The King of Love My Shepherd Is explained

The King of Love My Shepherd Is
Genre:Hymn
Written:1868
Meter:8.7.8.7
Melody:"Dominus Regit Me" by John Bacchus Dykes

The King of Love My Shepherd Is is an 1868 hymn with lyrics written by Henry Williams Baker, based on the Welsh version of Psalm 23 and the work of Edmund Prys.[1] [2] [3]

It is most often sung to one of four different melodies:

  1. "Dominus Regit Me", composed by John Bacchus Dykes, a friend and contemporary of Henry Williams Baker. It first appeared in the 1868 appendix to Hymns Ancient and Modern.[4] [5] In 1997 this version was sung at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales.[6]
  2. The traditional Irish tune "St. Columba". The tune was first paired with the text in The English Hymnal (1906), harmonised by Charles Villiers Stanford.[7] [8]
  3. "Remsen", by Rees Thomas, which first appeared in Daniel Prothero's Welsh 1918 hymnbook Cân a Mawl, for the Calvanistic Methodists of North America.[9]
  4. "Ich dank' dir schon", composed by Michael Praetorius in 1610, as published in The Lutheran Hymnal, No. 431 (1941).[10]

Other choral settings of the text include those by Edward Bairstow (1931), Charles Gounod (1899), Harry Rowe Shelley (1886) and Arthur Somervell (1903).[11] There are many other settings of texts derived from Psalm 23.[12]

Henry Baker's last words were reportedly lyrics from this hymn.[13]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.hymnary.org/text/yr_arglwydd_yw_fy_mugail_clau Yr Arglwydd yw fy Mugail clau
  2. Book: Francis Arthur Jones. Famous hymns and their authors. 1903. Hodder and Stoughton. 178.
  3. Towner, W. Sibley. "'Without Our Aid Did He Us Make': Singing the Meaning of the Psalms". In Book: Patrick D. Miller. Brent A. Strawn. Nancy R. Bowen. A God So Near: Essays on Old Testament Theology in Honor of Patrick D. Miller. 2003. Eisenbrauns. 978-1-57506-067-5. 26.
  4. Book: John Julian. A Dictionary of Hymnology. 1. 327. 1907. John Murray.
  5. Book: Pearce . James . Hymn Music . 7 March 2023 . BoD – Books on Demand . 978-3-382-13023-7 . xiii . en.
  6. News: The Funeral Service of Diana, Princess Wales: Order of Service. BBC News. 6 September 1997. 2018-06-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20180926132845/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/politics97/diana/order.html. 2018-09-26. live.
  7. Book: The English hymnal, with tunes. 1906. Oxford University Press. University of Toronto. 638.
  8. Book: The Harvard University Hymn Book. 2007. Harvard University Press. 978-0-674-02696-4. 195–196.
  9. http://www.hymnary.org/tune/remsen_thomas 'Remsen (Thomas)' at Hymnary.org
  10. https://hymnary.org/hymn/LH1941/431 'The Lutheran Hymnal #431', Hymnary.org
  11. https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/The_King_of_love_my_shepherd_is The King of love my shepherd is, ChoralWiki
  12. Vance D. Wolverton. 'Choral Settings of Psalm Twenty-three in English: An Annotated Bibliography', Parts 1 and 2, in The Choral Journal, Vol. 35, Nos. 9 and 10, April/May 1995
  13. Book: Robert Morgan. Then Sings My Soul: 150 of the World's Greatest Hymn Stories. 2003. Thomas Nelson Inc. 978-1-4185-7824-4. 169.

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