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  CAEDMON - LoveToKnow Article on CAEDMON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
He also made many songs of the terrors of the coming judgment, of the horrors of hell and the sweetness of heaven; and of the mercies and the judgments of God." All his poetry was on sacred themes, and its unvarying aim was to turn men from sin to righteousness and the love of God.
It is of course possible to hold that the story of the dream is pure fiction, and that the lines which Bseda translated were not Caedmon's at all.
As the hymn is said to have been Caedmon's first essay in verse, its lack of poetic merit is rather an argument for its genuineness than against it.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CA/CAEDMON.htm   (2572 words)

  
 caedmon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Caedmon is one of only two Anglo-Saxon poets whose names are known (the other being Cynewulf).
According to Bede, writing in the 7th century, Caedmon was a cow-herd at a Yorkshire monastery, who was unable to sing in public until he miraculously found himself able to sing the Creation, a poem of nine lines.
Although many verses have been attributed to Caedmon, the original nine lines of alliterative Old English poetry are the only verses which can reliably be ascribed to him.
www.yourencyclopedia.net /Caedmon   (225 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Caedmon's Call   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Caedmon's Call was formed in 1993 with four original members (three of whom still remain), Cliff Young, Danielle Glenn, Todd Bragg, and Aaron Tate.
Legend has it that Caedmon was afraid to sing in public due to a lack of musical talent, and shied away from occasions where he had to sing.
Caedmon's Call decided to incorporate world music influences into the album during mission trips with Compassion International to India, Ecuador, and Brazil.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Caedmon%27s-Call   (1654 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Caedmon
While Caedmon's part in the authorship of the so-called Caedmonian poems has been steadily narrowed by modern scholarship, the events in the life of this gifted religious poet are definitively established by the painstaking Bede, who lived in the nearby monastery of Wearmouth in the following generation (see BEDE).
Caedmon, having further shown his gift by turning into excellent verse some sacred stories recited to him, yielded to the exhortation of Hilda that he take the monsastic habit.
The poems, whether we say they are Caedmon's or of the school of Caedmon, mark a worthy beginning of the long and noble line of English sacred poetry.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/03131c.htm   (857 words)

  
 Caedmon's Call- Share the Well
Caedmon's Call has always been one of my favorite bands, but no album they've done has moved me quite like this one.
Caedmon's has found a new heart in this effort, and it doesn't have a lot to do with clever lyrics and catchy harmonies.
Caedmon's got a real heart for those people, and challenge the rest of us to do the same.
www.gracehotel.net /Albums/CaedmonsCall04.html   (1116 words)

  
 FictionPress.Com Story : Caedmon Dagda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Caedmon's mind began to focus on the persistent clanking noise of the man's armor.
Caedmon stealthily walked behind the man of copper, took his shoulder, and stabbed him, easily piercing his armor.
Caedmon's may no longer feel the burden of fatigue, however, he could still feel the pleasure of the cool air flowing over his face.
www.fictionpress.com /read.php?storyid=1852491   (1763 words)

  
 A Review by The Phantom Tollbooth
Caedmon's Call has returned to their well-chosen alternatives, and we are the richer for it.
Caedmon's Call's debut label release planted them firmly on the list of Christian artists who could shift units with the best of them, but the band are eager to leave that category and return to their roots touring colleges.
Caedmon's Call is also a band that can't afford to break up to pursue solo careers, because the combination of their talents is better than the sum of its parts.
www.tollbooth.org /review99/ccall.html   (1768 words)

