RETURN AGAIN and INVITATION NEW tune merger?

Sat, 08/03/2024 - 14:20 — Salt_of_the_Earth

Hello! I was recently looking at the tunes RETURN AGAIN and INVITATION NEW, trying to find the hymn tune for Alice Parker's choral work, “Hark I Hear The Harps Eternal.”

Return Again: https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/UHHS1909/109/high
Invitation New: https://www.ccel.org/ccel/walker/harmony2/files/png75/InvitationNew.png

I found the tunes to be the exact same, the only major differences being the passing tones and ornamentation in the melodic contour of INVITATION NEW. They both share the same meter as well, both poetically and musically. I wouldn't be surprised if the basic tune is a folk tune that was transmitted in the American South and found its way into the Southern Harmony, the Sacred Harp, and other shape-note books.

Should these two tunes be merged since they appear to be the same?

Comments

Mon, 08/05/2024 - 09:53 — dianneshapiro

Tune merger

Thanks. I've merged these; they look the same.

Mon, 08/05/2024 - 19:39 — Salt_of_the_Earth

INVITATION NEW and INVITATION page scan swap

Hello again! It appears that a scan that should be connected to INVITATION NEW in the Southern Harmony is connected to INVITATION, which is a different tune. The other two page scans are the Walker melody, yet the INVITATION NEW score is the one presented on the tune's index page.

Tue, 08/06/2024 - 08:43 — dianneshapiro