

Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #128
Tune Title: COLCHESTER Composer: Henry Purcell Meter: 8.6.8.6 Incipit: 11765 43215 56712 Date: 2007
Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #128
Title: | COLCHESTER (Tans’ur) |
Composer: | William Tans’ur (1635) |
Place Of Origin: | London |
Meter: | 8.6.8.6 |
Incipit: | 11765 43215 567 |
Key: | D Major |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
From William Tans’ur’s A Compleat Melody: or, The Harmony of Sion (London: W. Pearson, for James Hodges, 1735), attributed to him there as composer and/or arranger. Hymn Tune Index no. 1393a. The tune is sometimes attributed to Henry Purcell, although the reasons for that attribution are unclear, as Purcell is not credited as the composer in any tunebooks up to 1820.