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MOUNT BEACON

MOUNT BEACON

Composer: A. Beer
Published in 2 hymnals


Printable scores: PDF
Audio files: Recording

Composer: A. Beer

Alfred Beer was born in Great Barr, Birmingham (England), in 1874. He studied piano and was the son of a Methodist minister. One of his headmasters encouraged him to compose tunes to Methodist hymns, five of these appear in the 1933 Methodist Hymn Book Dianne Shapiro from Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland bu Maggie Humphreys and Robert Evans (Mansell, London: 1997) Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: MOUNT BEACON
Composer: A. Beer
Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8
Incipit: 33363 21767 11123
Key: Eā™­ Major
Copyright: By permission of A. Beer

Media

Small Church Music #2132
  • PDF Score (PDF)

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Audio

Small Church Music #2132

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