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“AMAZING GRACE”
(1779)
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“BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC”
(1861)
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*a hymn is a type of ‘song’ – usually ‘religious’ – specifically written for the purpose of ‘adoration’ / ‘prayer’, and typically addressed to a ‘deity’ or ‘deities’, or to a prominent ‘figure’ / ‘personification’*
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(the word hymn derives from greek ὕμνος (hymnos), which means “a song of praise”)
(a writer of ‘hymns’ is known as a ‘hymnodist’)
(the ‘singing’ or ‘composition’ of ‘hymns’ is called ‘hymnody’)
(collections of ‘hymns’ are known as ‘hymnals’ or ‘hymn books’)
(‘hymns’ may or may not include ‘instrumental accompaniment’)
(although most familiar to speakers of ‘english’ in the context of ‘christianity’, ‘hymns’ are also a fixture of other ‘world religions’, especially on the ‘indian subcontinent’)
(‘hymns’ also survive from ‘antiquity’, especially from ‘egyptian’ and ‘greek’ cultures)
(some of the oldest surviving examples of ‘notated music’ are ‘hymns’ with ‘greek’ texts)
(a trifecta of songs dealing with european enslavement + colonization of the africans)
(as well as the “native americans”)
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