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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.
Chester (song) Christ ist erstanden; Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam; Christe, du Lamm Gottes; Christum wir sollen loben schon; Christus, der uns selig macht; Cranbrook (hymn tune) Creation (William Billings) Cwm Rhondda
The name was chosen by the compiler of the tune book or hymnal or by the composer. The majority of names have a connection with the composer and many are place names, such as Aberystwyth or Down Ampney. Most hymnals provide a hymn tune index by name (alphabetical) and a hymn tune index by meter.
Celebration Hymnal: songs and hymns for worship, published by Word Music/Integrity Music (1997). [647] This is different from Celebration Hymnal for Everyone published by McCrimmon Publishing Co Ltd. (1994, 2005 with Supplement). Christian Life Hymnal, Hendrickson Publishers (2006) Favorite Hymns of Praise, Hope Publishing (1967)
This tune was originally published in The Choir or Union Collection of Church Music, as music for a hymn entitled "Our Days are as Grass". [3] In Methodist hymnals, "A Charge to Keep I Have" has sometimes been paired with St Thomas, written by Aaron Williams , [ 10 ] or Cambridge, by Ralph Harrison , [ 11 ] both composed in the 18th century.
The tune was first published in 1897 in the periodical Yr Athraw ('The Teacher'), vol. 71, in tonic sol-fa notation, and its first appearance in a hymnal was in 1900, in The Baptist Book of Praise. The famed English composer and music historian Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) referred to this as one of the greatest hymn tunes.
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.
As with most folk songs, it exists in multiple versions. In the version printed in 1803 in the Scots Musical Museum, with "bluebells" in the title, and a different tune to the current one, the words are: O where and O where does your highland laddie dwell; O where and O where does your highland laddie dwell;