LIGHT OF LIFE

LIGHT OF LIFE

Composer (attributed to): Lowell Mason (1875)
Published in 53 hymnals


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Composer (attributed to): 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: LIGHT OF LIFE
Composer (attributed to): Lowell Mason (1875)
Meter: 8.7.8.4.8.4
Incipit: 11112 23233 34567
Key: B♭ Major/D Major
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Instances

Instances (1 - 5 of 5)

Clarion Call #148

Protestant Madagascar Hymnal, 2001 #114

Audio

Small Church Music #6654

TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #504

Text

Timeless Truths #819

Include 48 pre-1979 instances
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