Looking for "Melody Name" to " I will sing the wondrous story".

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 12:57 am

Hi, I know some of the common names, and have searched the meter, but I cannot find the name of the tune in this version

http://www.kingswayshop.com/Shop/Sectio ... _id=154995

Track 14 ~
It is unfamiliar but very nice and I want to teach my church!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 2:36 am

The tune is "Wondrous Story" composed by Peter Bilhorn.
Here is a link to a hymnal page where the score can be found:

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_ ... l.djvu/209

ancientsolar · Post by **ancientsolar** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 4:40 am

Thats the song name, but I was looking for the melody name.

The melody is in the link I put up first of all. ~ I just dont know what the name of it is. E.G ~ its normally played to the melody Hyfrydol.

I havent heard the melody played in track 14 before , link again below http://www.kingswayshop.com/Shop/Sectio ... _id=154995

I have searched every 8.7.8.7 meter in my book, cannot find it at all.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 1:57 pm

Yes, the words are most often sung to the tune Hyfrydol. But when the hymn was originally written, it was sung to the melody "Wondrous Story" written in 1886 by Peter Bilhorn. And this is the melody heard in the track you posted. You can read a bit more about the hymn here

http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/i/w/iwilsing.htm

Or you could simply print the score from this link and play the hymn:

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_ ... l.djvu/209

ancientsolar · Post by **ancientsolar** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 2:15 pm

I have since found the tune I was looking for,

Its called Alleulia,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kZ2xtfyaAU

this tune but much faster