Be Thou my vision (Traditional)
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CPDL #12249:
- Editor: Mark Hamilton Dewey (added 2006-08-10). Score information: Letter, 1 pages, 72 kbytes Copyright: Other
- Edition notes: Parts, second verse (based on a translation from Old Irish to English by Aodh ó Dugáin), and re-versification by Mark Hamilton Dewey (b. 1980); arrangement written in the summer of 2006. I wrote this arrangement on account of the scarcity of public domain choral arrangements of this song.
General Information
Title: Be Thou My Vision
Composer: Traditional
Arranger: Mark Hamilton Dewey
Number of voices: 7vv Voicing: SAATTBB
Genre: Sacred, Hymns
Language: English
Instruments: All chords are major chords.
Published: 2006
Description: Tune name: Slane (Irish folk melody)
Lyrics: attributed to Dallan Forgaill (8th century)
Translation from Old Irish to English, for all but the second verse: Mary Elizabeth Byrne (1880-1931), 1905
Original versification for all but the second verse: Eleanor Henrietta Hull (1860-1935), 1912
External websites: http://www.jonbanjo.org/midi/bethoumyvision_piano.mid