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God, you have given us power to sound

Author: George W. Briggs Appears in 10 hymnals Used With Tune: BANGOR
God, you have given us power to sound

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CULROSS

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 12 hymnals Tune Sources: Psalmes of David in Prose and Meeter, 1635 Tune Key: g minor Incipit: 51321 71251 71237 Used With Text: God, you have given us power to sound
CULROSS
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BANGOR

Appears in 105 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William Tans'ur Incipit: 53215 17655 56765 Used With Text: God, you have given us power to sound
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WALSALL

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 48 hymnals Tune Sources: Psalm Tunes, W. Anchors, c. 1721 Tune Key: f minor Incipit: 13215 54321 32171 Used With Text: God, You Have Given Us Power to Sound
WALSALL

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God, You Have Given Us Power to Sound

Author: G. W. Briggs Hymnal: Rejoice in the Lord #26 (1985) Meter: 8.6.8.6 First Line: God, you have giv'n us power to sound Topics: Wisdom, Human; In The Beginning The Earth is the Lord's Languages: English Tune Title: WALSALL
God, You Have Given Us Power to Sound

God, you have given us power to sound

Author: George W. Briggs Hymnal: Hymns and Psalms #345 (1983) Languages: English Tune Title: BANGOR
God, you have given us power to sound

God, you have given us power to sound

Author: George Wallace Briggs, 1875-1959 Hymnal: The Hymnal 1982 #584 (1985) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: Christian Responsibility Languages: English Tune Title: CULROSS
God, you have given us power to sound

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Erik Routley

1917 - 1982 Person Name: Erik Routley, 1917-1982 Composer of "SPRINGDALE" in Common Praise
Erik Routley

G. W. Briggs

1875 - 1959 Person Name: G. W. Briggs, 1875-1959 Author of "God, you have giv'n us power to sound" in Common Praise George Wallace Briggs is a Canon of Worcester Cathedral and one of the most distinguished British hymn writers and hymnologists of today. Six of his hymns appear in the Episcopal Hymnal of 1940 (American). Another hymn on the Bible entitled "Word of the living God" was written for the 25th Anniversary of the British Bible Reading Fellowship and was sung in Westminster Abbey on June 5, 1947. It has been widely used since that time. Canon Briggs is a leading member of the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland. He is also the composer of several hymn times, six of which have appeared in British hymnals. In addition to his work as a clergy man of the Church of England and an hymnologist, he has interest himself actively in the field of religious education, being largely responsible for two books with wide circulation in Britain, "Prayers and Hymns for used in Schools" and "The Daily Service." These books have had great influence on the worship practices of British schools, public and private. It is of historic interest that he is the author of one of the prayers used at the time of the famous meeting of Churchill and Roosevelt on H.M.S. Prince of Wales in 1941 when the Atlantic Charter was framed. --Ten New Hymns on the Bible, 1952. Used by permission.
G. W. Briggs

William Tans'ur

1699 - 1783 Composer of "BANGOR" in Hymns and Psalms William Tansur, b. about 1700, Dunchurch of Barnes; d. 1783, St. Neots Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908 Also known as Tansur; Tanzer; le Tansur
William Tans'ur

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