Comments on: Christ, Be Near at Either Hand VAO 1/14 https://www.sixmaddens.org/christ-be-near-at-either-hand-vao-114/ Blogging Catholic Liturgical Music Sat, 17 Feb 2018 05:37:18 +0000 hourly 1 By: admin https://www.sixmaddens.org/christ-be-near-at-either-hand-vao-114/#comment-15757 Sat, 28 Feb 2015 22:30:16 +0000 http://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=6166#comment-15757 In reply to Mary.

Thanks Mary – I should have mentioned his name at least.

In “Voices As One” they give him no credit at all and the text is just called “The Lorica of St Patrick”. Perhaps they felt an Irish Priest would never seek copyright of the words of St Patrick however rearranged into a new hymn and so claim it as traditional and public domain. By virtue of a new arrangement of the old folk tune WLP have a copyright for themselves.

I couldn’t find anything more definitive.

Geoff

]]> By: Mary https://www.sixmaddens.org/christ-be-near-at-either-hand-vao-114/#comment-15750 Sat, 28 Feb 2015 15:38:36 +0000 http://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=6166#comment-15750 The tune presented at MusicaSacra is public domain, but I’m not so sure that the words are. I haven’t yet managed to confirm the dates for Canon John Fennelly. But the Breviary Hymns website says 1890–1966, which ties in with my suspicions of 1960-something.

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