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and other works. Mr. Chope has been one of the leaders in the revival and reform of Church Music as adapted to the Public Services. He was one of the originators of The Choir and Musical Record, and was for some time the proprietor and assistant editor of the Literary Churchman. [J. J.]
Horos Israel. St. Cosmas. [Transfiguration.] This Canon of the Ascension is found in the Greek Service Book Office for that Festival, Aug. 6, and in Anth. Graeca, p. 176. It dates from the early part of the 8th cent., and in common with all festival Canons it consists of 8 odes, the 2nd ode being omitted (see Greek Hymnody, § xvi. 10). The only tr. into English is a cento principally from the first four odes, beginning as above and rendered "The choirs of ransomed Israel" by Dr. Neale in his Hys. of the Eastern Church, 1862, p. 84. It is thus derived: st. i. from ode i.; st ii., iii. from ode iii.; st. iv. from ode iv.; st. v. from ode v. St vi. is Dr. Neale's own, is a reference to the heavenly glory, and quite in the modern manner. It is introduced as a climax, but is not in the original, as that does not feel this need. From this tr. the following centos have been taken : People's H., st. i., ii., vi.; S. P. C. K. Ps. & Hys., st. i., iv.-vi.; Palmer's Supp. Hymnal, 1866, st. i., iii., iv., vi., and "In days of old on Sinai," being st. iv.-vi in H. A. & M., 1868 and 1875. [J. J.]
Chorus novae Hierusalem. St. Fulbert of Chartres. [Easter.] As St. Fulbert d. cir. 1029, this hymn dates from about the beginning of the 11th cent. It is found in an 11th cent. MS. in the Brit. Mus. (Vesp. D. xii. f. 72 b), and from this is printed in the Latin Hys. of the Anglo-Saxon Church, 1851, p. 159. It is also in an 11th cent MS. at St Gall (No. 387). Its English use was extensive. It is given in the Sarum Brev. as the hymn at first Vespers of the Octave of Easter, and so for all Sundays to the Feast of the Ascension (Hymn. Sarisb., 1851, pp. 90, 91); in York, the same, with the addition, "When the Sunday Office is said "; in St. Alban's through Easter week at Terce. It is also in the Aberdeen Brev.
The text is also in the following works : Daniel, 1., No. 191, iv. p. 180, with various readings; Monc, No. 152; Card. Newman's Hymni Eccl., 1833 and 1865. Bigge's Annotated H. A. & M., 1867, p. 139, and others.
The second stanza, "Quo Christus invictus Leo" (in H. A. & M., "For Judah's Lion bursts His chains"), is based upon a mediaeval belief, thus preserved in the words of Hugh of St Victor, "Quum lesena parit, suos catulos mortuos parit, et ita custodit tribus diebus, donec veniens pater corum exhalet ut vivificentur. Sic Omnipotens Pater Filium suum tertia die suscitavit a mortuis." [W. A. S.]
Translations in C. U. : —
1. Ye choirs of New Jerusalem, Your sweetest notes employ. By R. Campbell, from the Sarum Brev., written for and 1st pub. in his Hys. and Anthems, &c. (St. Andrew's), 1850, pp. 75-6, in 6 st. of 4 l. In 1858 it was included, with a slight alteration in st. ii., l. 3, and the omission of st. vi, in the Scottish Episco. Coll., No. 77. This was partly rewritten, and a doxology was. added thereto by the compilers of H. A. & M., and given in their "trial copy," 1859, No. 78, and then in their 1st ed, 1861, This is the form of the hymn which is in most extensive use. In Mr. Shipley's Annus Sanctus, Campbell's text is given from his MS.
2. Then New Jerusalem on high. By J. M. Neale, from the Sarum Brev., given in his Mediaeval Hys., 1851. In revising it for the Hymnal N., 1854, Dr. Neale rendered it, " Ye choirs of New Jerusalem, To sweet new strains," &c. This was repeated in his Mediaeval Hys., 2nd ed. 1883, with st. ii. rewritten, and is the form of the hymn in C. U.
3. Wake, choir of our Jerusalem. By J. A. Johnston, in the English Hymnal, 2nd ed. 1856, and repeated in the 3rd ed., 1861.
4. O choir of New Jerusalem. By R. F. Littledale, from the Sarum Brev., written for and 1st pub. in the People's H., 1867, and signed "D. L."
5. Ye choirs of New Jerusalem, Your sweetest praises bring. By R. C. Singleton, written in 1867, and pub. in his Anglican H. Bk., 1868.
Translations not in C. U. :—
- Ye choirs of New Jerusalem, Begin, &c. J. D. Chambers, 1., 1857.
- Quire of the New Jerusalem. W. J. Blew, 1852-55.
- The choir of New Jerusalem, J. Keble, 1857-66.
- Sing, New Jerusalem. J. W. Hewett, 1859,
- Jerusalem, thy song be new. Lord Braye. In Mr. Shipley's Annus Sanctus, 1884. [J. J.]
Christ from the dead is raised. Tate and Brady. [Easter.] A rhymed version of 1 Cor. xv. 20, the 3rd anthem appointed for Easter Day in the Book of Common Prayer. It is found in the Supp. to the New Version, for details of which see Eng. Psalters, § xiii., and New Version.
Christ is risen! Christ Is risen! He hath burst, &c. A. T. Gurney. [Easter.] 1st pub. in his collection A Book of Praise, &c., 1862, No. 119, in 3 st. of 12 l. It is in C. U. in three forms : —
1. The original, which is seldom found outside the author's Coll.
2. The text as in Church Hymns, 1871, No. 132. In the Church Times of Feb. 15, 1875, the author denounces this arrangement, whilst in the folio ed. of Church Hymns, 1881, Mr. Ellerton (one of the editors) allows that "The variations In this hymn amount to an almost complete recasting of it. The fine conception of the hymn was grievously marred by faulty execution, and sincere thanks are due to the author for permitting his original to be so daringly manipulated" (p. xlii.). This text has been Introduced Into American use through the Church Praise Bk.', N. Y., 1882.
3. The text as in H. A. & M., 1875, No. 138. Against this also the author complains in the same letter to the Church Times. It also has been introduced into American C. U. It was given In Laudes Domini, N. Y., 1884. [J. J.]
Christ is risen, the Lord is come. H. H. Milman [Easter.] This Easter hymn was given in the author's Sel. of Ps. and Hys., &c., 1837, No. 2, for Easter, in 3 st. of 8 l., in his Poems, 1839, vol. ii, p. 342; and again in the 11th ed. of Heber's Hymns, 1842, p. 115, divided into 6 st. of 4 l. Amongst modern hymnals it is found in Kennedy, 1863, No. 702, with slight alterations, and the addition of the refrain "Alleluia!" It is also in the Coll. for Harrow School Chapel, and others. [J. J.]
Christ is the Foundation of the house we raise. J. S. B. Monsell. [Foundation Stone of a Church.] Written for the laying of the Foundation Stone of St. Mary
