Tune: HOUSTON (Thomerson)

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HOUSTON (Thomerson)

Composer: Kathleen Thomerson (1966)
Published in 43 hymnals

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Piano/Organ
	Music with Minimal Pedal - General, Set…

Choral
	I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light

Instrumental
	Twentieth Century Hymn Tune Settings

Composer: Kathleen Thomerson

Kathleen Thomerson is Organist and Music Director at Mt. Olive Lutheran Church in Austin, Texas. She was born in Tennessee and grew up in Mississippi, California, and Texas. College music study was at the Universities of Colorado and Texas, the Flemish Royal Conservatory in Antwerp, and privately in Paris. Before retirement in Austin, she lived in Collinsville, Illinois, when her husband was a biology professor at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Her best-known hymn text is "I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light," set to her hymn tune HOUSTON. --www.morningstarmusic.com Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title:	HOUSTON (Thomerson)
Composer:	Kathleen Thomerson (1966)
Meter:	10.7.10.8 with refrain
Incipit:	13455 56545 1345
Key:	C Major/D Major
Copyright:	© 1970, 1975 Celebration

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Texts

I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light

All texts published with HOUSTON (Thomerson)^ top

Timeline

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Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations

Awake and Sing: Hymn Introductions and Accompaniments
Composer/Editor Eric Wall
Published By: Augsburg Fortress (2022) pp. 26, 31
Twenty Hymn Introductions for Organ
Composer/Editor Robert A. Hobby
Published By: MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc. (2011) pp. 15
Introductions and Alternate Accompaniments for Organ Volume 9: Evangelical Lutheran Worship Hymns 755 - 818
Composer/Editors Norma Aamodt-Nelson; Marissa Bauck; Marilyn Biery
Published By: Augsburg Fortress (2009) pp. 815
Introductions and Alternate Accompaniments for Piano Volume 9: Evangelical Lutheran Worship, Hymns 755 - 818
Composer/Editors Norma Aamodt-Nelson; Marissa Bauck; Anne Krentz Organ
Published By: Augsburg Fortress (2009) pp. 815
As Though the Whole Creation Cried: Fifty Hymn Harmonizations for Organ
Composer/Editor Michael A. Burkhardt
Published By: MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc. (2001) pp. 40
Let It Rip! At the Piano 2: Congregational Song Accompaniments Volume 2
Composer/Editors Norma Aamodt-Nelson; Eric Vollen
Published By: Augsburg Fortress (2000) pp. 86

Organ Solo

A Walter Pelz Organ Anthology
Composer/Editor Walter L. Pelz
Published By: Augsburg Fortress (2018) pp. 40
Easy Hymn Preludes for Organ Volume 9: Musica Sacra
Composer/Editor J. Wayne Kerr
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2014) pp. 26
Hymn Prelude Library Volume Five Tunes HI: Lutheran Service Book
Composer/Editors Kevin J. Hildebrand; Mark Bender
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2014) pp. 54
Oxford Hymn Settings for Organists Volume 2 Epiphany: 20 Original Pieces on Hymns for Epiphany, the Baptism of Christ, and The Transfiguration
Composer/Editors Rebecca Groom Te Velde; David Blackwell
Published By: Oxford University Press (2014) pp. 30
Six Hymn Preludes for Organ
Composer/Editor James L. Brauer
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2012) pp. 8
Easy Hymn Preludes for Organ Volume 6: Musica Sacra
Composer/Editor James W. Kosnik
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2007) pp. 16
Hail Thee, Festival Day: Five Hymn Settings for Organ
Composer/Editor Robert J. Powell
Published By: MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc. (2006) pp. 11
Ten Trios on Familiar Hymns
Composer/Editor David M. Lasky
Published By: Warner Brothers Publications, Inc. (2003) pp. 16
Augsburg Organ Library Epiphany
Composer/Editors Norma Aamodt-Nelson; Wayne L. Wold
Published By: Augsburg Fortress (2001) pp. 56
Lift One Voice: Organ Explorations of Hymntunes
Composer/Editor Karl Osterland
Published By: Augsburg Fortress (2000) pp. 7
Child of the Light: Preludes on Hymntunes by Women
Composer/Editors Wayne L. Wold; Kathleen Thomerson
Published By: Augsburg Fortress (1998) pp. 4
Laudate! Volume 3: Organ Music Based on the 100 Most Popular Hymns in Worship III and Gather
Composer/Editors James W. Kosnik; John A. Behnke
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1996) pp. 20
Twentieth Century Hymn Tune Settings Set 1
Composer/Editor James Biery
Published By: MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc. (1995) pp. 2

Piano Duet+: Piano Duet One Piano

Contemporary Hymns & Songs, Volume III
Composer/Editor John Carter
Published By: Hope Publishing Company (2006) pp. 6
Contemporary Hymns and Songs III: For Piano / 4 Hands
Composer/Editor John Carter
Published By: Hope Publishing Company (2006) pp. 6