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Thread #45051   Message #1149635
Posted By: GUEST,M. R. Anderson
30-Mar-04 - 12:57 AM
Thread Name: tune Req: Dives and Lazarus (variants)
Subject: RE: Variants of Dives and Lazarus
Here are a few other places that I've come across the tune. Vaughan Williams adapted it to lyics written by Louis F. Benson for a song called 'O Sing a Song of Bethlehem', found in the United Methodist hymnal. The tune is identified as Kingsfold at the bottom of the page. V. Williams used it again in Seventeen Come Sunday, the first movement of his Folk Song Suite. Listen to the bass line (low brass). Williams reportedly first came across the tune in 1893 when he got hold of the publication English County Songs, edited by Lucy Broadwood and J.A. Fuller Maitland. Catherine O'Connell uses the melody for a song called 'Turning of the Canticle', from her release 'I Arise Today'. And lastly, guitar virtuoso Phil Keaggy plays the tune for a song entitled 'I Feel the Winds of God Today',from his cd 'Beyond Nature'.