Ride On, Ride On in Majesty!

While Milman wrote "Ride On, Ride On in Majesty!" in 1820, it was not published in a hymn book until 1827 when it was published in Bishop Reginald Heber's Hymns Written and Adapted to the Weekly Church Service of the Year. This is reported to only have happened after Milman met Heber in 1823 before Heber became Bishop of Calcutta. It was described by composer Stanley L. Osbourne as "Objective, robust, confident, and stirring, it possesses that peculiar combination of tragedy and victory which draws the singer into the very centre of the drama. It is this which gives the hymn its power and its challenge". The hymn is viewed to be full of dramatic irony. and in some modern hymnals. == Tune ==

The hymn is sung to a variety of tunes—the database at Hymnary.org shows 39 tunes paired with it—including St Drostane by John Bacchus Dykes, and Winchester New. The last of these is frequently employed in the United Kingdom. It first appears in Musikalisches Handbuch der geistlichen Melodien (Hamburg, 1690), and was reworked into a long-meter setting by William Henry Havergal in an 1864 publication, Old Church Psalmody. Named after the county seat of Hampshire, it is appended with "new" to distinguish it from Winchester Old, which is most commonly sung as the Christmas hymn "While shepherds watched their flocks by night". > } %%\new Lyrics \lyricsmode { put lyrics here if you insist } \new Staff { \clef bass \key bes \major \set Staff.midiInstrument = "church organ" \omit Staff.TimeSignature \relative c' > } >> >> \layout { indent = #0 } \midi { \tempo 2 = 90 } == References ==