Tell Out, My Soul Explained

Tell Out, My Soul
Genre:Hymn
Written:1962
Meter:10.10.10.10
Melody:"Woodlands" by Walter Greatorex

"Tell Out, My Soul" is a Christian hymn paraphrasing the Magnificat, which was written by Timothy Dudley-Smith in 1962. It is popularly sung to the hymn tune composed by Walter Greatorex in 1916.[1]

History

Timothy Dudley-Smith wrote the hymn in May 1961 when he and his wife had just moved into their first house in Blackheath. He was inspired to write the text when he was reading a modern paraphrase of the Magnificat in in the New English Bible, a translation which begins with the phrase, "Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord".[2] [3] Dudley-Smith, in a 2006 interview, agreed that the hymn was "a significant starting point in terms of his hymns being published".[4]

The hymn has been included in a number of hymnals, among them The New English Hymnal.[5] It has been included in religious radio and television programmes, including Sunday Worship on BBC Radio 4 and Songs of Praise.[6] [7]

In the 2013 survey, "The UK's Top 100 Hymns" conducted by the BBC's Songs of Praise, "Tell Out, My Soul" was voted joint 51st alongside "Nearer, My God, to Thee", Patrick Appleford's "Lord, Jesus Christ" ("Living Lord") and "Give Me Joy In My Heart".[8]

Musical setting

"Tell Out, My Soul" fits the metre 10.10.10.10, and it was originally published in 1965 in The Anglican Hymn Book, set to the tune by William Llewellyn. In 1966, the hymn was included in the Evangelical Anglican hymnal Youth Praise, set to a tune by Michael Baughen, .[9] The text was later paired with the existing hymn tune, which had been composed by Walter Greatorex in 1916 for Henry Montagu Butler's 1881 hymn "Lift Up Your Hearts!". "Tell Out, My Soul" is now most popularly sung to Greatorex's melody.[10] [11]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Tell out, my soul . Cyber Hymnal . 19 April 2019.
  2. Book: Petersen . William . Petersen . Ardythe . The Complete Book of Hymns . 2015 . Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. . 9781414331409 . 247 . 8 May 2019 . en.
  3. Book: Watson . J. R. . An Annotated Anthology of Hymns . 2002 . OUP Oxford . 9780198269731 . 8 May 2019 . en.
  4. http://www.rscm.com/assets/publications/cmq/interviewTimothyDudleySmith.pdf Transcript of an interview with bishop Timothy Dudley-Smith
  5. Book: Press . Canterbury . The New English Hymnal . 1989 . Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd . 9781853110023 . 8 May 2019 . en. Hymn number 186
  6. Web site: BBC Radio 4 Sunday Worship, 22 July 2001 "Keswick Convention" . BBC Radio 4 . 8 May 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080215123010/http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/programmes/sunday_worship/documents/sw20010722.html . 15 February 2008 . 22 July 2001.
  7. Web site: BBC - Religion & Ethics - Songs of Praise . BBC . 8 May 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20030618105701/http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/programmes/songsofpraise/programme.shtml . 18 June 2003 . 22 June 2003.
  8. Web site: BBC One - Songs of Praise - The UK's Top 100 Hymns . BBC . 8 May 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190508120023/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3DnJQz7zsF1JrB3rZ8yQ86w/the-uks-top-100-hymns . 8 May 2019. live.
  9. Book: Humphreys . Maggie . Evans . Robert . Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland . 1997 . A&C Black . 9780720123302 . https://books.google.com/books?id=WSLUAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA25 . 8 May 2019 . en . Baughen, Rt. Revd. Dr. Michael Alfred (b.1930).
  10. Book: Hylson-Smith . Kenneth . Evangelicals in the Church of England 1734-1984 . 1989 . A&C Black . 9780567291615 . 328 . 8 May 2019 . en.
  11. Book: Youth Praise : a new collection of Christian hymns, songs, choruses and spirituals . Falcon Books/CPAS. 978-0854918003.

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