EAST ACKLAM

Composer: Francis Jackson

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Tune Information

Title: EAST ACKLAM
Composer: Francis Jackson (1957)
Place Of Origin: England
Meter: 8.4.8.4.8.8.8.4
Incipit: 12345 63251 23345
Key: D Major
Copyright: © 1960, Francis Jackson

Notes

Francis Jackson (b. Malton, Yorkshire, England, 1917) wrote EAST ACKLAM in 1957 at York Minster Abbey, where he had a long and distinguished career as organist and music master (1946-1982). The tune's name refers to the hamlet northeast of York, England, where Jackson has lived since 1982. Jackson received his early musical training at the York Minster School, later studied with Edward Bairstow, and received his doctorate from Durham University (1940). From 1947 to 1980 he conducted both the York Musical Society and the York Symphony Orchestra. He has published a wide array of organ and church music and was very popular as an organ recitalist.

Jackson originally wrote the tune as a setting for Reginald Heber's (PHH 249) "God that madest earth and heaven," which was usually sung to the popular Welsh tune AR HYD YNOS. Now matched to Pratt Green's text in several modern hymnals, EAST ACKLAM was first published in the British supplement Hymns and Songs (1969).

The tune has several striking features: the hammer-blow chords at the end of lines 1, 2, and 4; the melodic sequences; and the stunning melodic rise to the climax in lines and 4. Although good choirs may enjoy the challenge of the harmony, the tune is best sung in unison by congregations. Use solid accompaniment and observe a ritardando, at the very end of stanza 3.

--Psalter Hymnal Handbook, 1987

Timeline

Arrangements

Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations

  • Hymn Tunes in Lower Keyes: The Book to Grab When the Congregation Complains that the Hymns are Too High!
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2011) pp. 78
  • Hymn Tunes in Lower Keys: The Book to Grab When the Congregation Complains that the Hymns are Too High!
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2011) pp. 78
  • The Really Big Descant Book - Full Music Edition: 250 Settings to Raise the Roof by the World's Finest Church Music Composers
    Composer/Editor Richard Lloyd
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2009) pp. 59
  • 200 New Last Verses
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2007) pp. 60
  • The St. Francis Collection of Free Accompaniments to Hymn Tunes: 80 Settings by Various Composers
    Composer/Editors Dirk van Dissel; Francis Jackson
    Published By: G. I. A. Publications, Inc. (2005) pp. 26

Organ Solo

  • 100 New Hymn Preludes
    Composer/Editor Judith Bailey
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2008) pp. 96
  • Five Preludes on English Hymn Tunes
    Composer/Editor Francis Jackson
    Published By: Banks Music Publications (1987) pp. 19

Instances

Instances (1 - 23 of 23)
Text

Ancient and Modern #284

Anglican Hymns Old and New (Rev. and Enl.) #197

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Church Hymnary (4th ed.) #231

Text

Common Praise #254

Community of Christ Sings #401

Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New #185

Complete Mission Praise #153

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CPWI Hymnal #712

Hymns and Psalms #342a

Text

Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) #286

Text

Hymns of Glory, Songs of Praise #231

Hymns of the Saints #73

New English Praise #621

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Psalter Hymnal (Gray) #455

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Rejoice in the Lord #21

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RitualSong #704

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Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal #558

Singing the Faith #124a

Text

The Hymnal 1982 #424

The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook #52

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The Presbyterian Hymnal #553

TextAudio

The United Methodist Hymnal #97

Worship (3rd ed.) #562

Include 1 pre-1979 instance
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