Tune: WELLINGTON SQUARE

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WELLINGTON SQUARE

Composer: Guy Warrack (1931)
Published in 8 hymnals

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	ETERNAL GOD, WHOSE POWER UPHOLDS (Presby…

Composer: Guy Warrack

Warrack, Guy (Douglas Hamilton); b. Feb. 8, 1900, Edinburgh, d. Feb. 12, 1986, Englefield Green, Surrey; Scottish composer and conductor Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title:	WELLINGTON SQUARE
Composer:	Guy Warrack (1931)
Meter:	8.6.8.6 D
Incipit:	51232 17515 4321
Key:	f minor
Copyright:	By permission of Oxford University Press

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Texts

Eternal God, Whose Power Upholds

When Stephen, Full of Power and Grace

Our Voice Would Be a Useless Cry

Our voice would be a useless cry
blown down the heedless wind;
our every action counted loss,
our work undisciplined;
our blood-bought victories turned to dust,
no prize at home, abroad
without the constant presence of
your Spirit, triune God.

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Notes

An energetic tune in minor tonality, WELLINGTON SQUARE is a rounded bar form (AABA) built around variations on the first four notes. Though it could be sung in parts by a choir, have the congregation sing in unison with confident tones from the organ.

Guy Warrack (b. Edinburgh, Scotland, 1900; d. Englefield Green, Surrey, England, 1986) composed WELLINGTON SQUARE for the 1931 edition of the British Songs of Praise. In that hymnal it was set to a text by Jan Struther (pseudonym for Joyce Torrens-Graham), "When Stephen, Full of Power and Grace."

Warrack studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, England, and at the Royal College of Music, where he was a student of Ralph Vaughan Williams. A teacher at the Royal College of Music from 1925 to 1935, Warrack also held a number of important conducting posts. He was conductor of the BBC Scottish Orchestra and musical director of the Sadler's Wells Theater Ballet. Warrack composed many orchestral pieces, including his Symphony in C minor and film scores for documentaries.

--Psalter Hymnal Handbook

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ETERNAL GOD, WHOSE POWER UPHOLDS (Presbyterian Hymnal 412)

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Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations

The Concordia Hymn Prelude Series Volume 41: General: Walt - Werde
Composer/Editors Richard Hillert; Mark Bender
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1986) pp. 37

Organ Solo

The Concordia Hymn Prelude Series Volume 41: General: Walt - Werde
Composer/Editors Richard Hillert; Mark Bender
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1986) pp. 36

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