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Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: O God, wherefore art thou absent from us so long Topics: The Psalms of David Day XIV - Evening Scripture: Psalm 74 Used With Tune: [O God, wherefore art thou absent from us so long]

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[O God, wherefore art thou absent from us so long]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry Purcell Tune Key: a minor or modal Incipit: 77172 43232 1 Used With Text: Ut quid, Deus?

[O God, wherefore art thou absent from us so long]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: G. Woodward Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 55513 21171 Used With Text: Ut quid, Deus?

[O God, wherefore art thou absent from us so long]

Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Rev. W. Felton Tune Key: F Major or modal Incipit: 34562 51271 Used With Text: Ut quid, Deus?

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Ut quid, Deus?

Hymnal: The Church Service Book #177c (1906) First Line: O God, wherefore art thou absent from us so long Topics: The Psalms of David Day XIV - Evening Scripture: Psalm 74 Languages: English Tune Title: [O God, wherefore art thou absent from us so long]

Ut quid, Deus?

Hymnal: The Church Service Book #177a (1906) First Line: O God, wherefore art thou absent from us so long Topics: The Psalms of David Day XIV - Evening Scripture: Psalm 74 Languages: English Tune Title: [O God, wherefore art thou absent from us so long]

Ut quid, Deus?

Hymnal: The Church Service Book #177b (1906) First Line: O God, wherefore art thou absent from us so long Topics: The Psalms of David Day XIV - Evening Scripture: Psalm 74 Languages: English Tune Title: [O God, wherefore art thou absent from us so long]

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Henry Purcell

1659 - 1695 Composer of "[O God, wherefore art thou absent from us so long]" in The Church Service Book Henry Purcell (b. Westminster, London, England, 1659; d. Westminster, 1695), was perhaps the greatest English composer who ever lived, though he only lived to the age of thirty-six. Purcell's first piece was published at age eight when he was also a chorister in the Chapel Royal. When his voice changed in 1673, he was appointed assistant to John Hingston, who built chamber organs and maintained the king's instruments. In 1674 Purcell began tuning the Westminster Abbey organ and was paid to copy organ music. Given the position of composer for the violins in 1677, he also became organist at Westminster Abbey in 1679 (at age twenty) and succeeded Hingston as maintainer of the king's instruments (1683). Purcell composed music for the theater (Dido and Aeneas, c. 1689) and for keyboards, provided music for royal coronations and other ceremonies, and wrote a substantial body of church music, including eighteen full anthems and fifty-six verse anthems. Bert Polman

George Ratcliffe Woodward

1848 - 1934 Person Name: G. Woodward Composer of "[O God, wherefore art thou absent from us so long]" in The Church Service Book Educated at Caius College in Cambridge, England, George R. Woodward (b. Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, 1848; d. Highgate, London, England, 1934) was ordained in the Church of England in 1874. He served in six parishes in London, Norfolk, and Suffolk. He was a gifted linguist and translator of a large number of hymns from Greek, Latin, and German. But Woodward's theory of translation was a rigid one–he held that the translation ought to reproduce the meter and rhyme scheme of the original as well as its contents. This practice did not always produce singable hymns; his translations are therefore used more often today as valuable resources than as congregational hymns. With Charles Wood he published three series of The Cowley Carol Book (1901, 1902, 1919), two editions of Songs of Syon (1904, 1910), An Italian Carol Book (1920), and the Cambridge Carol Book