Ambleside Online Hymn Rotation Schedule

This Term's Hymns

This is only the beginning of a twelve-year rotation of suggested hymns to learn. Charlotte Mason's students learned three folksongs and three hymns each term. Hymns make wonderful copywork selections. You may also wish to ask your students to recite the words to the hymns (as they do their poetry recitations) at the end of the month in which they are learned -- an excellent mental exercise, and one which Charlotte Mason suggested herself!

"We encourage AO members to get a hymnal of their own. There are so many, it would be hard to suggest one - but even from used book sources, etc. - it makes so much more sense to sing while looking at the notes - and they would be wonderful for copywork." ~ Donna-Jean Breckenridge

Recommended websites for hymn midis and lyrics
http://cyberhymnal.org
http://www.hymnsite.com Once there, for best results, use their BIGsearch option
http://members.aol.com/jweaver303/hymn/link.htm
Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary http://www.ccel.org/cceh/
Lassen Technologies http://www.snowcrest.net/lassen/midi.html
Bible center A hymn site with vocals
Grace Music
Center for Church Music has vocals with MP3's, RealPlayer, sheet music, devotionals, and histories of hymns.
Hymns & Carols for Christmas/Advent
Hymns for Easter (Crucifixion & Resurrection)
Thanksgiving Hymns

Ambleside Online Term Calendar:
Term 1: Sep-Nov   Term 2:Jan-Mar   Term 3:Apr-Jun

Ambleside Online schedules these terms as a group to facilitate our Artist, Composer, Plutarch, Shakespeare, Folksongs and Hymns studies through sharing resources and experiences on the list.

2007-2008 School Year

September: Children of the Heavenly Father/More Secure is No One Ever - Two titles due to different translations. Both are beautiful, and similar.
October: Like A River Glorious
November: All Hail the Power - Some call this hymn "The National Anthem of Christendom." It's among the most widely published hymns.

January: Amazing Grace
February: Crown Him with Many Crowns
March: What Wondrous Love

April: Saviour Like Shepherd Lead Us (thanks, Julie in TX!)
May: A Child of the King
June: I Need Thee Every Hour

July: In the Sweet By and By or here
August: Love Divine All Loves Excelling

2005-2006 School Year

September: Be Still My Soul --"Finlandia" (Jean Sibelius)
October: God is the Fountain Whence
November: Jesus, Thou Joy of Loving Hearts

January: O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing
February: Spirit of God, Descend Upon My Heart
March: Wondrous Love (What wondrous love is this)

April: The Solid Rock
May: Jesus, Lover of My Soul
June: Be Thou My Vision

July: Lord, I Believe Thy Power I Own
August: Praise to the Lord, the Almighty

2006-2007 School Year

September: Marching To Zion
October: My Jesus I Love Thee
November: O Love That Will Not Let Me Go

December: Star in the East
January: Thus Far The Lord Has Led Me On
February: Blest Be the Tie That Binds
March: When I Survey the Wondrous Cross

April: On Jordan's Stormy Banks I Stand
May: Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee ?
June: It Is Well With My Soul

July: Great is Thy Faithfulness
August: My Faith Looks Up To Thee

2004-2005 School Year

September: Take My Life and Let It Be, 1874 - We suggest you try the tunes "Messiah" and "Yarbrough" (try alternating between the two!).
October: O Thou In Whose Presence, 1791
November: When Morning Gilds the Skies, 1744 (There are many verses -- you may wish to select 5 or so)

January: Bunyan's Pilgrim hymn, He Who Would Valiant Be, to the St. Dunstan's tune
February: A Charge to Keep Have I
March: Praise, My Soul, The King of Heaven

April: Jesus, The Very Thought of Thee, words by Bernard of Clairveaux, 12th C
May: Come Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy, 1759
June: Purer In Heart, O God, 1877

2003-2004 School Year

September: Abide With Me
October: I Am Thine, O Lord (lyrics by Fanny Crosby)
November: O Worship the King Also here (a bit higher in pitch). Or here. And a chordbook for those who wish to play it themselves here

January: Just As I Am (1835) Midi with hymn info and words or a congregational piano midi
February: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (from a 4th century liturgy) Fernando Ortega fans will enjoy the beautiful version of this hymn on his cd "Storm."
March: Jesus Paid it All (1865) Midi with hymn info and words or a piano midi (slower)

