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Coe Fen and Sheep's Green form a natural area that was once important for the commercial activity of Cambridge. [1] There were up to three watermills in the area. The land between the artificially raised banks of the watercourses was liable to flooding and thus only suitable for grazing (cows on Coe Fen, sheep on Sheep's Green, hence the names).
The hymn tune Nottingham is an arrangement derived from the Kyrie at the opening of the work. It is possible that the tune took its name because it was arranged by a musician living in Nottingham. [5] In several hymn books the tune, sometimes known as Mozart, is still attributed to Mozart, whilst in others it is attributed to Wenzel Müller. [6]
Johann Sebastian Bach's chorale harmonisations, alternatively named four-part chorales, are Lutheran hymn settings that characteristically conform to the following: four-part harmony; SATB vocal forces; pre-existing hymn tune allotted to the soprano part; text treatment: homophonic; no repetitions (i.e., each syllable of the hymn text is sung ...
A hymn tune is the melody of a musical composition to which a hymn text is sung. Musically speaking, a hymn is generally understood to have four-part (or more) harmony , a fast harmonic rhythm (chords change frequently), with or without refrain or chorus.
A chorale cantata is a church cantata based on a single hymn, both its text and tune. Bach was not the first to compose them, but for his 1724-25 second Leipzig cantata cycle he developed a specific format: in this format the opening movement is a chorale fantasia on the first stanza of the hymn, with the hymn tune appearing as a cantus firmus.
The first musical setting of "Lead, Kindly Light" was published in Hymns Ancient and Modern in 1868, set to the hymn tune Lux Benigna, specially composed for the hymn by John Bacchus Dykes. Newman ascribed the popularity of the hymn to Dykes' tune. The hymn was later set to the tune Bonifacio by David Evans.
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The text is metrically adapted to the then new British royal anthem and was initially sung with its tune. [5]Felice Giardini after Giovanni Battista Cipriani. Presently, "Come Thou Almighty King" is usually sung to the tune "Italian Hymn" (also called "Moscow" or "Trinity"), which was written as a musical setting for this hymn by Felice Giardini at the request of Countess Selina Shirley.