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Waken, O sleeper, wake and rise

Author: Michael Forster, b. 1946 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 2 hymnals Used With Tune: NATIVITY

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 138 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry Lahee, 1826-1912 Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 33355 11321 66217 Used With Text: Waken, O sleeper, wake and rise

BILLING

Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 29 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Richard Runciman Terry, 1865-1938 Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 13516 52333 17655 Used With Text: Waken, O sleeper, wake and rise

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Waken, O sleeper, wake and rise

Author: Michael Forster, b. 1946 Hymnal: Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New #702 (2000) Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Topics: Advent; International relations; Year A Third Sunday Before Advent Scripture: Ephesians 5:8 Languages: English Tune Title: BILLING

Waken, O sleeper, wake and rise

Author: Michael Forster, b. 1946 Hymnal: The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook #652 (2004) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Languages: English Tune Title: NATIVITY

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Michael Forster

b. 1946 Person Name: Michael Forster, b. 1946 Author of "Waken, O sleeper, wake and rise" in The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook

Richard Runciman Terry

1865 - 1938 Person Name: Richard Runciman Terry, 1865-1938 Composer of "BILLING" in Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New Terry, Richard R., was born at Morpeth, Jan. 3, 1868, and was Tate Choral Scholar at King's College, Cambridge. In 1896 he became organist and music-master at Downside R. C. College and Abbey, Bath; and in 1901 organist and director of the choir at Westminster Cathedral (R. C.) London. He contributed to A. E. Tozer's Catholic Hymns, 1898, thirteen tunes and the words of two hymns:— 1. Christ, the Lord, is my true Shepherd. Ps. xxiii. 2. Peaceful eve, so still and holy. Christmas Carol. It is marked as D. C. B., i.e. for Downside Coll., Bath. The tune by Mr. Tozor was published in 1881 to a carol beginning with the same first line, but otherwise entirely different. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Henry Lahee

1826 - 1912 Person Name: Henry Lahee, 1826-1912 Composer of "NATIVITY" in The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook Born: April 11, 1826, Chelsea, London, England. Died: April 29, 1912, London, England. Lahee studied under John Goss and William Sterndale Bennett. He played the organ at several churches, including Holy Trinity Church, Brompton (1847-74). He won prizes for his compositions in Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow, and London, and set to music poems by Edgar Allen Poe ("The Bells"), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ("Building of the Ship") and Alfred Tennyson ("Sleeping Beauty"). His works include: Metrical Psalter, with William Irons, 1855 Famous Singers of Today and Yesterday, 1898 One Hundred Hymn Tunes Sources: Frost, p. 680 CS Concordance, pp. 246-47 Nutter, p. 460 --www.hymntime.com/tch