Hyfrydol is a Welsh

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

 hymn tune

Hymn tune

A hymn tune is the melody of a musical composition to which a hymn text is sung. Musically speaking, a hymn is generally understood to have four-part harmony, a fast harmonic rhythm , and no refrain or chorus....

 which appears in a number of Christian

Christian

A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...

 hymnal

Hymnal

Hymnal or hymnary or hymnbook is a collection of hymns, i.e. religious songs, usually in the form of a book. The earliest hand-written hymnals are known since Middle Ages in the context of European Christianity...

s in various arrangements. Composed by Rowland Prichard

Rowland Prichard

Rowland Huw Prichard was a Welsh musician. A native of Graienyn, near Bala, he lived most of his life in the area, serving for a time as a loom tender's assistant in Holywell, where he died...

 in 1844, it was originally published in the composer's handbook to the Lutheran Hymnal Cyfaill y Cantorion ("The Singers' Friend"). Prichard composed this hymn tune before he was twenty years old.

Meter and arrangement

Hyfrydol has a metre of 8.7.8.7.D (alternating lines of eight and seven syllables, other examples of which include Blaenwern

Blaenwern

Blaenwern is a Welsh Christian hymn tune composed by William Penfro Rowlands , during the Welsh revival of 1904-1905. 'Blaenwern' was first published in Henry H. Jones' Cân a Moliant ....

 and Abbot's Leigh).

The best-known arrangement is probably that by Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams OM was an English composer of symphonies, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film scores. He was also a collector of English folk music and song: this activity both influenced his editorial approach to the English Hymnal, beginning in 1904, in which he included many...

, which he originally produced for his revision of the English Hymnal; Vaughan Williams also composed some variations on this theme.

In addition to its use as a hymn tune, "Hyfrydol" has been arranged for brass bands and other instrumental groups.

Settings

Hyfrydol has been used as a setting for William Chatterton Dix's hymn Alleluia! Sing to Jesus!, Charles Wesley's

Charles Wesley

Charles Wesley was an English leader of the Methodist movement, son of Anglican clergyman and poet Samuel Wesley, the younger brother of Anglican clergyman John Wesley and Anglican clergyman Samuel Wesley , and father of musician Samuel Wesley, and grandfather of musician Samuel Sebastian Wesley...

 Love Divine, All Loves Excelling

Love Divine, All Loves Excelling

"Love Divine, All Loves Excelling" is a Christian hymn by Charles Wesley with a theme of 'Christian perfection."Judging by general repute, it is among Wesley's finest:"justly famous and beloved, better known than almost any other hymn of Charles Wesley."...

, I Will Sing the Wondrous Story, and Come Thou Long-Expected Jesus, as well as many other hymns from a variety of faith traditions.

Online hymns set to Hyfrydol

• John Wilber Chapman's
  John Wilbur Chapman
  John Wilbur Chapman was a Presbyterian evangelist in the late 19th Century, generally traveling with gospel singer Charles Alexander. His parents were Alexander H. and Lorinda Chapman.-Faith & Education:Chapman grew up attending Quaker Day School and Methodist Sunday School...
  
   "Jesus! What a Friend for Sinners" http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/j/e/jesuswaf.htm
• The Latter-day Saint Hymn "In Humility, Our Savior"
  Hymns of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1985 book)
  Hymns of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the official hymn book of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ....
  
   http://www.lds.org/churchmusic/detailmusicPlayer/index.html?searchlanguage=1&searchcollection=1&searchseqstart=172&searchsubseqstart=%20&searchseqend=172&searchsubseqend=ZZZ
• "Alleluia! Sing to Jesus!" http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/a/s/i/asingtoj.htm
• Alternate arrangement of "Alleluia! Sing to Jesus!" from the Episcopal 1982 Hymnal http://users.visi.net/~saec/ehymnal/460eh.mid
• "Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus" http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/c/o/m/comtlong.htm
• "Earth was Given as a Garden" http://home.earthlink.net/~hidiane2/dianesgarden/id6.html
• "Blue Boat Home" lyrics by Peter Mayer http://thegreatstory.org/songs/blueboat.html
• "Love Divine, All Loves Excelling
  Love Divine, All Loves Excelling
  "Love Divine, All Loves Excelling" is a Christian hymn by Charles Wesley with a theme of 'Christian perfection."Judging by general repute, it is among Wesley's finest:"justly famous and beloved, better known than almost any other hymn of Charles Wesley."...
  
  " http://www.oremus.org/hymnal/l/l531.html
• "Lord of Glory, Who Hast Bought Us" http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/l/g/lglorywh.htm
• "I Will Sing the Wondrous Story" http://www.oremus.org/hymnal//i/i180.html
• "Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken" http://hymntime.com/tch//htm/j/i/jimcross.htm
• "Ye that know the Lord is gracious" http://www.oremus.org/hymnal/y/y021.html