FROM JOSEPH KLUG'S GESANGSBUCH, 1535?
XXIX. Von Himmel hoch da komm ich her.
"A Children's Christmas Song of the little child Jesus, taken from the second chapter of Luke, by Dr. Martin Luther." Said to have written by him for his little son Hans.
FROM HEAVEN ABOVE TO EARTH I CAME.
TRANSLATION from Miss Winkworth, amended.
MELODY, 1535? 1543. Harmony by [nothing printed here].
XXX. - Sie ist mir lieb, die werthe Magd.
A song concerning the Holy Christian Church - Revelation xii, 1-6. DEAR IS TO ME THE HOLY MAID.
TRANSLATION by R. Massie.
MELODY in Babst, 1545. Harmony by M. Praetorius, 1610.
IN KOEPHL'S GESANGBUCH, Strassburg, 1535? 1538?
XXXI. - Vater unser im Himmelreich.
The Lord's Prayer paraphrased.
OUR FATHER, THOU IN HEAVEN ABOVE.
TRANSLATION by C. Winkworth, in "Choral Book for
England," amended.
Melody, 1535? Harmony by A. Haupt, 1869.
[In Winterfeld's edition of Luther's hymns, Leipzig, 1840, may be found a fac-simile of Luther's autograph draft of this paraphrase, including the cancelled draft of a tune for it.]