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Hail, harbinger of morn

Author: The Venerable Bede; Charles Stuart Calverley Appears in 5 hymnals

HAIL, HARBINGER OF MORN

Meter: 6.6.10 D Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: W. H. Bell, 1873-1946 Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 51355 65163 45567 Used With Text: Hail, harbinger of morn

Meter: 6.6.10 D Appears in 87 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958 Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 12356 55657 16556 Used With Text: Hail, harbinger of morn

HARBINGER

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Horatio Parker, b. 1863 Incipit: 32135 66661 3 Used With Text: Hail, harbinger of Morn

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Hail, harbinger of morn

Author: The Venerable Bede, 673-735; Charles Calverley, 1831-84 Hymnal: The New English Hymnal #169 (1986) Meter: 6.6.10 D Lyrics: 1 Hail, harbinger of morn: Thou that art this day born, And heraldest the Word with clarion voice! Ye faithful ones, in him Behold the dawning dim Of the bright day, and let your hearts rejoice. 2 John;--by that chosen name To call him, Gabriel came By God's appointment from his home on high: What deeds that babe should do To manhood when he grew, God sent his angel forth to testify. 3 There is none greater, none, Than Zechariah's son; Than this no mightier prophet hath been born: Of prophets he may claim More than a prophet's fame; Sublimer deeds than theirs his brow adorn. 4 'Lo, to prepare thy way,' Did God the Father say 'Before thy face my messenger I send, Thy coming to forerun; As on the orient sun Doth the bright daystar morn by morn attend.' 5 Praise therefore God most high; Praise him who came to die For us, his Son that liveth evermore; And to the Spirit raise, The Comforter, like praise, While time endureth, and when time is o'er. Topics: St. John the Baptist; The Christian Year Festivals and Other Holy Days: Proper Languages: English Tune Title: HAIL, HARBINGER OF MORN

Hail, harbinger of morn

Author: The Venerable Bede, 673-7e5; C. S. Culverley Hymnal: The English Hymnal #225 (1906) Languages: English Tune Title: HAIL HARBINGER OF MORN

Hail, harbinger of Morn

Hymnal: Church Hymns #212 (1903) Topics: Saint's Days Nativity of St. John Baptist Languages: English Tune Title: HARBINGER

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

1872 - 1958 Person Name: Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958 Composer of "DOWN AMPNEY" in CPWI Hymnal Through his composing, conducting, collecting, editing, and teaching, Ralph Vaughan Williams (b. Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, England, October 12, 1872; d. Westminster, London, England, August 26, 1958) became the chief figure in the realm of English music and church music in the first half of the twentieth century. His education included instruction at the Royal College of Music in London and Trinity College, Cambridge, as well as additional studies in Berlin and Paris. During World War I he served in the army medical corps in France. Vaughan Williams taught music at the Royal College of Music (1920-1940), conducted the Bach Choir in London (1920-1927), and directed the Leith Hill Music Festival in Dorking (1905-1953). A major influence in his life was the English folk song. A knowledgeable collector of folk songs, he was also a member of the Folksong Society and a supporter of the English Folk Dance Society. Vaughan Williams wrote various articles and books, including National Music (1935), and composed numerous arrangements of folk songs; many of his compositions show the impact of folk rhythms and melodic modes. His original compositions cover nearly all musical genres, from orchestral symphonies and concertos to choral works, from songs to operas, and from chamber music to music for films. Vaughan Williams's church music includes anthems; choral-orchestral works, such as Magnificat (1932), Dona Nobis Pacem (1936), and Hodie (1953); and hymn tune settings for organ. But most important to the history of hymnody, he was music editor of the most influential British hymnal at the beginning of the twentieth century, The English Hymnal (1906), and coeditor (with Martin Shaw) of Songs of Praise (1925, 1931) and the Oxford Book of Carols (1928). Bert Polman

The Venerable Bede

673 - 735 Person Name: The Venerable Bede, 673-735 Author of "Hail, harbinger of morn" in CPWI Hymnal Bede (b. circa 672-673; d. May 26, 735), also known as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede, was an English monk at Northumbrian monastery at Monkwearmouth (now Jarrow). Sent to the monastery at the young age of seven, he became deacon very early on, and then a priest at the age of thirty. An author and scholar, he is particularly known for his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, which gained him the title “Father of English History.” He also wrote many scientific and theological works, as well as poetry and music. Bede is the only native of Great Britain to have ever been made a Doctor of the Church. He died on Ascension Day, May 26, 735, and was buried in Durham Cathedral. Laura de Jong ========================== Bede, Beda, or Baeda, the Venerable. This eminent and early scholar, grammarian, philosopher, poet, biographer, historian, and divine, was born in 673, near the place where, shortly afterwards, Benedict Biscop founded the sister monasteries of Wearmouth and Jarrow, on an estate conferred upon him by Ecgfrith, or Ecgfrid, king of Northumbria, possibly, as the Rev. S. Baring-Gould, Lives of the Saints (May), p. 399, suggests, "in the parish of Monkton, which appears to have been one of the earliest endowments of the monastery." His education was carried on at one or other of the monasteries under the care of Benedict Biscop until his death, and then of Ceolfrith, Benedict's successor, to such effect that at the early age of nineteen he was deemed worthy, for his learning and piety's sake, to be ordained deacon by St. John of Beverley, who was then bishop of Hexham, in 691 or 692. From the same prelate he received priest's orders ten years afterwards, in or about 702. The whole of his after-life he spent in study, dividing his time between the two monasteries, which were the only home he was ever to know, and in one of which (that of Jarrow) he died on May 26th, 735, and where his remains reposed until the 11th century, when they were removed to Durham, and re-interred in the same coffin as those of St. Cuthbett, where they were discovered in 1104. He was a voluminous author upon almost every subject, and as an historian his contribution to English history in the shape of his Historia Ecclesiastica is invaluable. But it is with him as a hymnist that we have to do here. I. In the list of his works, which Bede gives at the end of his Ecclesiastical History, he enumerates a Liber Hymnorum, containing hymns in “several sorts of metre or rhyme." The extant editions of this work are:— (1) Edited by Cassander, and published at Cologne, 1556; (2) in Wernsdorf's Poetae Latin Min., vol. ii. pp.239-244. II. Bede's contributions to the stores of hymnology were not large, consisting principally of 11 or at most 12 hymns; his authorship of some of these even is questioned by many good authorities. While we cannot look for the refined and mellifluous beauty of later Latin hymnists in the works of one who, like the Venerable Bede, lived in the infancy of ecclesiastical poetry; and while we must acknowledge the loss that such poetry sustains by the absence of rhyme from so many of the hymns, and the presence in some of what Dr. Neale calls such "frigid conceits" as the epanalepsis (as grammarians term it) where the first line of each stanza, as in "Hymnum canentes Martyrum," is repeated as the last; still the hymns with which we are dealing are not without their peculiar attractions. They are full of Scripture, and Bede was very fond of introducing the actual words of Scripture as part of his own composition, and often with great effect. That Bede was not free from the superstition of his time is certain, not only from his prose writings, but from such poems as his elegiac "Hymn on Virginity," written in praise and honour of Queen Etheldrida, the wife of King Ecgfrith, and inserted in his Ecclesiastical History, bk. iv., cap. xx. [Rev. Digby S. Wrangham, M.A.] -- Excerpts from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)