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When in Our Music God Is Glorified

Author: Fred Pratt Green Appears in 85 hymnals Lyrics: 1 When in our music God is glorified, And adoration ... : Alleluia! 2 How often, making music, we have found A new ... Topics: Church Fellowship and Unity; Worship Used With Tune: [When in our music God is glorified]

For the Music of Creation

Author: Shirley Erena Murray Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 10 hymnals Lyrics: 1 For the music of creation, for the song ... us, echoes of your voice; music is your art, your glory ... feet; over discord and division music speaks your joy and peace ... Topics: The Church at Worship Special Days, Seasons, Occasions: Praise of God through Music; Music and Singing Used With Tune: RUSTINGTON

Fill the Earth with Music

Author: R. G. Huff Meter: 6.5.6.5 D with refrain Appears in 3 hymnals Lyrics: Fill the earth with music, sound aloud His ... Topics: Music Used With Tune: WYE VALLEY

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Hymnals

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The Harp of Glory

Publication Date: 1911 Publisher: The Lone Star Music Co. Publication Place: Dallas, Texas Editors: Rev. W. T. Dale, D.D.; H. A. R. Horton; The Lone Star Music Co.

Redeeming Grace

Publication Date: 1942 Publisher: The Hartford Music Co. Publication Place: Hartford, Ark. Editors: The Hartford Music Co.

The Hymnbook

Publication Date: 1955 Publisher: Presbyterian Church in the United States Publication Place: Richmond, Va. Editors: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.; David Hugh Jones

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[The church has one foundation]

Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 9 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Andrew L. Byers Tune Sources: Timeless Truths (http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/The_Church_Has_One_Foundation); The Gospel Trumpet Company, Hymnal of the Church of God, 1953 (420); Faith Publishing House, Evening Light Songs, 1949, edited 1987 (4); The Gospel Trum Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 13555 51531 12123 Used With Text: The Church Has One Foundation

CONSOLATION (Webbe)

Meter: 11.10.11.10 Appears in 477 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Samuel Webbe Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 53165 54567 15533 Used With Text: Come, You Disconsolate

HYFRYDOL

Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 585 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Rowland H. Prichard Tune Sources: The English Hymnal, 1906 (harm.) Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 12123 43212 54332 Used With Text: Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus

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Music In My Soul

Author: Rev. Johnson Oatman, Jr. Hymnal: Church Hymnal #102 (1951) First Line: There is music in my soul Refrain First Line: There is music in my soul Lyrics: There is music in my soul, While ... Languages: English Tune Title: [There is music in my soul]

Music, Music Everywhere

Author: Edna R. Worrell Hymnal: Kingdom Songs #159 (1914) First Line: Life is full of music Refrain First Line: Music! Music! Lyrics: ... Life is full of music, Holy pure and sweet ... earth complete. Chorus: Music! Music! Joyful music fills the air. Out ... tis ringing, There is music ev’rywhere. 2 Life ... with gladness, Like the music sung above. [Chorus] ... Life is full of music, Notes from trials press ... Languages: English Tune Title: [Life is full of music]

Music in Heaven

Author: Mrs. J. M. Hunter Hymnal: Calvary Songs #4 (1944) First Line: There is music in heaven o'er the saved ones of earth Refrain First Line: There is music, sweet music, up in heaven we know Languages: English Tune Title: [There is music in heaven o'er the saved ones of earth]

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Daniel C. Roberts

1841 - 1907 Person Name: Daniel C. Roberts, 1841-1907 Author of "God of Our Fathers" in Rejoice Hymns Daniel C. Roberts (b. Bridgehampton, Long Island, NY, 1841; d. Concord, NH, 1907) Educated at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, served in the union army during the Civil War. He was ordained in the Episcopal Church as a priest in 1866 and ministered to several congregations in Vermont and Massachusetts. In 1878 he began a ministry at St. Paul Church in Concord, New Hampshire, that lasted for twenty-three years. Serving for many years president of the New Hampshire State Historical Society, Roberts once wrote, "I remain a country parson, known only within my small world," but his hymn "God of Our Fathers" brought him widespread recognition. Bert Polman ================= Roberts, Daniel C., D.D., of the Prot. Episcopal Church in America, b. at Bridge Hampton, L.I., Nov. 5, 1841, and graduated at Gambler College, 1857. After serving for a time as a private in the Civil War, he was ordained in 1866. He is at present (1905) Rector of Concord, N.H. His hymn, "God of our fathers, Whose almighty hand " (National Hymn), was written in 1876 for the "Centennial" Fourth of July celebration at Brandon, Vermont. In 1892 it was included in the Protestant Episcopal Hymnal, and again in Sursum Corda, 1898. [Rev. L. F. Benson, D.D.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Mary Dana Shindler

1810 - 1883 Person Name: Mary Stanley Bunce Dana Author of "Soft, soft music is stealing" in The Sacred Harp Shindler, Mary Stanley Bunce, née Palmer, better known as Mrs. Dana, was born in Beaufort, South Carolina, Feb. 15, 1810. In 1835 she was married to Charles E. Dana, of New York, and removed with him to Bloomington, now Muscatine, Iowa, in 1838. Mr. Dana died in 1839, and Mrs. Dana returned to South Carolina. Subsequently she was married to the Rev. Robert D. Shindler, who was Professor in Shelby College, Kentucky, in 1851, and afterwards in Texas. Mrs. Shindler, originally a Presbyterian, was for some time an Unitarian; but of late years she has been a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. As Mary S. B. Dana she published the Southern Harp, 1840, and the Northern Harp, 1841. From these works her hymns have been taken, 8 of which are in T. O. Summers's Songs of Zion, 1851. The best known are:— 1. Fiercely came the tempest sweeping. Christ stilling the storm. (1841.) 2. I'm a pilgrim, and I'm a stranger. A Christian Pilgrim. (1841.) 3. O sing to me of heaven. Heaven contemplated. (1840.) Sometimes given as "Come, sing to me of heaven." [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) =================== Shindler, Mary S. B., p. 1055, i. Other hymns usually attributed to this writer, are "Prince of Peace, control my will" (Perfect Peace), in the Church of England Magazine, March 3, 1858, in 32 lines; and " Once upon the heaving ocean" (Jesus calming the Sea). --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)