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Today beneath benignant skies

Author: Dennis Wortman Appears in 5 hymnals

CENTENNIAL HYMN

Appears in 5 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John K. Paine Incipit: 51543 65431 43651 Used With Text: Today, beneath benignant skies

VALETE

Appears in 19 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: A. Sullivan Incipit: 33513 67112 43654 Used With Text: Today beneath benignant skies

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Published text-tune combinations (hymns) from specific hymnals

Today beneath benignant skies

Author: Dennis Wortman Hymnal: Gloria in Excelsis #d717 (1905) Languages: English

Today beneath benignant skies

Author: Dennis Wortman Hymnal: Gloria in Excelsis #266 (1905) Languages: English

Today, beneath benignant skies

Author: Dennis Wortman Hymnal: Hymni Ecclesiae #266 (1911) Languages: English Tune Title: CENTENNIAL HYMN

1842 - 1900 Person Name: A. Sullivan Composer of "VALETE" in Church Hymns and Tunes Arthur Seymour Sullivan (b Lambeth, London. England. 1842; d. Westminster, London, 1900) was born of an Italian mother and an Irish father who was an army bandmaster and a professor of music. Sullivan entered the Chapel Royal as a chorister in 1854. He was elected as the first Mendelssohn scholar in 1856, when he began his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He also studied at the Leipzig Conservatory (1858-1861) and in 1866 was appointed professor of composition at the Royal Academy of Music. Early in his career Sullivan composed oratorios and music for some Shakespeare plays. However, he is best known for writing the music for lyrics by William S. Gilbert, which produced popular operettas such as H.M.S. Pinafore (1878), The Pirates of Penzance (1879), The Mikado (1884), and Yeomen of the Guard (1888). These operettas satirized the court and everyday life in Victorian times. Although he composed some anthems, in the area of church music Sullivan is best remembered for his hymn tunes, written between 1867 and 1874 and published in The Hymnary (1872) and Church Hymns (1874), both of which he edited. He contributed hymns to A Hymnal Chiefly from The Book of Praise (1867) and to the Presbyterian collection Psalms and Hymns for Divine Worship (1867). A complete collection of his hymns and arrangements was published posthumously as Hymn Tunes by Arthur Sullivan (1902). Sullivan steadfastly refused to grant permission to those who wished to make hymn tunes from the popular melodies in his operettas. Bert Polman