Source and Sovereign, Rock and Cloud

Author: Thomas H. Troeger

Professor Thomas H. Troeger is ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church and as a minister in the Presbyterian Church. He has written 20 books in the fields of preaching, poetry, hymnody and worship. He studied at Yale University, Colgate Rochester Divinity School, Dickinson College and Virginia Theological Seminary. He is also a poet whose work appears in the many hymnals, and is frequently set as choral anthems. NN, Hymnary Go to person page >

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Text Information

First Line: Source and Sovereign, Rock and Cloud
Author: Thomas H. Troeger (1987)
Meter: 7.7.7.7 with refrain
Language: English
Refrain First Line: May the church at prayer recall
Copyright: © 1987 Oxford University Press.
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Tune

ABERYSTWYTH (Parry)

Joseph Parry (b. Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire, Wales, 1841; d. Penarth, Glamorganshire, 1903) was born into a poor but musical family. Although he showed musical gifts at an early age, he was sent to work in the puddling furnaces of a steel mill at the age of nine. His family immigrated to a Welsh…

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BIRINUS


ARFON (Major)

ARFON is originally a six-phrase Welsh folk tune in minor tonality entitled 'Tros y Garreg." Named for a district on the mainland of northern Wales opposite Mon and Anglesey, the tune was published in Edward Jones's Relicks of the Welsh Bards (1784). In the later nineteenth century ARFON was associa…

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Instances

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Chalice Hymnal #12
Church Hymnary (4th ed.) #133
Community of Christ Sings #4
Gather (3rd ed.) #667
Gather Comprehensive, Second Edition #563
Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #11Text InfoAudio
The United Methodist Hymnal #113Audio
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