Arfon (hymn tune)

Arfon is a traditional Welsh hymn tune which exists with major and minor variants.[1][2]

General information

The hymn tune Arfon originates as a Welsh folk tune of six lines (with the second couplet [a duplicate of the first] being omitted), but it was adapted into a French hymn tune as the eight-line tune known today.[1][2] In its major form, it can be used as an alternative tune for the Ascensiontide hymn Hail, Thou once despised Jesus.[3] In its minor form, it is the tune for the Passiontide hymn Man of sorrows, wrapt in grief by Matthew Bridges.[4]

Music

Major

Minor

References
  1. "ARFON (Major)". Retrieved 29 July 2018.
  2. "ARFON (Minor)". Retrieved 29 July 2018.
  3. "96107". Retrieved 29 July 2018.
  4. "Breviary Hymns: Man of Sorrows, Wrapt in Grief". Retrieved 29 July 2018.
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