RADIANCE (Smith)

RADIANCE (Smith)

Composer: Joseph Smith
Published in 3 hymnals


Composer: Joseph Smith

Sir, - It may interest some of your readers to learn that the hymn tune "Innocents" was composed by my grandfather, Joseph Smith, of Halesowen, near Birmingham (born 1800; died 1873). I well remember hearing my grandfather say that he wrote the tune at the request of a lady friend, to the words "Twinkle, twinkle, little star" to be sung by the children of her school. My grandfather was a thorough musician and an excellent singer, though he never practised professionally. He knew the whole of the Psalms from memory, and it used to be one of my greatest pleasures, when, as a child, I visited my grandparents, to sit up after the usual bedtime hour and listen to him as he sang, in his sweet tenor voice, one Psalm after another, to music… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: RADIANCE (Smith)
Composer: Joseph Smith
Meter: 8.6.8.6
Incipit: 33321 56523 5762
Copyright: Public Domain

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The Calvary Hymnal #187

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The Calvary Hymnal #188

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The Methodist Hymnal #537

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