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Hymnal, Number:obc1928

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Wonder Tidings

Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: A babe is born of high nature Refrain First Line: What tidings bringest thou, messenger Used With Tune: [A babe is born of high nature]

Puer Naturs

Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: A boy was born in Bethlehem

Dutch Carol

Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: A child is born in Bethlehem

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[A child this day is born]

Appears in 59 hymnals First Line: A child this day is born Incipit: 55175 67217 17655 Used With Text: A Child This Day

[A Patre unigenitus]

Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: A Patre unigenitus Incipit: 56653 54356 66543 Used With Text: Make We Joy

[A virgin most pure, as the prophets do tell]

Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: A virgin most pure, as the prophets do tell Incipit: 34567 65432 54321 Used With Text: A Virgin Most Pure

Instances

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Published text-tune combinations (hymns) from specific hymnals

A Babe Is Born

Hymnal: OBC1928 #116 (1928) First Line: A Babe is born all of a may

Wonder Tidings

Hymnal: OBC1928 #40 (1928) First Line: A babe is born of high nature Refrain First Line: What tidings bringest thou, messenger Tune Title: [A babe is born of high nature]

Puer Naturs

Hymnal: OBC1928 #85 (1928) First Line: A boy was born in Bethlehem

People

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Thomas Durfey

Person Name: Tom Durfey (1653-1723) First Line: All hail to the days that merit more praise Hymnal Number: 5 Author (stanzas 1-2) of "The Praise of Christmas" in Oxford Book of Carols

Martin Shaw

1875 - 1958 Person Name: M. S. First Line: All hail to the days that merit more praise Hymnal Number: 5 Arranger of "[All hail to the days that merit more praise]]" in Oxford Book of Carols Martin F. Shaw was educated at the Royal College of Music in London and was organist and choirmaster at St. Mary's, Primrose Hill (1908-1920), St. Martin's in the Fields (1920-1924), and the Eccleston Guild House (1924-1935). From 1935 to 1945 he served as music director for the diocese of Chelmsford. He established the Purcell Operatic Society and was a founder of the Plainsong and Medieval Society and what later became the Royal Society of Church Music. Author of The Principles of English Church Music Composition (1921), Shaw was a notable reformer of English church music. He worked with Percy Dearmer (his rector at St. Mary's in Primrose Hill); Ralph Vaughan Williams, and his brother Geoffrey Shaw in publishing hymnals such as Songs of Praise (1925, 1931) and the Oxford Book of Carols (1928). A leader in the revival of English opera and folk music scholarship, Shaw composed some one hundred songs as well as anthems and service music; some of his best hymn tunes were published in his Additional Tunes in Use at St. Mary's (1915). Bert Polman

Luke Wadding

1628 - 1691 Person Name: Bishop Luke Wadding (1588-1687) First Line: Christmas Day is come; let's all prepare for mirth Hymnal Number: 6 Possible author of "Irish Carol" in Oxford Book of Carols Roman Catholic bishop of Ferns See Wadden, Luke, ca. 1628-1691