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| Text: | God, Who Stretched the Spangled Heavens |
| Author: | Catherine Cameron |
| Tune: | HYFRYDOL |
| Composer: | Rowland H. Prichard |
| Harmonizer: | Ralph Vaughan Williams |
| Text Information | |
|---|---|
| First Line: | God, who stretched the spangled heavens |
| Title: | God, Who Stretched the Spangled Heavens |
| Author: | Catherine Cameron (1967) |
| Meter: | 87.87D |
| Language: | English |
| Publication Date: | 1998 |
| Scripture: | ; |
| Topic: | God: Creator; Human Experience: Co-Creation; Human Experience: Social Responsibility |
| Copyright: | © 1967 Hope Publishing Co. |
| Tune Information | |
|---|---|
| Name: | HYFRYDOL |
| Composer: | Rowland H. Prichard (1844) |
| Harmonizer: | Ralph Vaughan Williams (1906) |
| Meter: | 87.87D |
| Key: | F Major or modal |
| Source: | Harm. The English Hymnal, 1906 |
Cameron, a Canadian now a professor of social psychology in California, intended this text to be sung to AUSTRIAN HYMN
The Welsh tune used here appears in most hymnals. With one exception, the tune lies in the first five notes of the scale