Press Forward And Fear Not!

Author: Edward Wakefield

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Text Information

First Line: Press forward and fear not! The billows my roll
Title: Press Forward And Fear Not!
Author: Edward Wakefield
Meter: 11.11.11.11
Language: English
Publication Date: 2011
Notes: Alternate tune: ST. DENIO
Copyright: This text may still be under copyright because it was published in 2011.

Tune

ST. DENIO

ST. DENIO is based on "Can mlynedd i nawr" ("A Hundred Years from Now"), a traditional Welsh ballad popular in the early nineteenth century. It was first published as a hymn tune in John Roberts's Caniadau y Cyssegr (Hymns of the Sanctuary, 1839). The tune title refers to St. Denis, the patron saint…

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HANOVER (Croft)

William Croft (b. Nether Ettington, Warwickshire, England, 1678; d. Bath, Somerset, England, 1727) was a boy chorister in the Chapel Royal in London and then an organist at St. Anne's, Soho. Later he became organist, composer, and master of the children of the Chapel Royal, and eventually organist a…

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