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"Kingsfold" is a folk tune set to a variety of texts in England and Ireland. The tune was
published in English Country Songs (1893), an anthology compiled by
Lucy E. Broadwood and J. A. Fuller Maitland. It is used for
"Dives and Lazarus"
(Child 56).
After having heard the tune in
Kingsfold, Sussex, England (thus its name), Ralph Vaughan Williams introduced
it as a hymn tune in The English Hymnal (1906) as a setting for Horatius
Bonar's "I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say" (488).
It is used in WOV 730 for "My Soul Proclaims Your Greatness". It is also used in other hymnals for "O sing a song of Bethlehem" and "I heard the voice of Jesus say". |