Morning Glory, Starlit Sky

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Morning glory, starlit sky

Author: W. H. Vanstone (1980)
Published in 16 hymnals

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Author: W. H. Vanstone

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First Line:	Morning glory, starlit sky
Title:	Morning Glory, Starlit Sky
Author:	W. H. Vanstone (1980)
Meter:	7.7.7.7
Language:	English
Copyright:	Words by permission of J. W. Shore Music

Year A, Ordinary Time, Proper 6 (11)

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Tune

SONG 13

Orlando Gibbons (PHH 167) composed SONG 13 in soprano and bass parts. Used as a setting for a text from the Song of Songs, the tune was published in George Withers' Hymnes and Songs of the Church (1623) as hymn number 13 (hence the tune name). As in other hymnals, the melody is presented in a simpli…

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BINGHAM (Sheets)

MONKLAND

The tune MONKLAND has a fascinating if complex history. Rooted in a tune for the text "Fahre fort" in Johann A. Freylinghausen's (PHH 34) famous hymnal, Geistreiches Gesangbuch (1704), it then was significantly altered by John Antes (b. Frederick, PA, 1740; d. Bristol, England, 1811) in a Moravian m…

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