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The Peace of Heaven Is on Our Fields

Author: J. Edgar Park Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 4 hymnals Used With Tune: TALLIS CANON

TALLIS' CANON

Appears in 514 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Thomas Tallis Incipit: 11711 22343 14433 Used With Text: The peace of heaven is on our fields

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The Peace of Heaven Is on Our Fields

Author: J. Edgar Park Hymnal: Hymns of the Twentieth Century #2 (1963) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Languages: English Tune Title: TALLIS' CANON

The Peace of Heaven Is on Our Fields

Author: J. Edgar Park Hymnal: Fourteen New Rural Hymns #12 (1955) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Languages: English Tune Title: TALLIS CANON

The peace of heaven is on our fields

Author: J. Edgar Park, 1879- Hymnal: Hymn Society of America [Hymns Published for Special Occasions, and on Special Subjects] 1942-79 #d202 (1978) Languages: English

1505 - 1585 Composer of "TALLIS' CANON" in Sing to the Lord Thomas Tallis (b. Leicestershire [?], England, c. 1505; d. Greenwich, Kent, England 1585) was one of the few Tudor musicians who served during the reigns of Henry VIII: Edward VI, Mary, and Elizabeth I and managed to remain in the good favor of both Catholic and Protestant monarchs. He was court organist and composer from 1543 until his death, composing music for Roman Catholic masses and Anglican liturgies (depending on the monarch). With William Byrd, Tallis also enjoyed a long-term monopoly on music printing. Prior to his court connections Tallis had served at Waltham Abbey and Canterbury Cathedral. He composed mostly church music, including Latin motets, English anthems, settings of the liturgy, magnificats, and two sets of lamentations. His most extensive contrapuntal work was the choral composition, "Spem in alium," a work in forty parts for eight five-voice choirs. He also provided nine modal psalm tunes for Matthew Parker's Psalter (c. 1561). Bert Polman

John Edgar Park

1879 - 1956 Person Name: J. Edgar Park Author of "The Peace of Heaven Is on Our Fields" in Fourteen New Rural Hymns J. Edgar Park, until his retirement in 1944, was President of Wheaton College, Massachusetts. He was born in Belfast, Ireland, March 7, 1879 and had his theological studies at New College, Edinburgh, The Royal University, Dublin, and Princeton Theological Seminary. His principal pastorate was in the Second Church of Newton, Congregational, West Newton, Massachusetts, which he served 1926 to 1944, going from there to the Presidency of Wheaton. He is the author of many books, including one of the Lyman Beecher Lectures at Yale. He wrote one of the "Eleven Ecumenical Hymns," entitled "O Christ whose love has sought us out," which were obtained by the Hymn Society for use at the Evanston Assembly (1954) of the World Council of Churches. --Fourteen New Rural Hymns. Used by permission.