Re: Hymn tunes

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Choraltalk Gateway) wrote:

> Dave Singer wrote:
> 
actually someone else wrote, but no matter...

> >What about the composer who writes music for a hymn that already has a
> >perfectly good tune? Why should they do that any more than someone
> >inspired by a tune writing new words? Do you sing "All hail the power of
> >Jesus name" to Miles Lane and nothing else?
> 
> FWIW: The text to the Christmas carol, Away in a Manger, has had not
> one but _two_ quite well-known tunes associated with it over the
> years. Nevertheless, in 1974 I wrote a new tune for the soprano
> soloist at my local church in Brooklyn. Chaulk it up to youthful . .
> . take your pick. :-)

Actually I know of 3 extant tunes for that carol.

F-major, C F F GA F F ABf C C D Bf
A-minor, E A A AB C C CB A A G E
G-major, D D.C B B A G G Fs E D