128a. The royal banners forward go

Text Information
First Line: The royal banners forward go
Latin Title: Vexilla Regis prodeunt
Author: Bp. Venantius Fortunatus (c. 569)
Translator: Canon Percy Dearmer (1933)
Meter: L.M.
Language: English
Publication Date: 1939
Topic: Passiontide; The Fifth Sunday in Lent
Notes: For another version of this hymn see Ancient Office Hymns, no. 17
Tune Information
Name: VEXILLA REGIS
Arranger: Healey Willan (1938)
Arranger (alt. acc.): J. H. Arnold
Meter: L.M.
Key: f minor
Source: Sarum Plainsong, 7th cent.
Copyright: By permission of the Arranger; Alternative accompaniment by J.H. Arnold, copyright, 1925, by Oxford University Press.



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