Dr. Martin Luther's Deutsche Geistliche Lieder / The Hymns of Martin Luther Set to Their Original Melodies, With an English Version
Dr. Martin Luther's Deutsche Geistliche Lieder
The Hymns of Martin Luther
Set To Their Original Melodies
With an English Version Edited by Leonard Woolsey Bacon Assisted by Nathan H. Allen
Introduction
Dr. Martin Luther's Preface to all good Hymn Books, 1543
FROM THE EIGHT SONGS, Wittenberg, 1524.
I. - Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g'mein. (1523)
A Song of Thanksgiving for the great Benefits which God in Christ has mainifested to us.
TRANSLATION in part from R. Massie.
FIRST MELODY, 1524. Harmony by H. Schein, 1627.
SECOND MELODY from Klug's Gesangbuch, 1543. Harmony by M. Praetorius, 1610. This choral is commonly known under the title, Es ist gewisslich an der Zeit, and, in a modified form, in England and America, as Luther's Judgment Hymn, from its association with a hymn of W. B. Collyer, partly derived from the German, and not written by Luther.