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Be Thou My Vision: the melody (soprano)

The melody of Be Thou My Vision, sung by the soprano, in F, from C4 to F5. Hear it on its own or with the others, then sing it and watch each note light up.

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Range
C4 to F5
Key
F
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  1. 01 · Your part

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  2. 02 · With the others

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  3. 03 · Sing it

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About Be Thou My Vision

Words: Irish, anonymous, 10th or 11th century; translated by Mary Byrne (1905), versified by Eleanor Hull (1912)

Tune: "Slane", traditional Irish melody, from P. W. Joyce, Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (1909), No. 323; earliest known pairing with these words in the Church of Ireland's Church Hymnal (1919)

Be Thou My Vision is an old Irish prayer poem, put into English by Mary Byrne in 1905 and into verse by Eleanor Hull in 1912. Our words follow Hull's printing in The Poem-Book of the Gael (1912). The tune, Slane, is an Irish folk melody that P. W. Joyce printed in 1909 as an air called With My Love on the Road; their earliest known pairing is in the Irish Church Hymnal of 1919. Here it is one verse for 2 to 4 singers, all on the words. The tune runs wide, so the alto and tenor move gently in the middle while the bass walks beneath.

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