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FIRST COMMAND

FIRST COMMAND

Composer: Carol Doran
Published in 1 hymnal


Composer: Carol Doran

Carol Doran was a musician, author, scholar, loving wife, mother, and grandmother. She was also a woman of unwavering faith, integrity, kindness, curiosity, beauty, good humor, and fearlessness who inspired those she loved and who loved her so much in return. Carol’s early exposure to the study of music became a lifelong passion and professional dedication as she went on to earn a Doctor of Music Arts degree in Church Music and Organ at The Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. Dr. Doran taught and was a professor of Music and Liturgy at Colgate Rochester Divinity School/Bexley Hall in Rochester, New York; Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia; the School of Theology at Boston University; Episcopal Divinity Scho… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: FIRST COMMAND
Composer: Carol Doran
Meter: 8.6.8.6
Incipit: 36531 22316 5432
Key: E♭ Major
Source: The Hymn, 1987
Copyright: Music copyright ©1987 Oxford University Press, Inc.

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Hymnal #512

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