A. Veliumov was a Russian composer of the 19th century.
No information is available on his life, music or
death. This composition of the "Great Doxology"
(??????????? ???????) remains.
A doxology is a short hymn of praises to God in various
forms of Christian worship, often added to the end of
canticles, psalms, and hymns. The tradition derives
from a similar practice in the Jewish synagogue, where
some version of the Kaddish serves to terminate each
section of the service.
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A. Veliumov was a Russian composer of the 19th century.
No information is available on his life, music or
death. This composition of the "Great Doxology"
(??????????? ???????) remains.
A doxology is a short hymn of praises to God in various
forms of Christian worship, often added to the end of
canticles, psalms, and hymns. The tradition derives
from a similar practice in the Jewish synagogue, where
some version of the Kaddish serves to terminate each
section of the service.
Because some Christian worship services include a
doxology, and these hymns therefore were familiar and
well-practiced among church choirs, the English word
sockdolager arose, a deformation of doxology, which
came to mean a "show-stopper", a production number. The
Oxford English Dictionary considers it a "fanciful"
coinage, but an 1893 speculation reported in the
Chicago Tribune as to the origin of the word as one of
its early attestations: A writer in the March Atlantic
gives this as the origin of the slang word
"socdollager", which was current some time ago.
"Socdollager" was the uneducated man's transposition of
"doxologer", which was the familiar New England
rendering of "doxology". This was the Puritan term for
the verse ascription used at the conclusion of every
hymn, like the "Gloria" at the end of a chanted psalm.
On doctrinal grounds it was proper for the whole
congregation to join in the singing, so that it became
a triumphant winding up of the whole act of worship.
Thus is happened that "socdollager" became the term for
anything which left nothing else to follow; a decisive,
overwhelming finish, to which no reply was
possible.
Source: Wikipedia
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxology).
Although originally created for Voices (SATB), I
created this Arrangement of the "Great Doxology"
(??????????? ???????) for Double-Reed Quartet (2 Oboes,
English Horn & Bassoon).
PARTITION