NAOMI (Nägeli)

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 >

Composer (attributed to): Hans G. Nägeli

Johann G. Nageli (b. Wetzikon, near Zurich, Switzerland, 1773; d. Wetzikon, 1836) was an influential music educator who lectured throughout Germany and France. Influenced by Johann Pestalozzi, he published his theories of music education in Gangbildungslehre (1810), a book that made a strong impact on Lowell Mason. Nageli composed mainly" choral works, including settings of Goethe's poetry. He received his early instruction from his father, then in Zurich, where he concentrated on the music of. S. Bach. In Zurich, he also established a lending library and a publishing house, which published first editions of Beethoven’s piano sonatas and music by Bach, Handel, and Frescobaldi. Bert Polman  Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: NAOMI (Nägeli)
Composer (attributed to): Hans G. Nägeli (1836)
Arranger: Lowell Mason
Meter: 8.6.8.6
Incipit: 33354 32343 36654
Key: D Major
Copyright: Public Domain

Notes

NAOMI was a melody that Lowell Mason (PHH 96) brought to the United States from Europe and arranged as a hymn tune; the arrangement was first published in the periodical Occasional Psalm and Hymn Tunes (1836). Some scholars have attributed the original melody to Johann G. Nageli (PHH 315), but there is little evidence to substantiate this claim. The name NAOMI has no specific significance, though Mason did often assign biblical names to his hymn tunes. Sing this typically serviceable Mason tune in parts, possibly unaccompanied, and keep the tempo moving.

--Psalter Hymnal Handbook, 1988

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Arrangements

Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations

  • Short Hymn-Tune Arrangements for Organ: Including Two Essays: Basic Organ Technique and Choosing a Church Organ
    Composer/Editor Philip K. Clemens
    Published By: Mennonite Publishing House (1983) pp. 18

Organ Solo

  • The Organist's Companion Volume 40 Number 2 January February 2018 General, Lent, Holy Week, Funerals: A Bi-monthly Journal of Quality Organ Music for the Practical Church Musician
    Composer/Editors Wayne Leupold; Franklin D. Ashdown
    Published By: Wayne Leupold Editions, Inc. (2017) pp. 13
  • To Walk with Christ: Eight Hymn Medleys Celebrating the Christian Life
    Composer/Editor Lani Smith
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (2002) pp. 22
  • Organ Chains 2: Twenty-eight favorite hymns arranged in a continuous medley for Organ
    Composer/Editor Brent Jorgensen
    Published By: Jackman Music Corporation (1998) pp. 7
  • The Ward Organist Music Library 1: Intermediate Organ Preludes
    Composer/Editor Darwin K. Wolford
    Published By: Jackman Music Corporation (1996) pp. 18
  • Short Hymn-Tune Arrangements for Organ: Including Two Essays: Basic Organ Technique and Choosing a Church Organ
    Composer/Editor Philip K. Clemens
    Published By: Mennonite Publishing House (1983) pp. 18-20
  • Quiet Pieces Book One: For Organ
    Composer/Editor Darwin Wolford
    Published By: Jackman Music Corporation (1981) pp. 22
  • The Organ Portfolio Volume 41 Number 5 June 1978: A Bi-Monthly Anthology for Church Organists
    Composer/Editors Lani Smith; John Duro
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1978) pp. 10
  • Organ Voluntaries in Three Volumes Volume 2
    Composer/Editors Alexander Schreiner; George Careless
    Published By: J. Fischer & Brothers (1973) pp. 113

Piano Solo

  • Nearer, My God, to Thee: Moments of Meditation for Solo Piano
    Composer/Editor Shelley Helzerman Houser
    Published By: The FJH Music Company, Inc. (2005) pp. 22
  • Hymn Preludes for Piano
    Composer/Editors George Careless; Murray C. Bradshaw
    Published By: The Church Of Jesus Christ of LDS (1976) pp. 1

Piano and Organ Duet

  • The Belwin Album of Organ and Piano Duets: Compiled and Arranged by Earl Roland Larson
    Composer/Editors Earl Roland Larson; W. F. Ambrosio
    Published By: Belwin Mills Publishing Corporation (1952) pp. 2

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