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Geoffrey Beaumont CR (1903–1970) was an Anglican priest and monk of the Community of the Resurrection who was also a composer of popular songs and hymn tunes. After graduation he attended Ely Theological College and was ordained in 1932 to a curacy in Nunhead. During the war he served as a chaplain in the RNVR, for which he was awarded the MBE.
A hymn tune is the melody of a musical composition to which a hymn text is sung. Musically speaking, a hymn is generally understood to have four-part (or more) harmony , a fast harmonic rhythm (chords change frequently), with or without refrain or chorus.
Ar Hyd y Nos" (English: All Through the Night) is a Welsh song sung to a tune that was first recorded in Edward Jones' Musical and Poetical Relics of the Welsh Bards (1784). The most commonly sung Welsh lyrics were written by John Ceiriog Hughes (1832-1887), and have been translated into several languages, including English (most famously by ...
He was ordained in 1841 and became Rector of Westwell, Oxfordshire in 1847, then of Castle Camps, Cambridgeshire, 1860. [3] He was also for a time tutor of his college, and classical examiner. [4] Bode was married with three children. One of his children was Alice Mary Bode who also wrote Christian hymns; [5] most famously, "Once pledged by the ...
It was first used for Wesley's hymn in the 1906 English Hymnal, and is also used in Songs of Praise (1925) and the 1933 Methodist Hymn Book. [12] In 1969, while at the Fellowship of Methodist Musicians conference, Erik Routley composed a new tune for this hymn, entitled "Woodbury". [9]
[a] Another variant of the tune, commonly used in Irish and Scottish hymnals (including the Hymnbooks of the Church of Scotland), fits the 10.10.10.10 metre and is not suitable for "Lord of all Hopefulness". [4] [a] The tune has its origin as a traditional Irish tune, principally 'With my Love on the Road', [5] also known as 'The Banks of the ...
The hymn first appeared in Songs of Praise in 1931. [2] The hymn is sometimes performed by folk singers on account of the folk origins of its tune, notably by Martin Simpson during Prom 5 (Folk day - part 2) in the BBC Proms on July 20, 2008. [3] [4] An up tempo version can be found on Blyth Power's 1990 album Alnwick and Tyne. [5]
Miller arranged the tune Rockingham as a hymn tune in 1790, to which Isaac Watts' hymn "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross" is sung. [1] Miller also wrote the tune Galway, to which Charles Wesley's hymn "A charge to keep I have" is sung. [2] He died at Doncaster on 12 September 1807. [5]