Help identifying tune
  • ClemensRomanusClemensRomanus
    Posts: 1,023
    Does anyone know what tune this is? Or perhaps the composer? A friend of mine sent it to me asking for help. It’s from a Japanese Christmas album.
    11-Everyone_Is_Happy.mp3
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  • DL
    Posts: 80
    It’s a version of “A Virgin most pure”. If you look here https://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/a_virgin_most_pure.htm and scroll down to the 1833 William Sandys version it is I think the same tune.
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  • Liam
    Posts: 5,092
    Tune is VIRGIN MOST PURE (11.11.11.11.), adapted from the Cornish melody collected by Davies Gilbert in 1822 noted in the first source at the link provided. It seems it's usually sung in F, G or Eb major.

    For a melody closer to the one used in that album:

    https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/COCN1916/414/high

    The melody makes one variation from the melody in the above link: the last note in the first measure of the third line goes down to a supertonic crochet instead of passing notes.

    Version in the St Gregory Hymnal: https://hymnary.org/hymn/SGHC1920/12
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  • ClemensRomanusClemensRomanus
    Posts: 1,023
    Thank you! I’ll let him know. He runs a podcast about Japanese Christmas music, and the translation was “Everyone is Happy,” so he had a hard time finding it. Again, many thanks!
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