The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #69629   Message #1192800
Posted By: Dave Bryant
24-May-04 - 11:45 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Bach's Melodies in Popular Music
Subject: RE: Origins: Bach's Melodies in Popular Music
El Ted, it's years since I sang the St Matthew Passion, but I think you'll find that the hymn "O Sacred Head now Wounded" (which is in my copy of Hymns, Ancient and Modern) is basically a loose translation of the original German.

Incidently, under the title of "Passion Chorale" the tune was one of the practice pieces in Recorder Book 1.