“Praise and Thanksgiving” – arr. Dale Wood | Piping Up: Selects (Joseph Peeples

Joseph Peeples plays Dale Wood’s arrangement of “Praise and Thanksgiving,” performed on the Aeolian-Skinner Organ in the Salt Lake Tabernacle on Temple Square (Salt Lake City, Utah).

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This Gaelic folk tune from the Scottish Highlands has been paired with various sets of lyrics during the 20th century. It was in 1971 that its lilting, unassuming melody became a global phenomenon when Cat Stevens popularized it through his 1971 recording of “Morning Has Broken.” By this time, the tune itself was known as “BUNESSAN,” named after the small highland village with which it was first connected.
Eleanor Farjeon, a popular English children’s author and poet in the early 20th century, had written the lyrics for “Morning Has Broken” at the request of the editorial committee for the 1931 second edition of the “Songs of Praise” hymnal. Her lyrics were intended to replace a Christmas text, “Child in the Manger,” that had originally been penned by Mary Macdonald (from the village of Bunessan) and published in 1888 with this “BUNESSAN” tune.
In 1970, the year before Cat Stevens made Farjeon’s lyrics universally famous, the English Congregationalist minister Albert Bayly wrote another alternate set of lyrics for the “BUNESSAN” tune titled “Praise and Thanksgiving.” In 1986, the American composer/organist and arranger Dale Wood (1934—2003) published this arrangement of “Praise and Thanksgiving” for solo organ.
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