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CLIFF TOWN

CLIFF TOWN

Composer: Erik Routley (1943)
Published in 7 hymnals


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Composer: Erik Routley

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Tune Information

Title: CLIFF TOWN
Composer: Erik Routley (1943)
Meter: 10.10.10.10
Incipit: 32125 65123 32153
Key: F Major
Copyright: © 1977, Hope Publishing Co.

Texts

In praise of God meet duty and delight

O Christ, who came to share our human life

Those Hating Zion Have Afflicted Me

Those hating Zion have afflicted me
let Israel say, "Yes, even from my youth."
Yet they have not prevailed against God's own,
his covenant ones who worship him in truth.

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Notes

Erik Routley (PHH 31) wrote CLIFF TOWN in 1943 to the text "Not Only for the Goodly Fruit-Trees Tall" by E. S. Armitage; the tune was first published in Congregational Praise (1951). CLIFF TOWN is named after the Congregational Church at Southend-on-Sea, England. It is fitted with a harmonization suited to four-part singing; the opening phrase returns at the end with a small cadential change. Keep it stately, with two broad beats per measure.

--Psalter Hymnal Handbook, 1987

Timeline

Arrangements

Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations

  • 200 New Last Verses
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2007) pp. 43

Instances

Instances (1 - 5 of 5)
TextAudioPage Scan

Common Praise #479

Hymns and Psalms #797

Text InfoTune InfoAudio

Psalter Hymnal (Gray) #129

Audio

Small Church Music #1472

Text

Together in Song #471

Include 2 pre-1979 instances
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