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Short Name: | H. R. Christie |
Full Name: | Christie, H. R. (Harvey Robert), 1848-1925 |
Birth Year: | 1848 |
Death Year: | 1925 |
Harvey Robert Christie, 1848-1925
Born: June 29, 1848, Monroe County, West Virginia.
Died: March 19, 1925, Willowton, West Virginia.
Buried: Rest Haven Memorial Park, Princeton, West Virginia.
Christie taught singing classes from 1871 to 1874, which led him to a musical career. He studied under Rigdon McIntosh, who at the time was in the music department at Vanderbilt University. Christie remained in Tennessee until 1876, when he returned to West Virginia. Around 1877, he conducted a two month course at the Concord Normal School, in Athens, West Virginia, followed by a similar course in Princeton, West Virginia; Rural Retreat, Virginia (1878); and four courses in Snowville, Virginia (1879-1880); and a nine month course at Rural Retreat, Virginia (1881). In 1881, he studied for a while at the Commercial College at Kentucky University, and in 1882, moved to Milligan College, Tennessee, where he eventually rose to serve on the Board of Directors. In 1894, Christie became music editor for the Standard Publishing Company in Cincinnati, Ohio. His works include:
Favorite Songs (co-editor), 1876
Gospel Light, 1894
Songs of Service (music editor) (Atlanta, Georgia: R. M. McIntosh Co., 1896)
The Christian Church Hymnal, 1906
Songs of Evangelism, 1911
Worship and Service (Cincinnati, Ohio: The Standard Publishing Company, 1916)
Music: Let Him Come In
--http://www.hymntime.com
Tunes by H. R. Christie (32)![]() | As | Instances | Incipit |
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[A few more years shall roll] (Christie) | H. R. Christie (Composer) | 2 | 55566 55511 23343 |
[Ambassadors are we] | H. R. Christie (Composer) | 2 | 55633 35564 44445 |
[Anywhere in this wide world I'll go if Jesus leads] | H. R. Christie (Composer) | 2 | 33346 55321 43233 |
[Are you ready for the conflict] | H. R. Christie (Composer) | 2 | 12333 34321 17165 |
[Doing your best for Jesus] | H. R. Christie (Composer) | 2 | 34515 76234 76534 |
[Go and preach My kingdom cometh] | H. R. Christie (Composer) | 3 | 12323 43213 21165 |
[God answers prayer, O soul look up and see] | H. R. Christie (Composer) | 2 | 55453 12365 55453 |
[He knows the bitter, weary way] (Christie) | H. R. Christie (Composer) | 5 | 35331 16534 32123 |
[Hear the call, "Go work in my harvest field"] | H. R. Christie (Composer) | 2 | 12355 17622 23477 |
[I would be a blessing to the world, dear Lord] | H. R. Christie (Composer) | 3 | 53212 16176 55432 |
[If you cannot see the way before you] | H. R. Christie (Composer) | 3 | 34321 71762 23217 |
[I'm glad when in the blessed book] | H. R. Christie (Composer) | 3 | |
[Jerusalem, the golden, with milk and honey blest] | H. R. Christie (Composer) | 3 | 51113 32122 23251 |
[Keep the windows of your house open toward Jerusalem] | H. R. Christie (Composer) | 2 | 33333 21345 65312 |
ST. SYLVESTER (Mozart) | H. R. Christie (Harmonizer) | 1 | 33335 43434 64332 |
[Lo! the morn eternal breaks] | H. R. Christie (Composer) | 2 | |
[O what must I do to be saved?] (Christie) | H. R. Christie (Composer) | 2 | 51111 31222 31126 |
[O ye children of God] | H. R. Christie (Composer) | 7 | 12333 53543 23356 |
[Oppressed with noonday's scorching heat] (Christie) | H. R. Christie (Composer) | 2 | 12343 13565 32212 |
SALEM (Christie) | H. R. Christie (Composer) | 3 | 13332 15651 33321 |
[Tell the story, far and wide] | H. R. Christie (Composer) | 2 | 34534 65517 56553 |
[That will be a happy morning] | Harvey Robert Christie (Composer) | 3 | 32111 35321 11654 |
[Think it not strange when o'er your soul] | H. R. Christie (Composer) | 2 | |
[To thy barred and bolted door] | Harvey Christie (Composer) | 6 | 55151 23345 14325 |
PIERCE | H. R. Christie (Arranger) | 1 | 12333 34327 12234 |
[We're soldiers of the King, redeemed] | Harvey Robert Christie (Composer) | 3 | 51112 33355 53125 |
[What have I done, my soul, today] | H. R. Christie (Composer) | 5 | 51112 34532 22343 |
[When billows dark around me roll] (Christie) | H. R. Christie (Composer) | 2 | 51231 44313 25223 |
[When I hear the story of Jesus] | H. R. Christie (Composer) | 3 | |
[When in robes of light] | H. R. Christie (Composer) | 4 | 55111 55666 13321 |
[When my day's work is ended] | H. R. Christie (Composer) | 5 | 34555 55176 11653 |
[When my heart is heavy laden] | H. R. Christie (Composer) | 2 | 55112 23112 35432 |