HOUSTON (Thomerson)

Composer: Kathleen Thomerson

Kathleen Thomerson is Organist and Music Director at Mt. Olive Lutheran Church in Austin, Texas. She was born in Tennessee and grew up in Mississippi, California, and Texas. College music study was at the Universities of Colorado and Texas, the Flemish Royal Conservatory in Antwerp, and privately in Paris. Before retirement in Austin, she lived in Collinsville, Illinois, when her husband was a biology professor at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Her best-known hymn text is "I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light," set to her hymn tune HOUSTON. --www.morningstarmusic.com Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: HOUSTON (Thomerson)
Composer: Kathleen Thomerson (1966)
Meter: 10.7.10.8 with refrain
Incipit: 13455 56545 1345
Key: C Major/D Major
Copyright: © 1970, 1975 Celebration

Timeline

Arrangements

Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations

  • Awake and Sing: Hymn Introductions and Accompaniments
    Composer/Editor Eric Wall
    Published By: Augsburg Fortress (2022) pp. 26, 31
  • Composer/Editor Robert A. Hobby
    Published By: MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc. (2011) pp. 15
  • Introductions and Alternate Accompaniments for Organ Volume 9: Evangelical Lutheran Worship Hymns 755 - 818
    Composer/Editors Norma Aamodt-Nelson; Marissa Bauck; Marilyn Biery
    Published By: Augsburg Fortress (2009) pp. 815
  • Introductions and Alternate Accompaniments for Piano Volume 9: Evangelical Lutheran Worship, Hymns 755 - 818
    Composer/Editors Norma Aamodt-Nelson; Marissa Bauck; Anne Krentz Organ
    Published By: Augsburg Fortress (2009) pp. 815
  • As Though the Whole Creation Cried: Fifty Hymn Harmonizations for Organ
    Composer/Editor Michael A. Burkhardt
    Published By: MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc. (2001) pp. 40
  • Let It Rip! At the Piano 2: Congregational Song Accompaniments Volume 2
    Composer/Editors Norma Aamodt-Nelson; Eric Vollen
    Published By: Augsburg Fortress (2000) pp. 86

Organ Solo

  • A Walter Pelz Organ Anthology
    Composer/Editor Walter L. Pelz
    Published By: Augsburg Fortress (2018) pp. 40
  • Easy Hymn Preludes for Organ Volume 9: Musica Sacra
    Composer/Editor J. Wayne Kerr
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2014) pp. 26
  • Hymn Prelude Library Volume Five Tunes HI: Lutheran Service Book
    Composer/Editors Kevin J. Hildebrand; Mark Bender
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2014) pp. 54
  • Oxford Hymn Settings for Organists Volume 2 Epiphany: 20 Original Pieces on Hymns for Epiphany, the Baptism of Christ, and The Transfiguration
    Composer/Editors Rebecca Groom Te Velde; David Blackwell
    Published By: Oxford University Press (2014) pp. 30
  • Six Hymn Preludes for Organ
    Composer/Editor James L. Brauer
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2012) pp. 8
  • Easy Hymn Preludes for Organ Volume 6: Musica Sacra
    Composer/Editor James W. Kosnik
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2007) pp. 16
  • Hail Thee, Festival Day: Five Hymn Settings for Organ
    Composer/Editor Robert J. Powell
    Published By: MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc. (2006) pp. 11
  • Ten Trios on Familiar Hymns
    Composer/Editor David M. Lasky
    Published By: Warner Brothers Publications, Inc. (2003) pp. 16
  • Augsburg Organ Library Epiphany
    Composer/Editors Norma Aamodt-Nelson; Wayne L. Wold
    Published By: Augsburg Fortress (2001) pp. 56
  • Lift One Voice: Organ Explorations of Hymntunes
    Composer/Editor Karl Osterland
    Published By: Augsburg Fortress (2000) pp. 7
  • Child of the Light: Preludes on Hymntunes by Women
    Composer/Editors Wayne L. Wold; Kathleen Thomerson
    Published By: Augsburg Fortress (1998) pp. 4
  • Laudate! Volume 3: Organ Music Based on the 100 Most Popular Hymns in Worship III and Gather
    Composer/Editors James W. Kosnik; John A. Behnke
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1996) pp. 20
  • Twentieth Century Hymn Tune Settings Set 1
    Composer/Editor James Biery
    Published By: MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc. (1995) pp. 2

Piano Duet+: Piano Duet One Piano

  • Contemporary Hymns & Songs, Volume III
    Composer/Editor John Carter
    Published By: Hope Publishing Company (2006) pp. 6
  • Contemporary Hymns and Songs III: For Piano / 4 Hands
    Composer/Editor John Carter
    Published By: Hope Publishing Company (2006) pp. 6

Instances

Instances (1 - 39 of 39)

Breaking Bread (Vol. 39) #589

Celebrating Grace Hymnal #96

Christian Worship (2008) #771

Christian Worship #713

Contemporary Songs for Worship #14

Evangelical Lutheran Worship #815

Gather (3rd ed.) #593

Gather Comprehensive #507

Gather Comprehensive, Second Edition #513

Glory and Praise (3rd. ed.) #682

Text InfoAudio

Glory to God #377

Hymnal Supplement 1991 #816

Hymns of Promise #78

Journeysongs (3rd ed.) #632

Lead Me, Guide Me (2nd ed.) #420

Audio

Lift Up Your Hearts #730

Lutheran Service Book #411

One and All Rejoice #192

One in Faith #711

One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism #454

Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song #492

Renew! Songs and Hymns for Blended Worship #152

RitualSong (2nd ed.) #693

RitualSong #651

Santo, Santo, Santo #352

Sing With Me #207

Audio

Sing! A New Creation #77

Singing Our Faith #255

The Covenant Hymnal #367

Text

The Hymnal 1982 #490

Audio

The United Methodist Hymnal #206

The United Methodist Hymnal Music Supplement II #91

The Worshiping Church #539

Together in Song #643

With One Voice #649

Worship (3rd ed.) #510

Worship (4th ed.) #585

Worship and Rejoice #248

찬송과 예배 = Chansong gwa yebae = Come, Let Us Worship #102

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