I Love Music
Beautiful Music in Unusual Settings — 4
Whitby, North Yorkshire UK
When I Survey The Wondrous Cross
Isaac Watts first published "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross" in his Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1707). Designated a communion hymn, it appeared under the heading "Crucifixion to the World by the Cross of Christ; Gal. One of the first English-language hymns to use the word "I" and to focus directly on personal religious experience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCQJcX_N08E
Whitby, North Yorkshire UK
When I Survey The Wondrous Cross
Isaac Watts first published "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross" in his Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1707). Designated a communion hymn, it appeared under the heading "Crucifixion to the World by the Cross of Christ; Gal. One of the first English-language hymns to use the word "I" and to focus directly on personal religious experience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCQJcX_N08E
80-89, M
