Tune: GENEVA (Day)

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GENEVA (Day)

Composer: George Henry Day (1940)
Published in 50 hymnals

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Piano/Organ
	Hymn Harmonizations by Hayes (Creative a…

Choral
	We Await with Wakeful Care

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	HOLY GHOST, DISPEL OUR SADNESS (Presbyte…

Composer: George Henry Day

George Henry Day (1883-1966) was a choirboy at Trinity Chapel, New York City, where he studied with G. Edward Stubbs. Day was appointed choirmaster at St. Peter’s in Chelsea Square (1911) but maintained his position as an assistant auditor of the Gorham Manufacturing Company for two more years. He resigned as assistant auditor, took special courses at Columbia University, and in 1915 graduated from New York College of Music. He served as organist and choirmaster in churches in Youngstown, Ohio; Wilmington, Delaware, where he studied with Edward Shippen Barnes; and Rochester, New York, before going to Trinity Church. He was awarded a Doctor of Music degree from Lincoln-Jefferson University (1923). --The Presbyterian Hymnal Companion,… Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title:	GENEVA (Day)
Composer:	George Henry Day (1940)
Meter:	8.7.8.7 D
Incipit:	53451 42345 31231
Key:	f minor
Copyright:	By permission of The Church Pension Fund

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Texts

Not Alone for Mighty Empire

Swiftly Pass the Clouds of Glory

Holy Ghost, Dispel Our Sadness

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Timeline

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Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations

The Creative Use of the Organ in Worship
Composer/Editor Hal H. Hopson
Published By: Hope Publishing Company (2000) pp. 43
Free Harmonizations of Hymn Tunes: By Fifty American Composers
Composer/Editor D. DeWitt Wasson
Published By: Hinshaw Music, Inc. (1984) pp. 89
The Concordia Hymn Prelude Series Volume 25: General: F - Gott des
Composer/Editors Herbert Gotsch; Sam Batt Owens
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1984) pp. 33

Organ Solo

God and Country: Organ Settings of Hymn Tunes for National Occasions
Composer/Editor Emma Lou Diemer
Published By: The Sacred Music Press (1997) pp. 12
Grace Notes IV for Organ: Prayer, Praise and Thanksgiving
Composer/Editor Timothy Albrecht
Published By: Augsburg Fortress (1995) pp. 4
The Concordia Hymn Prelude Series Volume 25: General: F - Gott des
Composer/Editors Herbert Gotsch; Sam Batt Owens
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1984) pp. 32
With Praise and Love Volume II: Settings of 19th Century Hymn Tunes for Organ
Composer/Editor Emma Lou Diemer
Published By: The Sacred Music Press (1979) pp. 27