"Christians Awake SaluteThe Happy Morn" Carol by Melharmonic Virtual Choir dr by Chibuike N. Onyesoh

Описание: Both words and tune are associated with Manchester. The poet John Byrom (1692–1763) was born and died there; he was a medical scholar and a Fellow of the Royal Society, who taught shorthand to the Wesleys. The hymn told the whole Christmas story in 48 iambic pentameters, for the benefit of Byrom’s young daughter. John Wainwright (1723–68), lay-clerk and later organist of Manchester collegiate church (now cathedral), wrote this tune for the metrical version of Psalm 50 in the Old Version (Sternhold and Hopkins) and published it in Caleb Ashworth’s Collection of Tunes (1761) under the name Mortram. He then combined it with Byrom’s hymn in his own Collection of Psalm Tunes, Anthems, Hymns and Chants (1766), and the combination has been popular ever since.

Only the first three verses of this long hymn are used in Cleobury’s arrangement. In verse 2, the angel’s quoted words are dramatized. In verse 3, the tune is taken by lower voices to allow for a descant and considerable chromatic reharmonization.

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