traditional Gaelic melody "Bunessan"

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The traditional Gaelic melody "Bunessan" is a Scottish folk tune best known as the melody for the Christian hymn "Morning Has Broken."

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Scottish folk tune
traditional Gaelic melody
associatedCountry United Kingdom NERFINISHED
associatedPlace Isle of Mull NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Scotland
culturalContext Scottish Gaelic folk tradition
ethnicGroupAssociated Gaels NERFINISHED
genre folk music
hymn tune
hasMelody Bunessan NERFINISHED
hasNotableArrangementFor choral settings
congregational singing
organ accompaniment
piano accompaniment
influenced popular awareness of Scottish Gaelic melodies through "Morning Has Broken"
languageOfTitle Scottish Gaelic NERFINISHED
meter hymn meter compatible with "Morning Has Broken" text
musicalForm strophic song
notableFor being the melody of the hymn "Morning Has Broken"
periodOfOrigin traditional (pre-20th century)
religiousUse Christian worship
hymn singing
titleOrigin Bunessan, Isle of Mull NERFINISHED
usedAsMelodyFor Morning Has Broken NERFINISHED
usedIn Christian hymnody
English-language hymnals
usedInDenomination Anglicanism NERFINISHED
Methodism NERFINISHED
Presbyterianism NERFINISHED
various Protestant traditions

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George Thomson (composer) influencedBy traditional Gaelic melody "Bunessan"
this entity surface form: Scottish folk music tradition
Bunessan nameUsedFor traditional Gaelic melody "Bunessan"