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Blaenwern is a Welsh Christian hymn tune composed by William Penfro Rowlands (1860–1937), during the Welsh revival of 1904–1905. It was first published in Henry H. Jones' Cân a Moliant (1915). The metre of the tune is 8.7.8.7.D (alternating lines of eight and seven syllables) in F major or G major key, or occasionally A flat major.
The hymn's lyrics refer to the heavenly host: "Thee we would be always blessing / serve thee with thy hosts above".. At its first appearance, the hymn was in four stanzas of eight lines (8.7.8.7.D), and this four-stanza version remains in common and current use to the present day, being taken up as early as 1760 in Anglican collections such as those by Madan (1760 and 1767), Conyers (1772 ...
Probably his best-known composition is the hymn-tune "Blaenwern", composed in 1905 and often used as the setting for Love Divine, All Loves Excelling. As well as being a church musician, Rowlands taught in several schools and was conductor of the Morriston United Choral Society. [3]
Hyfrydol has been used as a setting for William Chatterton Dix's hymn "Alleluia! Sing to Jesus", Charles Wesley's "Love Divine, All Loves Excelling" and "Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus", Francis Harold Rowley's "I Will Sing the Wondrous Story" (1886), John Wilbur Chapman's "Our Great Savior (Jesus What A Friend of Sinners)" (1910) and Philip Bliss's "I Will Sing of My Redeemer" (1876), the ...
Come Down, O Love Divine; Come, Holy Ghost; Come, Lord, and Tarry Not; Come My Way, My Truth, My Life; Come, rejoice Before Your Maker; Come, Thou Holy Spirit, Come; Come To Me; Come To My Mercy; Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain; Comfort, Comfort Ye My People; Conditor alme siderum; Creator of the Earth and Skies; Creator Spirit, By Whose ...
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