WARD (Scottish)

Arranger: Lowell Mason

Dr. Lowell Mason (the degree was conferred by the University of New York) is justly called the father of American church music; and by his labors were founded the germinating principles of national musical intelligence and knowledge, which afforded a soil upon which all higher musical culture has been founded. To him we owe some of our best ideas in religious church music, elementary musical education, music in the schools, the popularization of classical chorus singing, and the art of teaching music upon the Inductive or Pestalozzian plan. More than that, we owe him no small share of the respect which the profession of music enjoys at the present time as contrasted with the contempt in which it was held a century or more ago. In fact, the… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: WARD (Scottish)
Arranger: Lowell Mason (1830)
Meter: 8.8.8.8
Incipit: 55171 56555 55123
Key: B♭ Major
Source: Scottish melody
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

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Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #722
  • Four-part harmony, full-score (PDF, NWC)
The Cyber Hymnal #1779
Text: God Is the Refuge of His Saints
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The Cyber Hymnal #3224
Text: Jesus! Dear Name, How Sweet It Sounds!
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The Cyber Hymnal #3563
Text: Let All That Breathe, Jehovah Praise
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The Cyber Hymnal #6456
Text: O Lord Of Hosts, We Seek To Raise
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Small Church Music #5835
Text: 水禮歌 (Buried in baptism with our Lord)
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Instances

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African Methodist Episcopal Church Hymnal #13

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Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #722

Church Hymnal, Mennonite #397

Protestant Madagascar Hymnal, 2001 #242b

Protestant Madagascar Hymnal, 2001 #705b

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Small Church Music #5835

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The Cyber Hymnal #1779

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The Cyber Hymnal #3224

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The Cyber Hymnal #3563

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The Cyber Hymnal #6456

The Harmonia Sacra #61A

生命聖詩 - Hymns of Life, 1986 #230

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