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"Cranbrook", also known as "Northampton", is a hymn tune composed in the 1790s or early 1800s by Thomas Clark (1775–1859), a cobbler from Canterbury, and is best known as the tune to the Yorkshire "national anthem" "On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at".
The hymn tune "Cranbrook" was written in 1805 by Canterbury shoe-maker Thomas Clark and named after the local village of Cranbrook in Kent. [13] It was originally set to the words 'Grace 'tis a charming sound' written by Philip Doddridge but is now better known in the UK as the tune of On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at. [4]
The best-known of his tunes is Cranbrook: it was originally set to the words "Grace 'tis a charming sound" written by Philip Doddridge, and published in Clark's first book A Sett of Psalm & Hymn Tunes [1805]. [1] Cranbrook was later used as a tune for the Christmas carol "While shepherds watched their flocks" and is now better known as the tune ...
It is sung to the hymn tune "Cranbrook", composed by Thomas Clark in 1805; while according to Andrew Gant, the words were composed by members of Halifax Church Choir "some 50 years after Clark wrote his melody", on an outing to Ilkley Moor near Ilkley, West Yorkshire. [4] [5] It is classified as numbers 2143 and 19808 in the Roud Folk Song Index.
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Cranbrook is the name of a hymn tune written by Canterbury cobbler Thomas Clark around 1805, and later used as a tune for the Christmas hymn "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks". The tune later became associated with the Yorkshire song "On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at". [27]
Cranbrook Colony, a group of artists active from 1853 onwards; Cranbrook School, Kent; Cranbrook (Kent) railway station ... "Cranbrook" (hymn tune) This page was last ...
The theme-tune for the series was 'On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at' ('On Ilkley Moor, without a hat'), a popular Yorkshire folk song sung to the tune of the hymn 'Cranbrook'. It was a reference to Noakes's own Yorkshire heritage. The end theme though was a different tune, [3] the middle section of a piece called 'The Rovers Return' by Edrich Siebert.