Short Name: | Betty Pulkingham |
Full Name: | Pulkingham, Betty |
Birth Year: | 1928 |
Death Year: | 2019 |
Betty Carr Pulkingham was born in 1928 in Burlington, North Carolina. She received a B.S. in Music in 1949 from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro and she did graduate studies at the Eastman School of Music. She was Instructor of Music Theory at the University of Texas. In 1951, she married a seminarian Graham Pulkingham. They ministered together in various places in the U.S., England and Scotland; they were founding members of the Community of Celebration, an Anglican religious order. She travelled widely with "The Fisherfolk," an outreach music ministry connected with the Community of Celebration. Betty Pulkingham was a well known composer and arranger. She co-edited and published a number of songbooks and books on worship; and served on the Episcopal Church's Standing Commission on Church Music from 1988-1994. She and her husband returned to Burlington and then she later moved to Austin, Texas to live with family. She died in Austin, May 9, 2019 at the age of 90.
Dianne Shapiro, from Obituary (https://www.richandthompson.com/tributes/Betty-Pulkingham) (accessed 6-21-2019)
Tunes by Betty Pulkingham (36) | As | Instances | Incipit |
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A LA VENUE DE NOËL | Betty Carr Pulkingham (Adapter) | 1 | |
[We must all be born again] | Betty Pulkingham (Arranger) | 1 | 53453 11432 12534 |
ALLELUIA (Sinclair) | Betty C. Pulkingham (Arranger) | 5 | 55111 76661 77676 |
ALLELUIA NO. 1 (Fishel) | Betty Pulkingham, b. 1928 (Arranger) | 23 | 55112 31123 44321 |
BALM IN GILEAD (Spiritual) | Betty Pulkingham (Arranger) | 1 | 32321 51231 33432 |
CANTICLE OF THE GIFT | Betty Pulkingham, 1928- (Arranger) | 3 | 55555 55554 444 |
[Make me a channel of your peace] | Betty Pulkingham (Arranger) | 7 | 33333 45353 3333 |
[Christ has died, Christ is risen] (Pulkingham) | Betty Pulkingham (Composer) | 3 | 11321 22543 |
SING HOSANNA | Betty Pulkingham (Arranger) | 1 | 55532 12161 55532 |
GLORIFY THY NAME (Adkins) | Betty Carr Pulkingham (Composer (descant)) | 1 | 33344 32212 33555 |
[God's Spirit is in my heart] | Betty Pulkingham, b. 1928 (Arranger) | 1 | 11112 35556 54456 |
[Holy, holy, holy Lord] (Pulkingham) | Betty Carr Pulkingham (b. 1928) (Composer) | 3 | 11321 22543 33127 |
BREAD OF LIFE (Toolan) | Betty Pulkingham, b. 1928 (Harmonizer) | 6 | 33311 55566 66655 |
[I will praise the Lord with harp and string] | Betty Pulkingham (Arranger) | 2 | 17153 67111 12755 |
[Jesus, Lamb of God, have mercy on us] (Pulkingham) | Betty Pulkingham (Composer) | 3 | 34532 12345 43323 |
[Kyrie eleison] (Pulkingham) | Betty Carr Pulkingham (Composer) | 3 | 17655 51122 31334 |
[Let all that is within me cry, "Holy!"] | Betty Pulkingham (Arranger) | 1 | 51111 11322 52222 |
[Let us pray for the Church and for the world] (Pulkingham) | Betty Carr Pulkingham (b. 1928) (Composer) | 2 | 33342 171 |
[Love, love, love, love] | Betty Pulkingham (Arranger) | 2 | |
[My soul doth magnify the Lord] (33344) | Betty Pulkingham (Arranger) | 2 | 33344 32134 55556 |
[My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord] (Pulkingham) | Betty Carr Pulkingham, b. 1928 (Composer) | 2 | 54512 32151 75543 |
[Our Father in heaven] (Pulkingham 56545) | Betty Pulkingham (Composer) | 2 | 56545 27771 61227 |
[Our Father in heaven] (Pulkingham 33333) | Betty Pulkingham (Composer) | 2 | 33333 45544 45432 |
[Peace is flowing like a river] | Betty Pulkingham (Arranger) | 1 | 32151 23121 75123 |
[Peter and John went to pray] | Betty Pulkingham (Arranger) | 3 | 11117 76677 77765 |
PSALM 85 | Betty Pulkingham (Composer) | 2 | 33333 1353 |
ROCKINGHAM (Miller) | Betty Pulkingham, b. 1928 (Composer (descant)) | 1 | 13421 35655 17655 |
[Samuel, Samuel] | Betty Carr Pulkingham (Composer) | 2 | |
SANNANINA | Betty Pulkingham (Arranger) | 1 | 11112 17776 65111 |
ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST | Betty Pulkingham 1928 (Arranger) | 1 | 11511 21711 1177 |
[We remember His death] (Pulkingham) | Betty Pulkingham (Composer) | 2 | |
[We see the Lord] | Betty Pulkingham (Arranger) | 2 | 16513 23211 21355 |
[We thank You, Lord, for Your gift to us] | Betty Pulkingham (Arranger) | 2 | 35555 44535 55544 |
KING OF GLORY (Israeli) | Betty Pulkingham (Arranger) | 3 | 33215 12332 11332 |
THE SERVANT SONG | Betty Pulkingham, b. 1928 (Harmonizer) | 29 | 12354 32112 35432 |
YLVISAKER | Betty Pulkingham (Arranger) | 2 |