About Duke Street

Duke Street was first published anonymously in Henry Boyd's Select Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes (1793), and later credited to John Hatton (1710-1793) in William Dixon's Euphonia (1805). Other than that he lived in Duke Street, in the township of Windle in Lancaster, England, virtually nothing is known about Hatton, who composed several other hymn tunes of lesser note. Over twenty English hymn texts have been set to Duke Street, the signature setting being Jesus shall reign where'er the sun.

This descant was written at the invitation of Philip Johnson, AGO, at that time dean of the New Hampshire Chapter. It was sung at the closing evensong of the spring 1996 gathering by the choir of All Saints Parish, Peterborough.

Descant verse:

Let every creature rise and bring
peculiar honors to our King;
Angels descend with songs again,
and earth repeat the loud amen.

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