EUCHARIST (Woodbury)

Composer: I. B. Woodbury

Woodbury, Isaac Baker. (Beverly, Massachusetts, October 23, 1819--October 26, 1858, Columbia, South Carolina). Music editor. As a boy, he studied music in nearby Boston, then spent his nineteenth year in further study in London and Paris. He taught for six years in Boston, traveling throughout New England with the Bay State Glee Club. He later lived at Bellow Falls, Vermont, where he organized the New Hampshire and Vermont Musical Association. In 1849 he settled in New York City where he directed the music at the Rutgers Street Church until ill-health caused him to resign in 1851. He became editor of the New York Musical Review and made another trip to Europe in 1852 to collect material for the magazine. in the fall of 1858 his health br… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: EUCHARIST (Woodbury)
Composer: I. B. Woodbury
Meter: 8.8.8.8
Incipit: 33355 65453 32342
Key: D Major
Copyright: Public Domain

Texts

When I Survey the Wondrous Cross

When I survey the wondrous cross
on which the Prince of glory died,
my richest gain I count but loss,
and pour contempt on all my pride.

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Methodist Tune Book: a collection of tunes adapted to the Methodist Hymn book #14
Text: When I survey the wondrous corss

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African Methodist Episcopal Church Hymnal #147

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The A.M.E. Zion Hymnal #159

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