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29 Sep 07 - 02:56 PM (#2160022) Subject: Original of 'God's farm is all Creation From: DMcG I've recently heard a hymn written by the cricket commentator John Arlott called "God's farm is all Creation". The tune was collected by Lucy Broadwood, and I'm trying to find out what the original song was and where it was collected. Does anyone have that information? |
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29 Sep 07 - 04:37 PM (#2160058) Subject: RE: Original of 'God's farm is all Creation From: Malcolm Douglas We'd need to know what the tune was first, probably. I find two websites with a tune for this hymn: http://www.rockhay.org/worship/music/godwhosefarm.htm 'Church organ' midi, with the note 'Tune: attributed to C.F. Witt, Psalmodia Sacra; adapted by Henry J. Gauntlett, 1861'. http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/allonsong66/church.htm#God%20whose%20farm%20is%20all%20creation [link removed - see Malcom's note below and visit site at your own risk. -Joe Offer-] A rather wobbly vocal rendition of (I think?) more-or-less the same melody. Staff notation is provided, but no other information. Are either of these anything like the tune you heard? Where did the Broadwood reference come from? |
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29 Sep 07 - 04:42 PM (#2160059) Subject: RE: Original of 'God's farm is all Creation From: Peace Might want to check on "God's Whose Farm is All Creation". |
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29 Sep 07 - 06:42 PM (#2160121) Subject: RE: Original of 'God's farm is all Creation From: masato sakurai For a starter. The tune in question is SHIPSTON, which is arranged by Vaughan Williams from a "traditional English melody." The texts for this tune in The English Hymnal (1906, 1933) are "No. 390: Firmly I believe and truly" and "No. 599: Jesu, tender Shepherd, hear me." Hear the midi tune at The Cyber Hymnal. In BBC Songs of Praise [Music edition] (1997, no. 398), this tune is set to the words "God, whose farm is all creation", with a comment: "collected by Lucy Broadwood (1858-1929) / harm. R. Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)." |
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29 Sep 07 - 06:49 PM (#2160124) Subject: RE: Original of 'God's farm is all Creation From: Peace Nice one, Masato. |
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29 Sep 07 - 06:51 PM (#2160128) Subject: RE: Original of 'God's farm is all Creation From: masato sakurai The tune is Bedlam City (at folkinfo). |
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29 Sep 07 - 07:36 PM (#2160150) Subject: RE: Original of 'God's farm is all Creation From: Malcolm Douglas Posted there by Dave himself, as it happens. The tune at the hymn sites I mentioned above is quite different. Which, I wonder, was the original setting? Incidentally, beware the second link I provided above. On re-visiting it, I found that every single audio file on the page started playing simultaneously; each had to be turned off individually as the page (slowly and painfully) loaded. Didn't happen when I first found it. The experience was moderately interesting in a surreal sort of way, but I wouldn't recommend it to the easily-disturbed. |
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30 Sep 07 - 05:20 AM (#2160312) Subject: RE: Original of 'God's farm is all Creation From: DMcG Yes, thank's for spotting that, masato & Malcolm. I should have made the connection to the posting I made myself - the onset of senility on my part, I think. I had a feeling I had heard it before, but it was not strong enough to be really convinced. |
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17 Feb 10 - 09:39 PM (#2842559) Subject: Lyr Add: GOD WHOSE FARM IS ALL CREATION (J Arlott) From: Jim Dixon From Hymns Ancient & Modern, New Standard: Words Edition* (Norwich: Hymns Ancient & Modern, 1983), page 370. GOD'S FARM John Arlott (1914-91) 1. God, whose farm is all creation, Take the gratitude we give; Take the finest of our harvest, Crops we grow that men may live. 2. Take our ploughing, seeding, reaping, Hopes and fears of sun and rain, All our thinking, planning, waiting, Ripened in this fruit and grain. 3. All our labour, all our watching, All our calendar of care, In these crops of your creation, Take, O God: they are our prayer. [* I suppose that means there is also a "music edition."] |
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17 Feb 10 - 09:42 PM (#2842561) Subject: RE: Origin: God Whose Farm is All Creation (J Arlott) From: maeve Thanks, Jim. I think I need to learn this one. maeve |
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17 Feb 10 - 10:30 PM (#2842583) Subject: RE: Origin: God Whose Farm is All Creation (J Arlott) From: GUEST,999 Lyrics with tune at this site. |
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18 Sep 11 - 09:38 AM (#3225117) Subject: RE: Origin: God Whose Farm is All Creation (J Arlott) From: GUEST hymnfan I understand that J Arlott was commissioned to write a hymn at short notice and used the 8.7.8.7 format. Apparantly he, himself, was unable to sing and had no particular tune in mind. It was set to Shipston for performance but gets set to many other tunes |