  
 Jamsline Biography - Caedmon's Call   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Even though Caedmon's Call doesn't typically lead worship at their concerts and their songs don't usually reflect a worship style, the band's music has always been grounded in the idea of directing people to God in their everyday lives.
Caedmon's Call was fortunate to have been one of a select group of artists to be offered some of Mullins' unrecorded material earlier this year.
Caedmon's Call offers a collection of songs that point all things back to God in the purest sense of what worship is meant to be.
www.jamsline.com /b_ccall.htm   (1667 words)

  
 cMusicWeb.com: Caedmon's Call
Caedmon's Call have recorded an informal, pure perspective of God's ineffable mercy with a truly original college-based acoustic sound.
Caedmon's Call and their acoustic-rock based music took me on a surreal journey to the heart of a relationship with Christ and an intimate fellowship with a band I had once criticized.
Caedmon's second independent mini-album included more songs from Aaron Tate as well as the introduction of Derek Webb as a songwriter for the band.
cmusicweb.com /folk/caedmonscall/index.shtml   (612 words)

  
 Caedmon's Call
Caedmon's Call is a group strikingly different from the general expectations of a normal band.
Caedmon's Call is a band that grew organically, based on respect, friendship, a shared faith and extreme talent.
Caedmon's Call plays a thoroughly modern brand of music (the Indigo Girls describe their music, as 'intense acoustic folk music,' a description that rings true with Caedmon's Call about their (own music), yet take their name from an ancient tale.
www.angelfire.com /fl2/christrock/caedmonscall.html   (1206 words)

  
 A Closer Look: Caedmon's Call
According to the members of Caedmon's Call, the band takes its name from a seventh-century poet and herdsman who reluctantly followed God's beckoning for him to sing, only to discover that he had words and melodies within him that no one had ever heard before.
Caedmon's Call sold more than 12,000 copies during its first week after release and debuted atop Billboard magazine's "Heatseekers Chart," a feat unmatched by any other Christian act.
The people who have made Caedmon's Call one of the most popular new acts in Christian music this year have responded in part to the group's densely produced, contemporary folk sound based around the acoustic guitars of Derek Webb and Cliff Young.
www.acloserlook.com /9708acl/music/caedmonscall.html   (490 words)

  
 Caedmon's Call   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Caedmon's Call plays folk music, with a generous helping of pop and a little rock.
Caedmon's Call is a Christian band, so some of the songs deal with issues that young Christians face.
Caedmon's Call has managed to craft a melodic musical marvel, and I highly recommend it to anyone looking for music about real life.
www.umsl.edu /studentlife/current/938/features4.htm   (271 words)

  
 Bede's Account of the Poet Caedmon - introduction
The master in Caedmon's dream (a certain man) is neither a muse nor is he an angel, and Caedmon's Lord is not the Judeo-Christian God'.
'Caedmon, a seventh-century peasant, as the story tells us, ran away from the social firelight when a song was demanded of him, a song of the kind men sang at their ease, in the language (Anglo-Saxon) of their nation.
Rather, Caedmon's "Wuldorfaeder" is praise-worthy because he constructs out of existing materials a house for human beings, and donates it to their keeping'.
www.heorot.dk /bede-caedmon-i-txt.html   (2023 words)

  
 Caedmon manuscript - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The popular name of the codex is the Caedmon manuscript, after an early theory that the poems it contains might be the work of Caedmon; the name has stuck even though the theory is no longer considered credible.
In more recent works it is commonly referred to either by its Bodleian designation MS Junius 11, or as the Junius manuscript; 'Junius' here is Franciscus Junius, who published the first edition of its contents in 1655.
In this illustration from page 46 of the Caedmon manuscript, an angel is shown guarding the gates of paradise.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Caedmon_manuscript   (696 words)

  
 Jamsline Feature: Caedmon's Call   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Caedmon's Call will also be a featured artist at the Christian Research Report AC Radio Convention in October.
Caedmon's Call has been so passionately focused on the college arena that past growth in the youth market has been somewhat of a spillover effect.
Caedmon's Call will also partner with Interlinc, an organization that specializes in providing artist related resources to youth workers.
www.jamsline.com /caedmonscall.htm   (669 words)

