ELTON (Mason)

Composer: 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 >

Tune Information

Title: ELTON (Mason)
Composer: Lowell Mason (1854)
Meter: 8.8.8.8
Incipit: 56712 31662 71654
Key: G Major or modal
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Arrangements

Organ Solo

  • Hymn Prelude Library Volume Three Tunes DE: Lutheran Service Book
    Composer/Editors Kevin J. Hildebrand; Paul D. Weber
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2013) pp. 77
  • Chorale Preludes of Harald Rohlig Set 1
    Composer/Editor Harald Rohlig
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2010) pp. 30
  • 12 Hymn Preludes
    Composer/Editor Richard Proulx
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2008) pp. 14
  • 4 Preludes on English Hymn Tunes
    Composer/Editor William H. Bates
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2008) pp. 6
  • Hymn Intonations, Preludes, and Free Harmonizations Volume X: Yet Even More Intonations
    Composer/Editor Richard Proulx
    Published By: Selah Publishing Company, Inc. (2001) pp. 8
  • Preludes and Postludes Volume 1: General Postludes
    Composer/Editor Wilbur C. Held
    Published By: Augsburg Publishing House (1972) pp. 6

Instances

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Text

Rejoice in the Lord #460

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Rejoice in the Lord #492

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