Ambassador Hymnal #383
Tune Title: RIPLEY First Line: Savior, while my heart is tender Composer: Lowell Mason, 1792-1872 Meter: 87 87 D Key: D Major Date: 1994
Ambassador Hymnal #383
Title: | RIPLEY (Gregorian) |
Meter: | 8.7.8.7 |
Incipit: | 13534 65351 43221 |
Key: | D Major |
Source: | Gregorian Chant (arr.) |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
RIPLEY, composed in 1839, comes from the prolific pen of Lowell Mason (PHH 96), the great American promoter and publisher of school, choral, and congregational music. The tune title, assigned later, presumably honors George Ripley (1802-1889), the famous New York literary critic and transcendentalist. RIPLEY is a classically shaped rounded bar form (AABA) in which the third line provides the contrast and climax to the other lines. It is an energetic tune that calls for jubilant singing in parts and, on festive occasions, the use of brass (probably in E-flat major).
--Psalter Hymnal Handbook, 1988
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