Merle's Tune
Merle's Tune is a hymn tune composed by American composer Hal Hopson Hal H. Hopson (born 12 June 1933) is a full-time composer and church musician residing in Cedar Park, Texas. He has over 3000 published works, which comprise almost every musical form in church music. With a special interest in congregational son ... in 1983 and copyright to Hope Publishing Company. The most common texts used for Merle's Tune are How lovely, Lord, how lovely and Blest Be the God of Israel. Merle's Tune is written in G major with a meter of 76.76 D. References 1983 compositions {{Song-stub ...
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Hal Hopson
Hal H. Hopson (born 12 June 1933) is a full-time composer and church musician residing in Cedar Park, Texas. He has over 3000 published works, which comprise almost every musical form in church music. With a special interest in congregational song, he continues to make a significant contribution to the new repertoire of hymn tunes and responsorial psalm settings as evidenced by the proliferation of his settings that are included in newly published hymnals and psalm collections. His cantata, ''God with Us'', was one of the few compositions selected by a panel at the Kennedy Space Center, Washington, DC, to be placed in a capsule during the American Bicentennial in 1976. The capsule will be opened at the Tricentennial in 2076 and will be heard again as a representative piece of American choral composition of this century. Hal is active as a conductor and clinician, having conducted choral festivals and workshops in United States, Europe, and Asia. More recently he has been recogni ...
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