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 Share Tweet Pin Buffer3 3 Shares Finding things here useful?If you find any joy and value in this site, please consider becoming a Recurring Patron with a sustaining monthly donation of your choosing. Hymns for Worship remains free (and ad-free), but it takes a lot of love labor to sustain this online ministry. Your support really matters. Please consider donating! The origin of the hymn's text is a poem by diplomat Cecil Spring Rice, written early in the 20th century, entitled Urbs Dei ("The City of God") or The Two Fatherlands. The poem described how a Christian owes his loyalties to both his homeland and the heavenly kingdom. The Story Behind I Vow To Thee, My CountryIn 1908, Spring Rice was posted to the British Embassy in Stockholm. In 1912, he was appointed as Ambassador to the United States of America, where he influenced the administration of Woodrow Wilson to abandon neutrality and join Britain in the war against Germany. After the United States entered the war, he was recalled to Britain. Shortly before his departure from the US in January 1918, he re-wrote and renamed Urbs Dei as "I Vow to Thee, My Country" significantly altering the first verse to concentrate on the themes of love and sacrifice rather than "the noise of battle" and "the thunder of her guns", creating a more sombre tone in view of the dreadful loss of life suffered in the Great War. The first verse in both versions invokes Britain; the second verse, the Kingdom of Heaven. You might recognise the patriotic British hymn ‘I Vow to Thee My Country’ from Remembrance services and various high-profile, national occasions – but who wrote it, and what are the lyrics? Written in 1918, ‘I Vow to Thee, My Country’ remains one of the most popular British hymns to this day. It was first sung at St Paul’s Girls’ School in Hammersmith, London, where Holst taught, and later became their official school hymn. Now, it is most strongly associated with Remembrance Day, being performed at services across the UK and the rest of the Commonwealth. It has been used at various state and other high-profile funerals, including those of former prime ministers Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher, and more recently that of Captain Sir Tom Moore, in February 2021. The hymn was also a personal favourite of Diana, Princess of Wales. She requested that it be sung at her 1981 wedding to the Prince of Wales, and in 1997 it was played at her funeral, as well as at a 10-year memorial service in 2007. Read more: What are the lyrics to Britain’s national anthem and who composed it? Who wrote ‘I Vow to Thee, My Country’?The hymn is a combined lyrical and musical effort by two British greats, with the diplomat and former Ambassador to the United States Sir Cecil Spring Rice providing the words, and Gustav Holst the music. Spring Rice originally wrote the words between 1908 and 1912, as a poem called Urbs Dei (The City of God) or The Two Fatherlands. Following the events of the First World War, during which the diplomat’s brother had died, Spring Rice revisited his poem in 1918 and made several changes, including cutting an entire verse that contained overt war references and imagery. This revised version is the one we know today as ‘I Vow to Thee, My Country’, telling the tale of two domains – a patriotic Britain that stands united in devotion, and a heaven that seeks peace above all else. Read more: What are the lyrics to the hymn ‘Jerusalem’, and is it England’s national anthem? Does ‘I Vow to Thee, My Country’ share a tune with ‘Jupiter’?Bat-eared listeners may have noticed that the tune for ‘I Vow to Thee, My Country’ is somewhat familiar, taken from the middle section to Holst’s own ‘Jupiter’, the fourth movement of his suite The Planets, written just a few years earlier. In the years following Spring Rice’s revisions, the poem was sent to Holst and the composer was asked to set the words to music. According to the composer’s daughter, Imogen, Holst was exhausted and over-worked when the words landed on his desk, and “he felt relieved to discover they ‘fitted’ the tune from Jupiter”. Extending the melody to account for the final two lines of each verse, Holst reworked the tune as a unison song with orchestra in 1921. Then, in 1926 he added a harmony to make it a hymn and nicknamed the tune ‘Thaxted’, after the Essex village he called home. His friend and fellow composer, Ralph Vaughan Williams, was the editor of Songs of Praise at the time, and published it in that year’s edition. Is My Country Tis of Thee a religious song?''My Country, 'Tis of Thee'' is an American patriotic hymn written in 1831 by a Baptist seminary student, Samuel Francis Smith. Smith composed the lyrics after being inspired by a German Lutheran hymn, and set the melody to the tune of ''God Save the King.
Who wrote I vow to thee?Gustav HolstI Vow to Thee My Country / Composernull
Who wrote this is my country?"This Is My Country" was composed in 1940 by the popular songwriters Don Raye and Al Jacobs. Raye, who was born Donald MacRae Wilhoite, Jr. was born March 16, 1909, in Washington, D.C. and Jacobs was born on January 22, 1903, in San Francisco, California.
Who wrote Thaxted?Gustav HolstThaxted / Composernull
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