Tune: CLIFF TOWN

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CLIFF TOWN

Composer: Erik Routley (1943)
Published in 7 hymnals

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Composer: Erik Routley

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Tune Information

Title:	CLIFF TOWN
Composer:	Erik Routley (1943)
Meter:	10.10.10.10
Incipit:	32125 65123 32153
Key:	F Major
Copyright:	© 1977, Hope Publishing Co.

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Texts

In praise of God meet duty and delight

Lord of All Good

O Christ, who came to share our human life

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Notes

Erik Routley (PHH 31) wrote CLIFF TOWN in 1943 to the text "Not Only for the Goodly Fruit-Trees Tall" by E. S. Armitage; the tune was first published in Congregational Praise (1951). CLIFF TOWN is named after the Congregational Church at Southend-on-Sea, England. It is fitted with a harmonization suited to four-part singing; the opening phrase returns at the end with a small cadential change. Keep it stately, with two broad beats per measure.

--Psalter Hymnal Handbook, 1987

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