O Tell Me Where the Dove Has Flown

This haunting folk tune (PENSIVE DOVE) is classified as Type I, which are hymns sung to settings of traditional ballad tunes. This classification was devised by Phillips Barry who was a pioneering early American folk-hymn specialist and folk-tune collector. The melody is in the Dorian mode and is repeated five times, but with the presentation of each verse, new ideas, lines, and harmonies are added and explored, changing the flavor but letting the character remain the same. A beautiful a cappella setting of a traditional folk tune.