Tune: ST. BOTOLPH (Slater)

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ST. BOTOLPH (Slater)

Composer: Gordon Slater (1929)
Published in 40 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Piano/Organ
	By Faith and Not by Sight

Choral
	I Come with Joy

Instrumental
	I COME WITH JOY, A CHILD OF GOD

Composer: Gordon Slater

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Tune Information

Title:	ST. BOTOLPH (Slater)
Composer:	Gordon Slater (1929)
Meter:	8.6.8.6
Incipit:	13153 21712 35654
Key:	D Major
Copyright:	By permission of Oxford University Press.

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Texts

I Come with Joy

For Mary, mother of our Lord

Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee

Jesus, the very thought of thee
with sweetness fills the breast;
but sweeter far thy face to see,
and in thy presence rest.

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Notes

ST. BOTOLPH was composed by Gordon A. Slater (b. Harrogate, Yorkshire, England, 1896; d. Lincoln, England, 1979) and first published in Songs of Praise for Boys and Girls (1930).

The tune was named for St. Botolph's Parish Church in Boston, Lincolnshire, England, where Slater was organist from 1919 to 1927, following his service in the British army in France during World War I. That church honors St. Botolph, the seventh-century abbot of an influential monastery thought to have been near Iken, northeast of Ipswich in Suffolk, a monastery destroyed during the Danish invasions. Also from 1919 to 1927, Slater was conductor of the Boston Choral Society. He then served at Leicester Cathedral from 1927 to 1930. Organist and choirmaster at Lincoln Cathedral from 1930 to 1966, Slater supervised the rebuilding of the cathedral's organ in 1960. During those years he was also the conductor of the Lincoln Symphony Orchestra. He taught at various British colleges and universities and was a well-known organ recitalist for the BBC. In addition to piano and organ music, Slater composed anthems and hymn tunes.

As originally intended by Slater, ST. BOTOLPH is best sung in unison. Music theory students may delight in finding some parallel fifths in the harmonization. Sing and accompany in two long lines rather than in four short phrases. “Jesus, the Very Thought of You” (480) is often sung to ST. BOTOLPH in British churches.

--Psalter Hymnal Handbook

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Timeline

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Piano/Organ By Faith and Not by Sight Easy Hymn Introductions and Accompaniments - Lent and Easter YOU SATISFY THE HUNGRY HEART More Piano/Organ...
Choral I Come with Joy I COME WITH JOY, A CHILD OF GOD I Come With Joy More Choral...
Instrumental We Walk by Faith and Not by Sight We Walk by Faith More Instrumental...
PowerPoint JESUS, THE VERY THOUGHT OF THEE (Baptist 2008 - 173) JESUS, THE VERY THOUGHT OF THEE (Celebration 89) JESUS, THE VERY THOUGHT OF THEE (United Methodist 175) More PowerPoint...

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Published By: Selah Publishing Company, Inc. (2000) pp. 19

Organ Solo

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