HYFRYDOL - One of the loveliest melodies ever divined! * Love Divine, All Loves Excelling * Alleluia! Sing to Jesus! * In Humility, Our Savior Thanks to the MoTab for brightening my Sunday morning. :) From Wiki: Hyfrydol (Welsh pronunciation: [həvˈrədɔl], meaning cheerful) is a Welsh hymn tune which appears in a number of Christian hymnals in various arrangements. Composed by Rowland Prichard in 1844, it was originally published in the composers handbook to the Lutheran Hymnal Cyfaill y Cantorion (The Singers Friend). Prichard composed this hymn tune before he was twenty years old. Hyfrydol has a metre of 8.7.8.7.D (alternating lines of eight and seven syllables, other examples of which include Blaenwern and Abbots Leigh). The best-known arrangement is probably that by Ralph Vaughan Williams, which he originally produced for his revision of the English Hymnal; Vaughan Williams also composed some variations on this theme.An impressively flexible tune with beautiful chord progressions, Hyfrydol has been used as a setting for William Chatterton Dixs hymn Alleluia! Sing to Jesus!, Charles Wesleys Love Divine, All Loves Excelling and Come Thou Long-Expected Jesus, Francis Harold Rowleys (1854-1952) I Will Sing the Wondrous Story (1886), John Wilbur Chapmans Our Great Savior (Jesus, what a friend for sinners) (1910), and Philip P. Bliss I Will Sing of My Redeemer (1876), as well as many other hymns from a variety of faith traditions. The tunes persistence over time, and ability to penetrate cultural barriers, indicate its notability. https://youtube/watch?v=si6x7AokKxo
Posted on: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 16:07:58 +0000
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