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On this high feast day honour we the Baptist

Author: Paul the Deacon, 730-799 Meter: 11.11.11.5 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Saints' and Other Holy Days St. John the Baptist Used With Tune: DIVA SERVATRIX Text Sources: Translation and paraphrase: Editors of The New English Hymnal, 1985

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UT QUEANT LAXIS

Appears in 4 hymnals Tune Key: e minor Incipit: 12423 22212 33345 Used With Text: On this high feast day honour we the Baptist

DIVA SERVATRIX

Meter: 11.11.11.5 Appears in 17 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958 Tune Sources: Antiphoner, Bayeux, 1739 Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 33431 21232 13354 Used With Text: On this high feast day honour we the Baptist

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On this high feast day honour we the Baptist

Author: Paul the Deacon Hymnal: The New English Hymnal #168 (1986) Topics: Birth of St. John the Baptist June 24th; St. John the Baptist; The Christian Year Festivals and Other Holy Days: Proper Languages: English Tune Title: UT QUEANT LAXIS

On this high feast day honour we the Baptist

Author: Paul the Deacon, 730-799 Hymnal: CPWI Hymnal #777 (2010) Meter: 11.11.11.5 Topics: Saints' and Other Holy Days St. John the Baptist Languages: English Tune Title: DIVA SERVATRIX

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

1872 - 1958 Person Name: Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958 Harmonizer of "DIVA SERVATRIX" in CPWI Hymnal Through his composing, conducting, collecting, editing, and teaching, Ralph Vaughan Williams (b. Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, England, October 12, 1872; d. Westminster, London, England, August 26, 1958) became the chief figure in the realm of English music and church music in the first half of the twentieth century. His education included instruction at the Royal College of Music in London and Trinity College, Cambridge, as well as additional studies in Berlin and Paris. During World War I he served in the army medical corps in France. Vaughan Williams taught music at the Royal College of Music (1920-1940), conducted the Bach Choir in London (1920-1927), and directed the Leith Hill Music Festival in Dorking (1905-1953). A major influence in his life was the English folk song. A knowledgeable collector of folk songs, he was also a member of the Folksong Society and a supporter of the English Folk Dance Society. Vaughan Williams wrote various articles and books, including National Music (1935), and composed numerous arrangements of folk songs; many of his compositions show the impact of folk rhythms and melodic modes. His original compositions cover nearly all musical genres, from orchestral symphonies and concertos to choral works, from songs to operas, and from chamber music to music for films. Vaughan Williams's church music includes anthems; choral-orchestral works, such as Magnificat (1932), Dona Nobis Pacem (1936), and Hodie (1953); and hymn tune settings for organ. But most important to the history of hymnody, he was music editor of the most influential British hymnal at the beginning of the twentieth century, The English Hymnal (1906), and coeditor (with Martin Shaw) of Songs of Praise (1925, 1931) and the Oxford Book of Carols (1928). Bert Polman

Paul, the Deacon

720 - 799 Person Name: Paul the Deacon, 730-799 Author of "On this high feast day honour we the Baptist" in CPWI Hymnal Paul the Deacon [Paulus Diaconus], son of Warnefrid or Winefrid, was born at Frinli, in Italy, circa 730. He studied at Pavia. For some time he was tutor to Adelperga, daughter of Desiderius, the last of the Lombard kings, and then lived at the court of her husband, Arichisius of Beneveuto. Eventually he became a monk at Monte Cassino, where he died circa 799. He was the author of several works, including Be Gest. Langobardorum. His hymn, “Ut queant laxis resonare fibris," is in three parts. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)