Tune: JULION

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JULION

Composer: David Hurd (1974)
Published in 32 hymnals

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Piano/Organ
	Five Hymn Accompaniments for Brass Quart…

Choral
	You Shall Go Out with Joy

Instrumental
	You Are Called to Tell the Story

Composer: David Hurd

David Hurd (b. Brooklyn, New York, 1950) was a boy soprano at St. Gabriel's Church in Hollis, Long Island, New York. Educated at Oberlin College and the University of North Carolina, he has been professor of church music and organist at General Theological Seminary in New York since 1976. In 1985 he also became director of music for All Saints Episcopal Church, New York. Hurd is an outstanding recitalist and improvisor and a composer of organ, choral, and instrumental music. In 1987 David Hurd was awarded the degree of Doctor of Music, honoris causa, by the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. The following year he received honorary doctorates from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, California, and from Seabury-Western Theolo… Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title:	JULION
Composer:	David Hurd (1974)
Meter:	8.7.8.7.8.7
Incipit:	51223 12215 65312
Key:	F Major
Copyright:	© 1983, G.I.A. Publications, Inc.

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Texts

Praise the Spirit in Creation

Ye Who Claim the Faith of Jesus

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Alternative Tunes

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Notes

David Hurd (b. Brooklyn, NY, 1950) composed JULION in 1974. The harmony is rich (up to six parts with the descant) and well suited to a rich, smooth organ sonority, including strings. The descant is difficult and will need rehearsing, but it can be effectively sung by a choir or played by instruments above the congregational unison on stanza 2.

Hurd was a boy soprano at St. Gabriel's Church in Hollis, Long Island, New York. Educated at Oberlin College and the University of North Carolina, he has been professor of church music and organist at General Theological Seminary in New York since 1976. In 1985 he also became director of music for All Saints Episcopal Church, New York. Hurd is an outstanding recitalist and improvisor and a composer of organ, choral, and instrumental music. He has served on several committees of the Standing Commission on Church Music of the Episcopal Church, and a number of his tunes were included in The Hymnal 1982. To date two collections of his hymn tunes have been published: The David Hurd Hymnary (1983) and The David Hurd Hymnary Supplement (1985).

--Psalter Hymnal Handbook

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Timeline

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Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations

Hymn Intonations, Preludes, and Free Harmonizations Volume XV: More Intonations and Harmonizations
Composer/Editor David Hurd
Published By: Selah Publishing Company, Inc. (2008) pp. 4
3 Prelude Intrada Harmonization for 5 Hymn Tunes: For Organ
Composer/Editor John A. Ferguson
Published By: Hope Publishing Company (1994) pp. 19

Organ Solo

Loving Spirit: Hymn Settings for Organ
Composer/Editor David Maxwell
Published By: Augsburg Fortress (2011) pp. 4
A Blue Cloud Abbey Organ Book for Lent
Composer/Editor Christopher Uehlein
Published By: Augsburg Fortress (2010) pp. 4
3 Prelude Intrada Harmonization for 5 Hymn Tunes: For Organ
Composer/Editor John A. Ferguson
Published By: Hope Publishing Company (1994) pp. 19