ILLA (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: ILLA (Mason)
Composer: Lowell Mason (1841)
Meter: 8.8.8.8
Incipit: 11171 33217 12223
Key: F Major or modal
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Media

Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #1373
  • Four-part harmony, full-score (PDF, NWC)
The Cyber Hymnal #7033
Text: Unless the Lord the House Shall Build
  • Adobe Acrobat image (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer score (NWC)
  • XML score (XML)
The Cyber Hymnal #8175
Text: Lord, In This Dark, This Awful Hour
  • PDF (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer Score (NWC)

Instances

Instances (1 - 4 of 4)
ScoreAudio

Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #1373

TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #7033

TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #8175

TextPage Scan

Trinity Psalter Hymnal #127A

Include 28 pre-1979 instances
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