In some parts of Germany, after the Reformation, Latin hymns continued
to be used even by Protestants. This was the case at Halberstadt until
quite a recent date. In England, a few are still occasionally used in
the older universities and colleges. Some, also, have been composed in
both countries since the Reformation. The "Carmina lyrica" of Johann
Jakob Balde, a native of Alsace, and a Jesuit priest in Bavaria, have
received high commendation from very eminent German critics,
particularly Herder and Augustus Schlegel. Some of the Latin hymns of
William Alard (1572-1645), a Protestant refugee from Belgium, and
pastor in Holstein, have been thought worthy of a place in Archbishop
Trench's selection. Two by W. Petersen (printed at the end of
Haberkorn's supplement to Jacobi's _Psalmodia Germanica_) are good in
different ways--one, "Jesu dulcis amor meus" ("Jesus, Thee my soul
doth love"), being a gentle melody of spiritual devotion, and the
other, entitled _Spes Sionis_, violently controversial against Rome.
An English hymn of the 17th century, in the Ambrosian style, "Te Deum
Patrem colimus" ("Almighty Father, just and good"), is sung on every
May-Day morning by the choristers of Magdalen College, Oxford, from
the top of the tower of their chapel; and another in the style of the
Renaissance, of about the same date, "Te de profundis, summe Rex"
("Thee from the depths, Almighty King"), long formed part of a grace
formerly sung by the scholars of Winchester College.
Luther.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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