PURPOSE (Shaw)

Composer: Martin Shaw

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… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: PURPOSE (Shaw)
Composer: Martin Shaw
Meter: Irregular
Incipit: 12232 17573 21711
Key: f minor
Copyright: By permission of Oxford University Press

Timeline

Arrangements

Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations

  • 30 Creative Intonations: for Organ on familiar Hymn Tunes
    Composer/Editor Michael E. Young
    Published By: G. I. A. Publications, Inc. (1980) pp. 10

Media

The Cyber Hymnal #1953
Text: God Is Working His Purpose Out
  • Adobe Acrobat image (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer score (NWC)
  • XML score (XML)

Instances

Instances (1 - 23 of 23)

Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #509

El Himnario #399

El Himnario Presbiteriano #399

Hinário para o Culto Cristão #494

Hymnal #638

Hymns of the Saints #324

Text InfoTune InfoTextAudio

Psalter Hymnal (Gray) #594

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Rejoice in the Lord #425

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RitualSong #486

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RitualSong #646

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Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal #225

Audio

Small Church Music #1968

The Covenant Hymnal #692

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The Cyber Hymnal #1953

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The Hymnal 1982 #534

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The Worshiping Church #750

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Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.) #74

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Voices Together #770

Worship (3rd ed.) #362

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Worship (3rd ed.) #507

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Worship (4th ed.) #391

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Worship (4th ed.) #862

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Worship and Rejoice #564

Include 11 pre-1979 instances
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