Hymns of Truth and Light ‎#67

67. God, Who Stretched the Spangled Heavens

Text Information

• First Line: God, who stretched the spangled heavens
• Title: God, Who Stretched the Spangled Heavens
• Author: Catherine Cameron (1967)
• Meter: 87.87D
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1998
• Scripture:
  Genesis 5:1-2
  ;
  Isaiah 42:5
• Topic: God: Creator; Human Experience: Co-Creation; Human Experience: Social Responsibility
• Copyright: © 1967 Hope Publishing Co.

Tune Information

• Name: HYFRYDOL
• Composer: Rowland H. Prichard (1844)
• Harmonizer: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1906)
• Meter: 87.87D
• Key: F Major or modal
• Source: Harm. The English Hymnal, 1906

Text Information:

Cameron, a Canadian now a professor of social psychology in California, intended this text to be sung to AUSTRIAN HYMN

Tune Information:

The Welsh tune used here appears in most hymnals. With one exception, the tune lies in the first five notes of the scale