Learn from all the Songs of Earth

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Learn from all the songs of earth

Author: Thomas H. Troeger
Tune: ARFON (Major)
Published in 1 hymnal

Piano/Organ
	I Am Thine, O Lord (Hymns of Faith and C…

Author: Thomas H. Troeger

Thomas Troeger (1945-2022), professor of Christian communication at Yale Divinity school, was a well known preacher, poet, and musician. He was a fellow of Silliman College, held a B.A. from Yale University; B.D. Colgate Rochester Divinity School; S.T. D. Dickinson College, and was awarded an honorary D.D. from Virginia Theological Seminary. He was ordained in the Presbyterian Church in 1970 and the Episcopal Church in 1999, and remained dually aligned with both traditions. Troerger led conferences and lectures in worship and preaching throughout North America, as well as in Denmark, Holland, Australia, Japan, and Africa. He served as national chaplain to the American Guild of Organists, and for at least three years he hosted the Season of… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Learn from all the songs of earth
Title:	Learn from all the Songs of Earth
Author:	Thomas H. Troeger
Meter:	7.7.7.7 D
Place of Origin:	United States
Language:	English
Copyright:	© 2009 Oxford University Press

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ARFON (Major)

ARFON is originally a six-phrase Welsh folk tune in minor tonality entitled 'Tros y Garreg." Named for a district on the mainland of northern Wales opposite Mon and Anglesey, the tune was published in Edward Jones's Relicks of the Welsh Bards (1784). In the later nineteenth century ARFON was associa…

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