Be Thou my Vision

• Instrumentation: Unison voices - mixed voices in two parts - & Organ. 
• Duration - 2:26
• Text: Traditional Irish Hymn, tr. Mary Elizabeth Byrne (1880-1931), Singing Translation Eleanor Hull (1860 - 1935)
• Performance ready in less than 15 minutes of rehearsal

Program Note

This piece is one in a series of familiar hymn tunes set with a contemporary harmonic palette, and presented so as to be performable by choirs of all levels with very little rehearsal time.  

​My first composition teacher was Italian. He studied with Italians. I'm half Italian. One might think that the Italianate might have rubbed off on me a little bit. Not so. He would laugh at my phrasing and my melodic and harmonic decisions and tell me that my Irish mother would be proud. That's how I feel about this hymn tune. I've been drawn to SLANE throughout my church music career for reasons that I don't understand. It's probably genetic.

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