At Cana's Wedding, Long Ago

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At Canas wedding, long ago

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith
Tune: STELLA (English)
Published in 3 hymnals

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Representative Text

Source: CPWI Hymnal #675

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Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith

Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Educated at Pembroke College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge, Dudley-Smith has served the Church of England since his ordination in 1950. He has occupied a number of church positions, including parish priest in the diocese of Southwark (1953-1962), archdeacon of Norwich (1973-1981), and bishop of Thetford, Norfolk, from 1981 until his retirement in 1992. He also edited a Christian magazine, Crusade, which was founded after Billy Graham's 1955 London crusade. Dudley-Smith began writing comic verse while a student at Cambridge; he did not begin to write hymns until the 1960s. Many of his several hundred hymn texts have been collected in Lift Every Heart: Collected Hymns 1961-1983 (1984), Songs of Deliverance: Thirt… Go to person page >

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First Line:	At Canas wedding, long ago
Title:	At Cana's Wedding, Long Ago
Author:	Timothy Dudley-Smith
Meter:	8.8.8.8.8.8
Language:	English
Copyright:	© Timothy Dudley-Smith in Europe and in all territories not controlled by Hope Publishing Company; © Hope Publishing House

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Tune

STELLA (English)

First published in Henri Frederick Hemy's Easy Hymn Tunes for Catholic Schools (1851), STELLA was a folk tune from northern England that Hemy heard sung by children in Stella, a village near Newcastle-upon-Tyme. In modified bar form (AA'B), the tune has an interesting rhythmic structure. Antiphonal…

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