THE SCOOP | The Royal Conservatory Of Music Honours Queen Elizabeth II With Her Favourite Hymn. As a tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II, the Royal Conservatory of Music has released a special recording of “The Lord is My Shepherd”, her favourite hymn.
We are told that she loved church music and one of the hymns she loved was 'Praise, My Soul the King of Heaven' by Henry Lyte. Henry, born in 1793 in Ednam Scotland, was orphaned at an early age.
Bohemian Rhapsody
“Bohemian Rhapsody” was first made for Queen's 1975 album, A Night at the Opera. Written by Freddie Mercury, the song is Queen's greatest hit to date.
Queen Elizabeth II's funeral was concluded with music played by her bagpiper, Pipe Major Paul Burns. For decades the monarch was woken up by the sound of bagpipes, played underneath her window, acting as a personal alarm clock.
The choir sang Like as the Hart, a setting of Psalm 42 to music specially commissioned for the funeral. The music was written by British composer Judith Weir, who holds the title of Master of the King's Music — a role within the royal household in which she composes music at the monarch's request.
The hymns were "Praise, my soul, the king of heaven", and "The Lord's my Shepherd", to the Scottish tune "Crimond" attributed to Jessie Seymour Irvine, which was largely unknown in the Church of England at the time.
At the end of the service, Holder performed Fantasia in C minor BWV 562 by Johann Sebastian Bach as the coffin and procession left the Abbey.
Following the death of our beloved monarch, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the British and Commonwealth anthem has reverted to its male version, which was used before she ascended to the throne. It goes as follows: God save our gracious King! Long live our noble King!
"Bohemian Rhapsody" topped the UK Singles Chart for nine weeks (plus another five weeks following Mercury's death in 1991) and remains the UK's third best-selling single of all time.
The hymns that the Queen chose for her funeral are “The Day Thou Gavest, Lord, is Ended”, which is typically performed at Evensong, “The Lord's My Shepherd” and “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”.
“Hurrian Hymn No. 6” is considered the world's earliest melody, but the oldest musical composition to have survived in its entirety is a first century A.D. Greek tune known as the “Seikilos Epitaph.” The song was found engraved on an ancient marble column used to mark a woman's gravesite in Turkey.
Psalm 23 - The Lord is my Shepherd.
“The Lord's My Shepherd” is a particularly poignant choice because it was sung at the Queen's wedding to her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, at the same location in 1947.
Queen Elizabeth II played piano, sang madrigals at Windsor, and had two honorary music degrees.
British rock band Queen have released 15 studio albums, 10 live albums, 16 compilation albums, two soundtrack albums, 2 extended plays, 73 singles, and seven promotional singles.
That honour goes to the epic track The Prophet's Song; an even more complex recording which clocks in at 8 minutes and 21 seconds.
hardest song to sing. Bohemian Rhapsody is known to all Queen fans. operatic parts with many overlapping voices. passages between falsetto and full voice.
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The Queen made a poignant final tribute to Philip at her own funeral ceremony. Having reportedly organised much of it herself, it was inevitable that the Queen's state funeral would include a nod to her late husband.
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“The moment the queen dies, Charles becomes the sovereign, a quasi-mystical transformation that is marked ceremonially and legally the next day,” Gullace says. “The code name for Charles's accession to the throne is Operation Spring Tide.
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