Synopsis
This book has the fifty-six hymntunes composed by F.R.H. that remain extant, that have been found in work on The Complete Works of Frances Ridley Havergal. They are all very good to sing in churches; any church should be able to sing them well. Not only easy to sing and play, they have memorable melodies, and they are true music that gives pleasure. Frances Ridley Havergal’s most widely known work is the poem called the Consecration Hymn, “Take my life and let it be Consecrated, Lord, to Thee.” A few of her other hymns (that is, the words) are still known and sung fairly widely. She also composed many hymntunes, and this book presents all of them extant today. Even “Hermas,” the best known of them, is seldom sung now; nonetheless, they are beautiful scores. She was exceptionally gifted and experienced to write both words and music for hymns. She was a rarely fine poet, and a similarly fine musician (pianist, singer, composer). She played organ and piano in church for much of her life, and for a while she was the music leader of St. Paul’s Church, Leamington Spa. Frances also labored for years with Charles Busbridge Snepp to complete and publish Songs of Grace and Glory, a large, immensely valuable hymnbook; this hymnbook had more than 1,100 hymntunes, most composed by her father William Henry Havergal, with several composed by F.R.H. and by others. She edited and prepared very nearly all of them for publication (only a handful left unfinished when she died). These are two excerpts from her letters: I was so struck this morning with “Thou art the Helper of the fatherless,”—the very first time one of those special orphan promises has come home to me. I had been puzzling over a tune which papa would have decided about in a minute, and missed him so much, when suddenly this verse flashed upon me brightly. I think that even in music the Lord is my helper now; much more in other things. When composing some tunes at this time, I selected six about which I felt doubtful, and sent them to Sir Frederic Ouseley, asking him to say if they were all right. This he most kindly did; to my great delight he endorsed them every one, and praised them too. . . . Last night they sang “To Him who for our sins was slain,” to my little tune “Tryphosa”; it went so deliciously, and choir and congregation really rang out the Alleluias so brightly that it suddenly came over me, as it never did before, what a privilege it is even to have contributed a bit of music for His direct praise. It was a sort of hush of praise, all alone with Jesus, for His great goodness. I had no idea “Tryphosa” was such a pretty tune before ! . . .
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À propos de l'auteur
Frances Ridley Havergal’s formal education ended when she was seventeen, with one term at a young women’s school in Dusseldorf, Germany, yet she was a true scholar all her life. Fluent in German and French and nearly so in Italian, she read and loved the Reformers in Latin, German, and French. Knowledge was never an end in itself, only a means to know better her Lord and Saviour and to help to bring others to know Him. The Bible was her only Book, and she studied deeply the Hebrew and Greek texts of Scripture, memorized nearly all the New Testament and large portions of the Old Testament, and loved the Author with all her being. Frances was brought to a saving knowledge of Christ when she was fourteen, and the rest of her life was consecrated to her Savior, the Lord Jesus. Keenly aware of her own sinfulness and inability, her sole desire was to please and glorify Him alone. Very finely gifted, she was truly diligent with her gifts: her poetry is among the finest Christian verse in the English language, after George Herbert; her prose works are deeply beneficial; a musician to the core, she left behind important compositions. Like her works, her life richly touched the ones near her and countless many who met or heard her. The Lord Jesus Christ was her alone, only beauty, and she glowed Him and His truth. These books are taken from the newly prepared edition of The Complete Works of Frances Ridley Havergal. Never wanting attention to herself, Frances’ desire of her heart was for herself and for others to know her King, the Lord Jesus Christ. Her works are a gold-mine of help and enrichment. As her sister Maria, wrote, Knowing her intense desire that Christ should be magnified, whether by her life or in her death, may it be to His glory that in these pages she, being dead, “Yet speaketh !” David L. Chalkley and Glen T. Wegge, editors
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Hymntunes
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