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kingsfold
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I think my nearest has to be Kelvingrove
Though of course, my ship's ID is also a hymn tune, so it could be considered that I'm never away from it...
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Bob Two-Owls
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I'm within walking distance (or staggering as it has two good pubs on the way) of Denby .
Not familiar with the tune though. A tune encapsulating the spirit of Denby would have more of a purple-faced ranty feel to it.
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IceQueen
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Abbots Leigh was my last parish before leaving the Bristol area. (Leo - I was in that choir, but not during an interregnum. They must have improved since I left - or were better before I was there? - which is a worrying thought!)
Some one there (I think it was the organist) told me the story of how Cyril Taylor was asked by the congregation to change the tune of the last two bars from D-E-D to F#-E-D because they found it easier to sing. He was, apparently, not amused...
(For Bristolians, there's also Malcolm Archer's Redland, sometimes used for King of Glory, King of Peace.)
As for my current residence, Cyberhymnal gives a tune for Warwick, but I can't say I've ever heard it used.
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I think I helped out there about 10 years ago (though it was usually Leigh Woods, the other church in the benefice/parish). They called me 'the singing vicar' - their previous vicar couldn't sing so a tenor used to cant the versicles. But I did - they asked, as i wouldn't want to trample on someone else's job. I also sang all the collects, which was bit 'high church' for them.
Although they chanted the psalms and the canticles, they were able to sing a half-decent anthem each time i went there. That is how i define a good choir' for what is basically a village church, albeit one which has become a commuter base for the city over the bridge.
If there is a tune called 'Redland' than I am even nearer to that than to Abbots Leigh. - I think I should win the prize for being nearest to a hymn tune.
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I can't find a Charleston tune, but there is Charlestown, which is our original spelling (actually it seems to have been Charles Towne).
It comes from Kentucky Harmony (as does churchgeek's Detroit), but it was more likely named for Charlestown Virginia (now West in West Virginia). And Kentucky Harmony tune names are always a bit puzzling; there's also one called The Church's Desolation!
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Beethoven
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Originally posted by leo:
If there is a tune called 'Redland' than I am even nearer to that than to Abbots Leigh. - I think I should win the prize for being nearest to a hymn tune.
Except that Jante has already posted that she lives in one... ![[Smile]](smile.gif) As do I.
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Aggie
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I can't think of a hymn tune called Croydon!! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
I think the nearest would be "Chislehurst", which is a very pretty alternative tune for the Ascension Day hymn: "Hail the Day that Sees Him Rise" - you hardly ever hear it, as most church music directors prefer the better known tune of "Llanfair". A great pity IMHO.
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Sarasa
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There may not be a hymn tune called Croyidon, but there does appear to be one called Norwood.
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Aggie
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Originally posted by Gussie:
There may not be a hymn tune called Croyidon, but there does appear to be one called Norwood.
Never heard of that tune before.
Maybe our church in Norwood could adopt it - although it is a bit dreary methinks.
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Morlader
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Originally posted by Aggie:
I can't think of a hymn tune called Croydon!!
I think the nearest would be "Chislehurst", which is a very pretty alternative tune for the Ascension Day hymn: "Hail the Day that Sees Him Rise" - you hardly ever hear it, as most church music directors prefer the better known tune of "Llanfair". A great pity IMHO.
There is also a hymn tune called "Bromley". Sorry, can't find the reference right now.
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marzipan
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Originally posted by Enoch:
Several round here. There's more than one called Bristol, though this link is to what I'd imagine is the best known. There's also Abbots Leigh which is a village nearby, though the link isn't to what I'd regard as the usual words, and Thornbury not far away.
Anyone care to write a tune and call it Nempnett Thrubwell, one of the odder place names round here.
The Wurzels have a song about Nempnett Thrubwell. I can't find a link for it's tune, but the lyrics are here.
There's no hymn tunes named after my city, so I'll claim St Finbarr as I live just along the road from his cathedral.
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Fr Weber
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I'm currently just down the street from St Mark's, Berkeley.
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I live in -Manchester- (don't know that one) close enough to -Stockport- (nice tune). About the latter, my Companion to Hymns and Psalms notes 'Yorkshire, though frequently used, is quite unsuitable'. Quite right.
