About the hymn tune In Babilone

In Babilone is a traditional Dutch melody that appeared in Oude en Nieuwe Hollantse Boerenlities en Contradansen (Old and New Dutch Peasant Songs and Country Dances), c. 1710. Ralph Vaughan Williams (PHH 316) discovered this tune as arranged by Julius Rontgen (b. Leipzig, Germany, 1855; d. Utrecht, the Netherlands, 1932) and included it in The English Hymnal (1906), from which it gained widespread use. (from hymnary.org)

This descant was written at the request of The Rev. Canon Dr. Titus Presler. See his blog on world mission at http://titusonmission.wordpress.com/)

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