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JACKSON (Haydn)

JACKSON (Haydn)

Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn
Published in 2 hymnals


Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

Franz Joseph Haydn (b. Rohrau, Austria, 1732; d. Vienna, Austria, 1809) Haydn's life was relatively uneventful, but his artistic legacy was truly astounding. He began his musical career as a choirboy in St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna, spent some years in that city making a precarious living as a music teacher and composer, and then served as music director for the Esterhazy family from 1761 to 1790. Haydn became a most productive and widely respected composer of symphonies, chamber music, and piano sonatas. In his retirement years he took two extended tours to England, which resulted in his "London" symphonies and (because of G. F. Handel's influence) in oratorios. Haydn's church music includes six great Masses and a few original hymn tune… Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title: JACKSON (Haydn)
Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn
Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8
Incipit: 15331 11231 33127
Key: G Major
Copyright: Public Domain
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Texts

Turn, Turn to Him

As panting in the sultry beam,
The hart desires the cooling stream,
So to Thy presence, Lord, I flee,
So longs my soul, O God, for Thee;
Athirst to taste Thy living grace,
And see Thy glory face to face.

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When, streaming from the eastern skies

When, streaming from the eastern skies,
The morning light salutes mine eyes,
O Sun of Righteousness divine,
On me with beams of mercy shine;
Chase the dark clouds of guilt away
And turn my darkness into day.

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Arrangements

Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations

  • Hymn Tunes in Lower Keyes: The Book to Grab When the Congregation Complains that the Hymns are Too High!
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2011) pp. 128
  • The Really Big Descant Book - Full Music Edition: 250 Settings to Raise the Roof by the World's Finest Church Music Composers
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2009) pp. 104
  • 150 Last Verse Harmonies: For Use with the Hymn Books of the Baptist, Methodist, United Reformed and Other Free Churches
    Composer/Editor Christopher Tambling
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2007) pp. 61
  • 200 New Last Verses
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2007) pp. 96
  • The Ultimate Finishing Touch: Last-verse Arrangements of Well-loved Hymn Tunes
    Composer/Editor Harrison Oxley
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2000) pp. 73
  • Finishing Touch: One Hundred Last Verse Arrangements of Well-Known Hymn Tunes - New and Enlarged Edition
    Composer/Editor Harrison Oxley
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (1996) pp. 57
  • More Last Verses: Another Two Hundred Varied Hymn Tune Harmonies
    Composer/Editor Noel Rawsthorne
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (1996) pp. 95

Organ Solo

  • 100 New Hymn Preludes
    Composer/Editor Geoffrey Nobes
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2008) pp. 140

Piano and Organ Duet

  • PedalPoint Volume 19 Number 4 July August September 2000: Church Music and Study Helps for Pianists and Organists
    Composer/Editors Sharron Lyon; Michael Sharp
    Published By: The Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention (2000) pp. 26
  • Be Strong in the Lord
    Composer/Editors Crystal Waters Mangrum; Gayden C. Sikes
    Published By: Broadman Press (1995) pp. 44
  • PedalPoint Volume 14 Number 4 July August September 1995: Church Music and Study Helps for Pianists and Organists
    Composer/Editors Sharron Lyon; Gayden C. Sikes
    Published By: The Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention (1995) pp. 25
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