Lucerna Laudoniæ
{{short description|Hymn tune}}
Lucerna Laudoniæ is a hymn tune by David Evans ("E. Arthur") (1874–1948), commonly used for the text For the beauty of the earth, composed in 1927.{{Cite web |url=https://hymnary.org/tune/lucerna_laudoniae_evans|title= LUCERNA LAUDONIAE |access-date= 28 July 2018}}
Composition and publication
Lucerna Laudoniæ was composed under the pseudonym "Edward Arthur" and published in the Revised Church Hymnary in 1927.{{Cite web |url=https://mymidi.audio/downloads/song-by-evans-d-lucerna-laudoniae-organ-g/|title= MyMIDI Worship Resources » For the beauty of the earth|access-date= 28 July 2018}} It is said to have been inspired by the view from a hill near the composer's home town of Bath.[https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/notes/12103-B.pdf Luff, Alan. Notes to The English Hymn Volume 3, Hyperion CD 12013 (2002)]
The copyright was held by Oxford University Press, until copyright expired at the end of 2018.
Other uses
Although the hymn tune was written for the text For the beauty of the earth, it has also more recently been used for Martyrs, you were Christ below in "Hymns for the Church" (the official hymnal of the Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea).{{Cite web |url=https://www.abmission.org/data/Publications/Hymns_for_the_Church.pdf|title= Hymns for the Church (the hymnal of the Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea)|access-date= 28 July 2018}} It has also been used as an alternative tune for the text God of mercy, God of grace by Henry Francis Lyte.{{Cite web |url=https://mymidi.audio/downloads/song-by-evans-d-lucerna-laudoniae-organ-ab|title= MyMIDI Worship Resources » God of mercy, God of grace|access-date= 28 July 2018}}