[From the Bethlehem manger-home]

[From the Bethlehem manger-home]

Composer: Geo. F. Root
Published in 3 hymnals


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Composer: Geo. F. Root

Root, George F., MUS. DOC, born in Sheffield, Berkshire County, Mass., Aug. 30, 1820. He is much more widely known as a composer of popular music than as a hymn writer. Four of his hymns are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs & Solos, 1878. Nos. 16, 100, 293, and 297. A sympathetic biographical sketch, with portrait, is in The Tonic Sol-Fa Reporter, Sep. 1886. He died Aug. 6, 1895. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)… Go to person page >

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Title: [From the Bethlehem manger-home]
Composer: Geo. F. Root
Incipit: 12312 71345 34235
Key: g minor
Copyright: Public Domain

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Gospel Hymns No. 6 #75

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Gospel Hymns Nos. 1 to 6 #488

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Hymns of Consecration and Faith #593

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