the hymn tune "Kingsfold" (related to "Dives and Lazarus")

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The hymn tune "Kingsfold" is a traditional English folk melody, famously associated with the song "Dives and Lazarus" and widely used as a modal tune for various hymns and arrangements.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf folk tune
hymn tune
traditional English melody
collectedBy Ralph Vaughan Williams
collectedIn Kingsfold, Sussex, England
collectedInDecade 1890s
countryOfOrigin England
editorOfFirstMajorHymnal Ralph Vaughan Williams
firstPublishedInHymnal The English Hymnal (1906)
hasAlternativeName Dives and Lazarus
hasCharacteristic folk-like contour
modal melody
pentatonic inflections
hasKeyVariants D minor
E minor
G minor
hasMeter 8.6.8.6
Common Meter (CM)
hasMusicalMode Dorian mode
hasNotableArrangement Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus
hasNotableArrangementBy Ralph Vaughan Williams
hasNotableArrangementGenre orchestral variations
hasTimeSignature 3/2
3/4
hasUsageContext concert performance
folk music revivals
liturgical worship
influenced 20th-century English church music
isAssociatedWith The English Hymnal
isCataloguedIn various modern hymnals
isOftenPairedWithText I Feel the Winds of God Today
I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say
My God, My King, Thy Might Confessing
O Faith of England
O Sing a Song of Bethlehem
isOftenPairedWithTextAuthor Horatius Bonar
isRelatedTo Dives and Lazarus (folk song)
isUsedFor Christian hymnody
choral arrangements
congregational singing
instrumental arrangements
isUsedInDenomination Anglican Communion
Baptist churches
Church of England
Lutheran churches
Methodist churches
Presbyterian churches
linked to: Presbyterian

Roman Catholic Church
linked to: Roman Catholicism

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Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus usesMelodicMaterialFrom the hymn tune "Kingsfold" (related to "Dives and Lazarus")