Nearer My God To Thee
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1. Nearer, my God, to thee,
Nearer to thee!
Een though it be a cross
That raiseth me.
Still all my song shall be
Nearer, my God, to thee,
Nearer, my God, to thee,
Nearer to thee!
2. Though like the wanderer,
The sun gone down,
Yet in my dreams Id be
Nearer, my God, to thee,
Nearer, my God, to thee,
Nearer to thee!
3. There let the way appear,
Steps unto heavn
All that thou sendest me,
In mercy givn
Nearer, my God, to thee,
Nearer, my God, to thee,
Nearer to thee!
4. Then with my waking thoughts
Bright with thy praise,
Out of my stony griefs
Bethel Ill raise
So by my woes to be
Nearer, my God, to thee,
Nearer, my God, to thee,
Nearer to thee!
5. Or if, on joyful wing
Cleaving the sky,
Sun, moon, and stars forgot,
Upward I fly,
Still all my song shall be
Nearer, my God, to thee,
Nearer, my God, to thee,
Nearer to thee!
Rms Titanic And Ss Valencia
“Nearer, My God, to Thee” is associated with the sinking of the RMS Titanic, as some survivors later reported that the ship’s string ensemble played the hymn as the vessel sank. For example, Violet Jessop said in her 1934 account of the disaster that she had heard the hymn being played Archibald Gracie IV, however, emphatically denied it in his own account, written soon after the sinking, and wireless operator Harold Bride said that he had heard “Autumn”, by which he may have meant Archibald Joyce‘s then-popular waltz “Songe d’Automne” . Feature films based on the Titanic disaster depict the band playing various versions of the hymn or other music. The 1929 film Atlantic, and the 1943, 1953, and 1997 films titled Titanic all used the “Bethany” version. The 1996 miniseries Titanic also features the hymn. The 1979 miniseries S. O. S. Titanic featured “Autumn” instead. The 1958 film A Night to Remember used the “Horbury” version.
“Nearer, My God, to Thee” was sung by the doomed crew and passengers of the SS Valencia as it sank off the Canadian coast in 1906, which may be the source of the Titanic legend.
Quotations In Musical Compositions
A dramatic paraphrase of the hymn tune was written for wind band by the Danish composer, Carl Nielsen. His version includes a musical rendition of the collision between boat and iceberg. The composer Sigfrid Karg-Elert, moved by the Titanic tragedy, wrote six works based on the “Bethany” setting, including an organ fantasia. “Bethany” is also quoted in Charles Ives‘s Symphony No. 4. The French organist Joseph Bonnet wrote “In Memoriam Titanic”, the first of his Douze Pièces, Op. 10, based on the tune Horbury. It was published the year after the Titanic sank.
The hymn even made its way briefly onto the operatic stage. The singer Emma Abbott, prompted by “her uncompromising and grotesque puritanism” rewrote La traviata so that Violetta expired singing not Verdi‘s Addio del passato, but “Nearer My God to Thee”.
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- Notated Music Progress Sheet Music. print | 1 score | From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. . Print…
- Contributor: Ditson & Co., Oliver
- Date:1880