But underneath the entry for -Stockport-, is the place where I really live.
Yes, folks, I live on -Stoner Hill-.
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Since today commemorate Victory in the Great Patriotic War, it is as good a time as any to mention the “local” hymn tune.
Real “belter”: “Moscow” (Móscha) probably most commonly used for “Thou whose almighty word”. North Americans (for some reason) generally prefer to call it “The Italian Hymn”.
Local also therefore to the UK’s “Moscow”, a tiny village on the west of Scotland tourist trail, so day trippers on the A77 back to Glasgow can pass by “Kilmarnock” (“O God of Bethel by whose aid”) as they go.
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Dennis the Menace
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'Newcastle', 544 in the old Methodist Hymn Book with the words
'Eternal light, eternal light, how pur the soul can be' is the only tune I can think of around this area.
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Marvin the Martian
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I guess "Langley" would be mine.
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Avila
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Originally posted by birdie:
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
Thanks to Japes and others in the cafe we have established that there was a hymn tune called Newport, but it is lost.
It would therefore appear that Cwm Rhondda is nearest at about 30 miles away, which isn't very good for the alleged Land of Song.
Cwm Rhondda is probably my nearest at the moment, but I'm moving to Aberystwyth in the summer, so that's me sorted!
Sioni - closer to Newport is apparentlyCaerleon (spotted on the Cuddesdon link above, but no other google evidence so far)
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Mamacita
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Posted by me, earlier:
No surprise, but I find no hymn tunes named after Chicago. And the name of my suburb doesn't come up in either its English or French spelling.
Jackpot! I had to leave the Anglican world to do it, but I found a hymn tune Chicago by the venerable Ira Sankey (makes sense -- Moody and Sankey's home base was Chicago for many years) with words "Onward, Upward" by Fanny Crosby. Still nothing named for my little burb, but Evanston is only a mile away. The words are "Father of Jesus Christ, My Lord" by Charles Wesley.
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I can see a couple from my window (well, I can usually, not today), The Isle of Mull and various things from Iona.
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Qoheleth.
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Water End set to Glad that I live am I or more surprisingly as here. Also to Christopher Idle's Glory and Praise to God.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Aggie:
I can't think of a hymn tune called Croydon!!
There's one called Surrey - will that do?
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Anselmina
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Originally posted by QLib:
Hereford
Ah, I spent seven very happy years in Hereford. The city, that is, not the hymn tune.
Near, Leominster, of course, which is another nice tune.
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Fidei Defensor
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Jengie jon
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Originally posted by piglet:
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Originally posted by Aggie:
I can't think of a hymn tune called Croydon!!
There's one called Surrey - will that do?
There was a tune called Croydon. You will need to scroll down to find the reference.
Jengie
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Morlader
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Nearest to us is "Sennen Cove" by W H Harris. It's set to "How bright these glorious spirits shine!" 306 in AMNS. Sennen Cove is about 4 miles from us.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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I was surprised to learn there is a tune called Phoenix. Also, for another geographical feature of Arizona, Lake Mead. And, of course, Arizona itself.
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Fidei Defensor
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Good job there are no tunes called Duluth or Mississauga or Tipton, think how embarrassing it would be to admit that you lived there.
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Metapelagius
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Originally posted by Rosa Winkel:
Gwalchmai, used for "King of glory, king of peace".
No doubt, but Gwalchmai (literally 'hawk of May') isn't a place - it is a personal name. The Welsh equivalent in the Arthurian Romances for the French Gauvain or the English Gawain.
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Steve H
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Originally posted by Qoheleth.:
Water End set to Glad that I live am I or more surprisingly as here. Also to Christopher Idle's Glory and Praise to God.
There's a Water End only about three miles from me, just outside Hemel Hempstead. I don't know if it's the same one - there's at least one other Water End, and I suspect it's quite a common place-name - but if so, it beats Bow Brickhill hands down, which is fine by me, because BB is dreary and tuneless.
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Metapelagius
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Originally posted by Rosa Winkel:
It most certainly is a town (Gwalchmai, Ynys Mon), on the A5 on Ynys Mon. Been through there many times.
