A New Hymnal for Colleges and Schools #558
		Tune Title: HELMSLEY First Line: Lo, he comes with clouds descending Composer: John Wesley Meter: 878747 extended Key: G Major or modal Date: 1992 
			
	A New Hymnal for Colleges and Schools #558

Madan, Martin, son of Colonel Martin Madan, and brother of Dr. Spencer Madan, sometime Bishop of Peterborough, was born in 1726. He was to have qualified for the Bar, but through a sermon by J. Wesley on the words "Prepare to meet thy God," the whole current of his life was changed.   After some difficulty he received Holy Orders, and subsequently founded and became chaplain of the Lock Hospital, Hyde Park Corner. He was popular as a preacher, and had no inconsiderable reputation as a musical composer. He ceased preaching on the publication of his work Thelyphthora, in which he advocated the practice of polygamy. He died in 1790. He published A Commentary on the Articles of the Church of England; A Treatise on the Christian Faith, &c, and:-… Go to person page >
Dr. Thomas Augustine Arne was born March 12, 1710, in London; became early celebrated as a composer, and established his reputation by settling Milton's "Comus" to music - light, airy, and original; he composed many songs, and nearly all his attempts were successful; died March 5, 1778, aged 68.
A Dictionary of Musical Information by John W. Moore, Boston: Oliver, Ditson & Company, 1876 Go to person page >
Thomas Olivers was born in Tregonan, Montgomeryshire, in 1725.  His youth was one of profligacy, but under the ministry of Whitefield, he was led to a change of life.  He was for a time apprenticed to a shoemaker, and followed his trade in several places.  In 1763, John Wesley engaged him as an assistant; and for twenty-five years he performed the duties of an itinerant ministry.  During the latter portion of his life he was dependent on a pension granted him by the Wesleyan Conference.  He died in 1799.
--Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A., 1872.… Go to person page >| Title: | HELMSLEY | 
| Composer: | Martin Madan | 
| Composer (attributed to): | Thomas Olivers (1763) | 
| Composer (melody): | Thomas Augustine Arne | 
| Meter: | 8.7.8.7.4.7 | 
| Incipit: | 13517 65671 65435 | 
| Key: | A♭ Major | 
| Copyright: | Public Domain | 
John Wesley attributed the tune HELMSLEY to Thomas Olivers in Wesley's 1765 Sacred Melodies with his brother's text of "Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending." However, Olivers is said to have heard the tune on the street somewhere. Since the first line resembles a tune by violinist and composer Thomas Augustine Arne composed for Thomas and Sally, or The Sailor's Return in 1761, it is speculated the tune was composed by Arne. Most likely, the tune comes from a 1763 edition Martin Madan's Collection of Psalms and Hymn Tunes Sung at the Chapel of Lock Hospital. Madan was the chaplain at Lock Hospital.
From Let the people sing: hymn tunes in perspective by Paul Westermeyer, 2005, GIA Publications, Inc.
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