John Dalmas wrote: >Eric Schissel wrote: > >>Hrm- then there's also Raff's overture with the same theme, and the same >>title, but written in 1864 . . . this was written to celebrate the 25th >>anniversary of the accession of the Duke of Nassau . . . (I forget what >>name it went by in Nassau offhand.) > >Some musicologists take it right back to England and attribute the first >use of the tune to John Bull in one of his harpsichord pieces, but that >may just be bull. I have seen it attributed to Dr. Henry Cary. The carol "Remember, O Thou Man" seems to be related. Bruce Alan Wilson