[There is no name so sweet on earth] (Bradbury)

[There is no name so sweet on earth] (Bradbury)

Composer: William B. Bradbury (1861)
Published in 99 hymnals


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Composer: William B. Bradbury

William Bachelder Bradbury USA 1816-1868. Born at York, ME, he was raised on his father's farm, with rainy days spent in a shoe-shop, the custom in those days. He loved music and spent spare hours practicing any music he could find. In 1830 the family moved to Boston, where he first saw and heard an organ and piano, and other instruments. He became an organist at 15. He attended Dr. Lowell Mason's singing classes, and later sang in the Bowdoin Street church choir. Dr. Mason became a good friend. He made $100/yr playing the organ, and was still in Dr. Mason's choir. Dr. Mason gave him a chance to teach singing in Machias, ME, which he accepted. He returned to Boston the following year to marry Adra Esther Fessenden in 1838, then rel… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [There is no name so sweet on earth] (Bradbury)
Composer: William B. Bradbury (1861)
Meter: 8.7.8.7 D
Incipit: 51131 66165 13132
Key: F Major
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Arrangements

Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations: Trombone Counter-melody

  • 61 Trombone Hymns & Counter-Melodies Volume 1
    Composer/Editor Douglas Smith
    Published By: Hope Publishing Company (1979) pp. 22

Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations: Trumpet Descant

  • 61 Trumpet Hymns & Descants
    Composer/Editor Douglas Smith
    Published By: Hope Publishing Company (1977) pp. 22

Organ Solo

  • Easy Hymns for Organ
    Composer/Editor Carson Cooman
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (2020) pp. 70
  • Easy Organ Library Volume 59
    Composer/Editor Christina Becket
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (2016) pp. 98
  • The Organist Volume 119 Number 3 July August 2015: The Service Music Companion for the Church Organist
    Composer/Editors Douglas E. Wagner; Christina Beckett
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (2015) pp. 30
  • Preludes on Hymns from the Gospel Tradition: Settings for Organ by Raymond H. Haan
    Composer/Editor Raymond H. Haan
    Published By: Broadman Press (1989) pp. 34
  • Come, Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy
    Composer/Editor Herbert Colvin
    Published By: Broadman Press (1976) pp. 10
  • Nine Hymn Settings: For Organ
    Composer/Editor Herbert Colvin
    Published By: Broadman Press (1976) pp. 10
  • The Chapel Organist Volume 2: Easy Arrangements for the Amateur Organist
    Composer/Editor Norman Johnson
    Published By: Singspiration Music, Inc. (1967) pp. 6
  • The Chapel Organist Volume Two: Designed for Worship, Evangelism and the Home
    Composer/Editor Norman Johnson
    Published By: Singspiration Music, Inc. (1967) pp. 6

Media

Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #440
  • Four-part harmony, full-score (PDF, NWC)
The Cyber Hymnal #6787
Text: There Is No Name So Sweet on Earth
  • Adobe Acrobat image (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer score (NWC)
  • XML score (XML)

Instances

Instances (1 - 11 of 11)
ScoreAudio

Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #440

Church Hymnal, Mennonite #83

Text

Glaubenslieder #456

TextPage Scan

Hymns of Faith #277

Sheng tu shi ge = Hymnary (聖徒詩歌) #167

Audio

Small Church Music #2953

TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #6787

TextPage Scan

Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.) #178

TextPage Scan

ترانيم الإيمان #238

تسابيح المحبة #162

TextPage Scan

نظم المرامير #338

Include 88 pre-1979 instances
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