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O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf

Index O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf

"O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf" (O Saviour, tear open the heavens) is a Christian Advent song. [1]

18 relations: Advent song, Book of Isaiah, David Gregor Corner, Dorian mode, Evangelisches Gesangbuch, Friedrich Spee, Gotteslob, Gregorian chant, Hesse-Rheinfels, Hugo Distler, Hymn, Johann Nepomuk David, Johannes Brahms, Plague (disease), Richard Wetz, Thirty Years' War, Vulgate, Witch trials in the early modern period.

Advent song

Advent songs (German: Adventslieder) are songs and hymns intended for Advent, the four weeks of preparation for Christmas.

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Book of Isaiah

The Book of Isaiah (ספר ישעיהו) is the first of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible and the first of the Major Prophets in the Christian Old Testament.

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David Gregor Corner

David Gregor Corner, born circa 1585 in Hirschberg, Germany (now Jelenia Góra, Poland) was a German Benedictine abbot, hymn writer and theologian best known for his influential 1631 Gross Catholisches Gesängbuch ("Great Catholic Hymnal").

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Dorian mode

Dorian mode or Doric mode can refer to three very different but interrelated subjects: one of the Ancient Greek harmoniai (characteristic melodic behaviour, or the scale structure associated with it), one of the medieval musical modes, or, most commonly, one of the modern modal diatonic scales, corresponding to the white notes from D to D, or any transposition of this.

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Evangelisches Gesangbuch

Evangelisches Gesangbuch (EG;, Protestant song book) is the current hymnal of German-language congregations in Germany, Alsace and Lorraine, Austria, and Luxembourg, which was introduced from 1993 and 1996, succeeding the Evangelisches Kirchengesangbuch (EKG).

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Friedrich Spee

Friedrich Spee (also Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld; February 25, 1591 – August 7, 1635) was a German Jesuit priest, professor, and poet, most noted as an opponent of trials for witchcraft.

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Gotteslob

Gotteslob (Praise of God) is the title of the hymnbook authorized by the Catholic dioceses in Germany, Austria, South Tyrol and Liège.

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Gregorian chant

Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic, unaccompanied sacred song of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Hesse-Rheinfels

Hesse-Rheinfels was created as a cadet line of Hesse for Philip II, Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels (1541–1583), landgrave from 1567 until 1583, and as a cadet line of Hesse-Kassel for Ernest, Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels (1623–1693), landgrave from 1627 until 1658.

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Hugo Distler

Hugo Distler (24 June 1908 – 1 November 1942)Slonimsky & Kuhn, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, v. 2, p. 889 was a German organist, choral conductor, teacher and composer.

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Hymn

A hymn is a type of song, usually religious, specifically written for the purpose of adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity or deities, or to a prominent figure or personification.

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Johann Nepomuk David

Johann Nepomuk David (30 November 1895 – 22 December 1977) was an Austrian composer.

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Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms (7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer and pianist of the Romantic period.

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Plague (disease)

Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.

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Richard Wetz

Richard Wetz (26 February 1875 – 16 January 1935) was a German late Romantic composer best known for his three symphonies.

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Thirty Years' War

The Thirty Years' War was a war fought primarily in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648.

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Vulgate

The Vulgate is a late-4th-century Latin translation of the Bible that became the Catholic Church's officially promulgated Latin version of the Bible during the 16th century.

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Witch trials in the early modern period

The period of witch trials in Early Modern Europe were a widespread moral panic suggesting that malevolent Satanic witches were operating as an organized threat to Christendom during the 16th to 18th centuries.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Heiland,_reiß_die_Himmel_auf

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