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 NERFINISHED
collectedIn Kingsfold, Sussex, England NERFINISHED
collectedInDecade 1890s
countryOfOrigin England
editorOfFirstMajorHymnal Ralph Vaughan Williams NERFINISHED
firstPublishedInHymnal The English Hymnal (1906) NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Dives and Lazarus NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
hasNotableArrangement Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus NERFINISHED
hasNotableArrangementBy Ralph Vaughan Williams NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
isCataloguedIn various modern hymnals
isOftenPairedWithText I Feel the Winds of God Today NERFINISHED
I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say NERFINISHED
My God, My King, Thy Might Confessing
O Faith of England
O Sing a Song of Bethlehem NERFINISHED
isOftenPairedWithTextAuthor Horatius Bonar NERFINISHED
isRelatedTo Dives and Lazarus (folk song) NERFINISHED
isUsedFor Christian hymnody
choral arrangements
congregational singing
instrumental arrangements
isUsedInDenomination Anglican Communion NERFINISHED
Baptist churches
Church of England NERFINISHED
Lutheran churches
Methodist churches NERFINISHED
Presbyterian churches NERFINISHED
Roman Catholic Church NERFINISHED

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