=\"hlt227\">the <\/span><span id=\"hlt228\">verse-<\/span><span id=\"hlt229\">form, <\/span><span id=\"hlt230\">and <\/span><span id=\"hlt231\">it <\/span><span id=\"hlt232\">is <\/span><span id=\"hlt233\">that <\/span><span id=\"hlt234\">compression <\/span><span id=\"hlt235\">which <\/span><span id=\"hlt236\">gives <\/span><span id=\"hlt237\">the <\/span><span id=\"hlt238\">hymn <\/span><span id=\"hlt239\">a <\/span><span id=\"hlt240\">distinction <\/span><span id=\"hlt241\">not <\/span><span id=\"hlt242\">seen <\/span><span id=\"hlt243\">since <\/span><span id=\"hlt244\">the <\/span><span id=\"hlt245\">eighteenth\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"hlt246\">century.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/William-Chatterton-Dix.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[5215]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5223\" src=\"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/William-Chatterton-Dix.jpg\" alt=\"william-chatterton-dix\" width=\"139\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>William Chatterton Dix<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to Wikipedia:<\/p>\n<p>William Chatterton Dix (14 June 1837 \u2013 9 September 1898) was an English writer of hymns and carols. He was born in Bristol, the son of John Dix, a local surgeon, who wrote The Life of Chatterton the poet, a book of Pen Pictures of Popular English Preachers and other works. His father gave him his middle name in honour of Thomas Chatterton, a poet about whom he had written a biography. He was educated at the Grammar School, Bristol, for a mercantile career, and became manager of a maritime insurance company in Glasgow where he spent most of his life.<\/p>\n<p>Few modern writers have shown so signal a gift as his for the difficult art of hymn-writing. His original hymns are found in most modern hymn-books. He wrote also felicitous renderings in metrical form of Richard Frederick Littledale&#8217;s translations from the Greek in his Offices of the Holy Eastern Church; and of Rodwell&#8217;s translations of Abyssinian hymns. Some of his carols, such as The Manger Throne, have been very popular. His hymns and carols also include As with Gladness Men of Old, What Child Is This?, To You, O Lord, Our Hearts We Raise and Alleluia! Sing to Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>At the age of 29 he was struck with a near fatal illness and consequently suffered months confined to his bed. During this time he became severely depressed. Yet it is from this period that many of his hymns date.[4][5] He died at Cheddar, Somerset, England, and was buried at his parish church.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Many of the Anglican hymns celebrating the kingship of Jesus were written as Ascension Day hymns, because on that day Jesus ascended to his Father&#8217;s throne and took His seat at the right hand of God.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jesus-session.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[5215]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5226\" src=\"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jesus-session.jpg\" alt=\"jesus-session\" width=\"740\" height=\"932\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jesus-session.jpg 740w, https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jesus-session-238x300.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Michael Damaskenos, Crete 16th c.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-5215\" data-postid=\"5215\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-5215 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crown Him with Many Crowns, 1851: \u00a0Anglican Matthew Bridges (1800-1894) wrote six verses of this hymn, which is based on Rev: 1: 12: \u201cand on His head were many crowns.\u201d But Bridges converted to Catholicism, and Godfrey Thring \u00a0(1823-1903) thought the hymn was too Catholic, and wrote six more verses, so hymnals, depending on their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1229,1318,12],"tags":[1394,1388,1387,1386,1392,1389,1391,1390,1393],"class_list":["post-5215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hymns","category-mount-calvary-church","category-music","tag-alleluia-sing-to-jesus","tag-crown-him-with-many-crowns","tag-godfrey-thring","tag-matthew-bridges","tag-o-god-teh-king-of-glory","tag-o-jesus-king-most-wonderful","tag-the-head-taht-once-was-crowned-with-thorns","tag-thomas-kelly","tag-william-dix","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5215"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5236,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5215\/revisions\/5236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}