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WOODLAND (Benjamin)

WOODLAND (Benjamin)

Composer: Thomas Benjamin
Published in 3 hymnals


Composer: Thomas Benjamin

Thomas Benjamin was born in 1940 in Bennington, Vermont. He received degrees from Bard College, Bradeis, Harvard and Eastman. He has taught at the National Music Camp at Interlochen, the University of Houston's School of Music, and the Peabody Conservatory of The John Hopkins University. He is the co-author of three music theory texts and the author of two books on counterpoint. He has composed music for violin, piano, viola, orchestra, chamber orchestras and choir. He has also written oratorios, cantatas, operas, and a number of hymn tunes for the Unitarian church. Dianne Shapiro from "A digital library of Unitarian Universalist biographies, books, and media," Harvard Square Library, accessed online 8/9/2020 Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: WOODLAND (Benjamin)
Composer: Thomas Benjamin
Meter: 7.7.7.7
Incipit: 55612 34543 23167
Key: F Major
Copyright: © 1992 Unitarian Universalist Association

Instances

Instances (1 - 3 of 3)

Singing the Living Tradition #2

Singing the Living Tradition #124

Text

Singing the Living Tradition #288

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