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Hi Folks - I've played one of the most tuneful hymns ever at a family funeral. I was not known at all, so I'd thought I'd ask the discussion board if they have....

 

JT

 

Blimey! never thought to hear of that one again. I had to do this on a harmonium in St. Helen's Mission church, on the Isle of Wight when I was a spotty youth.....that makes it about 45 years ago. It was in A & M standard and the I.o.W. connection in the name is not lost on me. I recall that the choir were quite unable to get it sorted, so it was dropped and we did 'Never Weather-beaten Sail' instead.

 

I've just had a look at it, stuck it on the desk, played it through, and it just took me three goes to get it right. Tricky little devil , well it is at my level of competence!

 

Chris

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Thanks for your reply. I found the harmonies very nice and tender. Which h-book is it in? I only had a photocopy which was in old old print!

Hymns Ancient and Modern, Standard Edition, no.694.

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Hymns Ancient and Modern, Standard Edition, no.694.

Or A&M New Edition (1904), no 430, where I guess it first appeared in a collection.

 

Paul

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According to Dibble's excellent "C. Hubert H. Parry His Life and Music", the tune was written during 1903 and was written for Novello's Parish Choir Book. The incorporation into A&M came later.

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