GILGAL by Oliver?

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Wed, 03/20/2013 - 11:42 — Haruo

What evidence, if any, is there, besides the Cyber Hymnal™'s apparent say-so, that GILGAL is by Henry Oliver? Stylistically it looks so vastly different from FEDERAL STREET (by Henry K. Oliver) that I can hardly imagine the same fellow composing both for the same text ("My Dear Redeemer and My Lord"). I'm more than half inclined to think that whoever entered the Cyber Hymnal tune instance data read the wrong line of a spreadsheet or something. But I'd be happy to learn otherwise. Or were there two Henry Olivers, or did the one there was become more stately over his lifetime? etc.


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Thu, 03/21/2013 - 11:51 — dianneshapiro

That was an editing mistake on our part. Henry Oliver wrote the alternative tune. The tune GILGAl comes from Joseph Funk's "A Compilation of Genuine Church Music" according to Cyber Hymnal. BTW, the Cyber Hymnal is not published on our site yet. Only editors, such as you, can see it.

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