BANGOR (Tansur)

Composer: William Tans'ur

William Tansur, b. about 1700, Dunchurch of Barnes; d. 1783, St. Neots Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908 Also known as Tansur; Tanzer; le Tansur Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: BANGOR (Tansur)
Composer: William Tans'ur (1734)
Meter: 8.6.8.6
Incipit: 53215 17655 56765
Key: c minor
Source: Harmony of Zion, 1734;W. Tans'ur's Compleat Melody (1735)
Copyright: Public Domain

Notes

Traditionally used for Montgomery's text and for Peter Abelard's "Alone Thou Goest Forth, O Lord," BANGOR comes from William Tans'ur's A Compleat Melody: or the Harmony of Syon (the preface of which is dated 1734). In that collection the tune was a three-part setting for Psalm 12 (and for Psalm 11 in a 1738 reprint). Possibly alluding to an earlier origin, the tune title recalls the Welsh borough and city Bangor. The tune was popular in Scotland: Robert Burns refers to it in his poem 'The Ordination": "an' skirl up the Bangor."

BANGOR is a solemn but expressive tune, though not mournful. It is sturdy and supportive of the classic anamnesis interpretation of Montgomery's text. Sing in harmony on stanzas 1 through 4, and sing in unison on stanza 5–or try singing the first three phrases in harmony and the fourth in unison to highlight the important concluding phrase in each stanza.

Tans'ur (originally Tanzer; b. Dunchurch, Warwickshire, England, 1706; d. St. Neots, Huntingdonshire, England, 1783) was an itinerant music teacher and song leader who served as occasional organist in churches in Barnes, Ewell, Cambridge, Stamford, and Boston (England). Later he lived in St. Neots, where he was a bookseller and music teacher. He published numerous pedagogical works on music as well as psalm books, including A Compleat Melody: or Harmony of Syon (1734), The Psalm Singer's Jewel (1760), and Melodia Sacra (1771); many of his books were reprinted numerous times. It is not always clear which tunes in these collections Tans'ur composed himself or which he adapted from other sources. A selection from his tunebooks was published in the United States as The American Harmony (1771), a book that influenced William Billings in his composing of psalm tunes.

--Psalter Hymnal Handbook, 1988

Timeline

Arrangements

Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations

  • Free Harmonizations of Favorite Hymns Volume 4: The Easter Season
    Composer/Editor James M. Guthrie
    Published By: Self-published (2017) pp. LL
  • The Art of Hymn Playing Volume 2: 250 Preludes Introductions Free Accompaniments & Alternate Harmonizations
    Composer/Editor Charles Callahan
    Published By: MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc. (2009) pp. 19
  • 200 New Last Verses
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2007) pp. 19
  • More Last Verses: Another Two Hundred Varied Hymn Tune Harmonies
    Composer/Editor Noel Rawsthorne
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (1996) pp. 18
  • Free Harmonizations of Hymn Tunes: Volume II
    Composer/Editor D. DeWitt Wasson
    Published By: Hinshaw Music, Inc. (1986) pp. 122
  • Free Harmonizations of Hymn Tunes: By Fifty American Composers
    Composer/Editor D. DeWitt Wasson
    Published By: Hinshaw Music, Inc. (1984) pp. 30
  • The Concordia Hymn Prelude Series Volume 20: General: Angelic - Bel
    Composer/Editors Herbert Gotsch; Richard W. Gieseke
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1983) pp. 33

Organ Solo

  • The Organist's Library Volume 51
    Composer/Editor Dennis Eliot
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (2012) pp. 56
  • The Organ Portfolio Volume 74 Number 4 March April 2011: The Service Music Anthology for the Church Organist
    Composer/Editors Gilbert M. Martin; Dennis Elliott
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (2011) pp. 56
  • Wondrous Love: 5 Hymn Settings for Organ
    Composer/Editor Wilbur C. Held
    Published By: MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc. (2005) pp. 14
  • Lenten Chorales for Organ
    Composer/Editor Robert J. Powell
    Published By: The H. W. Gray Company, Inc. (2002) pp. 4
  • The Organist Volume 105 Number 2 May June 2001: The Service Music Companion for Church Organists
    Composer/Editors Carol M. Johnson; Gary Davidson
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (2001) pp. 46
  • Organ Miniatures: 200 Short Improvisations on Familiar Hymn Tunes
    Composer/Editor June Nixon
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (1999) pp. 18
  • The Sacred Organ Journal Volume 32 Number 4 March April 1998: A Bi-Monthly Anthology for Church Organists
    Composer/Editors James Mansfield; Charity Boyles
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1998) pp. 27
  • The Concordia Hymn Prelude Series Volume 20: General: Angelic - Bel
    Composer/Editors Herbert Gotsch; Richard W. Gieseke
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1983) pp. 31
  • The Sacred Organ Journal Volume 11 Number 4 March 1977: A Bi-Monthly Anthology for Church Organists
    Composer/Editors David H. Hegarty; Dennis Elliott
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1977) pp. 20
  • The Sacred Organ Journal Volume 6 Number 3 January 1972: A Bi-Monthly Anthology for Church Organists
    Composer/Editor Gilbert M. Martin
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1972) pp. 70
  • The Sacred Organ Folio No. 4
    Composer/Editor Albert Zabel
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1971) pp. 70
  • 36 Short Preludes and Postludes on Well-known Hymn Tunes Set II
    Composer/Editor Healey Willan
    Published By: C. F. Peters Corporation (1960) pp. 2

Media

Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #1067
  • Four-part harmony, full-score (PDF, NWC)
The Cyber Hymnal #14
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The Cyber Hymnal #1330
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The Cyber Hymnal #1569
Text: The Foes of Zion Quake for Fright
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The Cyber Hymnal #2363
Text: Hark! from the Tombs a Doleful Sound
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The Cyber Hymnal #2569
Text: How David, When by Sin Deceived
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The Cyber Hymnal #4899
Text: O God of Mercy, Hear My Call
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The Cyber Hymnal #5553
Text: O Zion, Open Wide Thy Gates
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The Cyber Hymnal #6946
Text: Terrible Thought! Shall I Alone
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The Cyber Hymnal #7161
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The Cyber Hymnal #7921
Text: Alas, My Aching Heart
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The Cyber Hymnal #8568
Text: Father And Canst Thou Me Receive?
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The Cyber Hymnal #8698
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The Cyber Hymnal #8876
Text: The Spring, Great God, At Thy Command
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The Cyber Hymnal #9474
Text: Long Has Divine Compassion Strove
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The Cyber Hymnal #9516
Text: See, Gracious God, Before Thy Throne
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The Cyber Hymnal #9795
Text: Dear Lord! Behold Our Sore Distress
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The Cyber Hymnal #12576
Text: Awake, My Drowsy Soul
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The Cyber Hymnal #16118
Text: Great God, The Terrors Of Thy Wrath
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Psalter Hymnal (Gray) #298
Text: According to Thy Gracious Word
  • Bulletin Score (PDF)
  • Bulletin Score (melody only) (PDF)
  • Full Score (PDF, XML)
Small Church Music #7291
Text: Ím, eljöttem bűnterhemmel (Behold, I come)
  • PDF Melody (PDF)

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