O Queen Of The Holy Rosary
Emily M C Shapcote
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Browse piano sheets by Emily M C Shapcote on Zen Virtual Piano. Emily Mary Shapcote, nĆ©e Steward, was born in Liverpool, England, in 1828 and married the Rev. Edward Gifford Shapcote in 1856. She joined the Catholic Church in 1866, and her husband joined a few years later, in 1868. With her sister and aunt she wrote the collection Hymns for Infant Children, which Joseph Masters of London published in 1852. A hymn collection written with a sister and an aunt places her early work inside a family of writers. The Rev. John B. Dykes, Vicar of St. Oswald's in Durham, edited a third edition of that collection, which was published in 1872 with accompanying tunes. Her several books include Legends of the Blessed Sacrament (1877), Among the Lilies (1881) and Mary: The Perfect Woman (1904), and she was also a hymn writer with several hymns to her name. Hymns and books show someone writing in more than one form over many years. She wrote the words of O Queen of the Holy Rosary in 1882; it first appeared in St. Dominic's Hymn-Book, which Burns and Oates published in 1885 and sold across England and America. Ten different melodies have been located for the hymn, and its first verse began Queen of the Holy Rosary, the O being added so that it fit some of them. The melody that has become traditional is from the WĆ¼rttemberg Catholic hymnal of 1784 and is known as Ellacombe. Ten different tunes for one set of words suggests that the text, more than any single melody, is what has stayed with the hymn. She died in 1909 while living in Torquay, a seaside resort town on the English Channel in Devon. A hymn with ten known tunes and an end in a seaside town give the account a modest close.
Browse piano sheets by Emily M C Shapcote on Zen Virtual Piano.
Emily Mary Shapcote, nƩe Steward, was born in Liverpool, England, in 1828 and married the Rev. Edward Gifford Shapcote in 1856. She joined the Catholic Church in 1866, and her husband joined a few years later, in 1868. With her sister and aunt she wrote the collection Hymns for Infant Children, which Joseph Masters of London published in 1852. A hymn collection written with a sister and an aunt places her early work inside a family of writers.
The Rev. John B. Dykes, Vicar of St. Oswald's in Durham, edited a third edition of that collection, which was published in 1872 with accompanying tunes. Her several books include Legends of the Blessed Sacrament (1877), Among the Lilies (1881) and Mary: The Perfect Woman (1904), and she was also a hymn writer with several hymns to her name. Hymns and books show someone writing in more than one form over many years.
She wrote the words of O Queen of the Holy Rosary in 1882; it first appeared in St. Dominic's Hymn-Book, which Burns and Oates published in 1885 and sold across England and America. Ten different melodies have been located for the hymn, and its first verse began Queen of the Holy Rosary, the O being added so that it fit some of them. The melody that has become traditional is from the WĆ¼rttemberg Catholic hymnal of 1784 and is known as Ellacombe. Ten different tunes for one set of words suggests that the text, more than any single melody, is what has stayed with the hymn.
She died in 1909 while living in Torquay, a seaside resort town on the English Channel in Devon. A hymn with ten known tunes and an end in a seaside town give the account a modest close.
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Emily Mary Shapcote, nƩe Steward, was a hymn writer born in Liverpool, England, in 1828 who died in Torquay in 1909.
It is a hymn whose words she wrote in 1882; it first appeared in St. Dominic's Hymn-Book in 1885.
The traditional melody is Ellacombe, from the WĆ¼rttemberg Catholic hymnal of 1784, and ten different melodies have been located for the hymn.
They include Legends of the Blessed Sacrament (1877), Among the Lilies (1881) and Mary: The Perfect Woman (1904).