April: Man of Sorrows (1875)
May: How Firm a Foundation (date unknown, published 1787)
June: Let Us With a Gladsome Mind (1623)

2002-2003 School Year

September: Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken (tune is from Haydn's Emperor String Quartet)
October: There Is a Happy Land
November: Come, Ye Thankful People, Come

January:Trust and Obey
February: Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah
March: I Love To Tell the Story

April: How Great Thou Art
May: Beneath the Cross of Jesus
June: Fairest Lord Jesus

2001-2002 School Year

Holy, Holy, Holy
For the Beauty of the Earth
Anywhere with Jesus

Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow
This is My Father's World
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing

Optional supplement for study of Bach's St. Matthew Passion Ah, Holy Jesus
Count Your Blessings
All Creatures of Our God and King
He Arose




>~*~*~ Easter Hymns ~*~*~

Alas! And Did My Saviour Bleed
Am I a Soldier of the Cross
Beneath the Cross of Jesus
Christ the Lord is Risen Today
Down at the Cross
Hallelujah! What a Savior!
I Know That My Redeemer Lives
Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross
Lead Me to Calvary
Low In The Grave He Lay (He Arose)
O Day of Light and Gladness
O Sacred Head, Now Wounded (w/link to German) words by Bernard of Clairveaux
The Old Rugged Cross
Thine is the Glory (w/ link to French version) music by Handel
Were You There When They Crucified My Lord
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross










Thanksgiving Hymns & Songs

Fetch your Old School Hymnals!
If you use a different hymnal that lacks the hymns below, these
verses are still worth reading just for the poetry.

"O God, Beneath Thy Guiding Hand (OSH #418)


O God, beneath Thy guiding hand
Our exiled fathers crossed the sea;
And when they trod the wintry strand,
With prayer and psalm they worshiped Thee.


Thou heard'st, well pleased, the song, the prayer:
Thy blessing came and still it's power
Shall onward, thro' all ages, bear
The memory of that holy hour.


Laws, freedom, truth, and faith in God
Came with those exiles o'er the waves;
And where their pilgrim feet have trod,
The God they trusted guards their graves.


And here my name, O God of love,
Their children's children shall adore,
Till these eternal hills remove,
And spring adorns the earth no more.

Come, Ye Thankful People, OSH #156

Come, ye thankful people, come
Raise the song of harvest-home:
All is safely gathered in,
Ere the winter storms begin;
God, our Maker, doth provide
For our wants to be supplied:
Come to God's own temple, come,
Raise the song of harvest-home.


All the world is God's own field,
Fruit unto His praise to yield;
Wheat and tares together sown,
Unto joy or sorrow grown;
First the blade and then the ear,
Then the full corn shall appear:
Lord of harvest, grant that we
Wholesome grain and pure may be.


For the Lord our God shall come,
And shall take His harvest home,
From His field shall in that day
All offenses purge away;
Give His angels charge at last
In the fire the tares to cast;
But the fruitful ears to store
In His garner evermore.

Even so, Lord quickly come
To Thy final harvest-home;
Gather Thou Thy people in,
Free from sorrow, free from sin;
There, forever purified,
In Thy presence to abide:
Come, with all Thine angels, come,
Raise the glorious harvest-home!

Thanksgiving Hymns



For The Beauty of the Earth
We Gather Together
Guide Me O Thou Great Jehovah
Now Thank We All Our God
Faith of Our Fathers
Count Your Blessings
O God, Beneath Thy Guiding Hand
Come, Ye Thankful People, Come

Praise To The Lord, The Almighty - Look for Fernando Ortega's recording of this one!

Hymnsite.com lists these as great Thanksgiving Hymns:
Maker in Whom We Live
For the Beauty of the Earth
Now Thank We All Our God
Sing Praise to God Who Reigns Above
We Gather Together
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty
This Is My Father's World
Rejoice, Ye Pure in Heart
Ye Servants of God
When Morning Gilds the Skies
O Food to Pilgrims Given
Lord, Dismiss Us with Thy Blessing
As the Sun Doth Daily Rise
Come, Ye Thankful People, Come
Rejoice, the Lord Is King
Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken