Request:While shepherds watch their flocks by night (Orlando (?) Gibbons)
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Title: While shepherds watch their flocks by night
Composer: Orlando Gibbons
Date of request: 2003-05-28
Requested by: User:Emilio Cano Molina
Additional notes: May not be by Gibbons.
- A number of early hymn/tune pairings my be seen at https://www.hymnologyarchive.com/while-shepherds-watched-their-flocks
- Orlando_Gibbons#Hymn tunes (some of 17 contributions to G. Wither's The Hymnes and Songs of the Church (London, 1623) is neither complete nor organized but Song 3 is in Common Metre; could that be the one you had in mind? Richard Mix (talk) 03:20, 15 November 2020 (UTC)
- The other CM tune is When one among the Twelve there was (Song 67) (Orlando Gibbons) Richard Mix (talk) 01:03, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
Status: Requested