Thomas Clark (composer)

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Thomas Clark (1775–1859) was a

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, notes that he was 'particularly influential as the composer of early Sunday School collections'.[1]

Clark was born in St Peter's parish in Canterbury and baptized on 5 February 1775. He was apprenticed as a shoemaker to his father, William Clark, and became a Freeman of the City of Canterbury in 1796 on completion of his apprenticeship as he was the son of a Freeman.

He married Anne Ledger in St George's Church, Canterbury, in November 1806. He took over the family business on his father's death in 1823. He retired from business in about 1842-3. He died in Canterbury on 30 May 1859, aged 84.[2]

The best-known of his hymn tunes is Cranbrook: it was originally set to the words 'Grace 'tis a charming sound' written by

While shepherds watched their flocks by night and is now better known as the tune of the Yorkshire song On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at
.

Two other tunes by Clark were included in the 1933 Methodist Hymn Book with Tunes: they are Crediton (tune 565), which was first published in Clark's Second Set of Psalm Tunes ... with symphonies & an instrumental bass, adapted to the use of country choirs [c. 1807],[3] and Warsaw (tune 606),[4] which was first published in his Third Set of Psalm & Hymn Tunes [1807].[5]

Publications

(from Tony Singleton's article)[2]

  • 12 sets of Psalm & Hymn Tunes, 1805 to 1821
  • Twelve Tunes in Peculiar Metre, ca.1810
  • 9 sets of Psalm Tunes from 1805 to ca.1825 (the third set contains a Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis)
  • Te Deum Laudamus and Jubilate Deo, ca.1808
  • Several anthems published singly from ca.1808 onwards
  • Sacred Gleaner, ca.1826-7
  • Congregational Harmonist in 4 volumes from 1828 - ca.1835 (Editor)
  • Union Harmonist 1841 (Arranger)
  • The Juvenile Harmonist, 1842
  • The Seraphim or Sacred Harmonist, 1842
  • The Union Tune Book - revised and enlarged (Editor), ca.1842
  • David's Harp (settings for all 150 Psalms) 1844
  • British Psalmody, with Alexander Hume, pub.Edinburgh, 1844
  • The Union Tune Book, continuation, 1854

References

  1. ^ a b Drage, Sally (2001). "Clark, Thomas". In Sadie, Stanley; Tyrrell, John (eds.). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Vol. 5 (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan. p. 914.
  2. ^ a b Tony Singleton, 'Thomas Clark of Canterbury, 1775 - 1859', West Gallery Music Association
  3. ^ Lightwood, James (1935). The Music of the Methodist Hymn Book. London: Epworth Press. p. 337.
  4. ^ .Lightwood, James (1935). The Music of the Methodist Hymn Book. London: Epworth Press. p. 354.
  5. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    . Retrieved 22 December 2009.

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