Ausbund Songs with Score
"Ausbund Songs with Notes" by Olen F. Yoder
This book contains Amish hymns notated as they are sung in the “slow style.” The hymns are from the Ausbund, the oldest Anabaptist hymnal, which is still used today by North American Amish congregations.
Das Loblied - "O Gott Vater" (First Song in the Ausbund)
From Joseph Slabaugh (“Amish Joe”)
The German hymn “O Gott Vater” (O Father God) is also called “Das Loblied” (The Praise Song). This hymn, published in the first Anabaptist songbook, the “Ausbund,” is still sung today at the beginning of Amish church services.
About the Ausbund (from Wikipedia)
The Ausbund (“Paragon” in German) is the oldest Anabaptist hymnal and one of the oldest Christian song books in continuous use. It is used today by North American Amish congregations. The core of the Ausbund is based on fifty-one songs written by Anabaptists from Passau, Bavaria. Eleven of these songs were written by their leader, Michael Schneider. Twelve others may have been written by Hans Betz. The hymns were composed in the dungeon of Passau Castle, where the Anabaptists were imprisoned between 1535 and 1540 because of their convictions. Some—among them Hans Betz—did not survive the imprisonment.
The collection was printed in 1564. A copy of this first printing is found at the Mennonite Historical Library of Goshen College, bearing the title Etliche schöne christliche Gesäng wie dieselbigen zu Passau von den Schweizer Brüdern in der Gefenknus im Schloss durch göttliche Gnade gedicht und gesungen warden. (Several Beautiful Christian Songs Which Were Written and Sung Through God’s Grace by the Swiss Brethren in the Passau Castle Prison).