Help! Anyone recognise this?
  • Ambrosius
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    Any thoughts on where this tune might be from?
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  • JulieCollJulieColl
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    Hmm. Sounds familiar, esp. the last line. I'll keep thinking.
  • SalieriSalieri
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    Where did you hear/see it?
  • melofluentmelofluent
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    I'll check Higginson when I get to office.
  • Chris Garton-Zavesky
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    It reads like a descant to an English hymn tune.
  • ronkrisman
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    It reads like a descant to an English hymn tune.

    That was my thought too.
  • melofluentmelofluent
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    I dunno, it sounds more Viennese to my mind's ear, and the logic and tessitura seem quite melodic.
  • Ambrosius
    Posts: 49
    I came across it as a handwritten piece in a file of c.1960-70s choir music. It had the words 'Gloria in excelsis Deo' above it. It was used, I am told, by the choir then as the refrain of a responsorial Gloria, and it works well as that. I am pretty sure it's not an original composition by the person who wrote it out, but cannibalised from somewhere else. But from where? (I too have thought 'Austrian' and 'English hymn descant' . . .)
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