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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.
The most important hymn book of Pietism was the Freylinghausen hymnal published in Halle in 1704, which contained about 1,500 songs in two volumes. Pietism was of great importance to hymn writing until the end of the eighteenth century. Musically, in the high and late Baroque many valuable, heartfelt hymn tunes were composed.
Hatherop Castle School. Hatherop Castle is now a private co-educational preparatory school. [13] [14] Hatherop Castle dates from the sixteenth or seventeenth century, and was also partly rebuilt by Henry Clutton for Baron de Mauley in 1850–56. [11] Hatherop has a Church of England primary school, [15] which in 2006 had 68 pupils. [16]
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.
His best-known work includes an arrangement of "Joy to the World" and the tune Bethany, which sets the hymn text Nearer, My God, to Thee. Mason also set music to Mary Had A Little Lamb . He is largely credited with introducing music into American public schools, and is considered the first important U.S. music educator .
Harris is best remembered today for his Anglican church music, though during his lifetime he was mainly known for his achievements as a choir-trainer.His most famous works are two anthems for unaccompanied double choir: Faire is the heaven (1925), a setting of Edmund Spenser's poem "An Hymne of Heavenly Beautie"; [8] and Bring us, O Lord God, a setting of a poem by John Donne first heard in ...
In 2006, he was a judge for a BBC hymn-writing competition, for which he composed the hymn tunes Kirknewton and Gowanbank for two of the winning entries. The vast majority of John Barnard's hymn tunes are named after villages or towns in the United Kingdom; for example, Guiting Power is a village in the Cotswolds , Gloucestershire.
Birthplace of Herbert Howells on High Street, Lydney, Gloucestershire Howells was born in Lydney, Gloucestershire, the youngest of six children of Oliver Howells, a plumber, painter, decorator and builder, and his wife Elizabeth. [1]