  
 §3. Caedmon’s "Hymn". IV. Old English Christian Poetry. Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. ...
Much discussion has hinged upon the exact meaning to be attached to the words Sensus and ordo, though Bede is evidently alluding merely to the difficulty of reproducing poetry in prose, for he continues: neque enim possunt carmina quamvis optime composita, ex alia in aliam linguam ad verbum sine detrimento sui decoris ac dignitatis transferri.
Bede’s detailed enumeration of Caedmon’s other achievements must be held responsible for the attribution to Caedmon of a large number of religious poems of a similar character extant only in West Saxon form, in the Bodl.
But the fact that it is impossible to claim these particular poems for Caedmon does not militate against the probability of his having composed similar, though, perhaps, shorter pieces, which may have been worked upon later by more scholarly hands.
www.bartleby.com /211/0403.html   (806 words)

  
 Cædmon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dobbie, Elliott Van Kirk The Manusscripts of Caedmon's Hymn and Bede's Death Song with a Critical Text of the Epistola Cuthberti de Obitu Bedae Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative Literature 128 (New York, 1937).
Morland, Laura “Caedmon and the Germanic Tradition” in De Gustibus: Essays for Alain Renoir ed.
Pound, Louise "Caedmon's Dream Song” in Studies in English Philology: A Miscellany in Honor of Frederick Klaeber ed.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Caedmon   (2676 words)

  
 Life in the Family - Kathleen Paul   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Caedmon was the first poet whose words were recorded in English.
Evidently Caedmon's voice was so bad that as soon as they pulled out the harp, he ducked out.
One night he was in the cow byre avoiding the embarrassment of singing at the feast and he fell asleep.
www.christianity.com /CC_Content_Page/0,,PTID28120|CHID384140|CIID,00.html   (218 words)

  
 CGR: Caedmon's Call Extends "In The Company Of Angels" Tour This Fall
In response to the album's phenomenal feedback and request for additional tour dates, Caedmon's Call plans to give focus to another round of concerts, before moving its attention to a new studio project, slated for a spring 2003 release.
Celebrated internationally, Caedmon's Call's first national, self-titled release set a record for the most units sold in its first week out by a debut contemporary Christian artist and was ranked No. 1 on the Billboard Heatseekers Album Chart.
Caedmon's Call is currently in the studio recording its fourth Essential Records release, out spring 2003.
www.christianguitar.org /forums/showthread.php?t=32656   (548 words)

  
 Caedmon
By now you are probably wondering, "Who is Caedmon, and what was his call?" To answer that question, we have to go back to the eighth century, when the Venerable Bede recorded the story of a young stable hand named Caedmon who was plagued by his inability to sing.
Caedmon continued to sing songs about God; he was the first person to compose such poetry in the English language.
Just as Caedmon took the Latin Vulgate scriptures and paraphrased them into the common vernacular of the day through poetic verse and song, we have felt a similar call to sing; to relate biblical principles in a way with which today's believers can identify.
www.centralcofc.com /info/caedmon.htm   (791 words)

  
 The Indiana Jones School of Management » Caedmon's Call   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
I was sitting here, talking with Susan about a variety of things, including her review of a recent Caedmon’s show.
Caedmon’s Call’s new album, Share The Well, is going to just absolutely rock.
I’m happy to pile onto the announcment that Jeremy Casella will be the opener for Caedmon’s Call on their fall tour.
ijsm.org /archives/category/music/caedmons-call   (826 words)

  
 Caedmon, The Gift of Writing Verses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A portion of Caedmon's "The Hymn of Creation." is paraphrased in it.
Thus Caedmon ' keeping in mind all he heard, and as it were chewing the cud, converted the same into most harmonious verse; and sweetly repeating the same, made his masters in their turn his hearers.
Caedmon's Hymn in the both the original Anglo-Saxon and modern English
gbgm-umc.org /UMW/bible/caedmon.stm   (916 words)

