Mention was made in a recent post of Ives' Variations on "America" I have a
copy of a similar piece of organ music "Variations on 'God save the Queen'" by
Charles Wesley II.
 
It is not as florid as Ives' but is quite an interesting and tuneful piece of
music. Publisher is Warner Brothers in the series "The Contemporary Organist"
 
Bob Elms.
 
Ben Crick wrote:
 
> On Mon 31 Aug 98 (10:34:14), [log in to unmask] wrote:
> > I would just love to hear "God Save the Queen" played on that mighty
> > Beckerath and sung (in English) by the entire congregation assembled
> > for a Sunday high mass in the French province of Quebec, CANADA.
>
>  Dear Piporg-Lers,
>
>  Robert's remark reminds me that I am learning Charles Ives' /Variations on
>  "America"/ (1891) for Organ, which I intend to play as the outgoing
>  voluntary on a suitably auspicious occasion (like Remembrance Sunday).
>  The tune is of course "God Save the Queen"; but what are the words?  I
>  imagine that the colonists of the 13 States after 1776 could no longer
>  sing "God Save the King [George III]", so they wrote another national song
>  *to the same tune* beginning "My country, 'tis of thee...". That served
>  until the rockets' red glare, the shells bursting in air, etc., took over.
>
>  OK so far?  My problem is, no hymnbook in this old country (England)
>  contains any hymn beginning with that line (not surprisingly).
>
>  Please please, could one of you out there send me the words to "America",
>  by private Email if not to the whole Piporg-List?
>
>  Thanks in advance...
>  Ben
> --
>  Revd Ben Crick, BA CF
>  <[log in to unmask]>
>  232 Canterbury Road, Birchington, Kent, CT7 9TD (UK)
>  http://www.cnetwork.co.uk/crick.htm
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