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Fröhlich Soll Mein Herze Springen
"" ("Merrily my heart shall leap") is a Christian Christmas carol, Christmas hymn by Paul Gerhardt, originally in 15 stanzas in artful Metre (poetry), metre. It was first published, "Frölich sol mein hertze springen", in 1653 in the fifth edition of the hymnal ''Praxis Pietatis Melica'' by Johann Crüger, who also created a melody. Johann Sebastian Bach used it as a chorale in his ''Christmas Oratorio'', with a different melody by Johann Georg Ebeling. The song is part, with twelve stanzas, of the current Protestant hymnal ''Evangelisches Gesangbuch'' and other songbooks. Catherine Winkworth translated seven stanzas in 1858 as "All my heart this night rejoices". Other translations also exist. History Paul Gerhardt wrote the lyrics in the first person, describing a personal reaction to the Nativity of Jesus, Christmas story. The hymn appeared first in the fifth edition of the hymnal ''Praxis Pietatis Melica'' by Johann Crüger in 1653. It appears in a section titled "Von der Gebu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christmas Carol
A Christmas carol is a Carol (music), carol on the theme of Christmas, traditionally sung at Christmas itself or during the surrounding Christmas and holiday season. The term noel has sometimes been used, especially for carols of French origin. Christmas carols may be regarded as a subset of the broader category of Christmas music. History The first known Christmas hymns may be traced to 4th-century Rome. Latin hymns such as Veni redemptor gentium, written by Ambrose, Archbishop of Milan, were austere statements of the theological doctrine of the Incarnation in opposition to Arianism. Corde natus ex Parentis (''Of the Father's Heart Begotten, Of the Father's heart begotten'') by the Spanish poet Prudentius (d. 413) is still sung in some churches today. In the 9th and 10th centuries, the Christmas sequence (or prose) was introduced in Northern European monasteries, developing under Bernard of Clairvaux into a Sequence (liturgy), sequence of rhymed stanzas. In the 12th cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
