Lewis Valentine ( 1 June 1893March 1986 ), a Welsh politician, Baptist pastor, author, editor, and Welsh-language activist, wrote the hymn " Gweddi dros Gymru " ( or " Prayer for Wales "), sung to the tune of " Finlandia ".

In George Borrow's 1862 travel book Wild Wales, the author comes upon an Irishman singing the tune.

The Guardian praised the book as ' a great lark ; its author has an agreeable sense of comedy and characterisation, and the gift of writing smart and telling conversation, while his drawings are quite in tune with the spirit of the tale '.

The hymns in the 1932 edition are primarily alphabetical by first line, some with alternate tune settings, and include note of author, tune composer, meter, and use by permission.

He is cited as the author of the hymn tune " Church Triumphant " which is used to sing " I know that my Redeemer lives "

The dance is accompanied by the music of tabalet ( a drum ) and dolçaina ( valencian shawm ), with a very old characteristic tune, of unknown author.

He is known as the author of the Shaker dancing song " Simple Gifts ", which has become an internationally loved tune, both through his original version, and many of its adaptations.

This story, widely believed in France, is her statement, with a detailed story to back it up, that " God Save the Queen ," the British national anthem, was in fact written by Lully and sung by a French girls ' school to greet the French king Louis XIV ;/ The French author of Souvenirs further states that the tune was later plagiarized by Handel and sold to the British crown as their anthem ( Souvenirs, Vol.

The real origin and author of the Heynal tune are unknown.

It has words by English author Eleanor Farjeon and is set to a traditional Gaelic tune known as " Bunessan " ( it shares this tune with the 19th century Christmas Carol " Child in the Manger ").

In Songs of Praise Discussed, the editor, Percy Dearmer, explains that as there was need for a hymn to give thanks for each day, English poet and children's author Eleanor Farjeon had been " asked to make a poem to fit the lovely Scottish tune ".

However, there are some notable tracks featured in the film, including " Moonlight Drive " by The Doors, the traditional folk tune " Stealin '" performed by Arlo Guthrie, and the original version of " Me and Bobby McGee " performed by the song's author Kris Kristofferson.

Toby Cresswell, author of 1001 Songs: The Great Songs of All Time and the Artists, Stories and Secrets, said that the song is a " sweet, limited white tune on the top, and there's Madonna – all the right-shop chic – dragging the straight world into this subterranean paradise.

In his book, Urbani claimed the words of The Red Red Rose were obligingly given to him by a celebrated Scots poet, who was so struck by them when sung by a country girl that he wrote them down and, not being pleased with the air, begged the author to set them to music in the style of a Scots tune, which he has done accordingly.

It is not clear what their actual role in developing Jackson's tune was ; Tin Pan Alley practice at the time often gave partial author credit to staff writers to keep more of the royalty payments within the company.

I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.

But to return to the main line of our inquiry, it is doubtful that Utopia is still widely read because More was medieval or even because he was a martyr -- indeed, it is likely that these days many who read Utopia with interest do not even know that its author was a martyr.

To the extent that a tale is twice told, its final author must be suspect, although plagiarism in an oral tradition is less a misdemeanor than the standard modus dicendi.

The author of Crystal Structures is Ralph W.G. Wyckoff, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.

He selected as Comptroller of Defense, not a veteran accountant, but a former Rhodes Scholar, Charles Hitch, who is author of a study on The Economics Of Defense In The Nuclear Age.

Postmaster General J. Edward Day, who must deal with matters of postal censorship, is himself author of a novel, Bartholf Street, albeit one he was obliged to publish at his own expense.

Not only should this provision be enforced but other economic and political actions might be taken which, this author believes, `` must surely be supported by every American who values the freedom that has been won for him and whose conscience is not so dominated by the lines in his account books that he can willingly and knowingly contribute to the enslavement of another nation ''.

The dialogue is sharp, witty and candid -- typical `` don't eat the daisies '' material -- which has stamped the author throughout her books and plays, and it was obvious that the Theatre-by-the-Sea audience liked it.

A semi-serious literary document entitled `` The Wings Of Henry James '' is noteworthy, if only for a keenly trenchant though little-known comment on the master's difficult later period by modest Owen Wister, author of `` The Virginian ''.

the author possesses an uncommonly fine English style, and he is dealing with subjects of vast importance that are highly topical for our time.

`` He has married me with a ring of bright water '', begins the Kathleen Raine poem from which Maxwell takes his title, and it is this mystic bond between the human and natural world that the author conveys.

