Guest Andrew Butler Report post Posted June 19, 2006 Can anyone suggest where I might find the tune for the following please? request received from a parishioner... http://www.oremus.org/hymnal/o/o098.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Henry Willis 0 Report post Posted June 19, 2006 Can anyone suggest where I might find the tune for the following please? request received from a parishioner... http://www.oremus.org/hymnal/o/o098.html <{POST_SNAPBACK}> YUK! Whatever you manage to come up with, I do hope that the music is better than the words! David Wyld Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sjf1967 0 Report post Posted June 19, 2006 Can anyone suggest where I might find the tune for the following please? request received from a parishioner... http://www.oremus.org/hymnal/o/o098.html <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Crikey - one for the Chamber of Horrors and no mistake. No idea if it's the original melody, but Kingsfold will fit very well (NEH 376) - and so would any DCM tune. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phil T 0 Report post Posted June 19, 2006 Can anyone suggest where I might find the tune for the following please? request received from a parishioner... http://www.oremus.org/hymnal/o/o098.html <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Find out what the meter of the hymn is (no idea how to do it if it’s not printed with it) and find a tune with an identical meter. This is probably little help, but you never know. I don’t find the words overly inspiring, but we don’t all like the same stuff. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
David Coram 0 Report post Posted June 19, 2006 Can anyone suggest where I might find the tune for the following please? request received from a parishioner... http://www.oremus.org/hymnal/o/o098.html <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Kingsfold would do a fine job of it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Andrew Butler Report post Posted June 19, 2006 Didn't phrase the question very well. Were we going to sing it, I could find many a DCM tune. A congregant (?) remembers it from his boyhood and would like a a copy of the tune he knew for his personal use. He heard it on a recording in the 1920/30's Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phil T 0 Report post Posted June 19, 2006 A congregant (?) remembers it from his boyhood and would like a a copy of the tune he knew for his personal use. He heard it on a recording in the 1920/30's <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Anything more specific than that? Who sang it, who recorded it, who wrote the words etc? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phil T 0 Report post Posted June 19, 2006 Just answered the "who wrote the words" question by looking properly at the link Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
parsfan 0 Report post Posted June 19, 2006 If you wanted to emphasise the contrast between the first four lines of each verse and the last four, the tune 'St Matthew' would do the job just fine. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Colin Harvey 0 Report post Posted June 19, 2006 I would use Aurelia - it becomes quite funny then, with those silly words and the dead-pan timing of Aurelia. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phil T 0 Report post Posted June 19, 2006 try this Don't know if this will work or is even the right thing. Look under Erskine. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vox Humana 0 Report post Posted June 19, 2006 If it were me I think I'd send it to Radio 4 with a request that the "I'm sorry I haven't a clue" team give it a once-over. "O, David was a shepherd lad" to the tune of "On Ilkley Moor Baht'at". Yep, I can hear it now... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sjf1967 0 Report post Posted June 19, 2006 Didn't phrase the question very well. Were we going to sing it, I could find many a DCM tune. A congregant (?) remembers it from his boyhood and would like a a copy of the tune he knew for his personal use. He heard it on a recording in the 1920/30's <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Andrew - having seen your posting on another forum that it was a boy singing it, have you thought of trawling throught the Better Land series of recordings? It may well be on there somewhere. Roffensis may be able to advise.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Andrew Butler Report post Posted June 20, 2006 Andrew - having seen your posting on another forum that it was a boy singing it, have you thought of trawling throught the Better Land series of recordings? It may well be on there somewhere. Roffensis may be able to advise.... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thanks for suggestion. have done a search there but found nothing. Will PM Roffensis. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Roffensis Report post Posted June 20, 2006 Thanks for suggestion. have done a search there but found nothing. Will PM Roffensis. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Not heard of it sorry, but any similar metre tune would so surely? what is it, 8686D or something of that ilk, unless the fee is £1000 and a free holiday in Venice, I'd just use another tune. Can't they sing the tune to you? if not, chances are they have forgotten it!...... Richard Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Andrew Butler Report post Posted June 20, 2006 Not heard of it sorry, but any similar metre tune would so surely? what is it, 8686D or something of that ilk, unless the fee is £1000 and a free holiday in Venice, I'd just use another tune. Can't they sing the tune to you? if not, chances are they have forgotten it!...... Richard <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thanks for trying - they're not expecting me to play it; the person inquestion wants to just get hold of the music and/or recording for nostalgic reasons. I do realize that any CMD tune would fit were it going to be sung in a service (heaven forfend!) Correspondence closed unless anyone has a brainwave! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tony Newnham 0 Report post Posted June 21, 2006 Can anyone suggest where I might find the tune for the following please? request received from a parishioner... http://www.oremus.org/hymnal/o/o098.html <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hi It looks to me like the sort of children's hymn that could be lurking in "Golden Bells" or something similar from that era. Sorry - I don't have a copy in my collection of old hymn books. There is a tune called David in several books - but it's the wrong metre for these words. Have fun! Every Blessing Tony Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Andrew Butler Report post Posted June 22, 2006 Find out what the meter of the hymn is (no idea how to do it if it’s not printed with it) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Simply count the syllables in each line. This example would be 8.6.8.6.8.6.8.6 usually known as Double Common Metre. 8.6.8.6 is Common Metre 8.8.8.8 is Long Metre 6.6.8.6 is Short Metre Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MusingMuso 0 Report post Posted June 22, 2006 There is a tune called David in several books - but it's the wrong metre for these words. Have fun! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ============== Talk about the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune! MM Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mark Taylor 0 Report post Posted June 22, 2006 According to the Hymn Database at this link www.stmarysbaldock.fsnet.co.uk/hymns/hdb/index.html The hymn in question is No.449 in “Hymns Ancient and Modern Revised”, the edition published in 1950. I don’t have the hymn book so I can’t check the accuracy of this information. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mgp 0 Report post Posted June 22, 2006 Well found and the tune is "David" DCM by D.W.Dearle (1926). Reproduced by permission of the Church & School Hymnal Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dalua 0 Report post Posted June 23, 2006 Well found indeed! Tune, words and era match perfectly, as does the hymn's position in the 'For the Young' part of A&M Revised. I'm surprised I got through prep school without having to sing it! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AJJ 0 Report post Posted June 23, 2006 Sorry - I missed the posts on P2 so there was no point to this!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
