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HENLEY

HENLEY

Composer: Lowell Mason (1854)
Published in 118 hymnals


Printable scores: PDF, MusicXML
Audio files: MIDI

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: HENLEY
Composer: Lowell Mason (1854)
Meter: 11.10.11.10
Incipit: 53332 11223 15333
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Arrangements

Organ Solo

  • Seven Preludes or Postludes on Lowell Mason Hymns: For Organ
    Composer/Editor Seth Bingham
    Published By: The H. W. Gray Company, Inc. (1945) pp. 27

Media

Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #1396
  • Four-part harmony, full-score (PDF, NWC)
The Cyber Hymnal #1222
Text: Dear God, Our Father
  • Adobe Acrobat image (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer score (NWC)
  • XML score (XML)
The Cyber Hymnal #1477
Text: Father, in Thy Mysterious Presence Kneeling
  • Adobe Acrobat image (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer score (NWC)
  • XML score (XML)

Instances

Instances (1 - 4 of 4)
ScoreAudio

Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #1396

Himnos de la Iglesia #450

TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #1222

TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #1477

Include 114 pre-1979 instances
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