  
 Febuary 11: Poet Caedmon's feast
Caedmon, however, slipped away because he was either too shy to sing or simply had nothing to share.
Caedmon was the first poet to produce vivid Christian verses in the Anglo-Saxon tongue.
She was a great enthusiast for learning, and encouraged Caedmon, who received the fit of poetry in vision, and sang his own religious compositions to help interpret the Christian message to others.
chi.gospelcom.net /DAILYF/2002/02/daily-02-11-2002.shtml   (633 words)

  
 The Phantom Tollbooth - Features
According to Caedmon's Call, "The welfare system in the 1800's consisted of giving someone 40 acres of land and a mule"--it was their chance for redemption.
Aric Nitzberg, bassist for Caedmon's Call was kind enough to sit down to an interview just before their midnight set at Agapefest, and help shed a bit of light as to the family- and relationship-oriented attitude of Caedmon's Call.
The entire reason Caedmon's Call formed was to sing of the redeeming power in the blood of Christ.
www.tollbooth.org /features/ccall99.html   (797 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Books: Caedmon's Song   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Written in the late 80s' Caedmon's Song does little better; this is a book written by an ex-pat using childhood memories to try and fill gaps in his knowledge of his homeland.
Caedmon's Song begins, like all good psychological thrillers, by conjouring up a mixture of anticiation and trepidation.
Caedmon's Song is a riveting read, the story concerns the brutal attack of a young university student and the events of the following year.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1405041110   (944 words)

  
 In the Company of Angels: A Call to Worship - Caedmon's Call - Music
Despite the change in songwriting lineup, the music is essentially the same Caedmon's Call we're all familiar with, the same acoustic folk-pop that's the cornerstone of all their works.
Caedmon's Call makes a point of expressing God's glory through poetry, effectively capturing many important facets of the Lord, yet only scratching the surface.
Caedmon's Call to Worship is one of the most poetic, contemplative, and enjoyable worship albums I've ever heard.
www.christianitytoday.com /music/reviews/2001/inthecompanyofangels.html   (1034 words)

  
 Caedmon's Call - The Phantom Tollbooth
Caedmon's Call has finally signed a distribution deal after five years on the college circuit and two independent releases.
There is a point we all come to when we break free from all the ideals that youth group sheltered us with and we move on to become an adult of responsible faith.
This is exactly what the group Caedmon's Call deals with in their latest self-titled release, but they do so frequently without cleverness.
www.tollbooth.org /mini/caedmon.html   (245 words)

  
 Jesusfreakhideout.com: Caedmon’s Call, "Chronicles" Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Caedmon’s Call has been around for over ten years now.
Now, to commemorate ten-plus years of music, Caedmon’s Call releases Chronicles, a disc that’s a mix of live favorites, greatest hits, as well as new recordings.
An extended version of "Thankful" is followed by a live version of one of the band’s first hits, "Lead of Love." Really, it’s hard to signify one or two particular tracks as highlights.
www.jesusfreakhideout.com /cdreviews/Chronicles1992to2004.asp   (306 words)

  
 Caedmon's Call - Christian Music Today
Caedmon's Call brings sounds from the Third World to its next album—but more importantly, they're trying to make a difference in some of those poor nations.
Folk-rock group Caedmon's Call has always had a heart for corners of the world such as this.
For Caedmon's Call, this reality came as a metaphor to those thirsting for hope and a savior.
www.christianitytoday.com /music/artists/caedmonscall.html   (1433 words)

  
 RPO -- Cædmon : Cædmon's Hymn
When Caedmon said that he did not know what to sing about, the man told him, "the Creation of all things." In the dream, Caedmon did so, with verses he had never heard before.
The text of Caedmon's hymn of the Creation also perfectly satisfies the cognitive needs of an utterance that, once generated, must be memorizable so that it can later be recalled by rote.
Her Caedmon feels like one of the unspeaking "warm beasts," "at home and lonely," enjoying the silence or the simple sighing and "body sounds" of the feeding cows.
eir.library.utoronto.ca /rpo/display/poem369.html   (2055 words)

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