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Thread #42524   Message #623861
Posted By: Haruo
08-Jan-02 - 09:43 PM
Thread Name: Help: Earlier tunes of songs, carols, hymns
Subject: RE: Help: Earlier tunes of songs, carols, hymns
Is Candler (the Scottish folk tune favored by American Methodists for "Come, O Thou Traveller Unknown") a fasola tune? In the form I'm familiar with it involves the obligatory repeat of the last two lines of each verse (though the tune isn't the same the second time) — sort of the opposite of what happens in the first half of Beach Spring, where the tune repeats but the words change.

For that matter, what does anyone here know about the origins and history (and other, perhaps secular, traditional texts) of Candler? I think I asked this in another thread years ago. Not sure. A MIDI of Candler is available at The Cyber Hymnal (on the "Come O Thou Traveler" page) if you don't know what tune I'm talking about.

Liland