Unless you mean the song wasn't named after the place.
Oops sorrry - yes it is a place. But it is also a definitely a personal name, attested as early as c. 1200, though on reflection I recall that it is thought more likely to mean 'hawk of the plain' rather than 'hawk of May'.
The hymn tune was written by Joseph David Jones who was born in Bryncrygog in Montgomeryshire, worked for some time in Tywyn in Meirionydd, and died in Ruthin (Denbigh). That is not to say that he wouldn't have called the tune he wrote after a place in Anglesey. On the other hand he wrote a cantata entitled 'Llys Arthur*' which suggests an interest in Arthurian legends.
Could be the place, could be the legendary character.
*'Arthur's court' - before I get slapped down for a phrase not glossed into English ...
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Canada being both larger and less populated than the British Isles, it is a bit more difficult to be "close" to somewhere, but a quick runthrough of "Common Praise" (ACC) tells me that Woodworth and Riverside are both tunes that name places in my school district, within about 25 minute drive from me.
Halifax and it's suburb Rockingham are about three hours away, as is St. Stephen (in the other direction). St. Louis is about an hour north, but most of the more unusual Saints' names now refer to once-populated areas that now are not even on the map.
Jerusalem has the distinction of having been shelled out of existence by the Canadian Army (it was once in the middle of what is now Base Gagetown)
And, minor pedantic note for Piglet, the city in NB is known as Saint John. The abbreviated version is only used on The Rock or in Quebec. Remember this to save embarrassment if you ever visit!
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Aggie
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Originally posted by Jengie Jon:
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Originally posted by piglet:
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Originally posted by Aggie:
I can't think of a hymn tune called Croydon!!
There's one called Surrey - will that do?
There was a tune called Croydon. You will need to scroll down to find the reference.
Jengie
Is there a tune called "Addington"? I would be very surprised if there isn't what with Addington being the home of the Royal School of Church Music.
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balaam
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A quick google tells me that "Addington" was written by Cyril V Taylor and has the meter 5.5.5.4 D
That should be enough information to find it.
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Originally posted by Fidei Defensor:
Good job there are no tunes called Duluth or Mississauga or Tipton, think how embarrassing it would be to admit that you lived there.
There is a tune called Duluth - it's just not a hymn. Maybe you could set religious words to it. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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"St Helena," by Calvin Hampton seems to fit, as I can look out my window and see Mt. Saint Helena. On a side note Hampton and I were born the same year.
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Originally posted by iamchristianhearmeroar:
There is apparently not one, but two hymn tunes called Bromley: one by Jeremiah Clarke and the other by "Haydn", but possibly not THE Haydn, I don't know. I had never heard of either of these before.
If only there were a hymn tune called Penge. But there isn't...
/tangent
Which reminds me:
A now-in-glory chorister friend of mine used to refer to "Ponge les deux eglises". But this was when de Gaul was ruling France.
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SFG
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What a lovely thread!
I have wondered where some of those places are, it also makes me wonder what the most remote hymn tune place. We'll have to Wait for a remote shipmate to tell us!
Port. Stanley, perhaps.
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SFG
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I guess there is a place called SHRUB END but it also sounds quite homely and where I may like to live.
Almost Tolkein-ish.
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/tangent
Which reminds me:
A now-in-glory chorister friend of mine used to refer to "Ponge les deux eglises". But this was when de Gaul was ruling France.
/tangent off
Ah, Ponge-sur-mer, how we dream of thee.
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ThunderBunk
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Originally posted by SFG:
I guess there is a place called SHRUB END but it also sounds quite homely and where I may like to live.
Almost Tolkein-ish.
Shrub End is a suburb of Colchester. Or, as I rather think of it, a pimple on a pimple....
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Piglet
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Originally posted by FooloftheShip:
... a suburb of Colchester. Or, as I rather think of it, a pimple on a pimple....
AHEM.
My Better Half comes from Colchester - I think it's really quite nice.
Honestly, Norwich supporters ... ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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Kasra
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There's a tune called Lincoln, though one assumes not named after the Lincoln I live in. Never heard of the various things it's set to... but then it's not a tune belonging to the Plot.
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