This is not only a compliment to Mijbil, of whom there are a fine series of photographs and drawings in the book, but to the author who has catalogued the saga of a frightened otter cub's journey by plane from Iraq to London, then by train ( where he lay curled in the wash basin playing with the water tap ) to Camusfearna, with affectionate detail.

Mr. Sansom is English, bearded, formidably cultivated, the versatile author of numerous volumes of short stories, of novels and of pieces that are neither short stories nor travel articles but something midway between.

This latter failure is more than merely bad reportage and it is distinctly more important than it would have been had the author drawn Clerfayt as, say, a tournament golfer.

The man most firmly at grips with the problem is the University of Minnesota's Physiologist Ancel Keys, 57, inventor of the wartime K ( for Keys ) ration and author of last year's bestselling Eat Well And Stay Well.

While Swift ’ s proposal is obviously not a serious economic proposal, George Wittkowsky, author of " Swift ’ s Modest Proposal: The Biography of an Early Georgian Pamphlet ", argues that to understand the piece fully, it is important to understand the economics of Swift ’ s time.

Korzybski is remembered as the author of the dictum: " The map is not the territory ".

* Salvatore Iro, artist, author of Manifesto Art is ... Shit, a collection of works conceived to decrypt the language of modern and contemporary art, in 2012 creates the artwork Ceci est une pomme, marked by the subheading: " non aristotelian obviousness ".

Isabel Allende is a prominent Chilean author of the 20th and 21st centuries.

The works of Anderson amount to six thin quarto volumes, and as the last of them was published in 1619, it is probable that the author died soon after that year, but the precise date is unknown.

Although its author is unknown, its themes and subject matter are rooted in Germanic heroic poetry, in Anglo-Saxon tradition recited and cultivated by Old English poets called scops.

The authors are unknown, even if several studies indicate that Galician poet Airas Nunes might well have been the author of a large part of them.

Its author is unknown.

The second is that the author of the epistle, " uses the conditional sentence in a variety of rhetorical figures which are unknown to the gospel.

According to some, the author is unknown.

According to the majority view, the evidence against Luke's being the author is strong enough that the author is unknown.

The unknown author of the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea describes this route and the ports and trade goods along the coasts of Africa and India around AD 70.

The philosophical work Narada Bhakti Sutras, written by an unknown author ( presumed to be Narada ), distinguishes eleven forms of love.

* Vita Hludovici Imperatoris, the main source for his reign, written c. 840 by an unknown author usually called " the Astronomer "

Early in the 14th century, an unknown author built upon the continuation of Petrus Guillermi, adding the biographies of popes Martin IV ( d. 1285 ) through John XXII ( 1316 – 1334 ), with information taken from the " Chronicon Pontificum " of Bernardus Guidonis, stopping abruptly in 1328.

The Septuagint, the Greek version of the Hebrew Bible, influenced Longinus, who may have been the author of the great book of literary criticism, On the Sublime, although the true author is still unknown for certain.

Further typical features of the proverb are its shortness ( average: seven words ), and the fact that its author is generally unknown ( otherwise it would be a quotation ).

* " Phantom " ( Russian song ), a military song by unknown author, about the Vietnam War

Other authors use Zodiac to mean ecliptic, which first appears in a gloss of unknown author in a passage of Cleomedes where he is explaining that the Moon is in the zodiacal circle as well and periodically crosses the path of the Sun.

The Physiologus is a didactic text written or compiled in Greek by an unknown author, in Alexandria ; its composition has been traditionally dated to the 2nd century AD by readers who saw parallels with writings of Clement of Alexandria, who is asserted to have known the text, though Alan Scott has made a case for a date at the end of the third or in the 4th century.

* date unknown – Abd-al-karim Jili, Sufi author ( d. 1424 )

It's impossible to know the credibility of the accounts of Donatus and Jerome, since they wrote long after the poet's death, the latter author belonged to a theological tradition explicitly hostile to Epicureanism, and the sources of their off-hand comments are unknown.

# 71v: Herr Kristan von Hamle ( probably an author of 13th-century Thuringia, otherwise unknown )

The original author remains unknown, but there were a number of continuations by different hands, continuing the story to the Battle of Halidon Hill ( 1333 ).

The original author remains unknown, but there were a number of continuations by different hands.

Her lover Jean Paulhan wrote the preface as if the author were unknown to him.