NEARER HOME (Woodbury)

Composer: I. B. Woodbury

Woodbury, Isaac Baker. (Beverly, Massachusetts, October 23, 1819--October 26, 1858, Columbia, South Carolina). Music editor. As a boy, he studied music in nearby Boston, then spent his nineteenth year in further study in London and Paris. He taught for six years in Boston, traveling throughout New England with the Bay State Glee Club. He later lived at Bellow Falls, Vermont, where he organized the New Hampshire and Vermont Musical Association. In 1849 he settled in New York City where he directed the music at the Rutgers Street Church until ill-health caused him to resign in 1851. He became editor of the New York Musical Review and made another trip to Europe in 1852 to collect material for the magazine. in the fall of 1858 his health br… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: NEARER HOME (Woodbury)
Composer: I. B. Woodbury (1852)
Meter: 6.6.8.6 D
Incipit: 55532 11221 23344
Key: A♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain

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Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations

  • Hymn Tunes with Varied Harmonies Book 5: For Pianoforte or Organ
    Composer/Editor Joseph E. Newell
    Published By: Edwin Ashdown, Limited (London) (1920) pp. 9

Media

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Text: In Every Time and Place
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The Cyber Hymnal #5978
Text: Servant of God, Well Done! (Montgomery)
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Text: Sure There's a Righteous God
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The Cyber Hymnal #15890
Text: Lai Lodo Oluwa
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Small Church Music #7195
Text: Maniry izahay ho any Aminao (We wish to come to You)
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Instances

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Small Church Music #2215

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Small Church Music #7195

The Christian Harmony #49

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The Cyber Hymnal #19

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The Cyber Hymnal #2971

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The Cyber Hymnal #5978

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The Cyber Hymnal #6400

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The Cyber Hymnal #15890

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TTT-Himnaro Cigneta #135

Welsh and English Hymns and Anthems #49

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